Those who offer the slightest resistance are put to mend their wives' stockings.
The greatest reprobates are sentenced to sit up for their dear wives.
The Happy Family.
"A Quiet Hint to the Wives of England"
The Lords of Creation are driven to the greatest extremities to enjoy a quiet pipe.
But if detected, they are immediately made public examples of, by being sent out to air the babies.
Those who resist the strong arm of the sex are immediately sent to the House of Correction, and put for fourteen days upon dirty linen.