Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-07-20

SroRH OF THE WRoSe BAsT.-The
Sunday Courier, whose editor is notori-
Gus for finding out naughty places where
married women of New Yorkresort to
get fun and excitement, relates the fol-
lowing incident connected with the
check apron sOiree,' in East Broad
way:
These meetings are held exclusively
private, so that not even the police can
find out whisper about them. Oys-
ters and game suppers, champagne and
whisky toddys, fill up the rosy hours to
the brim. The men have, many of
them, wives and families, hold cushion
ed pews in fashionable churches, attend
Hope Chapel lectures, and eschew Sun
day newspapers. They are moral, high
headed men in the community, and sub
scribe literally to tract societies and for
eign missions. They turn up their eyes
in holy horror at reports Of common
RIGHTEOUSNESS, and oficiste as vice pres
ident at meetings for the suppression Of
vice and immortality. Yet it is fact
that these men mingle in gross licenti-
BUSINESS, in company with women who,
bearing respectable characters among
their neighbors, are false TO every feel-l
ing Of virtue. ~.
One of the female members Of these
check-apron assemblsges was, most sin
gularly, the agent in bringing this den
of revelry to light. 1t seems that she
is married women, the wife of an
honest mechanic, and the mother of
young child. She had comfortable
home, and apparently all that modest
woman could desire; but, sad to say,
was a regular attendant on and par
tieipant in check-apron 'soirees.' The
nature of her husbands vocation made
it necessary for him to work till 12
O'Clock every night, which gave her an
easy opportunity to crafty her desires
unsuspected. She was always at home
before her husband arrived, and thus
for months had carried on her clandes-
tine amusement, without the least dan
ger Of exposure. But murder will out
and did. r.-t
A few nights since the socialities met
in full conclare. The supper was rich,
the wine sparkling, the women were en-
chanting, the men gallant to a degree.
Time few like frightened pigeon, and
the excitement was at its highth, when
hark!-one-two--three- ee-four-fve--
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
twelve; struck like death knell up
on the ears of the twelve o'clock lady.
MY GodP she exclaimed, Il shall be
too late! Ny husband will be home be-
fore meP and hastily throwing on her
shawl and bonnet, and catching her
sleeping babe from its bed in an ad-
/ joining room, she left the house, with
out even bestowing parting kiss upon
the reeking lips of her moral paramour.
She gained her own door, almost breath
less-her hand trembled as she grasped
the knob-she opened it carefully
Thank God he is not here. am safe,
was her ejaculation, as she placed ber
infant on the bed and sat down to COM
pose herself.
The husband soon arrived, took his
supper, and they retired. Next morn
ing, as the wife was busy getting break
j fast, she was suddenly called by her
| husband.
Il say. wife, look bere-I thought
our child was girl said he.
/ We'll. so it is, replied the wife.
Indeedl Well come and look at this
one
j The investigation did not last great
while. The woman bad laid her child
beside another one at the party, and in
her hurry had caught up the wrong one.
How y explain the sudden metamor-
phose, she knew not. She was too
much excited to coin a lie. But the
husband relieved her, for on taking
good look at the little fellow. he ex-
claimed; why, this is Mrs. S--s
childP
The terrified wife at once confessed
all, and named the people who were in
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