The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-12-17
VALUE or THREATS.
HOW DESIGNING PEeSoN5 TAKE A
MEAN ADVANTAGE.

Wives Are Frequently Tsrror,sod by Their
Husband. while scapeg-ncc sons aud
wayward Brother. Is, rhsir Positions
to ENtort Money.
The threat as weapon Of social war
fare has not yet been given its truly inn
portant place. The suucst persons are
inclined to regard the threat as the out
come Of a vain and feeble mind and are
prompted to laugh when the villain
cries "Bewarer' Much as we may de-
spise the threat, yet it is indubitable that
more people are influenced and made TO
do what is against their wishes 10y this
means than by actual violence.
The threat wielder is naturally punily
proportioned, mentally aud physically,
and exercises his power most effectually
in the woman's world. Women more
than men have reason to dread the
threat, for man can either afford to run
its dangers or proceed to immediate
punishment. The woman is defenseless,
and though she would frequently like
to proceed to extreme, yet traditional
convention keeps her within bounds.
Threats are so varied that it would re.
quire large volume to describe them
all, but we will speak of the more com
mon.
The dissatisfied son is well known to
society. He greedily seizes every occa-
sion to drag his name through the mire
aud besmirch the family. He is fire.
quently demonstrated with; prayers,
tears, exhortations are in vain. Then
comes the last injunction, "If you per
sist in this last course l will disinherit
YOU "Go ahead" replies the young
reprobate; 'you cut off my supplies, and
III disgrace the whole family"
One threat is sufficient to procure the
means for his vile wants, and the house
hold lives in abiect terror lest the
threat wielder put into execution his
promise of further tortures. II is not
only bad SONS who exercise this baleful
system Of money getting; it is rs freely
employed by bad brothers and husbands.
The pleasant and affectionate brother
is probably now reading the society col
umns of the daily and weekly papers
with the utmost care. His drunken
comrades once twitted him about his
"craze."
We'll" said the unblushing scoun-
drel, dye see, have sister who's no
end way up, and when find she's going
to give party to the nobs drop her a
line and say I'm coming. 1t fetches the
stuff, it does This heartlcss scheme to
filch from her money to cover her dis
s.,.o,o f,,,pd D., Y,ont,1iof ,lo,,n f,y tl. Ia,
sotted minds Of his companions. The
threat was more potent than the per-
formance, for il the good lady had had
the moral courage 10 send for an officer
and declare the fellow 4 lunatic she
would have been saved from his now
never ending persecution.
How many women suffer from the
threat of their devoted Husbands? And
how many wives slave themselves to
death through threats from theii spouses?
The threat cannot be- successfully
welded by men whose mentality lacks
intuition. To a man whose munitions
are good and who reads human nature
easily, the threat is a powerful weapon.
1t really requires a man who can analyze
emotion and passion to reach the acme
of perfection as threat Wirlder. The
vulgar threatencr loses his charm. but
the accomplished villain can so torture
his victim or victims that the pangs en-
dured by the patrons of the auto ia fe
were exquisite pleasures in comparison.
Apparently the kindest and most sub
servient husbands can, by judiciuusly
handling of the threat, drive their wives
almost to desperation at a social func.
ton, and none bat them know Of the
secret punishment. To employ the
threat so that 1t posters every fiber
Of your victims body the tenderest
points in your opponents armur must be
known. That once being discovered it
is marvellous what ramihCations the
threat can take. The mercst glance can
become q threat and the person is as
completely under the glamour of this
delicate inquisition as the diminutive
mouse in the claws Of a powerful cat,
The most successful threat is not to
the woman herself, for Il woman's pa
tience and pluck under such circum-
stances can he provokingly humiliating,
and there is no man who feels exactly a
uSIO Whell lllo pNlpOi AAo htlo oNoAh ~
honor and protect will regard him with
humid eyes and meekly say, "As you
like, dearest
Women, as general rule, love martyr
dom, and there are some so peculiarly
constituted as to derive the severest en-
joyment from the contemplation that
their liege lords were harboring in their
minds some hideous schemes of venge-
ance against them. But where this
would fail the threat of the amiable in
diyidual to do something TO himself
would be eminently successful. Women
above all things feel disgrace, and the
anguish at the loss of an unamiable hus-
band by being hit over the head with
bungstarter is trivial when compared to
the sorrow for the manner Of his death.
1t wonld not be for the flight Of her hus-
bands soul the tears were shed, but for
the disgraceful circumstances attending
the departure. The fact that it was not
a respectable demise for which she could
be properly consoled would be the only
bitter remembrance of her sweet widow
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