From the Boston Transcript. a.
TROUBLES OF A MARRIED MAN.
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Mn Dear Mr.. Editor:-I doubt not that every
one is called to experience more or less trouble,
but hope, for the honor Of women, and the COM
fort of those who are now, or expect to be, hus.
bands, that few experience what have for the
brief months which have elapsed since was
united in the bands of wedlock to an accomplish
ed and beautiful girl of neighboring city. My
notions of what wife should be were not very
definite, and as she on whom my affections were
placed had good school education, was beauti-
ful to look upon, neat in her attire, and appeared
to good advantage in the parlor among her asso~
ciates, considered her all man in my mode"
rate circumstances could wish. And since my
marriage, she appears as well as ever in these
particulars; but find she is lacking in the most
important qualifications of good wife, she
understands nothing about domestic affairs -
(Why-y-yD


She cannot make loaf of bread or cook
piece of meat. For instance: purchased ten
der beef steak for dinner, and she was totally at
loss how it should be cooked. In the first
place she put it in tin pan and placed it in q
baker or portable oven, and set it before hot
fire till it was dried to crisp, and then, con-
cluding it would not be eatabe, she put it into
the pot and boiled it! You can Judge. how a
hungry man would feel on going home, expect


ing to eat hearty dinner, and have placed be-
fore him such mess. She undertook to bake
plum pudding, and kindled up fire in port
able furnace, put the pudding into tin pan in
the bake-kettle, and placed it over the furnace,
and kept live Goals on the top Of the bake-kette
till the whole pudding was solid coal! And she
probably would have put shin of beef on the
spit to roast, had I not informed her how it
should be cooked. These are specimens Of my
troubles. What shall do? | cannot afford to-
hire help; and indeed my wife is opposed to hav~
ing help in the house. =,
Ought mothers to be so totally regardless OF


the comfort, usefulness, and happiness OF their
daughters, as to suffer them to be MARRIED Wat"-


out finishing their education.


Yours, &c.


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