Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-19
Where do They go, Indeed?
Correspondence y. Y. World.

SIR: | am a woman. | am married
woman. | have been to the theater with
my beloved husband ten times during
the present season. We have seen
Hamlet, French Flats" .'PinafOre," -
"Wives"-I was in hopes this would do
my husband some good, but 1t didn't
and, in fact, everything worth seeing
On each one of the occasions upon
which | accompanied by beloved hus-
band to the theatcr he left me. Don't
understand me to mean that he LETT me
for good. (NO, no, no, | don't mean
that, for of course he didn't leave for
bad; he is one of the best husbands in
TIE wOrld--what | mean is, he did not
leave me permanently How stupid l
am; if he had left me permanently once
how could he have taken me the second
time2 Well, well, | confess | am not ac-
customed to write for the press and | am
a little fustered. 1t was awkward not
to be able to ask the aid OF my beloved
husband, who usually assists me III such
matters.
In a word, what | want TO find out is
simply this: Why does my husband
why do the husbands of the women
who sit all around me at the theater-
90 out between the acts? Where do they
90? What do they do when they 90
out? My husband says he is going to
stretch his legs" That appears to n"
a most needless performance, since he
has an awkward habit of stretching his
legs during the performance. lie is
gifted with long legs, is my beloved hus-
band, and he has, to my positive knowl-
edge during the present season, brought
anthemas upon his head by disturbing
and upsetting the hats of gentlemen Oc-
cupving the seats Immediately in front
of ours. Ny husband does not 20 out
between the acts for the purpose of
stretching his legs. Why, then, does
ne 20? Please, Mr. Editor, answer this
heseeching inquiry. There are hun
dreds OF women in New York who are
eagerly and impatiently waiting for the
problem to be solved.
Myyounger brother-that is, a brother
who was younger when We were both
children, but who, To tell the truth,
seems quite a man of the world.now,
and patronizes me in the most conspic-
uous and uncalled-for manner-says that
a new law, or | believe he calls il city
ordinance" requires all the male mem
bers Of every theater audience to regis
ter their names and the names OF the
ladies in their charge, at the bOx-ottice,
i'm order that should any dreadful acct
dent occur the managers will be able TO
tell Just who have persisted. He says it
is on the same principal as that which
leads to the registration of the names OF
passengers on European steamers, and
explains that as the matter cannot he
attended TO ut the time OF entering the
theater, owing TO the crush, it is ncces-
sary for the men to report between
acts."'
II my younger-that is my very old
brother were not given TO the whole
sale and somewhat reprehensible prac-
tice of manufacturing stories to suit Oc-
casions, | might credit this explanation,
but as it is am not prepared TO adopt II
with faith. Please, then. Mr.. Editor,
tell the poor, suffering women of New
! York why men do 20 out between acts.
Alired-Alfred is my husband-scowls
when ask him the question and muir
murs something indefinite about "stock
indicators" and the "exigenCies of the
market" But when in his calmer mo-
ments | reproach Alfred with wasting
/ his money in Wall street, he assures
me that he never in>his life ventured to
think OF stock speculation. am not a
child; | am not shallow, hare-brained
woman. make il matter OF con-