Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — Tipping His Wife Out. [ARTICLE]

Tipping His Wife Out.

The women of the lower and middle classes of Wales are noted for their independence and the tenacity with which they hold to their own ways. Mr. Wirt Sykes, in his book on “Old South Wales,” gives an illustration of the pertinacity with which a married woman strove to retain her reputation of being “the better man of the house.” A middle-aged and thrifty couple were of one mind as to their frugality and industry, but constantly at loggerheads as to who should be master. One evening, when the domestic storm had become too severe for the husband to endure, lie shut himself ud in the stable in order to escape his wife’s tongue. His intention was to remain there alone until two o’clock in the morning, when it would be time for him to start with his horse and cart for the market town. His wife, auticipating his purpose, hid herself under the straw in the cart. When the man was well out on the road his wife popped up from the straw and began her “ Caudle lecture ” at the exact point where it had been broken off by his retreat to the stable. For a moment he was dazed by the unwelcome apparition. But recovering himself he executed a flank movement which emancipated him from her strategy. Pulling out the pin, he tipped the cart, and the voluble woman was shot out into the road with her unfinished lecture. Whipping up his horse, the triumphant but ungallant husband went rattling down the road, leaving his persistent wife to get home as best she could.