Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — A Paradise for Wives. [ARTICLE]

A Paradise for Wives.

There is a town In France called Villefranche, whiob was founded by Humbert, the fourth Lord of Beaujeau, about the beginning of the twelfth century. This Lord Humbert let the groucHl at an almost nominal rent; and as an additional inducement for the people to settle in his town, he granted the inhabitants several privileges, one of which was “that husbands might beat their wives until the blood flowed, provided that death did not ensue therefrom.” What a paradise for wives Villefranche must have been in those days! Woods may be considerably darkened by polishing with cold-drawn linseed oil. This might answer for wood picture frames. If a man looks up bis family tree he’s sure to discover monkeys on some of the branches.