Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-26
HICKS BROWN DIVORCE,



AN, Mrs Hicks Brown do not pretend
t. tuow. What know most about IS
tn rud and the apTe3liE. OF course
all the differences leading up to the ass
az; we're thoroughly aired i'll court aul
in the newspapers, hut it was the final
ac' + brutality on Mr. Hir">-E,"Nu's
pa. that was esp. Tally djIatr,, upon,
an for weeks this fiend in human
form was exearated by danes and
dam, el, all over this broad land. and
Mrs Hicks Brown was an object OF
heartfelt commis"ra ION on ali i les.
| am c.ined to think that if Mr..
Tir'> Brown had hcea more ike tAe
men who are held mp as mo.'". nus
bands by the knowing members of GER
tain ladies' societies. h" and Mrs. Hicks
Brown she whom only two short vars
since he had promised to love and cher
iSh-Nould be living in peace and
amity, to say nothing of coniugMl hap
pincss, even unto this day and if Mrs.
Hicks Brown had been anything but
the only child of a very rich and fool
ishly indulgent papa, thi"gs might have
been different. But Mr. Hicks Brown
was Just as much used to having his
own way as was his rrett, spouse; and
the natural result was family rows,
more or less insignificant in character
At first Mr. Hicks Brown was inclined
to give in, just as all dutiful bubbles
are ; but he saw the shoals of trouble GA
to which this course was causing him to
drift, and concluded, after mature con-
81 leration, that it was his will that
should dominate in the iclls-Brown
family, and he fixed his plan of pro-
cedure and governed his actions ac-
cordingly. Mrs. Hicks Brown, with
feminine insight, perceived at an early
stage of the game, what her lord's in
tentious were and, as she had always
been accustomed to have her way, she
decided that it was too late to begin
knocking under-and there you have
what was presumably the beginning of
the end.
1t was dog-not only dog, but
Young lady dog-not only female
canine, but what Mr.. Hicks-Brown
termed a "measly, dodgasted pug =
that caused the climax. If there was
any creature on earth that Mr.. Hicks
Brown loathed aud despised it was
pug, and especially one of the gentIer
sex-and bis better half, aware of his
an;ipathy. had, with characteristic fem
inine perversitv, availed herself of the
first opportunity to possess herself of
,,oJ L., ,,l,
speedily won, it seemed, first place in
her affections. and made Mr.. Hicks
Browns life miserable
He stood it, however, as long as he
could, but the end had to come.
Mr. Hicks Brown was an architect,
and it came to pass that he had on one
occasion been invited to prepare the
plans for public building. The plans
were drawn and accepted by the COM
1aittee, which, however, returned them
to him for certaiu important alterations;
End they were laid on the table in his
Cen, to be attended to when he returned
rome in the late afternoon of a certain
day.
Now, it happened that Vie. the pug
aforementioned, was of an inquiGing
turn of mind, and she chose this very
afternoon for an exploring tour in the
upper part of the house.
When Mir Hicks-Br entered his
dea. about five o'clock, he saw al c, ,
that portions of his plans We're missing,
and. supposing that his wife hal taken
them to show some visitor, he hur,ie
down stairs.
Where are those paps o. he asked.
What plans, dear 2? softly inquired
Mrs Hicks Brown, sliding her caramel
into one cheek, and still keeping one
eye on "A particularly thrilling page OF
the yellowb back novel in her lap.
What what plans. Do YOU mean
to say you didn't take those Calum,5
Building plans from my table 2" keI
Mr. Hicks Brown, in some a%itation
"Oh-hr said his spou.e mildly sur
prised. "Wny, it must have been those
that Vic had.
THAT Vic had" howled Mr..
Hicks-B Brown. And, pray, whcr, are
they now?'
"D~1't get excited, dear We're ta"y
anything in particular? Vie had some
old soiled pieces of cloth playing with
them awhile ago but ] supposed taey
We're some you had thrown into thA
waste basket, so | burned Henry !!
What are you going to do? q
But Henry did not answer. He strobe
over to the cushion whcreon the olend-
ing Vic was taking her afternoon eineta,
gripped her firmly by the napc of the
neck and despite his wife'n hystoriral
protests, opened the door and kiy /
the howling animal into the street and,
not satisfied with this, when Mrs. Hicks
Brown would have rushed to rescue her
pet, he took her by the shoulders and
forced her into a chair, noting with
grim satisfaction as he did so that a
couple of street arabs We're making off
with Vic.
That day Mrs. Hicks Brown went
home to her mother, and two weeks
later she was a member of a matrimo-
NAL divorce colony III a Western city,
seeking freedom from matrimonial
bonds on the ground of cruel and in-
human treatment" which she expected
the court, when her case was presented,
to understand as having been applied to
her, instead of to Vic.
In the State where Mrs. Hicks Brown
sought her divorce it takes only three
months to establish a residence, and
the legal formalities consume very it,
tie time; but, strange to say, Mrs, HI IS
Brown did not find it easy to pass the
time. The i.rst three or four weeks, in
her Hurried state of mind, she 'i' -