A WARNING FOR WIVES.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1274, 18 April 1878, Page 3

A WARNING FOR WIVES.

The following amusing story from Bathurst comes to us through the “ M.A.“Mail” : “ One of those thrifty females, of whom crusty bachelors say that the breed is fastjdying out, resolved on converting a scarlet article of her apparel into a black one. The dye provided, amid which there was a quantity"of nitrate of silver, and the article duly soaked therein by means of a washing-basin, the good lady retired to her couch. Not being one of Mrs Gamp class, so fearfully known by some husbands as ‘ naggers,’ this lady fell asleep. Her husband having returned after working very late, thought, in the excessive dusty and warm weather with which Bathurst has been so favoured, that a good sluice would do him good. Accordingly, on going to the washingbasin he found some water already there, and duly wasiied prior to turning in. The next morning was Sunday, on which day it is said that people do not rise so early as on other days. Turning in bed, as folks will do, the wife saw a face as black as coal. With a scream and a spring she was soon out of bed, and the whole house was alarmed. She saw some sou of Africa’s soil had occupied her husband’s half of the bed, and thus continued to scream the louder as her husband advanced to pacify her. Now most people are aware that nightshirts do not fall much below the men’s knees. Looking at the man as he approached her, this thrifty woman saw at a glance that though the face and hands were those of Esau, the legs were Jacob’s. An explanation followed, and when Mr G. beheld himself, as his wife held the mirror up to nature, his exclamations may not have been loud, bur they were deep.”