Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1912 — THOUGHT TOO MUCH OF SHOW [ARTICLE]

THOUGHT TOO MUCH OF SHOW

Finicky Action of Wife of English Fireman Duplicated In Our Own v f: —t Country. - - ~ Before a Justice, in a erndll English town of the sooth coast, there Ap* J peared, not long ago, a wife who accused her husband of assault and battery. The man admitted that be had seized her and thrown her down, perhaps roughly* yet not without making sure she would fall upon a soft place. Bat he had done so, he declan «£ HI defense of his person and hla honor. He was a fireman, and she bad tried to keep him from going properly appareled and equipped to a fire. The fire company of his village, he explained, was Composed chiefly of voltinfoorc tL-hAon unifAvma wa:ntux nA -twa : UlilCcl Of vvitvoc utilit/TiLIB were acpv lit their homes and kept in repair by , their wives, a task that no wife performed more faithfully than his own; In fact, she was too careful of It. When a night alarm was given for a fire in the quarter between the glue factory and the wharves, and he Jumped up to dress, she had positively refused to allow him to put It on, declaring that smoke and cinders were bad enough, but when It came to salt and glue and fish-scales as well, it was beyond all reason; his oldest trousers and a pea Jacket were plenty good enough. He had remonstrated and she had vituperated. "But I didn't lay a finger on her, your honor not till she ’eaved a kittle at me ’ed when I grabbed for me boots,” he protested, "and then ft come to me ‘twas no less than a,public Juty to chuck ’er on ’er bed where she couldn ; t hinterfere; and what 1 sees to be my Juty, I upa and does. So I chucked ’er." Were ducking still the accepted punishment for vixenish wives, she might have been awarded poetic justice at the nozzle of a hose. As it was, the ’ case ended/amid general laughter. In the discharge of the aggrieved huscareful wife. In our own country, and In a community by no meanß rustic, a little Incident but a few days ago proved that It is not only the better halves of firemen who can be too finicky. The firewagon, responding to a still alarm for : a chimney fire, was met by the son of the house, who eagerly snatched an extinguisher, while the firemen were unreeling the hose. But the eagle eye of the chief was upon him. "Here, here!” he cried, authoritatively. “Don’t meddle with that extln- ; guisher, young man. Why, It’s only just been polished!”—Youth’s Companion.