Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — Has a Married Man Any Rights? [ARTICLE]

Has a Married Man Any Rights?

“I say!” said a friend the other day, “you are an old hand at it. I only got married the Other day, and don’t understand much about the business. But lias a married man any rights left when he once assumes the hymeneal responsibilities ?” “Bights? Yes, lots! He’s a right to. pay all the bills, to ” fc Stop! Ibiean this. Let me give you an instance. E very box and drawer, and portmanteau, and; in fact, every available receptacle of eyery description, is stuffed full of my wife’s property, and when I want to put away a few cuffs and collars ” “Hold hard! I know- what you mean. Listen, young man! if your bedroom were 200 yards long, and lined from the floor to the ceiling with drawers, and yon wanted a place to stow- away a couple of shirts, you couldn’t find a' nook that wasn’t fall of hairpins, tufts of frizzes, pads, sceift-bottles, old gloves, powder-puffs, rings and things. So just accept the inevitable. Wrap your personal property in an old newspaper or some brown paper, and hide the parcel under the bed.” He smiled loudly and ironically, and passed on, a wiser if not a better man.