The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-05-02
BTLL ARP ON THE RICK.
HE PLEADS ALDERMANIC DUTIES AT TWO
IN TIE MORNING.

Bill Ar, editor of the Rome N. y Com
n.erctal, has been swimming around the
Council chambers every night during
the inundation of the city, and here's what
comes of his being out
Every night Here is half past 1
O'Clock It's a wonder you come home at
all u-think-a-womau
-is-made for? l do believe if a robber
was to come and carry me OFT you wouldn't
care 4; what IS that you say? City Council
business must be attended to How do [
know you 60 to the City Council? Does
the CITY Council meet every night D.? They
don't meet but once week in New York.
But l suppose Rome is more important
place.
Oh, yes, out every night! Twelve O.
ciOck-one Oclock-two o'clock. Here [
stay with the children all alone-lying
awake half the night waiting for you.
Couldn't come home any sooner OF
course you couldn't, if you don't want to.
But know something you think I don't
but L do. That | do. l wish l didn't
Where were you Monday night? Tell me
that. The marshal told me the City Conn-
Gil don't meet that night. Now what have
you to say? Couldn't get a quorum
Well, if you couldn't, Why didn't you come
home? Out every night-hunting for
me this late if | was missing.
Where were you Thursday night and
Friday night? There was a show in town.
wasn't there? What did you buy that
bottle of hair oil fOr and hide it? Oil for
your hone, indeed 4! Whoever heard of
hair oil for a milestone > So YOU think 7
d!dn see you i'll the other reom BRUSHING
and greasing yOur hair and looking in tbs,
glass at your pretty self? ! man ought 10
NO L..
/ indeed, a man ought 10 and decent man
will stay at home with his wife sometime,
ard 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 :! Yes,
that's le-very-laugliing and iok-
ing, and smoking, and swapping lies viii
work a debt of, won'tit? ? Now-I-want
-tO-knOw-how-m uch-Ionger-you-
-going-to-keep- up-this-night-
business? Yes, l want to know. Out
every night. City Council. Free Ma
sons, shows, hair oil-and brush. and brush,
and brush, until you've nearly worn ont
the brush on your head, too. What is IL
you say? 1t helps your business to keep
up your social relations ! All, indeed I
; You've got relations here at home, sir
They need keeping up some, 1 should
| think.
What did you say about catching it the
! other night at a whist party? Fellows
| it's eleven O'Clock, but let's play while
| longer-we won't catch it any worse when
we get home. A pretty speech for de
, cent man to make. Catch it !! Catch it !
! Wei, l intend you shall catch ia little.
| What's that you say? If l wouldn't fret
you so you would stay at home more !
Well, sir, do yOU stay at home first few
nights and try it. Perhaps the fretting
would stop. Out every night because I
| fret you SO.
What's that, sir? You know ladies who
amt always a scolding their husbands I!
! \ GOu do, do you? How came YOU to know
them? What business have you to know
them? What right have you to know
whether other women fret or not 4? That's
always the way. Tou men think all other
women are saints, but vour wives Oh,
s--saiuts-S-a-i-n-t-s. I'll have you to
know, sir, that there isn'S a woman in this
town that's more of saint than | am. I
know them all, sir, heap better than you
do. You only see the sugar and honey
side of them, and-they-only-see
-sugaT-side-of-
Now, sir just want you to know that
if you can't stay at home more than YOU
do, I'll leave these children here to get
burnt up, and I'll go out every night.
" hen poor woman gets desperate, why,
Sir, she is-she Is desperate, that's all.