Talk:Colonel Routh Goshen

The greatest of injured husbands
When Mr. Gulliver woke up in Lilliput and found himself securely bound with minute things by the tiny people of the neighborhood and discovered that his baptismal and family names had been sacrificed to local prejudice, he learned a lesson which Colonel Ruth Goshen, the chief ornament of the Dime Museum in this city would do well to take heart, namely, that no man is too great to be tormented or too small to be able to annoy his fellow creatures. Nobody has thought of irritating the excellent seven foot eighter of Jerusalem by applying to him so obnoxious a name as Quinbus Flestrin or translating it to mean Man Mountain, nor has anybody run pins into him or done anything of the kind to try his nerves. But for all that Ruth Goshen has been excessively annoyed in a domestic matter and deserves the full sympathy of all the injured husbands of contemporary history, for his wife has run away from him with a small man, carrying off at least ten thousand dollars and jewelry and after despoiling him of his property, assisting in the in the destruction of his hearthstone, and blackening his reputation as a husband has had the audacity to call upon him for assistance, pecuniary and otherwise, and a request for condonation. Colonel Ruth Goshen is unquestionably a huge hearted man, but not sufficiently naturalized or acclimated to the American social atmosphere to accede to these requests. Indeed, with true Turkish ferocity he has given his faithless wife instructions to go to Tophet or some other place whose latitude and longitude a careful study of the atlas fails to furnish. In telling his story to a sympathetic reporter, Colonel Goshen feels keenly the fact that he is a great man and a public character, and in this capacity he is bound to give the public his fullest confidence. He admits that when he fist met the fickle lady of his choice, she gave herself out as a widow, which in reality she was not, a deception which did not irritate him in the least when he discovered it, and which during their happy years of wedlock, doubtless served as a staple joke. Now, however, when deception has been practiced on him again, he feels that she is rather given to false pretenses, and resents it. He dwells, too, upon the liberality with which, as her husband ... Beside, after a time the good old joke of asking a husband of nearly eight feet ... the very reverse of her goat haunted home - Sweet.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk • contribs) 02:47, 30 August 2006
 * Source: The Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, New York; January 09, 1879
 * Note: Public domain text
 * Note: Transcribed by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) in 2005
 * scan of article. --Enric Naval (talk) 09:41, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

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