The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-13
STORY OF THE WRONG BABY.

The Sunday Curier, whoe editor is
famious for finding out naughty places
where married women of New York re-
sort to get fun and excitement, relates
the following incident connected with
!" eheckapron soirce," in East Broadway
S These meetings are held exclusively
private, so that even the police can't find
out a whisper about them. Oysters and
game suppers, champagne and whisky
teddys, FIJI up the rosy hours to the brim.
The men have many of them, wives and
families, hold cushioned pews in fashion
s 5snYc ches, attend Hope Chapel lee
-5eIIes, and escEew Sunday newspapers.
They are moral, highheaded men in the
community, and subscribe literally to tract
Societies and foreign missions They
turn up their eyes in holy horror at re.
ports of common licentiousness, in COM
Pany with women who, bearing respec
table characters among their neighbors,
are false to every telling of virtue.
One of the female members of these
check-apron assemblages was most sin
gularly, the agent in bringing this den
of reveldry to light. 1t seems that she
Is d HOlDduy tAO nA1O VI dn hOn-
est mechanic, and the mother of a young
child She had comfortable home,
and apparently, all that modest woman
Could desire, but, sad to say was a regu-
lar attendant on and participant in cheek
apron s' sociables" The nature of her
husbands vocation, made it necessary
for him to work until IL O'Clock every
night, which gave her an easy opportu-
nifty to crafty her desire unsuspected.
She was always at home before her hus-
band arrived, and thus for months had
carried on her clandestine amusement,
without the least danger of exposure
But murder will out" and did.
A few nights since the socialists met in
full conclave. The supper was rich, the
wine sparkling, the woman wei enchant-
ing, the men gallant to degree. Time
flew like frightend pigion, and the ex-
citement was at its height, when, bark /!
-three-four-f fve-six-
Twelve struck like death knell upon
the ears of the II o'clock lady,
"My Godi" she exclaimed, & I shall
be too late My husband will be home
before me l'' and hastily throwing on her
shawl and bonnet, and catching her sleep
ing babe from its bed in an adjoining
room, she left the house, without even
bestowing parting kiss upon the reeking
lips of her moral paramour. She gained
her own door, almost breathless- her
hand trembled as she grasped the knob
-she opened it carefully. THANK God
he is not here. am safe," was her
e5aealation, as she placed her infant on
the bed, and sat down to compose herself
The husband soon arrived, took his
supper and they retired. Next morn
ing as the wife was busy making break
fast, she was suddenly called by her
husband.
{" 1 say, wife, look here-I thought
our child was girl" said he.
"Well, so it is, replied the wife.
+" Indeed Well come and look at
this one !"
The investigation did not last great
while. The women had laid her child
! beside another one at the party, and in
her hurry had caught up the wrong one:
How to explain the sudden metamor-
phois. she knew not She was too much
agitated to coin lie. But the husband
relieved her, for Oh taking good look
at the little fellow, he exclaimed -
{" Why this is Mrs--'s child"
The terrified wife at oEce cnofessed all,
and named the people who were In the
habit of meeting her At Mrs.-'s-