WATER CURE. LATEST ILLUSTRATIONS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1192, 8 November 1882, Page 2

WATER CURE. LATEST ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE OBEDIENT HU3BAND3. ♦ There were five of them together, and it was late. They had all been, as they supposed, enjoying themselves. Finally one of them looked at the clock, and said •' What will our wives say when we get home V " Let them say what they want to. Mine will tell me to go to the mischief,', responded No. 2. " I tell you what to do Let us meet here again in the morning and tell our experiences. Let the one who has refused to do what his wife told him to when he got home pay for this evening's entertainment." " That's ' a good idea. We will agree to that." *-o the party broke up and went to their respective homes. The next morning they met at the appointed place and began to tell their experi- ] ences. Said No. 1 : " When I opened the door my wife was awake. She said : f A pretty time of night for you to be coming home. You had better go out and sleep in the pig-pen, for that's what you will come to sooner or later, anyhow.' Rather than pay for what we drank last night, I did what she told me. That let's me out." N^ext! No. 2 clear his throat and said — " When my wife called ' There you are again, you old drunken brute You had better wake up the children and stagger about the room for a while, so they can see what a drunken brute of a father they are afflicted with.' I thought the best thing I could do under the circumstances was to obey j so I woke up the children and staggered around until my wife hinted to me to stop, -he used a chair in conveying the hint. That lets me out." No. 3 spoke up, and said : " I happened to stumble over the pan of dough, and my wife said ' Drunk again ! Hadn't you better sit down in that dough V So I sat down in it; and that lets me out." Next! No. 4. said : "I was humming a tune, and my wife called out ' There you are again Hadn't you better give us a concert?: I said • Certainly,' and began to sing as loud as i could ; but she told me to stop, or she would throw something at me ; so 1 stooped. That

lets me out." JNext! No. 5 looked very disconsolate. He said: "I reckon I'll have to pay. My wife told to do something none of you would have done if you had been in my place." " Wiiat was it f '.« :she said : ' oyou thought you would come home at last. Now, hadn't you better go out to the well and drink a couple of buckets of water just to astonish your stomach?' That was more than I had bargained for — so it's my funeral. — 'Mark Lane Express.'