Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1877 — Glittering Misery. [ARTICLE]

Glittering Misery.

What a sad thing it is to see one gazing on a contest where only her heart is, unable to assist save in the sympathy that consoles defeat. I have seen many such sitting in the poisoned air of the gallery, long, weanr hours, witnessing the struggle In the hear pit below, where ahetboulu give no help, and when at last defeat came to one so near and dear to her, to see her sad, despondent face suddenly light up with smiles in the presence of tier' husband, as she crowded-down her own suffering and sought only to soothe by making light of hfa, was very pitiful. The life of a statesman’s Wife at the capital is not strewn with flowers. I was returning from the opera \ one night, pr- rather one morning, when, a friend who was with me suddenly twitched' my elbow. “ Come here,” he whispered, “ and I wMI show you something.” The show consisted of a heck drawn up near the curb, the driver and horses of which seemed asleep. “Well?” I asked. „ That hack,” continued my friend, in an undertone, “ holds Mrs. -—She comes here every night, almost, to wait for her husband, who is in the hall, fonder, drinking and gambling. It is said that she waits here hour after hour, and, meeting, takes him home without a word of reproach.”-—<7tn. Eng.