Your Wife's the Boss.
American wit and humor.
Domestic relations -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Child care -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Fathers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
A man in sleeping clothes stands in front of his baby in a chair. His wife sleeps in the bed behind him.
You poor molly-coddling spooney fool, / This is a picture true to life, / Showing you in your shirt, so cool / With your baby, while calmly sleeps your wife. / But you are just served right in that, / The only one we pity, is the blessed baby: / And if I was your wife, -- I tell you, flat, -- / You would get something worse, you stupid gaby.
Cf. Valentine 8.31.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
[New York] : J. Wrigley, Publisher, 27 Chatham Street. N.Y.
[between 1840 and 1880?]
Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
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Comic Valentines, 13.43