A PARTIAL SUCCESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2197, 18 January 1886, Page 2

A PARTIAL SUCCESS.

There is a woman living down Howardstreet who reads the newspapers, She read in a newspaper the other day that a Boston woman cured her husband o.f running out nights by making him jealous. The idea was a gopd 'un. She let her sister into the plot, arid the sister's husband might have been seen sneaking in and out of tho houso at a late evening hour. Some of the neighbours got hold of it,'and someone wrote to the husband ; "Beware I As a friend I would advise ypu to watch your wife I" ' His wife saw the bud of suspicion in his eye/, and was hugely pleased, She tolii her Bister, and there was great cackling. Sister told her husband, and he slapped his leg and exclaimed :

" Ha! ha! ha I We've got him on ;he run 1"

The other night the Howard-street man went out as usual. Tho brother-in-law disguised himself and went over to tho house, taking care to be seen. He was just mounting the steps when a horsewhip began to play over and around him, and as he started to run he waß knocked down and stepped on, and walked over until he scarcely had the strength left to climb out of the yard in front of a No. 9 boot. The injured husband then entered the house and broke upfjOOdol. worth of furniture, and destroyed jewellery and dresses costing as much more. His wife had to explain the plot in order to save her life, but that didn't restore the goods nor heal the brother-in-law's bruises,

It is very quiet down there now. The husband goes out o' nights as usual, and the Boston idea has been coated with tai; anc] buried in the back yard until wanted,.