Gazette and sentinel., 1860-10-20
Curtain Lecture by Wide-Awake
Wife.

We extract the following, says a New
York contemporary, from the Buffalo Re-
publican, and as there are Wide-Awakes
in our city old enough to have wives,
we commend the lecture to them
ISCENE-In bed, face to toe w~alt-St,ung smell of
coal olI-rIme, three in the morning.l
\ pretty time indeed for you to come
home sir! Where have you been all
night? You smell as if you had been in
search of Symmcs' Hole through a tar
barrel. Talk Of sulphurctted hydrogen.
orsuprrannuatcd eggS!l They amt any
where! Say, where have you been?
Here I've been lying awake for the
last five hougc waiting for you to come.
Now, | want 10 know where you've
been all this time! UIM I rouAluI
bothsr yoR-tR me IL the morr;ag! |
want 10 know now; its near enough
morning to know where ones husband
has been all night, and particularly if
he comes home pcrfumcd clear through
as You are. You mustn't good uits me.
That Won't answer. Suppose you were
a woman, and your husband should go
of every night in the week, and come
home as yOu do aud-l wish yOn'd get
up and let some fresh air in the room,
or shall certain Suilocata-what would
you say! Don't yOu imagine there would
he a row in the family? BEEN Nth he
Hi3cAwakes | should think as much.
You're a wide awake fool, that's what
you are. Eve always thought you had
about sense enough to parade the
streets with those niggcrlovcrs. Vby
dtd ! marryyoU! That's apretty question!
Didn't you swear that you'd shoot your
sell if / didn't take pity on you! I'm
sorry ! didn't allow You to shoot, or
hang, or drown yourself. 1t would have
been the best thing | ever did in my
life. What is it smell SO? Noi5iR" |
Don't tell mc nothing it never smeIlcd
50 in the world.
hui 10 carryG torh +? That's sweet
business for It man who prctcnds to be
the Father of a large family. Next
thing shall expect To hear of You is,
that you've been splitting rails for gen
cral circulation. / kaoW EoiitHg 0Joat
Pot!tcs! Don't ch! | don't want to know
nothing about politics, if | have 10 neg
Icct my family and carry sinking torch
Is for the benefit of Il lazy man in Iii
noIS who Is trying to be President.
Want to sleep! thought you were Il
Widc-Awakc. | suppose you've kept
awake tonight on whisky, havn't you?
Where have you been all this time; thc
town o'clock has just struck three. BEN
to I~0Ha0aHda 10 r0isca liberty Poie' That's
Il sweet note. Why didn't the Wide
Awakcs Of Tonawanda raise their own
pole! Expect Republicans are scarce
III that section, and you've been trying
to make a great splurge. Well, you
can't fool anybody. | believe | know
something about politics myself, and |
know that you are drunk. That's what
you are. Must go 10 sLecp, must you?
Why didn't you think of that before
I've had no sleep tonight, and You never
oncc thought of me. You're an old
brute, and just such a man as ought to
vote for an old rail splitter. Vote for
Douglas fl lei yOH alone? Eli ! that
would be well indeed, a change without
Il difference, or a difference without a
change really, how c~onsiderate YOU
are. Douglas. Lincoln! Lincoln! Doug
las! Honest Abe ~ Little Giant "
"Goodness gracious" says Mrs. Cox.
Gracious goodness" q Y Mr.. Box.
Oh! you politicianers will be the death
ot us poor aflectiOnatr creatures vour
much abused wives.