WIFE-BEATING HUSBAND.

Patea Mail, 9 March 1882, Page 3

WIFE-BEATING HUSBAND.

A shopman at Paris had formed the unamiable habit of beating his wife upon the very smallest provocation. The French lady was too feeble to attempt immediate retaliation, or venture upon an open duel with her brutal husband when he was in one of his beating moods. But she waited her opportunity. Late one night her lord and master came home drunk, and went straight to bed, where he soon fell into a sound sleep. The wife perceived that the season of his punishment had arrived, and must hot be allowed to pass away without being used. She got needle and thread and sewed up her stupefied and unresisting spouse in the sheet so firmly and securely that he could not liberate himself. She then fetched the house broom, and belabored him with the broom handle until he was thrashed into soberness, and roared out for mercy. When she thought that he had been sufficiently punished, she left him, and went to her mother’s house. On the next day it was the husband, not the wife, who sought the assistance of the law—not indeed for protection from the lady, who had at last proved herself to be indeed the “ bettes half,” but to make arrangements for a divorce.