A NAGGING WIFE.
A FACT. A speaker was holding forth on woman, and he made out thit she was just a little ang< lon earth. In glowing words he pictured how patieut she wan in f-uffering, how courageous in trouble, and how altogether settle, loving and good sho was under »U circumstances, acd c.oscd bis peroration by dec aring that any man who laid hia hand on a woman, s>ive in the act of kindness, was a monster. After thn lectnie, a pale, haggard, woe-begon3 looking man shuffled up to the Fpeaker and said, " Look here, mister, I've heard what you've been saying about woman ; all about how pice acd sweet she is, why, one would imagine th^t you be'ieved all women were just blushing, full blown roses ; I pupfs you don't krjow my wife. Well she h'aint no blooming ros". Bht's a daisy, a reg'lar daisy, why mister my wife 11 a nagger, and there inn't an hour vvhen she's awake, but what she's ntigt<ini/ Sims om\ If it isn't we, its the children, if it isn't the children, its the cat. There is no'hing that escapes her nagging tongue, and tbe only time any of ua gets any rest ia when she has nagged herself to sleep. How like the nerves of a man who drinks ; they just nag, nag til tbe time, giving no Test until enough liquor has been taken to deaden all nervous sensibility, and the poor fe low eofß off into that sodden, snoring, miserable state that is but the rattling skeleton of a healthy sleep. R. T. Booth's Go'dpn Remedy No 1 puts an end to all this nag« ging of the nerves by destroying all desire for liquor. tt, T. Booth's Golden Remedy No 2 is the best Brain anl Nerve Tonic 00 Ibis earth. AH chemists,
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 20, 3 March 1893, Page 11
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305A NAGGING WIFE. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 20, 3 March 1893, Page 11
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