The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-04-23
A ccuncilman ourtain.Leotured

home one night last week, was RECALLED by
The dOarly.bclOvCd partner Of bis joys af-
ter the fOl1Tiug styles
Every night Here, it is balfpa't one
o'clock It's q wonder sou cane home AZ
al! What-do-you-t u woman
is made for? | do believe Il a robber was
to como and carry me Of you wouid not
care one cent, What is it you sayf
CITY Council business must be attended
to!" How do know you 60 to tho City
Council. Does the City Council meet
every night? They dOu'tmCet but once
month 10 New York. But suppose
Philadelphia is morc important place.
Oh, ycs-out every night. Twelve
o'cloCk-one o'clock two O'Clock Here
Istay with the children, all alono-lying
awake half oftho night waiting for you
Couldn't come homo any sooner? OF
course you couldn't il didn't want TO- But
know sOm:Lhing; you think | don't, but
I d. | wish | didn't Where we're you
on Monday night? Tell nc that. |
know that the City Council didn't meet
that night. Now what have you got TO
say? Gould not gCta quorum" We'll,
ifyou couldn't why didn't you come homef
Dat eve r.y night--bunting -or-a-
quorum, Bet you wouldn't hunt nc in
this way il | was missing, Where were
you Wednesday night and Friday night?
Do you always put on your best vest and
clean shirt to 60 to the Council? What
did you buy that bottle Ofhair oil for, and
hide it? "0i for your hone" indeed!
Who ever heard Of hair oil for whct
stone! 50 you thHE didn't see you IN
the other room, brushing and grcOSing
your hair, and looking in tho glass at
Mt your pretty sell? "a man ought to be
decent! lie ought, ought he? Yes, in.
decd, decent man will stay at home with
his wife sometimes and not out owe r.y
night. How comes it that the City Coun-
Gil didn't meet at all last summer?
Trying to work it out Of debit" Yes
that's probablc-very; laughing and jOk
ing, and smoking and swapping lies will
work a debt of, wont it? NOT-l-
wapt-lo-kuow-h w--much longer
you-are-goiug- keep lhs-Oight
business? Yes, | want to know? Out
every night? City Council, Free NlaSons,
Red Men, Odd Fellows, shows, hair oil
and its brush aud brush, until you nearly
worn out The brush, and your head, too
AAEda;stHyOu 'hdlpsOufsbusis
ness to keep up your social relations"
Ah, indeed you've got relations here at
at homo, sir. They need keeping up
some, think. What did you say about
Scratching it" the other night at euchrc
party? "Eellcrs, its tv,ivo o'clock, but
let's play while longer; We wont catch
it any worse when VIC get home A
pretty speech for decent man! Catch
il" "Calch ii" Well, intend you
shall catch it-a little. What's that you
say? III wouldn't fret you 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 fret you so. What's
that sir? You know ladies who amt al
ways scolliug their husbands" You do,
do you? How came you to know them!
What business had you 10 know whether
other women fret or not? That's always
the way. You men think all the other
women arc saints but your wives.
Oh, yos-saints, saints. III have
YOU to bnow, sir, that there isn't woman
10 this town that's any more of saint
than am. know them all, sir, heap
better than you do, You sec the honey
and sugar side Of them, aud tbey-oDly
--seo-tbc--hoNoy -Sugar side
of-you. Now, sir. Just want you to
know tbatif you don't stay at home more
than you do, I'll leave these children to
get burnt up, and I'll 60 out every
night. When poor woman gets dCsper.
ate, why, sir, sho is-dospcrato, that's