Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-05
ief JOB UepaIInsnl,
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E-v-e-r-y Night.

EVERY Night
According to the bowling Green
Chy.) Pontagroph, & member OF the
6 y Council Of that town, upon re-
tui ling home rathei ate one evening
last week, was res led by his good
lady with an animated d address in some
taing like this style:
cry cry night, Here it is half
past one o'clock! It's wonder vou
came home at all What-do--you-
think--a-woman is made for? do
beiicvc if a robber was to come and
carry me off, you wouldn't care o-n-e
cent. What is it you say? City
C0uncll business must be attended ton
City Conncil business! How do 1
know you 60 to the City Council p
They don't meet but once in--New
York. But, suppose, B.o-w-l-i-n-g
G-r-e-e-n Is more important place.
On, yes-out e-v-e-r-y night. Twelve
Oclock--one O'Clock - two o'clock.-
Here l stay with the children, all alone
lying awake half Of the night watt
ing for you. Couldn't come home auy
sooner! OF course you couldn't, if
you didn't want 10. But { know
something; you think don't, but +
do that do. / wish didn't. Where
were you Monday nightl Tell me
that. The Marshal told me the Citv
Council didn't meet that night. Now
what have you got to say Couldn't
get quorum Well If you couldn't.
why didn't yon come home? Out
| n " pt,rht
Bet you wouldn't hunt me this late if [
was missing. Where were you Thurs
day night and Friday night? There
was a show in town, wasn't there p
DO yon always put on your best vest
and clean shirt TO go to Council p
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 whetstone? So You think I
didn't see you in the other room,
brushing and greasing your hair, and
looking the glass at your pretty self?
a man ought to be deceutr lie ought.
ought he! Yes, indeed, 4 decent man
ought to be, and decent man will
stay at home with his wife sometimes,
and not be out e-v-e-f-y night. How
comes it that the City Council didn't
meet but twice a month last year p
Trying to work it out of debtp Yes,
that's probable-very laughing and
joking and smoking and swapping
lies will work debt of, won't it?-
Now-I-want---to - know - how
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. - to
-keep-this-nigh night-business Yes,
want to know. Out EVERY night.
City Council, Freemasons, Red Men,
Odd Fellows, shows, hair oil--and it's
brush and brush until you've nearly
worn out the brush and your head too
What is it you say? 1t helps your
business to keep up your social rela-
tionsv Ah, indeed. You've got re-
lations here at home, sir They need
keeping up some, think. What did
you say about catching IL the other
night at euchre party? 'Fellers, its
IL O'Clock, but lets play while lon
ger; we won't catch it any worse when
we get home A pretty speech for q
d-e-c.e-n-t man! Catch it. Catch
itv Well, intend you shall catch 1t
"a little. What's that you say i'll
wouldn't fret you so you would stay
at home more" Well, sir, do you stay
at nome few nights and try it. Per-
haps the fretting would stop. Out
EVERY night because fret you SO.
What's that, sir? you know ladies
who ain't always seolding their hus-
bandsH You do, do you? What bus
iness 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-t-s.--
I'll have you to know, sir, that there
isn't a woman in this town that's any
more of a saint than l am. / know
them all, sir--a heap better than yen
do. You see the sugar and honey side
Of them, and they--only--
honey-and-sugar-side - of ~ you.
Now, sir, just want you to know that
if you don't stay at home more than
you do, I'll leave these children TO get
burnt up, and III go out every night.
When poor woman gets desperate,
why, sir, she is--desperate, that's ALL