HOW A NEWLY-MARRIED HUSBAND GOT WEANED FROM HIS CUPS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5173, 15 June 1878, Page 3

HOW A NEWLY-MARRIED HUSBAND GOT WEANED FROM HIS CUPS.

A touxo wife in Michigan had just got settled in .her new home. All seemed fair and promising, for she did not know that her husband was a drunkard. But one night he came home at a very late hour and much the worse for liquor. When he staggered into the house, the wife, who was greatly shocked, told him he was sick and to lie down at once ; and in a moment or two he was comfortably settled in a drunken sleep. His face was a reddish purple, his breathing was heavy, and altogether he was a pitiable-looking object. The doctor was sent for post haste, and mustard applied to his feet and hands. When the doctor came, and found that he was only drnnk, he said— "He will be all right in the morning." But the wife insisted that he was very sick, and that several remedies most be used. " You must shave his head and apply blisters," she urged " or I will send for some oae who will." The husband's head was accordingly shaved closely and blisters applied. The patient lay all night in a drunken sleep, and notwithstanding the blisters were eating into the flesh, it was not till near morning that he began to beat about, disturbed by pain. About daylight he woke up to a most uncomfortable consciousness of blistered agonies. " What does this mean ?" he Baid, putting his hands to his bandaged head. " Lie still—you musn't stir," said the wife ; " you have been very sick." . " I'm not sick." " Oh yes, you are ; you have brain fever. We have worked with you all night." " I should think you had, * groaned the poor victim. " What's the matter with my feet?" " They are blistered." " Well I'm better now,take off the blisters, do," he pleaded piteously. He was in a most uncomfortable state—his head covered with sores, and his hands and feet were still •worse. " Dear," he t,;.;d, groaning, "if I should ever get sick in this way again, don't be alarmed or Bend for a doctor, and above all don't blister me again." "Oh, inu.'sd I will—all tbat saved you were the blisters, and if ever you should have another such spell I should be more frightened than ever—for the tendency I am sure is to apoplexy, and from the next attack you would be likely to die, unless thera were the severest measures used." He made no further defence ; suffiee to say he never had another attack.