A CUBE FOR A SWEARING HUSBAND.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3778, 5 February 1881, Page 4

A CUBE FOR A SWEARING HUSBAND.

David Swing, in the Alliance, shows how a bride reformed her profane husband. She invited her bridesmaids, four in number, to a quiet dinner. As they knew of the profane habits of the groom, and also knew of his good qualities—that he was a man worth saving—they entered gladly into the proposed comedy. The plan was that all of these beautiful women should use profane words at the table, as the hot coffee or weather, or slow servants might afford an opportunity. It was a bold plan, but is said to have cured the wicked husband;/for when his elegant wife applied a profane term to the biscuits, and a fair guest made a like remark of the coffee, and still another applied a profane expletive to the movements of a servant, the husband absolutely cried with remorse, that., he. had ,ever himself used,such an outrageous form of speech. Professor Swing thinks that " while such a cure cannot be justified, because it might kill the ladies without curing the masculine offender," yet the story itself may serve to show -that man as an animal that swears is'a rmournful curiosity.