The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-16
nr., CAUDLE's CTRrATN LECTURES
Candle has been Made a Mason--Mrs.
CaudIe Indignant and Curioua.


"Now Mr.. Caudle,-Mr. Caudle, 1
say; oh! you can't be asleep already,
1 kuow-now, what I mean to say il
this; there's no use, none at all. in our
having any disturbance about the mat
ter but at last my minds made up,
Mr.. Candle; L shall leave you. Either
I know all you've been doing tonight,
or tomorrow morning quit the house.
No, no; there's an end or the marriage
state, / thiuk-an end of all confidence
between man and wife-if husbands
to have secrets and keep 'em all TO him
self. Pretty secrets they must be, when
his own wife CAN'T know 'em! Not lit
for any decent person to know, Pm
sure, if that's the case. Now, Candle,
don't let US quarrel, there's good sou, +,
tell me what's it all about? a pack of
nonsense dare say; still,-not that I
care much about it,-stiIl 1 should like
to know. There's a dear. Eh2 Oh,
don't tell me there's nothing, in il: I
know better. I'm not a fool, Mr.. Cau-
die; I know there's a good deal in it.
Now, Mr.. Caudle, just tell me little
bit of it. I'm sure I'd tell you any
thing. You know would. Well7
"Caudle, you're enough to vex a
saint! Now, don't you think you are
going to sleep; because you're not. Do
you suppose I'd ever suffered you to
go and be Mason, If 1 didn't suppose
was TO know the secret too? Not that
it's anything to know, I dare say; and
that's why I'm determined to know it.
But know HhatiI is; oh, yes, there
can be no doubt. The secret is, to ILL
use poor women; to tyrannize over 'em;
to make 'eIn your slaves; especially
your wives. 1t must be something of
the sort, or you wouldn't be ashamed
to havei it known. What's right and
proper never need be done in secret
It's an Insult to a woman for a man to
pc Free Mason, and let his wife know
nothing about it. But, poor souli she's
sure TO know is some how-for nice
husbands they all make Yes, yes, a
part of the secret IS to think better OF
all the world than their own wives and
families. I'm sure men have quite
enough TO care for-that is, if they act
properiy-to care for them they have at
home. They can't have much to spare
for the world besides.
"And suppose they call you Brother
Candle? \ pretty brother indeed! Co
ing and dressing yourself up in an
apron like turnpike man, for that's
what You look like. And / should like
to know what the aprons for7 There
must be something in it not very re-
spectacle, Tn sure Well, Ionly wish
1 was Queen for day or two. I'd put
an end TO free-masonry, and all such
trumperyI know.
Vow, come, CaudIe: don't let US
quarrel Eh! you're not in main dear?
What is 1t all about? What are Won
lying laughing there att But I'm a
fool 10 trouble my head about YOU
Aud you're not going TO let me
know the secret, eh? You mean to ssv
you're not2 Now, Caudle, you know
it's hard matter to be put in a passion
not that care about the secret itself;
no, wouldn't give q button to know
1t, for IFS all nonsense, Tn sure. Il
isn't the secret Il care about; lis the
slight, Mr. Caudie. it's the studied in
suit that man pays to his wife, when
he thinks Of going through the world
keeping something 70 himself which lie
won't let her know. Man and wife
one, indeed! I should like 70 know
how thai can be when a man,sa Mason
when he keeps secret fnat sets him
and his wife apart HR, you men
make the laws, and so you take good
care to have all the best of 'em 10 your
selves; otherwise woman ought 70 be