The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1873-06-13
CURTAIN LECTURE.
Out EVERY Nighsi

V"c oNiVchs hs WOnutf yVu cohc
home at all What-do-you-think
woman is made forl do believe IL a
robber was to come and carry me off you
would nj care one cent What is il you
ayl City Council business must at
tended tol' City Council business
How do | know you 60 to the City
Councili Does the City Couscil meet
every nightf They don't meet but
once week in New York. But sup
pose Stanford is more important
place. Oh yes-out every night.
Twelve o'clock o'clock-two o'clock.
Here l stay, with the children, all alone
Lying awake half of the night waiting
for you. Could MT come home any soon
er, OF course yon could MT, if you did
not want to. But l know something
you think don't, but | do. That | do.
/ wish did MT. Where were you Mon
day nightf Tell me that. The Mar
shal told me the City Council did not
meet that night. Now what have you
got to sayf "Could MT get a quorum :"
Well, if you could MT, why did MT you
come homer Out every night-hunt-
ing-for-a-quorum. Bet you would
not hunt for me this late If l was miss
ing. Where were you on Thursday and
Friday nightsi There was show in
town wasn't thereS DO you always put
on your best vest and clean shirt to go to
the Councilf What did you buy that
bottle of hair oil for, and hide it Oil
for your hone, indeed Who ever heard
of hair oil for whet-stone? So you do
think / did MT see you in the other room
brushing and greasing your hair and
looking in the glass at your pretty selff
"a man ought to be decent" He ought,
ought hei Yes indeed, decent man
ought to, and decent man will. stay at
home with his wife sometimes-and not
be out every night. How comes it
that the City Council did MT meet but
twice a month last year? Trying to
work it out of debit" Yes, that's prob
able-very-laughing and joking, and
smoking and swapping lies will work a
debt off, wont it? Now-I-wapt-to
Observation-Disclosures
neutrality-suspicious.
iness? Yes want to know. Out e-v-
r-y night. City Council, Free Masons,
shows, hair oil-and its brush, and brush,
and brush, antil you've pearly wore out
the brush and your head too. What is
it you sayi ut helps your business to
keep up your social relations ]" All,
indeedl You've got relations here at
home, sir. They need keeping up some
/ think. What did you say the other
night at whist partyl '.Fellers, its IL
o'clock, but let's stay while longer-we
won't catch it any worse when we get
home" A pretty speech for decent
man Catch it Catch itl" Well
intend you shall catch it little.
What's that you sayi 'If would MT
fret so you would stay at home more
Well, sir, do you stay at home few
nights and try it. Perhaps the fretting
would stop. Out every night because
l fret you SO. What's that. sirH "You
know ladies who arn't always scolding
their husbandsl Yon do, do you :
How CONT you to know themG What
busineS=s had you to know them! What
right have you know whether other
women fret or not That's always the
way. You men think all the other wo-
men are saints but your wifes. Oh, yes
--saints-s-a-i-n-t-s. Ill have you to
know, sir, that there isn't woman in
this town that's any more Of saint than
l am. know them all sir-a heap
better than you do. You only see the
sugar and honey side of them. and they
only see the sugar and honey side of you.
Now, sir. / just want you to know that
II you don't stay at home more than you
do, I'll leave these children to get burnt
up, and III 20 OUT every night. When
a poor woman gets desperate. why, sir,
she is-desperate. that's all-and don't
speak to me any more this evening, eth
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