A WIFE’S RUSE TO REFORM A DRUNKEN HUSBAND.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 142, 30 July 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)

A WIFE’S RUSE TO REFORM A DRUNKEN HUSBAND.

The wife of a well-to-do tradesman in the Boulevard Voltaire, writes the Baris correspondent of the ‘ Morning Post’ has read her husband a lesson so original in its conception as to bo worth recounting, though its result hardly recommends it for imitation. He had of late devoted his affection almost exclusively to the bottle, and his better half, finding all curtain lectures fruitless, at last arranged a little practical joke, which she fondly imagined would produce such an impression on him that his conversation from evil ways must follow. When her lord anil master came home to dinner the other evening he was so drunk that he fell asleep in an arm-chair before the meal began. , The lady, it should be mentioned, had bben preparing the way for an ingenious stratagem she was meditating, by threatening to commit suicide if he did not reform ; and no sooner did she hear him snoring soundly than she put her plan in cxcution. She had made provision of a lay figure, obligingly lent by iicr milliner, and having clothed it in one of her dresses, with her best bonnet on its bead she tied a rope round its neck and hung it up to the hook of the chandelier ; she then left the house and her victim, fondly calculating on the remorse in store for the latter. The sleeper awoke in half-an-hour, and was certainly deeply affected’at the sight of what he took to be the dangling corpse of his moiety. He screamed to his neighbours that his wifi- had hanged herself, and news of the ea -1- tropin- having been immediately taken f-n Mi*.* police station the o»ianu«wt(V utL ; J :*i hot 'mate, accompanied by a > Phe trick was of course at once b- r by ‘-lose gentleman; but when tony awoke the VUtsaved husband from the second sleep <>f the just into which he had dropped, his rage at discovering he was not a widower knew no bounds The lady, on In r return, far from being flattered by the depth of his remorse, had to escape in haste from the consequences ot the disappointment she had created for him. -