Smyrna times., 1873-07-23
WHOLE NO. 951
EVERY Night

,, According to the Bowling Green CKv)
LHHta9roph, member Of the city council of
that town, upon returning home rather late
one evening last week, was regaled by his GOOD
lady with an animated address in something
like this style:
Five r-y night Here it is balEnast 7
O'Clock It's wonder you came home at ali
What-dO-y u-think-a-woman is made
Tor? do believe if robber was to come and
carry me ott you would not care ONE cent.
hat Is 1t you say? City council business
must be attended to !" City council business
How do l know you go to the city council
Does the city council meet every night?
They don't meet but once in-NeW York.
But ! suppose B-O-w-l--n Green is a
more important place. Oh, yes-out e-v-e-rv
night. Twelve o'clock-one o'clock-two
o'clock. Here | stay with the children. all
alone-ylng awake half Of the night waiting
for you. Could not come home any sooper3
Ot course you couldn't if you didn't want to.
do; that l do. | wish didn't. Where
were you Monday night? Tell me that. The
marshal told me that the city council didn't
meet that night. Now, what have YOU got to
say! Couldn get quorum?' Well if YOU
couIdn why didn't you come home? Out
every night-hunting- ng-for-a-ouorum
Bet you wouldn't hunt me that way ii [ was
mlSsIng. W mere were you Thursday and
and Friday night? There was a show in town
WASH there ! DO you always put on your best
vest and clean shirt to go to the cUuncil2
W hat did you buy that bottle of hair.oil for
and hide it? oil for your hone" indeed
Who ever heard of hair-Oil for a whet-stone?
50 you think L didn't see you in the other
room, brushing and greasing your hair. and
looking into the glass at your pretty self?" A
man ought to be decent" lie ought, ought
he! Yes, indeed, decent man ought to be. and
decent men will stay at home with their wives
sometimes, and not be out every night.
How comes it that the city council didn't meet
| but twice month last year? Trying to work
it out Of debt F" Yes, that's pro6abe-yerv
laughing and joking, smoking and swapping
hes will work debt off, won't it? Now-I-
want-t0-knOw-how uch-longer-you-
are-gOlng- eep-this-nightS businessP
les, L want to know Out every night.
! City council, Free Masons, Red Men. Odd
telio"S, shows, halr-oil-and it's brush and
brush until you have nearly worn out the
brush, and your head, too. What is it YOU
social relations T. All, indeed. You've got
relations here at home, sir. They need keen
ing up some, | think. What did you saw
about catching it the other night at n
euchre party? "Eellers, its twelve O'Clock.
but let's play while longer, we won't catch 4
any worse " hen we get home" A pretty
speech for dec emit man! Catch it. Catch
il! Well, | intend you shall catch it-a
little. What's that you say? IF | wouldn' I
tret you SO, you would stay at home more ?''
Well, sir. do you stay at home a few nights
and try it. Perhaps the fretting would stop.
Out every night because | fret you SO.
What's that sirP You know ladies who ain't
always scolding their husbands" You do. do
you? How, come you to know them? What
business had you to know them? What right
have you 10 know whether other women fret
or not? That's always the way. You men
think that all other women are saints but your
wives. Oh, yes-Saints, sal n-t-s. I'll have
you know: sir, that there isn't woman in this
town that any more Of a saint than | am.
know them all, sir he a-p better than YOU
DO. You see the sugar and honey side Of
them, and they only-see-t -tLc-bonevW
and-sugar- -Side-ot-you. Now, sir, | lust
want you to know that if you don't stay at
home more than you do, I'll leave these chill
dren to get burnt up, and III go out every
night When poor woman gets desperate.
why, sir, she is-desperate, that's all.