The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-04-26

VAS BKNDER ~1ENSuPHCKEDs
Any shsstIsnsa. vot yiII % .sount
pehind your face. und talk In front Of
your back apout sometings, vas 8
schyindler. heard dot Brown says
week peforp next about me, I vss >
henshpecked husband. Dot YES Alt f!
De proof OF de eating vss in de pud.
dings; am married twenty years al
ready, und vas yet not pald-headed.
I don't vas oonder some pettygoats
gofernments; shtill / tinks it .yas pet-
tef M feller vill Insult NIT lhis wife
und got her adyices about something's
or odsr. s F5ess+ q %. sfs-.s:s
Dem American vomans don't know
something's nefer aboat his huspants
peesness, md vhen dem hart times
comes, and not - much money comes
in de house, dot makes not some tif-
ference nit her. Shtill she moost
have vone Of dot pull-back.in.de-front
hoop-skirt pettygoats. init every kind
trimmings. Pooty soon dot huspaLs :
gets bankrnpted AL to pieces. Dey
send for de Doctor; und when the
Doctor comes de man dies. Den dot
vomans vas obliged to marry NIT an
oder mans dot she don't maybe like,
NIT four or six shildrens on account
of his frat wife already, und pessably
vons or two muddsrs by lAw-yone
second handed, und de oder shtep.
mudder out law. Den she says init
herself, "1 ofen wish vas dead a lit
tle."
Now if . Chermans goes dead, dot
don't make q pit of difference. No
body vouid hardly know it, except
maybe himself His wife goes nit de
peesness on shust like nothings had
hsppsned tosomepody. 1850
&Amerloan vom.ns- und Chermans
vomans vas tifferent kind Of peoples.
For INSTANCE, last year dot same fell
Ter, Mr.. Brown, goes init me in de
butcher peesness togeder. He vas
American mAn-so vas his wife. Veil
many times when efery peoples has
got the panic pooty bad, dot vomans
comes to her husband and says she
must have money. Den she goes out
riding NIT q carriages.
Vonce on q time, Brown says to me.
Bender, I wouldn't be henshpecked,' >
So he vent on und got himself tight
shust because his vffe tellshiu, blease
don't do dot. Den he sits down on
his back NIT de floor, und If I am not
dere dot time he nefer would got
home.
Veil, dot night, me und my wife, We
had talk about someting; uud de
next day says to Brown, ''Look here
yonstl Ny vife che makes sausages,
und yorks in dot shtore, und makes
bead skeeses und your yife vas going
out riding all de times init de horses
car, und . patent-tied pack cardi-
nal shtriped STOCKINGS. Now,
your wife moost 60 work in dot shtore
und cut peef-shtesks, und make ssuer-
kraut, or else divide not equally any
moro dot profits"
Veil, Brown goes homo und he tells
his wife about dot Den she comes
NIT Brown around, und We had mis-
understanding about sometings, in
which eferybody took part, includ-
ing my little dog Kaiser. Pooty soon
up comes . policeman and arrests us
for breeches of promise to keep the
pieces, und assanlung de battery or
sometin2s. Dan de firm Of Bender &
brown vae proke mp. I 60 abeut my
peesness. Ny viie she helps in de
shtore. His wife goes out riding init
de horse cars, und efery night she vas
py de theatre.
Vot's de consequence. Along comes
dot Cent tennial panic. Dot knocks
Brown moro higher a. two kites, py
ChimminyI My income vas shtill
more as my outcome. But Brown. he
goes round dot shireels nit his hands
out of his pockets, ind he don't got 8
cent to his back.
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