The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-08
How a Shoemaker Came 10 GrIef---A
Very Frenehy story.
Correspondence Of the NetD Orleans Picdtrine.
PApIs Nav 1868

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PARIS, May, 1866,
We are laughing over an adventure
into which an amorous shoemaker
| fell. He was not content with the one
wife he had taken, but he must needs
go poachIng on his neighbor's bed. His
neighbours wife, annoyed by his decla-
rations, told her husband. The latter
replied: 1--WE will punish him." They
put their heads together to devise some
suitable punishment. The evening
after this family consultation, the am
orous shoemaker (who lived immedi-
ately opposite the house-painter. whose
wife he so loved, seeing the husband
absent, called on the wife. He was in
higher spirits than ever; he bought an
enormous nosegay, made entirely OF
roses, and was as full of compliments
as he could be. The wife said to him,
in reply to question: "My husband
has gone to st. Germain TO recover a
debt of some 200f." The shoemaker was
delighted at the prospect of spending
the whole evening with her. Two hours
flew away in most delightful conVer-
sation. He pressed her to yield; she
refused. AT last she said: my great-
est objection TO you is the horrible odor
of leather, which all shoemakers have.
Take bath in my husbands bathing
tub, and perhaps, after you smell like
other people, Will not be as obstinate
as you say 1 am" The shoem aker
besitated. he dreaded foul play, but
faint heart never won fair lady-he un-
dressed, and was soon in the bath. He
had not been in it more than five, min
utes, when loud, quick knocking was
heard at the door. The wife screamed,
"MOn dieW! There is my husband !!
What will become of us ?' The shoe
maker was frightened out of his wits,
his teeth chartered, his knees knocked
tnTafINnR hn tIttAFlU hlNVil1Arnd
with fright. "Come into this wardrobe,
quick J" exclaimed the wife. He obey
ed instantly. The wife opened the
door, the husband entered in tower
ing fury and violently threw his cap
on the floor, eXclaiming: "Accursed
trip! have not brought one cent back
with me TO pay the note Of 200f due to-
morrow. I never in my life was in
such bad luck as / am now. Give me
something to eat! am half dead with
hunger and thirst" The wife replied,
in her sOiLest, gentlest tone, "Here is
some cold meat, bread and wine,
dear" The husband seized two
them against each other in man
ner which must have made the
poor shoemaker's blood run cold,
us he crouched in the wardrobe naked,
wet, shiveriug with fearand cold, near
er dead than alive. "Wife," continued
the husband, 81 must sell the ward
robe to morrow. Ny friend the shoe
maker over the way has long been
wanting to buy it. I will carry it to
him tomorrow morning." As the hus-
band spoke, he went up to the ward
robe, and, after rattling the key for
some time in the lock, as if he could
not turn it-all which were new terrors
to the poor umorouS shoemaker, who,
doubtless, vowed If he ever got safely
n this he Nynn1l Ipf her
mems wives alone. Amer supper, hus-
band and vile went to bed. The next
morning at nine o'clock the husband
went out to get four porters. They took
the wardrobe and carried it over to the
shoeInaker's. The husband found the
shoemaker's family in state of the
greatest CONSERVATION. The shoema-
ker could be found nowhere; the
warmest apprehensions we're enter
tained of his fate; his family were in
tears. The husband was unable to re-
lieve their anxiety: he had neither seen
nor heard of his friend. The shoema-
ker's wife accepted the wardrobe
(Which she knew her husband had long
desired TO purchase), and when the
house-painter gave her the key she
opened the door to examine the condi-
tiOnS of her purchase. The instant the
door opened a naked man with hair on
end, covered with red, bounded forth,
KNOCKING uOWn Ine wife. deT screams,
the terror of the porters and the APP
prentices, were dreadful. Meanwhile,
the naked red man, evidently beside
himself, ran wildly about the shop; his
wife, porters and apprentices flew at
him with whatever they could lay their
hands on, and gave him a sound drub
bing, until he recovered his senses suf-
ficientlv to discoveri himself. The
house painter had prepared the bath
with large quantity of glue, and had
thickly "dusted" the inside with pow
dered 0chre, which had been transferred
to the poor shoemaker's body during
his nights restlessness; while the glue,
getting into his hair and drying, made
his hair seem to stand on end. When
the shoemaker's wife found out all
these things, She took broom-stick
and belabored her husband thoroughly.
An immense crowd wns assembled in
front of their door (they live in the Rue
81. Antoine and the poor shoemaker
has become so ashamed, he has not,
since this occurrence, dared to show
his face in the street. GAMMA.