A WIFE'S REVENGE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 141, 12 June 1878, Page 4

A WIFE'S REVENGE.

A Btory of tbe righteous retribution which fulls on husbamls' who deceive their wives, is serviceable as a warning to all sorts and conditions of men in all ! .countries, and it is with much satisfuction that we are ena^i to' relate an .aneodote. which, introduces a Mrs t Lewis, or as the "New York. Times'" elaborately, v describes -her -rr AJrs./CoioDel of Clifton, Illinois. i Mrs Lewis is not introduced because Bhe is agreeable, however. On the contrary, the journal Bpolpge^qajly remarks that "U was cert^inl^p^t^r fault that stfe was cops.truo.ted 'o^ a period when * the sugar, and spice, and everything nice M ', wj^wh Dr. Watfa , assures us are the chief ingredients of girls were opparenfly exhausted,, and there were, no materials avaijabie except vine.gar and mustard." ' She ( ; was in . j! a 9 1 ; ..» , fe^.e.w.^nia.n, but nevertheless she somehow manned' to captivate Colonel LewiS| who is described as "a ( man , with^ an. excellent moral character, hpei sandy hair; He; I|kewisp appears to have, been addicted 10, searching for those saccharine 5 materials in femaje guise which',, as Already remarked, were conß,picuously, absent in hjsow.n wife ; and when she heard that a fancy dress ball was to be given she was greatly gMemayed, until the Colonel Casually informed her thai of all things a fancy dress ball was his special detestation. Had he not been forced to visit Chicago the day the ball was to be held, nothing would . have induced ; him. ! to go, he assured; he/ j aud she rested happy until a few days afterwards, when she was horrified at discovering in the Colonel's desk a catalogue of fancy . 9ostum,es whiqh a? Qhlqagp tradesman ioffjßtes a to j!et L uppnj tfejy i reas^natjle terms to persons about to attend masked-balls* ; ' Anjong these costumes was! one whioh was desigDei to enable the wearer to; personate a boree. It consist ediphifcfly.pf^, hgrse's head and 1 silk .tig^t?., AP unfinished letter in the handwriting of her treacherous husband showed that the wretched man intended to be present at the masquerade in this rey^ltipg costume, and that his pfetedce of business at Chioagp vyaa ' tqerely designed to deceive the wife, of ' blk bosom.' 1 } She did- hot appear before the Colonel with the treacherous I missive, in her band, and perform that operation which is yaguefy knoWnj as i 'Viofciijpg:'. him have. itf' 1 ,0n the cpnj trary, she quietly wrote to the oostumer and ordered ajockey dresfli of whicli a good cutting jockey whip was to bejan important part, gp attiyed.she arrif ed at the; ball closely, masked, and ;he Colonel, failing to reoognise her, >ut attracted it by her cpstu'me, forthwith acKreesed her. She replied with the whip bo emphatically that the o.oDvjersatibn was not continued. He thejre.(ore,saluted another la^y, and wns just beginning a plpaaant flirtation when [the jockeyglided behind him and repea|ted •'ft. 8 (Pfffl 9^ operat/on, Tjlie tights, we were told, were ."thin,, anfl the blow M wrung. from him i^a hasty theological expression, which caused bis partnep to ■Ifflfi-j n > m Presently j recovering, he sought to forget his sorrowsby^g.lid.irjg in the mßzy dance, {but just as 'h|;^aidj!beggfd'for the honoir of a waliz with a pretty "peasant girl, two snif^blowa^dew^nded^o^bjs smart land eegfttting jegs. Forlgejting;;his partper, he limped to a seat, and "indulged in language which, had he not spoken [ina suppreßsed tone, would have oast a Bulpburouß glare over the assemrjly." Wherever be went, there was , the jockey* and wherever the jockey went there was the whip j and, worst of all, when at lengh he went home, there v^ere jockey and whip in active posseseion, It is said that the Colonel's masked balls, do not now form a favqrite subject of conversation. ;