Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — Essa-By a Husband. [ARTICLE]

Essa-By a Husband.

Good Housekeeping. ■' I hate door mats. Always stumbling over them. Bad a glorious rain last night, and when I came in the house this noon with the five cfc>gs at my heels. Jane called out, “ Wipe your feet, Josepll; Aun has just wiped the floor. ” What do wo keep a girl for ? Does Jane think for an instant I would care to track up a dirty floor ? Goodness! no. Give me the floor just mopped and I print my coat of arms from one end of it to the other, and let the dogs fill up tha plunks. Bless dogs, anyway ; with little digmau. Jane hates dogs. Flies? Why, I often leavo the dining room doojr open on purpose to , .v | . * ’ 1 I%' it •** , »

—happy little things. One lit on my nose at the dinner table, and rather than disturb him I kept perfectly still, not daring to chew the beefsteak I held in my Inoath. Tears fairly rolled down my cheeks. By and by he, supposing Jane and I werft one, no doubt, lit on the other nose of us; and when 1 called my said something and left the table Jane can’t abide fliesNext thing she was. brushing up Uttle heaps of cigar ashes, and burnt matches I had carefully scattered oyer the carpet the evening before. Good for moths, you know. Jane says there are no moths in the house, and the ashes make the carpet grimy. , Poor Jane! -V I took the cat up stairs yesterday and laid her on the spare bed. Dear little kit cat. She did so enjoy Jane’s satin quilt. Cats like neat, soft f laces where they can lie and sleep, t did my soul good to hear her purr, and see her purr, and see her claw at the quilt, just as though she was kneading bread. Jane drove her off. She don’t even like cats. Poor Jane! She Is quite a bore at times. ■ - - ■———* ’■