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 Aunt Hetty on Matrimony
Fanny Fern
(Girls were sitting in a room and doing embroidery.)
Jenny: I am very happy with my husband and my married life. Matrimony is
amazing. It changes your life. You find someone to share your
happiness and sorrows. A family and everything you want.
Emma: Lora, you will also experience this all as you are getting married in some
days.
Jenny: You didn’t tell me about this before Lora. Why?
Lora: I just forgot to tell you Jenny. Both of you are invited.
Jenny: I wish that you will have a happy married life.

(Aunt Hetty enters the room when the girls were talking about
lovers and honeymoon)
Aunt Hetty: Now girls put down your embroidery and worsted work do something
sensible and stop building air castles and talking of lovers and
honeymoons.
Emma: But why?
Aunt Hetty: Because it makes me sick. It is perfectly antimonial. I don’t agree with
you. Lora, I will suggest you that you should not get married at this
young age. You are just 20 years old. You should enjoy being single.
Lora: Why are you saying like this? I am getting married with jack because
we both wanted to. Then what is wrong with it?
Aunt Hetty: Nothing is wrong with it. Everybody get married but you are thinking
that your life will change after marriage. It will become better and more
colorful then my girl! You are wrong.
Jenny: (Taking a sip of coffee) I don’t agree with you Aunt Hetty.
Aunt Hetty: Why you don’t agree with me?
Jenny: Because I am married too. I know about married life.

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Aunt Hetty: Oh come on jenny talk about something sensible.
Emma: We are talking about matrimony and I think it is sensible.
Aunt Hetty: You know nothing about matrimony because you are not married. I
am telling you matrimony is totally opposite to what you are thinking.
Emma: So tell us what is your point of view about matrimony and love?
Aunt Hetty: I also think like you when I was of your age. But now I think totally
different. Love is farce and matrimony is hum-bug.
Lora: It depends on husbands. If husband is caring then life become good.
Aunt Hetty: Husbands are domestic napoleons, neroes, alexanders, - sighing for
other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.
Jenny: My husband don’t do this. He is very loyal to me.
Because of this you can’t suggest Lora not to get married.
Emma: I don’t agree with you I think we all don’t agree with your point of view.
Bella: I do agree with her. Aunt Hetty is absolutely right. That is why I don’t want
to get married.
Aunt Hetty: Emma, you are saying this because you are not married. Once you get
married you will say the same.
Lora: Why are you so negative about husbands and matrimony?
Aunt Hetty: I am married for last fifteen years. I know the discomforts of married
life.
Jenny: Think about the comforts of married life.
Aunt Hetty: What kind of comforts u have in married life?
Can you tell us?
Jenny: It has both good and bad side. You are just telling about the bad side Aunt
Hetty. You should think about the good things like you will have family, cute kids,
loving husband. You can hang out with them.
Aunt Hetty: This all happen in the first few years of marriage after that your
husband don’t bother about you. Honeymoon is as short lived as a Lucifer-match.
Jenny: Not all husbands are the same. My husband’s still loves me a lot.

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Bella: How many years have been passed of your married life?
Jenny: Only four years.
Aunt Hetty: It is just beginning my girl. After that you may wear your wedding dress
at the wash tub and your night cap to meeting. Your husband wouldn’t know it.
Jenny: I take much care of him. He will not do like this with me.
Bella: He will, jenny. After a few years, he will stop bothering about you. You may
pick up your own pocket-handkerchief, help yourself to a chair, and split your gown
across the back reaching over the table to get a piece of butter.
Aunt Hetty: While your husband will be laying in his breakfast as if it was the last
meal he should eat this side of Jordan.
Lora: Bella, why are you against matrimony?
Bella: I have never observed anything good about matrimony.
Jenny: My husbands is very caring. He even make breakfast for me.
Bella: Only because of this you are happy with him?
Jenny: Not only this. He also trust and respects me. Trust, love, respect and care
are enough for happy married life.
Aunt Hetty: Husbands only concern about their meal. They not even bother to
spend some good time with wife.
Lora: Oh please! Stop! I am getting married within few days and after listening to
you both I think I should not get married.
Aunt Hetty: You will remember me after your marriage when you will experience
all this .He will aid your digestion by inquiring about the dinner while you are
sipping your first cup of coffee.
Lora: Don’t say like this Aunt Hetty.
Bella: He will ask you question that will irritate you.
Whether the cold lamb was all ate yesterday?
If the charcoal is all out?
What you gave for the last green tea you bought?

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Jenny: Both of you think very negative about marriage. Lora, believe me nothing
will happen like this .you will remember me when he will take you to restaurant
instead of inquiring about dinner. Be positive.
Aunt Hetty: After you have been all alone at home the entire day. He should spend
some time with you but instead he will eat food ,read the newspaper and give two
or three whiffs of smoke even he knows that it will give you headache for the
forenoon.
Jenny: Well, my husband don’t smoke.
Lora: Jack also don’t do smoking.
Aunt Hetty: Husbands forget about everything that wives ask them to do and
instead of doing it next day they will simply apologize. Their main concern is their
business.
Jenny: I am my husband’s first priority.
Bella: Have he ever come back home early and asked you to get ready because
you are going out for dinner?
Jenny: Yes many times.
Aunt Hetty: In most cases, wives are at home new lining his husband’s old coat
sleeves while husbands are taking ice-cream with some ladies at a confectioner.
That all make the wives feel jealous.
Lora: Is married life really like that?
Aunt Hetty: Children by the ears all day, can’t get out to take the air, feel crazy as
a fly in drum; husbands comes home at night, nods a “how d’ye do,Fan”,boxes
Charley’s ears, stands little Fanny in the corner, sits down in the easiest chair in
the warmest corner, put his feet up over the grate, while the baby’s little pug
nose grows blue with the cold.
Bella: Husband remains busy in their own life. Don’t think about the children and
wife.
Emma: You can’t criticize all the husbands because of one.
Aunt Hetty: You will be waiting for him the whole day and when he will return
you will be expecting that he will ask to take a mouthful of fresh air with him but
he puts on his dressing gown and slippers, and begin to reckon up the family
expenses.

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Lora: Now you are diverting my mind from getting married.
Bella: Even for a little money you become dependent on your husband and you
have to give explanation that why you need that money.
Lora: I will not face this problem because I m a working woman.
Aunt Hetty: Oh girls! Set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap dogs; but
let matrimony alone. It is the hardest way on earth of getting living you never
know when your work is done.
Lora: It all because you think like this. If you think positive everything will be
good.
Aunt Hetty: Lora, think of eight or nine children through the measles, chickenpox,
rash, mumps, and scarlet fever, some of them twice over.
Lora: It makes my head ache to think of it.
Bella: Oh, you may scrimp and save, and twist and turn, and dig and delve and
economise and die, and your husband marry again, take what you have saved to
dress his second wife with.
Aunt Hetty: What’s the use of talking? I’ll warrant every one of you’ll try it, the
first chance you get! There is a sort of bewitchment about it, somehow. I wish
one half the world wasn’t fools, and the other half idiots, I do. Oh! Dear!’

(Aunt Hetty’s husband returns from office and inquire about

the dinner and after that he takes newspaper and goes to his
room)
Aunt Hetty: Girls, I hope after seeing this you all will agree with me.
Emma: I agree.
Jenny: It was a pleasant meeting with you Aunt Hetty. Now, we have to go. Take
care.

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