The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-15
Ell E-R-T NIGHT.


(Ky.) PantagrGpb, Il member of the
City Council Of that town, upon re
turning home the other evening vas
regaled by his good lady with an an
inated address iii something like this
style:
"E-v-e-r-y aightl here it is half
past one O'Clock! It's q wonder Won
come home at all, What-do-vo
-thinll--a woman is madc for2 | do
believe if robber was 70 come and
carry me of YOU woulln't care one
cent. What is it YOU say? City
Council business How do know,
YOU go to the City Council? Does
the City Council meet c-Y-c-r-y night?
They don't meet but once in-New
York. But I suppose Bowling
Green is 4 moro important place.
Oh, yes-out every night. Twelve
o'clock-onc o'ciocll-two o'clock.-
Here | stay wiCh the childret. all
alone-lying here half Of the night
waiting toryou- Couldn't come home
any sooner? OF course you couldn't.
if YOU didn't want to. But I know
something you think | don {, but l
do; that / do. IWish | didn't. Where
were You Monday night? Can YOU tell
me that The Marshal told me the
City Council didn't meet that night.
Now, what have YOU got TO say
Couldn't get quorumi Well, if YOU
couldn't, why didn't yojI come home?
Cut every night-hunting-for-a
quorum. Bet you wouldn't hunt me
this late if | was missing. Where
were you Thursday night and Friday
night? There was 4 show in town,
wasn't there Do YOU always put on
vouY best vest and clean shirt to 90
to the Council? What did Won buy
that bottle of hair-oil for and hide it ?
oil for Your hone, indeedr Who
ever heard of oil for Il MILESTONE? ? SO
YOU think ! didn't sec you in the other
room, brushing and greasing Your
hair and looking in the glass at your
pretty SELF 4 man ought to look
decentr lie ought, ought he ? Yes.
indeed, n decent man ought to he, and
a decent man Will stay at home with
his wife sometimes. and not he out
c-E-e-r-y night. How comes II the
CITY Council didnt meet but twice Il
month last vcar2 TRYING to work It
out Of debt = Yes, that's probabic-
very-laughing and Joking and smok-
ing and swapping lies viii work
debt off, Won't it? Now-I-want
to o-know- -much-longeI-
-are-going-t -keep-Jlp-thi
night-business Yes, want to
know! Out every night City
Council. Free N$sons. Red Men. Odd
fellows. shoTs, hair oil-and it's brush
and brush until you've nearly worn
out the brush and Your head too
What is it you say? IT helps your
business to keep up your social rcla-
tions = All, indeed You've got re-
Iations here at home, sir. They need
keeping up some, | think What did
YOU say about catching it the other
night at cuchre party? 'Fellers, it's
twelve O'clock, but let's play a while
longer We won't catch it any worse
when we get home A pretty spesch
for decent man! Catch it, Catch
it = Well, l intend YOU shaft catch
it-a little, What's that you say
If l wouldn't fret SO you would stay
stay at home a few nights and try it.
Perhaps the frctting would stop. Out
every night because | fret yoU so.
What's that, sir? 'You know ladies
who amt always scoiding their hus-
bands = You do, do you? How
came YOU to know them? What bust
ness had you to know them What
right have you to know whether other
women fret or not? That's always
the wayF You men think that all the
othet women are saints but your wives.
Oh, yes-saints, s-a-i-n=t-s I'll have
YOU to know, sir, that there isn't 4
woman in this town that's any more
of a saint than | an / know them
all, sir-a heap better than YOU do
You see the sugar and honey side of
them, and thcy-only-see-the-
honey-and-s sugar-sidc -of--you.
Now, sir, I just want you to know
that if YOU don't stay at home more
than YOU do, I'll leave these children
to get burnt up, and I'll go out every
night. When poor woman gets dies
perafe, why, siT, she is-desperate,
that's all"
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