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woman whose husband is a great drunkard complaining to me of his drunkenness. I am convinced that a large proportion of drunkards are manufactured by their wives. My business is to tell the truth and not to flatter any one. Those unruly women from whose minds the words bear and forbear are gone for ever, and whose false ideas of independence lead them to say that they want men to be down under their feet, and who begin to screatch and howl as soon as men dare to say any thing to them which they do not like
such women are becoming the bane of the world, and it is a wonder that they do not drive half the men in it to commit suicide. These women get their half-starved preachers to side with them, and say to them, “Ladies, you are the most 'wonderful beings ever made.” Then the women de. clare about every one of such preachers, “This is the preacher for us," and give them money and
other things. It is in this way that things are „going on. Life is not such a joke as that; it is a little more serious.
