Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — A Well-Trained Husband. [ARTICLE]

A Well-Trained Husband.

“Here’s something rather novel and amusing in the way of a business arrangement,” said the man on the corner to the other man. “Our Arm has a traveling man whose wife is what is commonly termed a terror. She regulates her husband in every particular, draws his salary and doles it out to him, comes in and raises Sancho with' the house if he is out too long, and makes herself generally obnoxious. All the men in the office are afraid of her, and you would laugh to see them all scatter off and get very busy when she appears. Well, sir, this year the firm wanted to cut that drummer’s salary down, and how do you think they did It? They knew his wife would make things, lively if she knew his salary was decreased, so they fixed it up between them that his pay was to be reduced, but that his wife should draw the old amount, and that as the drummer has a little bank account he would make matters square with the firm at the end of the year. How’s that for terrorizing abilityone little 130-pound woman holding under her thumb her husband and a whole firm besides?”—lndianapolis Journal.