A NAGGING WIFE.
A speaker was holding.forfch on woman, and he made out that shewas just a,little 7 angel on earth. In glowing, words he pic: tured how patient she was irt suffering] ■" how courageous in trouble, and how altogether genUe, loving, and good, she was under all s circumstances,-and closed his peroration by declaring thafc..any man who laid his hand;on;a.womah, save in the act of kindtiesis, was a irionster. ! After the lecture, a pale, haggard; woe-begone look- '.' ing man shuffled up to the speaker v*rid said, 'Look here, muter, I've heard arhat r you've been, saying about wotrian; all about how nice and sweet she is, why, one, would imagine that you believed all woriien .were just flushing; full-blown roses ; I guess you don't know,my Wife. Well she'haint no blooming rose. She's ' a daisy, a reg'lar daisy ; why -mister- my wife in a nagger, and therehain't anhour, when she's awake, but what;she's nagging. , someone. If it hain't: me, it's, the childr< / :.ren,,if it-hain't the children, ifc^ther ca£ "•'" ; There is nothing that escapes her nagging' ipngtre, arid the only time any of lis gets | ,ariy. rest is whenshe's nagged herself 'to sleep;" ■'.-■■.:'.. y• ' •*.-.- .. 7* -V *.'* z'y How* like the nerves '•> of a * man who= A drinks ; they just hagg, nagg all the time,o) ! giving^ no rest; until; enough : liquor [jhasfc;.. .been taken to deaden all nervous sensibil- ;. ity, and the poor; fellow goes off in; that,;; sodden, snoring, miserablei state that:is^' but the rattling- skeleton of a healthy !J sleep.' - •'.- V :■ A'-7-: ■■■•:■■■ -yyy . .'yy: _7,y IB: T. Booth's <3olden: Remedy NoT'l' ; [ pfits an end to all this- nagging of-(.the: nerves by destroying alldesire for liquor. -. |R T. Booth'sGolderi Remedy No; 2 isY the best: Brain arid' Nerve Torifc on this.YY earth-. -,-• All chemists.; ••-, ,-. .; •. ' -y':.,: k ■•/
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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1003, 13 October 1893, Page 6
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295A NAGGING WIFE. Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1003, 13 October 1893, Page 6
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