The Cairo bulletin., 1907-11-28
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The hard-workr citizen Of the
District of Columns was striving after
dinner the other e4enine 70 get some
good ont OF his ner. And this Is
the line of person. conducted con.
4 versation to which s wife staked
him while he struggled frantically to
get hold OF the newspu ars news:
4 II like TO see women Hi .le servants
and menials Of thefnsel ! for their
4 husbands, | don't think ! nped in
to Mrs. Keepeace's fiat this !; rrnoon
TO see II she'd nave the de- icy to
ask me to have a cup of tea T I'd
been out shopping all day--bd she
| didn't--and what do you SUPP se |
caught that woman In the act 81 do
ing? Well, you may believe It OF got,
as you choose, but she was actually
cleaning her husbands pipes IVES,
deed she was. Well. | was that ia san
abach that could hardly open my
mouth for minute. She felt SO cheap
over being caught by me that she be-
gan making excuses before Id 81
a word And then the spineless thing
went on to say that she didn't mind
1t In the least, because, she said, her
husband was always doing nice little
things for her.
"Hows that? You don't see anything
wrong In 1t, and you'd give something
/ tidy III your wife took enough interest
In You to clean your pipes? How dare
| you sit there and say such things as
that to me? What? o. marriage Is
a reciprocal arrangement, is It? and
when a man devotes his whole life to
| looking out for the comfort and happi-
ness of his wife she ought to be will
ing to do few little things for him,
had she? Well, | will say this: never
saw a human being deteriorate the
way you have the last few years
spose 1t won't be long now before )
you'll be expecting me TO polish your
shoes and press
20, by the way, that reminds me.
We've got new name for Mrs. Cum
Infngham's fat. We call 1t the tailor
shop Do you want to Know why? 0,
YOU don't? Well, I'll just tell you,
anyhow, smarty. We call her nat
the tailor shop because any time any
of us drop in there we always find
her out in the kitchen pressing the
clothes of that big lummox OF a hus-
| band of hers And she's perfectly
shameless about it, too. She not only
fpresses creases in his trousers-he
has nine pairs OF trousers. she says,
and the idea,-she presses his coats.
too, and puts creases In the sleeves
of his coats Now. did you ever hear
anything to match that? And she
says that her husband pays her the
regular pressing rates for putting
creases In hig clothes--the same rates
charged by the tailor around the
corner. Can you imagine woman
living in a civilized apartment house
In the goth century making such a
eroveling admission as that to her
woman friends? Taking money from
her husband for pressing his clothes.
IF that doesn't make her a servant, =
and nothing but servant, I'd like to
know what it does make her? she
saws that she has her regular allow
ance of spending money from MIN De-
side. but | don't believe any such
hing. The only way she can get any
money out of him is by acting as his
valet. and If she didn't press his clothes
| suppose she wouldn't have carfare.
20. there you 90 again! might have
known that 1t would be impossible
for me even to mention that Cum
ningthing woman's name to you With
out your flying to her defence ike
as II she was something to you. L
notice that you never break your neck
trying to defend me, so | do.
Il suppose the next thing you'll be
saving the air and defending that
backboneless Mrs. Deahgal, VINO
shampoos her husbands head every
other Sunday. ] s'pose you call that
decent thing for married woman
to do When / went up to the Dean
gals fat to borrow their Ice cream
freezer last Sunday there she was
with him in the bathroom with
towel around his neck and bending
over the basin with his head all In
llather and she rubbing the shampoo
ing stuff into his silly black curls with
all her might, and they we're both
laughing fit to kill, as If 1t was the
greatest joke in the world, and she
pretending to enjoy the fun-grisiy
fun. call it--as much as he did
Well. would you believe 1t, she oid
that shampooing job just as II shed
been a professional barber was so
disguised that | wouldn't even ask
Mrs Deahgal for the loan OF her Ice
cream freezer
20. YOU think it's just as proper
and right for a wife to shampoo her
husbands hair as IL is for him to
shampoo hers, do you? My. won't
he the least surprised II you're asking
me TO shampoo your hair next Just
Won dare to ask me. that's ALI Per
hans you'll Ike me to take in sewing
or go out manicuring peoples nails
At 40 much an hour? You might Just
as well make a servant Of me at once
as TO think in your heart that | ought
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