Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1876 — A Spunky Homan. [ARTICLE]

A Spunky Homan.

The Des Moines (Iowa) State Regieter of a recent date contains the following spicy communication from a woman in reply to an advertisement previously published by her husband: “ I hereby certify that lied, and he knew it, when he said I left his house with my three little children, without any provocation. As I consider (and think others would if they knew the truth), I had a great many provocations. All I ask of him is to pay his just debts and not wrong people out of their just dues, and leave me and my children alone, and pay me my Government pension that he has used ten years (being $350) and interest on it for half the time he has used it, and my furniture that I took there. I will risk getting my sugar without calling on my friends to help hunt what has been put away for the sick babe. I will further say that I can make as good a living for myself and three little ones as we had with , although he would have people believe that lwas a great expense to him. I confess he got me two ten-cent calico dresses within three years. I think It will keep him busy to gather up enough of his neighbors’ hogs to keep himself and his two children; however, it don’t take much of such pork to do me. I will say that through his scowling, pouting and complaining, I quit drinking coffee six years ago; but he continued chewing, smoking, and using his ooifee as usual. Then, last tall, he openly forbade my using tea. T suppose tobacco and coffee had raised in price. The whole trouble arose from his wanting my share of my first husband’s estate without giving anything to show that he had ever received anything from* said estate. He did not get it, nor won’t.”