Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1879 — Coddling a Streak of Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Coddling a Streak of Lightning.

An American lady writes: “At night my husband comes home with a rush, haugs his hat upon the floor, throws his coat upon the first chair, sends his boots flying in another direction, works his feet into his slippers while unfolding his paper, reads, eats, reads again until bed-time, throws his paper down for some one else to pick up, and rushes off to bed. This is the programme, with exceptions, until Saturday night. Sunday morning be bolts his breakfast and tears around while getting into hi ‘Sunday best’ and rushes off to church; oomes home and belts his dinner (never eats), reads a little, sleeps a little, and away he goes again. When he tries to keep quiet he is sure to make the more noise; if he starts to go around a mud puddle he is sure to step flat into it; if he crosses the room carefully he is sure to kick the table leg or fall over a chair; and let him go to a table where a spare dean cloth has been spread, and you will see more of ‘decorative art’ in five minutes than yon ever dreamed could be accomplished in so short a time. He is temperate, naturally kind-hearted, attends strictly to business and pays his debts like a man ; was onoe chatty and domestic, fond of his fitmily and borne, but has allowed himself to drift into this rushing, reading habit, until now nothing could break it up short of breaking his neck. Fancy a wife trying to coddle such a streak of lightning.