The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-25
E.y.c.r.Y Night.

"E-v-e-r-y night Here it is half-past
one o'clock It's wonder you came
home at all Neutrality-suspicious.
a-woman is made for do believe if
a robber was to come and carry me off,
it you say2" "City council business
must be attended to! "City council
business How do L 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 sooner! OF
course you couldn't, if you didn't want
to. But know something; you think 1
don't, but I do; that 1 do. wish l
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 yon got to say ?"
Couldn't get quorum p "Well, if
you couldn't, why didn't you come
home? Out every night-hunting-
for-a--quorum. Bet you wouldn't hunt
me this late if L 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 clemi 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 milestone? So
you think 1 didn't see you in the other
room, brushing and greasmg your hair,
and looking in the glass Mt your pretty
selfl 2" "A man ought to be decent !"
"He ought, ought he? Yes, indeed, a
decent man ought to be; a 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 a month last year ?"
"Trying to work it out of debt % "Yes,
that's probable-very; laughing and iok-
ing and smoking and swapping lies will
work a debt off, won't it? Now-I-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
you-are-going- o-keep-this-nig
business? Yes, L want to know Out
e-v-c-r-y night. City council, Freema-
sons, 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 ?"
"It 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 a euchre party? Fellers, it's
twelve o'clock, but let's i1sy a while
longer; we won't catch it any worse
when we get home A pretty speech
for d-e-c-e-n-t man Catch it =
Catch it ~ Well, l intend you shall
catch it--a little. What's that you say
If L wouldn't fret you SO you would stay
at home more = Well, sir, do you stay
at home Jew nights and try it. Per-
haps the fretting would stop. Out
every night because fret you SO.
What's that, sir?' 81 know ladies who
amt always scolding their husbands !"
"You do, do you 4? 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, 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 saint than [ am. | know them
all, sir-a heap better than you do.
You see the sugar and honey side Of
them, and Observation-Disclosures
-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
I'll go ont every night. When apoor
woman gets desperate, why, sir, she is
desperate, that's all.