p. 203 | A Hard Hit

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1873

A Hard Hit.

It is a pity that the wives of loafers and spendthrifts cannot all teach their husbands as practical a lesson as a wife at Cape Girardeau a few days since.

A character, noted somewhat for loafing around bar-rooms, was sitting in his usual place of resort, with several companions about a card-table, killing time with the cards. Suddenly his wife entered the room, bearing a large covered dish, which she deposited on the table with the remark, “Presuming, husband, that you were too busy to come home to dinner, I have brought yours to you,” and then departed. The husband invited his companions to share his meal, and removed the lid from the dish, revealing no smoking roast, but, instead, a slip of paper, only this and nothing more, on which was written, “I hope you will enjoy your dinner. It is of the same kind your family has at home.”