The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-02
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Bill Arp Illustrates Human
Nature.

Bill Arp illustrates Human
.i Nature.
The only real merit found in the
followingyis, that scolding wives
and rambling husbands, who keep
late hours, get nice setting out
There is more truth than oddity in
the following effusion. BILL is q
very good observer of human "na-
tpr" and "doins." Read and see
il lie is or not' d b lila aal
BrEE ANrs seditors-of the Rome
(Ga) Commercial, ,.has been swim
ming around the couucil chambers
every night during the inunda-
ton Of his city, and here's what
comes of his being out
EVERY night! Here it is half
past one O'CLOCK! It's q wonder
! you come home at all! What-do
-you-think--a-woman--ism made
for :" | do believe if q robber was
to come'and carry me off you would
not, care. What is 1T you say ?
City council business must be at
tended to! How do | know you 90
to the city council? Does the city
council meet every night? |? They
don't meet but once n week in New
York. But / suppose Rome is a
more important place. Oh, yes,
out of every night. Twelve O'clock
T-one o'clock-two o'clock. Here
| staywith the children all aloneA
lying7awalSe 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 ;;Ayou think L don't, but
| do.9dThat l do. l wish / didn't.
Where were you Monday nightl2
Tell me that, The marshal told
me the city council didn't meet that
night. Now what have you got to
say?rv Couldn't get q quorum |!
Well, ifiyoui couldn't why didn't
you come homeP Out every
nightr-hunting for -a-quorum.
But you wouldn't hunt for me this
late ifI was missing. Where were
YOU Thursday night and Friday
night? Therelwas a show in town,
wasn't there? What did you buy
that bottle of hair oil for and hide
IL? oil for your hone, indeed!
Who ever heard of hair oil for
whetstonel So you think / didn't
see You in the other room brushing
and greasing your hair and looking
in the glass at your pretty self? A
man ought to be decent. He ought,
ought, ought hel Yes, indeed, a
man ought to, and q decent man
will stay at home with his wife
sometimes and not be out every
night. How comes it that the city
council didn't meet but twice a
month last yearp Trying to work
1t out, of debt! Yes, that's proba-
ble-very - laughing and joking,
and smoking and swapping lies will
work adebt off, won't itp Now-I
Observation-Disclosures
longerTyou- are = going Il to II
keep-up-this- ight-busines ?
Yes, | want to know. Out every !
night. Getty council, Freemasons,
hair oil---and brush, and !
brush, and brush untilyou'ye near
ly worn out the brush and your
head too. What is it you say? I'll
helps your business to keep up1
your social relation! All, indeed!
You've got relations here at home,
sir. They need keeping up some / |
shoiild think. What did you say |
about catching it the otliernight At
q whist partyH Fellows, its IL
0eloek,I bullets play q while lon
ger-TwO won't catch it any worse
When we get home. A pretty
speech for a decent man to
make. Catch it. Catch it! Well,
| intend yolI-shallsoateh h-it---a little.
What's that you sayS III wouldn't
fret you so you would stay at home
more! We'll, sir, do you stay at
home first q few nights and try it.
Perhaps the frettihg would stop.
Opte-y-e-r-y y night becadse / fret
you so. 81 What's that, sirP Yc,u
Snow ladies who aint always a
scolding their husbands! Yo'd do, !
10 youY How come you tc, know
,hemp What right have YOU to
Snowywhcthor othUrwomf n fret or i
ndt2 That's always the way. You
men think all other women are
saints but your wives, oh, yes
'plrts-s;a-i-n-t-s. Til have you to
SnowpsiS thp.t there isn't woman
y this tow n that's more Of a saint
'r''pTi ",h. nlkn0W thema all, slr---a
feia-re reobetter than you do, You
'pply = see the sugar and honey side
y them, and they-only see-the
z+sugarA sideAof--you. Now, sir,
4 JUST want you to know that if you
can't stay at home more than you
do, III leave these children here
to get burnt up, and I'll go out CIV
e-r-y night. When a poor woman
gets desperate, why, sir, she is
shc,is desperate, that's all.'lrl ali
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4 AaaMIcnIGAN. school-master
says:,l 'T.will spell emmy man,