The Huttig news., 1907-12-21

wrong in it, and you'd give something tidy if 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 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, I will say this: I never saw human being deteriorate the way you have the last few years. s'pose it won't be long now before you'll be expecting me to polish your shoes and press
 70, by the way, that reminds me. We've got new name for Mrs. Gun ninghams fiat We call it the tailor shop. Do you want to know why? o, you don't? Well, I'll just tell you, anyhow, smarty. We call her flat 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 presses 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 his clothes--the same rates charged by the tailor around the corner. Can you imagine a woman living in a civilized apartment house in the 20th century making such a groveling 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 says that she has her regular allow ance of spending money from him be- side, but 1 don't believe any such thing 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 1 suppose she wouldn't have carfare.
 70, there you go again! might have known that it would be impossible for me even to mention that Gun ningthing womans name to you with out your flying to her defence like as If she was something to you. notice that you never break your neck trying to defend me, so l do.
 q suppose the next thing you'll be saving the air and defending that backboneless Mrs. Deahgal, who shampoos her husbands head every other Sunday. l s'pose you call that a decent thing for married woman to do. When l went up to the Deah- gals flat 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 father and she rubbing the shampoo ing stuff into his silly black curls with all her might, and they were both laughing fit to kill, as if it was the greatest joke in the world, and she pretending to enjoy the fun-grisly fun, I call it-as much as he did! We'll, would you believe it, she did that shampooing job just as if she'd been a professional barber! I was so disgusted that I wouldn't even ask Mrs. Deahgal for the loan of her ice cream freezer.
 70, you think it's just as proper and right for wife to shampoo her husbands hair as it is for him to shampoo hers, do you? My, I won't be the least surprised if you're asking me to shampoo your hair next! Just you dare to ask me, that's all! Per haps you'll like me to take in sewing or go out manicuring peoples nails at 50 much an hour? You might just as we'll make a servant of me at once as to think in your heart that I ought to be your servant. But l warn you right now that you've got just as much chance of making servant of me as you have of sailing to the planet Mars on a broom handle, and, if you"
 At this point the hard-working man