The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-05-25
A Husband who Couldn't Appreciate
the Dolly Vardens.

II husbands are to be mistaken in DOL
| /. Warden" dresses, as was an unfortunate
husband in Philadelphia, the sooner the
fashion is sIuelched the bett will it be
for the peace If society. The hustald in
question one light missed from the supper
table his wife Matilda, and inquired of his
I little boy whittier had she gore, and Just
at that moment the dining room door
opened and a lady entered The husband
7 observed a Ia look in her eye, and also
noticed that she was attired in an outland-
| ish STYLE having on. as he says, a dress,
with sunhowers, and cabbage, and pump
I kins worked al over it, and lot Of snakes
squirming round for back ground.
Rising, the man said, Madam, whom
/ do.yOu wish t. see and then said aside,
Poor thing. she's crazy" That last re-
mark settled the business for him, as the
weird female made holt and tightly grasp
ed his Adam apple, and ch0ked him I'M
til his face assumed the color of banner
of the Commune. After she had enjoyed
surfcit Of choking her husband she flop
ped into chair, and with tears coursing
each other down her cheeks, exclaimed /:
That | should ever live to hear my hus-
band say that ] was crazy - This amused
the husband. and elevating himself to his
full proportions, he said
You can't blame me madam, for sup
posing you an insane woman, and now that
know Won are really the mother Of these
interesting children. will youhave the kind
ness to retire to the sanciity Of your cham
Der and peel Yourself Of that piece OF furni-
ture chintz, or window curtain or whatever
it is you cali i; q
Window curtain chintz = said the
spouse, why II : You that's out of your
head. That : a Dolly Warden, and very
pretty pattern, too.
4" Madam, replied the husband eve
NAV he ont of cur heads but if that is a
Dolly Warden. We are most decidedly out
If pocket. Why. 1t looks like circus
dress and the idea of woman at your
time of life
" My time If life IN
yes, your time If life The next thing
| suppose, yon will be practicing the ira
peze act in the back yard. Why, it is
enough to give man the d'iiri.Bt trsSsss.S
to look at IL. Who ever saw such a pat
tern It's fash wall paper run mad. You
look exactly like some japanese te&-sign
And now Just bounce out of here with that
It et- ice odtlle nag, tI YOU a seale 1lio Daoy
to death.
There was All contemporaries moment,
and then the eldest daughter said
"Why, you ought to be ashamed of your
self, father It's all the style, and ! am
going to have one, too there now. . Yes,
and want one; all the girls have got them
Thus spoke Maria, the second eldest. amy
more !" gasped the husband are there
any more Had mt the baby better have
onei guess Ill get one myself How do.
they make up for pantaloons Ha ha ha!
Economically. Let me have Dolly ar
den. Let me clutch it. Bring me pattern
scaling lamp posts. How would Chinese
puzzle look, OF a map of Paramount Park"
All the rest is a blank The unhappy hus-
band has lust been liberated from an asy-
lum, and pronounced cured. But the only
way they managed it was to dress him up
IN a Dolly Warden, marked out with the
ground plan Of the streets Of Boston.