The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1877-03-08
VAS BENDER HENSPECKED.

Any shentlemen vot will 90 round pc
hind your face, and talk in front of your
back apont something's, vas a shvindler.
heared dot Brown says week pefore next
apout ME L vas henshpecked huspand
Dot vas lie De proof of de eating, vas
in the pudding | am married twenty
year already, und vas yet not paid headed
| don't vas oonder some pettygoats gofern-
ments shtill [ links it vas better if fell
low will insult NIT his wife und got her ad-
vices apout something's or uder
Dem American vomans don't know some
tings nefer apout his huspants peesness, und
when den hart times comes, und not so
much money comes in de house, dot makes
not some difference NIT her. Shtll she
moost have Won of dot pull-back-in de-front
hoop-skirt petty goats, NIT every kind trim
mlngs Pooty soon dot huspant gets panke-
rupted all to pieces. Dey send for de Doc
tor; und When de Doctor comes de man
dies. Den dot vomans Vas Obliged to marry
NIT anoder mans vot she don't maype like
nit four or six shildrens, on account of his
first wife already, and possobabIy vone or
two mudders-in -in-law,-vone second-handed.
und dc oder Il shtep mudder-out law. Den
she says NIT herself, II eten wish dot vas
dead little
Now if a Chermans goes dead, dot don't
make pit Of Inference. Nopody would
hardly know it, except maybe himself His
wife goes NIT de peeness on shust like not
ings has happened to somepody.
American vOmans and Cherman vomans
vas tifferent kind of peobes For in
shtinct, last year dot same feller, Mr..
Brown, goes NIT me in de butcher pecsness
togeder. He Vas American man-so vas
his wife. Veil, many time when efery peo-
bles got the panic pooty bad, dot vomans
comes to her huspant uned says she moost
have mOny. Den she goes out riding nit
a carriages.
Vonce on a time, Brown says to me,
Bender, | wouldn't be henshpecked" So
he vent off und got himself tight-shust
because his wife tells him, blease don't do
dot. Den he sits down on his pack nit de
floor, und if | am not dere dot he never
would got home.
Veil, dot night, me und my wife, We had
little talk about something's und de next
day | says to Brown, Look here vonst
My wife she makes sausages, und works in
dot shtore also my laughter she works py
the shtorc und makes head skeeses und
J our wife vas going riding all de times nit
de horses-car, und patent-tied pack cardi-
nal shtriped stockings. Now your wife
moost 90 work in de shtore und cut peef
shteaks, and make saurkraut, or else We
divide not equally any more dot profits.
Veil, Brown, goes home und he tells his
wife apout dot. Den she comes pooty quick
nit Brown around, und We had misun-
dershtanding apout something's, in which
eferypody took a part, including my little
dog kasier. Pooty soon up comes polices-
mans und arrests US for breedches of promise
to keep de pieces, und assaulting de battery,
or sumetings. Den de firm of Bender &
Brown vas proke up. go apout my pees-
ness, und Brown goes NIT his peesness. My
wife she helps in the shtore. His wife goes
riding NIT de horses-cars, und efery nights
she vas by de theater.
Vot's de consequences; Along comes
dot Centennial panic. Dot knocks Brown
more higher as two kites, py Chiminy, My
income vas shtill more as my outcome. But
Brown, he goes round dot shtreets NIT his
hands out of his pockets, und he don't got
Il cent to his back.