The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-07-11
HUBBY STILL SMOKES
WIFE's GRAND PLAN OF REFoR-
NATION A FAILURE.

| Unfortunate Gall OF 57cr rSiioW "'S'''
bers of St. Cynthia's Guild CPse
WelI-Laid Plans-And the Brut;
Laughed.
The Capitol Hill young woman
whose steel awed mother had sc
often told her that the only way to
plank a husband was to nail him to
board and simmer him before slow
Dire right from the jump, got after her
husband on the cigarette smoking
question about a month ago. They'd
then been married about two months.
you promised me that you'd give
Up the horrid things-that you'd give
up smoking altogether, in fact, after
The excitement of getting married was
over"
Did II" he inquired, yawning cav
srnously and lighting fresh one.
Well l must have been smoking
when 1 said that"
But that was one Of the conditions
Of my marrying you" che said, look
Ing so much like her steel-jawed
mother as she said it that her hus-
band suffered a slight chill and pulled
"Um-maybe so,'' he responded,
| putting away comfortably. But
we're married now, you know, and
er-what's the use of chasing a street
ear after you've caught it, so to
speak?"
Then you don't intend to stop
smoking those awful cigarettes?" she
interrupted in a hard tone.
Maybe I'll think it over after they
stop making EN-" was his reply.
VARY well, then-vairy WE'LL said
she, suddenly closing up like a patent
trousers stretcher
Her mother had also taught her
that a married woman has a heaven
born right to do any old thing that her
husband does, and she was foolish
enough to believe the same. G9W
Once more, VARY well,' she unused, 4
sullenly. I'll just see how he will
like No. cigarette smoker in his
family. Poor, dear, abused mammals
teachings shall not go in vain. I'll
just turn the tables on him and get /
him where | want him by Smoking
cigarettes myself; so L will" 70 -ct9T1
Wherefore, when her husband had \
departed fors, the, office ON the next !
day, she Jared forth and purchased a |
little package of the ,paper-swaddIed |
Turkish smokettes.
Now, when he rmys the bell" she
said to herself-he I'D to ring to get
n for the reason that She didn't allow
i'm "a latchkey, fearing that he might
% out alone some evening and remain
lntfl a Quarter past eight+-ftPll lust H.
20 to the door. putting one of itheseli
hlngS, and I'll be just as boldst and
'razen as 1 can be, and Z, blow r. the l.
moke in his face, and that'll be such
lesson to him, tPat he II neyeI spoke
mother, one, of them as, long as, he
ifWhang!" went the front doorbell, |
nd she hastily touched a match to
er, second cigarette. >f"aq 1hoE ~ #
. There he is now!1 she said to her. :
elf, and, with the cigarette stuck f.
iuntily Il between 4 her teeth and a
>, ba-ad, I-dare-you-to-slap- me- on-the-
rlst Gexpression1i;in her eyes she'd
anked the vestibule door wide open. :,
Then the four spinster members OF
t. Cynthia,sl Guild, who had called
'ound to confer with her about ice
aehines and fiannelette nighties for
Re Zulus,A took one 4eng,wfrezeny look
theirssegfeisow -hmelhbeF is She @para-
zedlB ( atitomaticallyFa and EheIplessIy
flied cigarette smoke in their faces.
hen, with four individual shifts and
quartet of outraged tossings t6f THE II
ad, they marched down the front 1
cps without a word.
Thu young woman,as husband enter i
the front gate JUST as they were
ming out, and they never noticed
n; He didn't understand until he
tered the still open vestibuled door,
d found, bis wife sitting, horrors,l -
uqk, GEM the edge GofEaF halhe taboI9 Il r
tel with the still bhfphg} eiga5efts. I
her hand.
Then the brute sat right down on S
floor and~howied. II r. Us do
de had howl coming, at that; but II
:, couldn't see it, and she blamed re
Whole thing on him. She doesn't n.
o1g to st. Cynthias Guild any /, g
re now, and he's still smoking 'em. of
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