usement now and then, even if we donot feel inclined for it ourselves. A really sensible man does so andis loved accordingly, for it is little acts of kindness FC Proto Pelipaita such as thisthat go straight to a woman's heart. It is such Atlanta Braves Hattar like proofs of lovingself-sacrifice that make her tell her female friends what a goodhusband he was--after he is dead.
Yes, poor Xantippe must have had a hard time of it. The bucketepisode was particularly sad for her. Poor woman! she did think shewould rouse him up a bit with that. She had taken the trouble to fillthe bucket, perhaps been a long way to get specially dirty water. Andshe waited for him. And then to be met in such a way, after all!
Most likely she sat down and had a good cry afterward. It must haveseemed all so hopeless to the poor child; and for all we know she hadno mother to whom she could go and abuse him.
What was it to her that her husband was a great philosopher? Greatphilosophy don't count in married life.
There was a very good little boy once who wanted to go to sea. Andthe captain asked him what he could Nordirland Børn do. He said he could do themultiplication-table backward and paste sea-weed in a book; that heknew how many times Holland Fodboldtrøjer the word "begat" occurred in the Old Testament;and could recite Sergio Ramos Jersey "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" and Wordsworth's"We Are Seven.""Werry good--werry good, indeed," said the man of the sea, "and ken yekerry coals?"It is just the same when you want to marry. Great ability is Pittsburgh Penguins Pelipaidat notrequired so much as little usefulness. Brains are at a discount inthe married state. There is no demand for them, no appreciation even.
Our wives sum us up according to a standard of their own, in whichbrilliancy of intellect obtains no marks. Your lady and mistress isnot at all impressed by your cleverness and talent, my dearreader--not in the slightest. Give her a man who can do an errandneatly, without attempting to use his own judgment over it or anynonsense of that kind; and who can be trusted to hold a child theright way up, and not make himself objectionable whenever there Bruno Peres Jersey islukewarm mutton for dinner. That is the Black Watch Polo sort of a husband a sensiblewoman likes; not one of your scientific or literary nuisances, who goupsetting the whole house and putting everybody out with theirfoolishness.
ON MEMORY
"I remember, I remember,In the days of chill November,How the Portugali blackbird on the--"I forget the rest. It is the beginning of the first piece of poetry Iever learned; for"Hey, diddle diddle,The cat and the fiddle,"I take no note of, it being of a frivolous character and lacking inthe qualities of true poetry. I collected fourpence by the recital of"I remember, I remember." I knew DaMarcus Beasley Jersey it was fourpence, Colorado Rockies Tröjor because they toldme that if I kept it until I got twopence more I should have sixpence,which argument, albeit undeniable, moved me not, and the money wassquandered, to the best of my recollection, on the very next morning,although upon what memory is a blank.
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