A Shameful Deception.
(Few York Tribune.) The ways in which poor, harmless wives are deceived by marble-hearted husbands are many and dreadful ;—and among the most dreadful cases of deception is this, which we grieve to relate. An Indiana wife, wearing only half a dozen pounds or so of somebody else's hair upon her head, became convinced that life wouldn't be worth having without the addition of a pound or two to the mass. Acting upon this conviction, she soon, by a series of conversations, convinced her husband that his life wouldn't be worth having unless the said addition were immediately made. Capitulating gracefully, he sent home two " switches" from which the fair lady was to make her selection. But mark the wickedness of this abandoned man ? Before dispatching them he carefully changed the tags upon which the price was marked, putting the twenty-live dollar tag upon the ten dollar switch, and vice versa. After strict and severe examination of the two switches by his trusting wife and all her feminine friends, the one marked 25 dollars was naturally enough chosen. And that wretched man, that penurious fiend, exulted over his treachery to that gentle, loving woman.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 211, 25 November 1873, Page 7
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197A Shameful Deception. Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 211, 25 November 1873, Page 7
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