A Paris Journal has a capital cartoon, which represents two young married ladies chatting about their husbands. " What, " says one of them, " you permit your husband to smoke in your rooms ?" "Certainly I do, but he spends his evenings with me," replied the other. " Yes,, at that price." "My dear friend," said the knowing lady, " A shrewd wife avails herself of her husband's faults to repress his vices." *' So you are going to keep a school ? ' said a young lady to her old aunt 5 "Well, for my part, sooner than do that I would marry a widower with nine children." " I should prefer that myself," was the quiet reply ; " but where is the widower ? "
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 99, 28 April 1870, Page 2
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