Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-08-09
A CITY COUNCILMAN.
E-v-e-r-y Night-A Desperate Wife
Doubts the Pressure Of Municipal
Business.


According to the Bowling Green (Ky.)
Pdntdgrdph, a member OF the city council
of that town, upon returning home one
evening last week, was regaled by his
good lady with an animated address in
something like this style:
" EVERY night Here il is half-past
l O'Clock It's wonder you caIRe home
at all What-dO-you-tnink-a-
woman is made for Z do believe if a
robber was to come and carry me of you
would not care one cent. What is IL
you sayl "Cily council business must
be attended tol" City council business !
How do know you 20 to city council
Does the city council meet very night :
They don't meet but once in-New York
But / suppose Bowling Gre EN- is a
more important place. Oh, yes-out
o'clock-two o'clock. Here | stay with
the children, all alone-lying awake half
of the night waiting for you. Could not
come home any soonerl OF course you
couldn't If you didn't want to. Bat |
know something you think don't but
do that do. 1 wish | didn't. Where
were you Monday night Tell me that.
The marshal told me that th3 city council
didn't meet that night. Now, what have
You got to say Couldn't get u
quorum !" Well, if you couldn't why
didn't you come home Out ever Y
observation-disclosures. Bet
you would't hunt me that way If was
missing. Where were you Thursday and
Friday night There was show In
town wasn't there Do you always put
on your best vest and clean shirt to 20
to the council What did You buy that
bottle of hair-oil for and hide II con
| for youT hone, indeed Who ever heard
of hair oil for a whet-stone So you
think didn't see you in the other room,
brushing aud greasing your hair, and
| looking into the glass at your pretty
elf 2" A man ought to be decent -
lie ought, ought he 2 Yes, u decent man
ought to be, and decent men will stay
at home with their wives sometimes,
aud not he out ever y night,
How comes 1t that the city council didn't
meet but twice a month last y0ar2 "Tiy.
ing to work 1t out of debt" Yes, :, ai't
probable very; laughing and jnkirg
smoking and swapping lies will work 9
debt of, wont II T. want--tC
-know-how-ml --longer-yOu--ari
-gOiuC- tO---keep--. this--night---h
ness ; Yes, | want TO knOT ! Out e v-e-r-l
night. city Council, Free Masons, Rec
Men, Odd Fellows, shows, hair oil-ant
it's brdsh and brush until you have nearly
worn cut the hrush, and your head, too
What is ii you say SIT helps your bus
mess to keep up your social relations =
All, indeed. You've got relations herr
al home. sir. They need keeping uI
some. ! think What did yoH say ahou
'caiching it' the other night al a euchr'
party "Fcilers, lis twelve O'Clock, bu
let's play a while longer, we won't catci
it any worse when we get home"
pretty speech for dee emit man
isCatch il, Catch i'll" We'll, | inten,
you shall catch tia little. What
that you say If ! wouldn't fret yol
so, YOU would stay at home moro 2
Wen, sir, do you stay at home a feN
nights and try 1t. Perhaps the frettinl
would stop. Ont EVERY night becaus
fret you so. What's that, sir :" " io
know la1ics who amt always scoldiul
their husbands :" You do, do you
How come you to know them : Wha
business had you to know them I Wha
right have you to know whether othr
women fret or not That's always th
way. You men think that all othe
women are saints but your wives. Oh
yes saints, e-a-i n.t.s. I'll have so
know, sir, that there isn't woman
this town that's any more of saint tina
' am. ! know them all, sir, a he a
better than you do. You sec the sugf
and honey side Of them, and they only
see-the- honey and-sugar side,
, you. Now, sir, just want you
! know that if You don't stay at hon
, more than you do, I'll leave these chi
i dren TO get burnt up, aad l'll 20 oi
! every night. When II poor woma
! gets desperate, why, sir, she ls.-desperat
: that's all,