The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-05
m REAL LIFE.

Stanuing on the corner where tne brnns
wick overlooks Madison square n day or
two g ] saw q pretty little woman i'm a
neat. quiet. black and white gown coming
in my direction. She was about ~ ar ~,
had q clear, p~each-like akin. handsome
dark eyes, and bright. brown curly hair.
drawn up under her stylish little bonnet.
Her figure was rs pretty Ms q girls. her
step light. and altogether she was as
plump, pleasing and wholesome n small
female as ono would rare tn see. As she
passed close tn where I stood with a
friend, she said, without turning her head
or looking i'm our direction, elbow do you
do, Mr.. Blank p" and passed on without q
p~erceptiblc pause. Blank started violently
and said. "By Jove in am amazed tone,
and bolted after the little woman, who
had continued her quick pace through the
square. He caught mp with her, spoke,
and ! saw sosnc few words pass between
two went on down toward cd street. 1
was very mach surprised, for she did not
look tiie sort of a woman who scrapcs ac-
quaintances in the street, and 1 had bust,
ness down on BAL street and Blank had
deserted me I decided to stroll that way
and keep them in sight. Blank was evi:
IDENTIFY very much Interested and seemed
to me pleading for something tn which the
woman acquieccd at last and IL ended by
on the shopping t~horoughfarc that is the
haunt Of women who are down i'm the
shops near lunch time. I left them there
two, when he told me the story of the lit
tie women i'm black and white.
II seems that she was n noted belle ten
years ago, and was engaged to be married
TO "a man who had his way still to make i'm
life. The marriage had been fixed twice
occurred to prevent il. Finally il was ar
ranged for n third time and the cards is
sued, when the young man came To his
tie third time, as he had just been ordered
away by the heads of his firm ON n very
, tee w 2 and ao unpleasant es ssrm,; Iss55"s ,S ; on which hsl'
for the. date liked. His whole future de-
p pSiiiiaea % to ask a"S he ar" the n" waits whs
Her pride was wounded deeply, for
both of the previous ~postponeInents had
tn he reasonable or c~onsidcrate she
promptly broke the engagement and en-
Another lover. Who had long and vaimiy
sought her, came that evening tn see her,
and she told him her troubles. He begged
that she was TO have been married the
ceremony took place, but the
was the Persistent lover; Like AL mar.
was i'm no way worthy of her and a knowi-
edge of this had dictated her former M.
o od rank mi . outraged Az der ali 1'i her f%eeiin ams
and mt the end of eight years Of married
life she found herself in q ffth-rate, filthy
little children. her heaisS wrecfed her
husband N gambler and n drunkard who
was permitting her and her children to
starve. They only had one visitors gam
bier and sharper who had met her hus-
hand in the course of his downward career
and whose acquaintance her husband had
thrust upon her with that of many Others
much lower. but this man at least, what
ever he might he morally. was kind to her
when they would otherwise have starved,
and did his hest to make her lot a little
, =s.n ,nsSIer% %en, s az nss' dc rne i%sn tho
mire, and began at last to beat her i'm the
most brutal way. Even this shc bore unit
tempted to kill her baby. The she sen,
for the gambler and said: "Help mer
"There is only one way, i'm which car
divorce from iii. brute and / win m"rr,
you and adopt all your children AS my
o osssmp sS ss ;n an9E rh wi,b my 4. i ana vs. sou p @"s
obey me i'm all things: but 1 will nevel
ask you tn do anything wrong. and I viii
babies" She thought over IL for twenty
four hours and said ayes"
i, There was n quickly obtained divorc'
! and an immediate marriage, and tn,
: gambler, to save her annoyance from he
discarded husband, brought her to New
> York. Here he secured n handsome flat
. furnished il luxmriously and said: .Yo,
. must he content with me, with your babies
. your books and music. for you can mo
; aerous for me-" For husband, she 81
$ planned. 'sis what is known as a crook
:. He not only CANDLES; but is mt the head a
ttI ~ ~ W ~
buys. "A little of it-not much, for his bus
ness does not require u great deal. A
= day long he sits at his desk addressin
Y circulars to people to whom he offer
to send $O of counterfeit for 81
r of the genuine and SO on in propol
lion. These letters he sends mostly n
!, express and receives the answers i'm til
same way to escape the surveillance exc
4 ciscd i'm the mails. He says he has IKE
matters not only with the express con
panies, hut the police as well. and run
i but very small risk, hut still he takes u
precaution, uses some 40 or 80 aliases, All
has as many different addresses. 10
would be perfectly astonishcd to see no
many dishonest and RullibIe people thei
are in this country. Judging by the nun
her who send the money to buy countc
feits. My husband often gets as much
$50 or SOD in one day. OF course he do.
~ not send counterfeits back Ia theT
a There would he too much danger i'm tina
but he does send u package which, whs
opened, contains only bits of newspape
- OF course the man who In cheated dare N
complain, AS IL happened while he hir
self was trying to commit a crime. n
az b makes a great deal OF mon,
- gambling, too, for he in q very cool al
careful player. OF course this is all We
I'D hideous, but even this is not SO bad
'e when my babies were in danger of the
as lives, and he is the soul OF goodness al
i'm tenderness to us all. I have implored hi
to over ann over agains III spite OF my pro-
"a Use, to give. up the life and earn our iivil
-. A $500 1911 A. -