Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-06-20
EVERY Night!

| AccoTulug 10 Cne Downing OFceu (Ag
Paragraph, member of the city council {
that town, upon returning home rather lat
one evening last week, was regaled by hi
good lady with an animated address in some
thing like this style
Every night Here it is halfpast
o'clock LIS wonder you came'bome o
sll T! What-do-you-think- a-woma
| is made for I do believe if a robber was t
come and carry me off you would not car
On cent. What is it you say &c Cit
council business must ba attended p Cit
council business How do I know you @
to the city council Does the city council
meet eve r.y night ? They don't meet bu
once iu--New York. But suppose B O. "
Ling Gree is more important place
Oh. yes-out every night Twelv'
o'clock-one o'clock-two o'clock. Here
stay with the children, all alone lyu.
awake half of the night waiting fer yon -
Couldn't come home any sooner OF coarse
you couldn't, if you didn't want to Bat
know something you think | dou't bu
do !; that do. vinsh I didn't Where
we're you Monday night2 Tell me Tat =
The marshal told me that the City Couuel
didn't meetthat night. Nov what hav s4st
got to say Couldn't get quosu.u T.
Well. if you couldn't why didn's you CONF
home? Quite We r-y night hunting "
a-quorum. Bet you wouldn't hunt ne this
way if I was missing. Where wsr. yoo
Thursday night aud Friday I? Their. vas a
show in town wasn't there? Do you always
put on your best vest and clean shirt to &C
to the Council? What did you buy that bot
tie of hair oil for and hide it? COL for your
hone," indeed Who ever heard Of hair-oi
for milestone ? So you think ! didn't
see You in the other room, brushing and
greasing your hair, and looking in the elss,
at your pretty self ? ga man ought to be
deoens!' H. ought, ought be ? ", ia
deed. decent man ought to be, and a de
cent man will stay at home with his wife
sometimes, and not be out every night
How comes it that the City Council a lat
meet but twice a month last wear fry
ihg to work it out Of debt p Yes, tAat's
probable-very laughing, aud joking, and
smoking and swapping lies will work debt
off, wont it? Now-I-wsnt-to- know
how-much-longer- you-are--go going
--to-keep-this-night- business up =
Yes, I want to know Out e-v.e.-.y igis
City Council, Freemasons, Red Men, Od1
Fellows, shows, hair oil-and it's..brusb and
brush until you've nearly worn ont the
brush, and your head, too. What is it you
say? at helps your business to keep up
VOW, ,o.;,I 80, t;o,,p, AL ;,JooJ
got relations here at home sir. They need
keeping up some. | think. What did you
say about catching it" the ether night at
a euchre party ? "Fellers, it's II O'clock,
but let's play while longer we won't
catch it any worse when We get home" A
pretty speech for a decent man Catch
!" Catch it!' Well, I intend you shall
catch ia little What's that you say
eff wouldn't fret you so, you would stay
at home more !" We'll sir, do you stay at
home few nights and try it Perhaps the
fretting would stop. Out EVERY night
because fret you so. What's that sir :?
''You know ladies who amt always scoll-
ing their husbands ~ You do DO ycu :?
How come 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 way. You men
think that all the other women are saints
but your wives Oh, yes-saints. s,a,i-n s,
I'll have you to know sir, that there isn't a
woman in this town that's any more of
saint than am. I know them all, 81 "a
he APP better than you do. You see the
sugar and honey side of them, and they
only-see- the-honey nd-sugar-side
-of-you. Now, sir, I just want you to
know that ifyou don't stay at home more
than you do. I'll leave these Children to get
burnt up, and I'll 60 out every plight
When a poor woman gets desperate. why,
sir, she is-desperate, that's ALL