The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-13
THE WIFE OF THE PERIOD.
An Bnraged Beauty Goes Back to Papa Be-
cause Her Brute of a Husband Won't Pay a
Dry Goods Bill.

An Bnrased Beauty Goes Back to Papa Be-
cause Her Brute of a Husband Won't Pay a
Dry Goods Bill.
The wife of a downtown merchant entered
one of our fashionable dry goods stores on
Fourth street one day last week, and purchased
bill of goods to the amount of about one hun
dred dollars, telling the clerk, after she had
completed her purchase, to send the bill to her
husband at his place of business, and it would
at once be cashed. The goods were put up
according to order and marked for delivery, but
when the clerk made the statement of the lady
at the cashiers desk about the payment of the
bill, he was somewhat surprised to see it imme-
diately sent around to the store of the merchant
before the order was given for sending home the
goods. The said merchant on having the bill
presented to him, declined it's payment on the
ground that he had not ordered the goods, nor
had he authorized any one else to purchase
them.
Of course, under these circumstances the
goods were not sent. The next day the Iady
made a second visit to the dry goods store to
ascertain why her goods had not been delivered.
She was very politely informed that the goods
were not sent in consequence of her husband
declining to pay the amount of the bill. With
an indignant and mortified look she turned
about and walked out of the store in much
greater haste than she entered it. Then she
Immediately sought her husband whose place
of business was not over square or two from
the great dry goods mart, and, on confronting
him, desired to know why he had insulted her
by refusing to pay the bill of her purchase
''Simply, madam" replied the merchant, "be-
cause do not propose to be made a bankrupt
by the extravaganza of any woman"
'Then, sir" answered the now enraged wife,
II wish you to distinctly understand that am
not to be mortified and scandalized by any
miserly man" and with this the pouting and
chagrined lady left his presence with a look of
vengeance that foreboded no good to the man
who had put his veto on her eXtravagances.
The enraged beauty on arriving at home i'm
mediately had her trunks packed, and, after
ordering her carriage, had placed thereon the
aforesaid trunks, and then taking her only child
"a daughter of ten years-entered the vehicle
and was driven to her fathers mansion, where
she now remains, determined never again to set
foot in the house of a husband who had SO
deeply wounded her plide. The husband is
terribly cut up at the rash step his wife has
taken and is deeply agonized to think that his
young daughter, whom he so devotedly idolized,
has also deserted him at her mothers DESIRE
He has offered all sorts of overtures to his wife
to return with his daughter, and has even con-
sented to give her a carte blanche to purchase
when, where, and what she pleases.
The wife still remains firm to her resolve
never again to cross his threshold, and the
daughter has also declared she will never leave
her ma. How the affair will terminate we are
unable to decide. The wifes father is rich, ant
as stubborn as his daughter, and declares tina
all he cares for in the matter is the happiness o.
his daughter, and if she is content to dissolve
her alliance with her husband he will secon(
her efforts to any extent Cincinnati Times.