Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1878 — For His Wife’s Sake. [ARTICLE]

For His Wife’s Sake.

A Newark bachelor dropped in, the oth'er evening, to see a married friend whose wife was absent from home on a prolonged visit. He found him smoking desperately at a cigar nearly a foot long. “Why,” asked he, breathlessly, “ where on earth did you get such a preposterous cigar as that, Charley?” “ Had it built by contract,” was the response. “ You see,” continued the smoker, explanatorily, “ I promised my wife before she went away, bless her, that I wouldn’t smoke more than six cigars a day. Promises to a wife are sacred, you know, and I mean to keep mine if I have to get cigars as long as a lamp-post,”— Newark Call,