Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1876 — A Chinese Domestic Tragedy. [ARTICLE]

A Chinese Domestic Tragedy.

Even among the Celestials, incompatibility of temper is the mainspringof domestic misery. A clever young Chinese lady married a youth who was no match for her in accomplishments, and too lazy withal to make his own living. One night he went home after a day of “ genteel loafing” to hear to his wife remark quite sharply that she had neither any nee in the house nor money enough to buy My. “Never mind,” he replied very meekly: “I’ll go out and borrow enough for supper.” He came back with the rice ana his wife got supper rather sullenly; but when it was ready she could not find her husband. Hour afterhour passed, and there were no signs of him. She began to cry, and her howls reached the ears of an old woman who lived hard by. When she told her trouble the crone began to howl in conceit, and their lamentations soon roused the neighborhood. Three days afterward, an uncle of the afflicted lady, hearingof his niece’s trouble, came in, and suggested that the bouse should be searched. And there, hanging from a nail in the wall, was the toiserabM husband. The wife in an agony of self-reproach rushed out of the house and jumped into the nver, but she was saved, and is now dragging out her widowhood. The Celestial Empire tells this moving tale, but does not venture to point the moral. —A mixture of oil and Ink la laid to be a good thing to clean kid boots with; the first softens and the last blackens them.