Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-10-21
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Nor MODERN ROMANCE.-POgoma-
My dear, must go out on business again
tonight.
Regina-My dear, you didn't find it ne
cessary to go away from me Oh business
almost every night before we were mar
ried.
Pho, my dear, but my business then
was to marry you.
Rand you enjoyed my company then?
P.-I did, my dear. / wasn't so sure of
you as am now, my dear.
R.-Well, you're candid enough at any
rate.
P.-I am, my dear; let us be honest with
each other. You see we've talked each
other out. You know me all through and
know you.
Rand home is dull place, l suppose.
And m not as interesting as before you
married me.
P.-You put the case disagreeably plain
my dear. There's no need of serving up
the truth raw in that fashion. But that's
the size of it when you take the trimmings
off.
R.-Very well, my dear, I'm going out,
till 3 o'clock.
P.-Where-where are You going, my
dear?
RIO see a person on business.
PA person, a man OF woman. But
it's woman of course. And why so late?
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business. Business is business. you know.
P.-But a respectable person has no bus
mess to be out with a person at such al
hour. Above all, wife.
Rand why a wife any less than hus-
band, my dear?
P.-Because-because it amt the thing,
you know. A mans business keeps HIM
out late. At least SONS men s business
does. Mine does.
Rand henceforth mine does, my dear;
Sauce for the gander is sauce for the
goose, my dear. I'm going to SEE somethips
of life. Home is dull. You're righa, my
dear. ! GU were intet estlns before L mar
rid you. But now we know each olh.I
all through, you know. We see too mucf
of each other, you know. Come let's b
honest with each other. Sauce for TIE
gander ought to be the goose's sauce.
hadn t it my dear? Sauce piquante. Good
bye. I'm off for greener fields and pas
lures newer.
Pho you don't my dear.
R.-Yes do.
P.-You go out of that door and you
don't come in again, my dear.
RI don't want to, my dear.
P.-What?
RI don't want to. my dear; I've got a
thousand dollars of my own, and if your
door is locked when l return | shall hire
door of my own and lock you out, my
dear. Sauce for the gander is sauce for
the goose.
P.-O, come now, my dear, this is all
nonsense. You won't do any such thing.
Come, be sensible now.
RI am sensible, my dear. In fact,
I've just got possession of my senses, as Mr.
Fresh says. l Can do it and l will. You
know me we'll enough for that, don't you
my dear
P.-My dear. 1 think won't go out to-
night.
R.-Neither will I, my dear.
Whenever preacher sees young man
and woman powerfully devoted to each
other, he forthwith begins to think in his
mind of some nice little present he can buy
his wife with the wedding fee.
An Arizona boy killed himself with
pistol because his mother wouldn't give
him money to 60 to circus. The boys
are all reading this item to pa aud ma.
Forty acres of land belonging to one
Jones, of Montana, went over on another
man s farm one night in landslide, and
Jones is actually being sued for trespass
We have just read handkerchief firta-
ton code, and advise all men desiring to
avoid breach-of-promise suits to wipe
their mouth on their coat-tails.
In the lungs Of a potter who recently
died in Wales was found forty-eight per
CEN. of silica. He must have been grit
ty fellow when living.
Sampson was the first man to take stock
in game where he had to die to win
The fellow who wrote, ooh, Ask Me
not again." must have been full.