Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1903 — Countercharge. [ARTICLE]

Countercharge.

A retaliatory thrust at mankind lies In the remark of a woman who is quoted by the New York Times. She was putting the finishing touches to her toilet, and her husband was waiting with ostentatious patience. Having adjusted her hat, she took a hatpin from the cushion, and suddenly cried out: “I think it’s a shame!” “Yes, my dear,” nervously assented the waiting husband. “I mean the way these writers say women ffharpen lead-pencils and open tin cans with their husband's razors.” “Yes, my dear.” “Yes. Now I never do such things with your razor, and I don’t believe any woman does. I looked at your razor once, when I had a box of sardines to open, but It was so sharp and so wabbly In the bundle I was afraid to use it.” “Yes, my dear.” “If the writers want to put something true In the papers, why don't they talk about men who use their wives’ hatpins for pipe-cleaners? Ugh!” This time the husband forgot to say, “Y’es, my dear.”