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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1871, 7 October 1874, Page 3

A correspondent of the Gonvkr- Journal says of the Kentucky women :—"'There is nothing they do not know, and what they do not know they divine. A man cannot creep in a little late at night without a disturbance, which comes of their training. Even Sly buck, who is the smartest of ' smart Alecks,' has learned also the futility of his best tricks. The sickfriend dodge; the all-night-in-the-country-dodge; the late-session-of-the-society-dodge j the uieeting-of-eouucit dodge; the coining" home-from-the-market-with-a-braco of-chiekens dodge; all the oldshifts aud( xpedients have been played out, The other night ho slipped in about .1 o'clock, very softly, denude 1 himself gently and began rocking the cradle by the bedside, as if he hid been awakened out of a sound sleep by infantile cries. He had rocked away for live minutes, when Mary Jane, who had silently observed the whole maneuver, says, 'Come to bed, you fool, you I the baby aint tliorej' , .