Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-10-24
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EVERY NIGHT.

According to the Bowling Green (Ky. J
Paragraph, member Of the city coun-
Gil Of that town, upon returning home
rather late one evening last week, was
RECALLED by his good lady with an ANNA
ted address in something like this style :
Every night Here it is half-past
o'clock Its wonder you came home
at all What do you think woman is
made for? do believe if robber were
to come and carry me off you would not
care one cent. What is it you say? '.City
council business must be attended to !"
How do | know you go to the city coun-
Gil. Docs the city council meet EVERY
night2 They don't meet but once in
New York. But | suppose Bowling
Green is more important place. Oh.
yes-out every night. Twelve o'clock
--one o'clock--two o'clock. Here | stay
with the children, all alone lying awake
half the night waiting for you. Couldn't
come home any sooner. Of course you
couldn't, if you didn't want to. But
know something you think don't, but
/ do, that | do. | wish / didn't. Where
we're you on Monday night Z Tell me
that. The marshal told me that the city
council didn't meet that night. Now
what have you got to say ? Could not
get quoruml Well, if you couldn't.
why didn't you come home 2 Out every
night, hunting for quorum. But you
would not hunt me in this way if was
missing Where were you on Thursday
night and Friday night2 There was
show in town that night, wasn't there 2
Do you always put on your best vest and
a clean shirt to go to the council What
did you buy that bottle Of hair oil for.
and hide it2 Oil for your hone, iudeedl
Whoever heard of hair old for whet-
stone So you think / didn't see you
in the other room brushing and greasing
your nair and looking in the glass at
your pretty self A man ought to be
decent He ought, ought he =? Yes. in
deed, decent man ought to be, and
decent man will stay at home with his
wife sometimes, and not be out every
night How comes it that the city coun-
Gil didn't meet but twice a month last
year Trying to work out Of debt. Yes,
that's probable--very; laughing and jok-
ing and smoking and swapping lies will
work man out Of debt, won't it /? Now
| want to know how much longer you
are going to keep up this night business?
Yes, ] want to know. Out every night.
City Council, Freemasons, Red Men,
Odd Fellows, shows, hair oil--and it's
brush until you have nearly worn out
the brush, and your head, too. What is
it you say? 1t helps our business to
keep your social relations. All, indeed.
You We got relations here at home, sir (!
They need keeping up some, | think.
W hat did you say about catching it,
The other night at euchrc party 'Fel-
ers, it's II O'clock, but let's play awhile
onger we won't catch it any worse
when we get home" A pretty speech for
/ decent man "Catch it y Well,
intend you shall catch tia little. What's
hat you say : IF wouldn't fret so,
you would stay at home morew Well,
,ir, do you stay at home few nights
md try it, Perhaps the fretting would
top. Out every night because | fret
you So What's that sir : You know
aides who amt always scolding their
husbands ! You do, do you How
,ame you to know them What bust
less had you to knew them : What
light have you to know whether other
women fret or not That's always the
way. You men think all the other wo-
men are saints but your wives.
Oh, yes, saints, s-a-i-n-t-s I'll have
rou to know, sir, that there isn't a wo-
nan in this town that's any more of
amt than | am. know them all. sir,
heap bettes than you do. You see the
ugar and honey side of them, and they
My SEQ the honey and sugar side Of you.
Vow, sir, just want you to know that
{ you don't stay at home more than you
10, I'll leave these children TO get burnt
Up, and I'll go out EVERY night
When poor woman gets desperate, why
ir, she is desperate all.
A mab hearing that a raven would