Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-27
NO. 4.
EVERY Night.

EVERY night Here it is half-past
one o'clock! It's wonder you came
home at all What-do-you-think-
a-woman is made for ? do believe if
a robber was to come and carry me off,
You wouldn't care ONE cent. What is
it you say?" Getty council business
must be attended to !" City council
businessl How do / know you go to
the city council Does the city council
meet every night? They don't
meet but once in-New York. Oh, yes
out every night. Twelve o'clock
one o'clock-two o'clock. Here stay
with the children, all alone-lying awake
half of the night waiting for you.
Couldn't come home any sooner2 OF
course you couldn't, if you didn't want
to. But 1 know something; you think
don't, but / do; that I do. / wish [
didn't Where were you Menday
night? Tell me that. The marshal told
me the city council didn't meet that
night. Now, what have you got to say ?"
"Couldn't get a quorum !'' "Well, if
you couldn't, why didn't you come
homs? Out every night-hunting-
for-a-quorrm. Bet you wouldn't hunt
me tins late if was missing. Where
were you Thursday night and Friday
night? There was show in town,
wasn't there? Do you always put on
your best vest and a clean shirt to go to
the council? 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 a milestone? So
you think 1 didn't see you in the other
room, brushing and greasing your hair,
and looking in the glass at your pretty
self" GA man ought to be decent p
"He ought, ought he? Yes, indeed, a
decent man ought to be; decent man
will stay at home with his wife some
times, and 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 !" eyes,
that's probable-very; laughing and jok-
ing and smoking and swapping lies will
work a debt off, won't it? Now-I-
MISUNDERSTANDING
you-are-going -to-keep- -this-night
business? Yes, want to know Out
every night. City council, Freema-
sons, Red Men, Odd Fellows, shows,
hair oil-and it's brush and brush until
you've nearly worn ont the brush and
your head, too. What is it you say?'
1T helps your business to keep up your
social relations !' "Ah, indeed You've
got relations here at home, sir. They
need keeping up some, I think What
did you say about catching it the other
night at euchre party? 'Fellers, it's
twelve o'clock, but let's play a while
longer; we won't catch it any worse
when we get home A pretty speech
for a decent man Catch it !
Catch itr Well, I intend you shall
catch it-a little. What's that You say
If 1 wouldn't fret you so you would stay
at home more = Well, sir, do you stay
at home few nights and try it. Per-
haps the fretting would stop. Out
every night because | fret you SO.
What's that, sir?' "I know ladies who
amt always scolding their husbands y
"You do, do you ? How come you to
know them? What business 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, Saints.
I'll have you to know, sir, that there
isn't woman in this town that's any
more of saint than I am. [ know them
all, sir-a heap better than you do.
You see the sugar and honey side Of
them, and they-only-see-the-hon
-and-sugar- -side-of-you. Now, sir,
I 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
I'll go out every night. When apoor
woman gets desperate, why, sir, she is
desperate, that's all.