Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1881 — How He Managed Her. [ARTICLE]

How He Managed Her.

A Western paper relates the following: A gentleman interested in mining, had occasion to spend a night during last summer in the principal hotel of one of the new railroad cities of Southern Colorado.

While dressing the next morning the occupants of the next room, who seemed to be man and wife, were having one of those little domestic altercations which will sometimes occur even in the best regulated families, and as the partitions between the rooms were constructed (as they frequently are in our new mining towns) simply of muslin, the conversation “soaked through”a little, so to sneak, into the neighboring rooms. The lady was evidently petitioning for some favor—possibly a new bonnet —that her lord and master was not willing to grant. When all other arguments failed to move him she took up woman’s last and strongest —tears: and for some time nothiug but her sobs were heard. The gentleman was obdurate, but as “constant drops” will even ‘ wear away a stone ” they finally moved him to. words which came emphatically as follows: “ you, darling, if you don’t stop that crying I’ll whip you.” The mingled * Section and threats of this speech were too much for our friend. He roared in ■ laughter, and the man’s words and the woman’s sobs at once ceased beyond the partition, An hour later, as our friend passed through the hotel-office, he was stopped by a fine looking six-footer, whose neat mustache, in a country where all men but gamblers wear full beards, as well as his blue tie, white flannel suit corded and trimmed With blue silk, gay slippers, etc., bespoke him one of the fraternity, ana who addressed him as follows: “I say, sir, have you the room next mine?”

The owner of the darling stood revealed, and the fact was equally plain that he was disposed to call to account the individual who had been bold enough to laugh at his family discipline. The answer, however, showed an equal readiness to meet the responsibility, if necessary, being simply: “I don’t know. Are you the man who was going to whip his darling?” The reply and the laugh that accompanied it carried the day, and an invitation to “Take a drink, sir,” was the immediate result instead of “pistols for two.”