NO RUFFLING IN HIS NIGHTSHIRT.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 28, 13 April 1878, Page 3

NO RUFFLING IN HIS NIGHTSHIRT.

Ovr Saturday afternoon a little woman who had come to town in a one-horje waggon entere 1 a store on Woolword avenue where gents' furnishing goods are sold, and asked if they kept such a thing as a man's night-shirt. " Certainly we do," was the reply, as the clerk reached for a box. " Well, my old man was travelling down iu Rhode Island last fall and heard about'om, and saw one," she continued, " and he's been half-crazy ever sinco to own a couple. Things have come to a pretty pass when men havo got to have one shirt for a day and the other for night; but Thomas is rather childish, and I thought I would get him one." " Most all men wear 'em now," said the clerk, as he opened the box. " What price do you want to pay > " " Well, I dunno," she mused, as she picked up one after the other and let them drop. " I didn't say I wanted one for myself, did I ?" "Whv.no; of course not. These nre gentlemen's white night-shirts, madam—throe different styles." She picked up the plainest one, shook it out, and held it at arm's length, and coldly said : " Young man, do you pertend to call this garment a night-shirt for a man !" " Yes, ma'am." " You do, eh '. You stick to it that this frilling and furbelowlng and tucking and raffling belongs to a man's nightshirt?" '■ I do." " Then you'd better go to driving a sand waggon, young man ! " she snapped, as she threw down the garment. " I've worn night-gowns for fifty-one years, and if the day has come when a young moonshiner like you puts on airs to tell me that 1 don't "know what a night-gown is, my old man can sleep in harness for all i the night-shirt he'll ever get inn ':. buy.; Good day, young man - irc-ic Free i'ress." i