Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-12-19
Bender and Brown.

any shehtiemen vot will go round pe-
hindt your face, und kin frontof 90,
pack aboudt something's, vas shwindlar
heard dot Brown says, week pefore next.
aboudt me vas hens-pecked huspand.
| Dot vas lie! De broof of de eating vas
| in de pudding. 1 am married twenty year
already, und vas yet not pald-headed. I
don't vas under SOON pettygoats-gofern-
ment; shtill, thinks it vas peter il fell
low will insult NIT his wife, und get her
vices aboudt something's or uder. Dem
American yomens don't know something's
nefer aboudt his huspandt's peesness; :;
and when dem hardt times coOms, und not
80 much monish cooms in der house, dot
makes not SOON different nit her. Shtill
she must hat Won of dot pull back in der
front hoop skirt bettygoats, nit efery
kind trimmings. Pooty soon dot huspant
gets bankrupt all to pieces. Dey send for
de doctor, und when de doctor cOoms de
man dies. Den dot vomens vas Obliged
Co marry NIT anoder mans vot she don't
like, nit four or six schildrens, on ac-
coundt of his first wife already, und pos
| sibly Won or two mudder-in-law. Den she
| dead leetle.''
Now, if Germans goes dead, dot don't
make do different; nopody YOU'D barely
! know it, except maype himself. His wife
| goes nit der peesness on shust like not
! tings vas happened to somepOdy.
American vomens und German Vomens
vas tifferent kind of beeples. For in
standt, las year dot same feller, Brown,
! goes NIT me in de butcher business to-
! geder. He vas American man-sO vas his
wife. Veil, many time, when efery beeples
| got de panic pooty pad, dot women cooms
to her huspandt und say she must haf
money. Den she goes Oudt riding NIT .
carriage.
/ Vonce on a time, Brown says. to me
Bender, Wouldn't pc hens-pecked." So
heaNent off und got himself tight-shoost
because his wife tells him, 'Fblease don't
do dot" Den he sits down on his pack
nit the floor, und if am not dere dot he
nefer would get home.
Veil, dot night me und my wife we had
a leetle talk aboudt something's; und de
next day says to Brown: s'Look here
vonst Ny wife she makes sausages, und
works in dot shtore; also, my daughter
she works by that shtore, und makes head
cheese, und your wife vas riding all der
times nit de horse-car und patent tied
back cardinal shtriped stockings. Now,
your wife moost go work in the shtore und
| cut beef steaks, und make saurkroudt, or
else We divide, not equally, dot profits"
Veil, Brown goes home und he tells his
wife about dot. Den she cooms pooty
quick nit Brown around, und We had a
misunderstanding aboudt something's, In
Vich eferypody took a part, including my
little dog Kaiser. Pooty soon up cooms
a policeman und arrests us for breeehes
of promise to keep der pieces, und as
saulting de battery, or something's. Den
de firm of Bender & Brown vas broke up.
1 go aboudt my peesness, und Brown goes
nit his peesness. My wife she helps in
de shtore. His wife goes riding NIT der
horse-ears, und efery night she vas by de
theater.
Dots der consequences. Along cooms
dot Centennial panic. Dot knocks Brown
more higher as two kites, py shiminy.
My incoom vas shtiIl more as my outcOom.
But Brown he goes round dot shtreets
NIT his hands oudt of his pockets, und he
don't got cent to his back.