Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — It Was Hubby Who Suffered. [ARTICLE]

It Was Hubby Who Suffered.

A curious story is told at the Capitol at the expense of a member of Congress, who while of no small caliber intellectually, has not been blessed with an abundance of avoirdupois. He has • wife who is much taller than he is and who is well known to her children as a strict disciplinarian. One evening, so the story goes, she heard a noise in the nursery after bedtime. She promptly seized her slipper and started for the scene of the uproar. Just as she reached the door the children extinguished the light? Stretching out her hand sne captured one of the boys, and to judge from the out-cries he made the spanking was thoroughly effective. But the mother was somewhat surprised at the conduct of the second sufferer. Instead of sobbing, he yelled protestations in a strong voice, and at last swore .roundly. The mother, astonished, jumped up and letting him fall from her knee to the floor exclaimed tenderlv: • ‘ls that you. hubby?” j • Overwhelmed with confusion he admitted that it was her “hubby” she had been spanking. After they had retired amid the muffled laughter of the children, who were trying to restrain it by stuffing pillows into their mouths, exClanations followed. He, too, had eard the noise and with the same object in view as his wife had gone to the nursery, where he had been caught by his spouse. Hereafter he vows that he will allow his wife to discipline the children unaided.