Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-09-04
How Women Go to Sleep.

How Women Go to Sleep.
There is an article going the
rounds entitled GLOW the Girls go
TO sleep" Tie manner in which
they go to sleep, according to the
article, CAN'T hold Il candle to the
way a married womang goes to sleep.
Instead of thinking what she
should have attended to before go
ing to bed. she thinks of it after
ward. While she is revolving these
matters in her mind, and while
snugly tucked up in bed, the old
man is scratching his head i'll front
of the fire and wondering how he
will pay the next mouths rent
S .ddenly she eXclalns:
.',Ii mes, did YOU lock the doora'
(Which doors" says James.
THE cellar door," says she.
"No," says James.
"Wtll, you had better 60 down
and lock it, for heard some one i'll
the hack yard last night"
Accordingly James paddles down
the stairs and locks the door,
Alb nut the time james returns and
is going to bed she remarks:
Ibid you shut the stalr-dOorf"
No" says james.
':NTen, if it is not shut the cat
will get up into the chamber"
"Let her come up, then," says
James, Ill naturally.
My goodness. not" returns his
wife, ''she'd sucktEe baby's breath"
Then James paddles down stairs
again and steps on tack, and
closes the stair door, and curses
the cat,and returns to the bedroom.
Just as he begins to climb into his
conch his wife observes:
81 forgot to bring up some wa
ter Suppose you bring up some in
the big tin"
And so James, with a mnttered
curse, goes down iuto the dark
kitchen and falls over chair and
rasps AL the tinware off the wall i'll
search ofthe big tin, and then jerks
the stair door open and bowls:
"Where the dcuce are the match.
eS!o
She gives him minnie directions
where to find the matcheS,and adds
that she would rather go and get
tile water herself than have the
whole neighborhood raised about
it. After which James finds the
matches, procures- the water, and
comes ap stsirs aud plunges into
bt:l.
Prcsentfyfhis wife says: "James,
let's have an understanding abou;
money matters. Now, next week
I've got to pay"
IL don't know what you'll have
to pay and don't care" shorts
James, as he lnrches around and
jams his face against the wall, sal
| want is sleep.o
That's all very well for you,'
snaps lis wife, us She pulls The GOV
"rs viciously; ':you never think OF
ths worry and trouble l have. And
there is Araminta, who, l believe,
is taking the measles"
LET her take 'cm," says James.
Hereupon she begins to cry soft
~, but about the time james is
falling into a gentle doze she punch
es him in the ribs with her elbow
and says:
''Did you hear that scandal
-aiu5 1ud Nj 5: J s4es:
.,Wherc?" says James, sleepily.
"Why, Mrs. JONES'"
"Where?" inquiries James.
~ Declare" said his wife, "you
are getting more stupid every day
Yon know Mrs. Jones that lives at
No. 227 Well, day before yester
day Susan Smith told Mrs. Thomp
son that Sam Baker had said that
Mrs. Jones had-"
Here slls- sco4sn,l and listened.--
james is snorIig ia profound slum'
l,er. With a snort of rage she pulls
all the covers off him, wraps up III
them, and lies awake until 2 Il. III,
thinking how badly used she is.
And that is the way some mar
ried women 60 to Sleep Exchange.