Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-11-29
VALUE OF THREATS.
HOW DESIGNING PERSONS TAKE !
MEAN ADVANTAGE.

MEAN RDNAN Aux
Wives Are Frequently TerrosiErd by Their
Husbands. while s-caperr,oo soma and
Maynard Brothers Zee Their Positions
20 Effort Money.
The threat as a weapon OF social war.
fare has not yet been given It's truly im-
pOrtant place. The sanest 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 "Bewarei" Much as we may de-
spise the threat, yet Il Is indubitable that
more people are influenced and made to
do what Is against their wishes by this
means than by actual violence.
The threat wieldor Is naturally punily
proportional, mentally and physically,
and exercises his power most eTectually
in the womau's world. Women more
than men have reason 10 dread the
threat, fer man can either afford 10 run
its dangers or proceed to immediate
punishment. The Oina is defenseless,
and though she would frequently like
TO proceed 20 extreme, yet traditional
convention keeps her within bounds.
Threats are 20 varied that it would re-
quire a 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 coca
sion 70 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, eff You per-
sist in this last course / will disinherit
you" go aaead," replies the young
reprobate; you cut of my supplies, and
IL disgrace the whole family"
One threat is sufficient 10 procure the
means for his vile wants, and the house
hold lives in abject terror lest the
threat wielder put into execution his
promise Of further t~ortures. II is not
only bad sons who exercise this baleful
system Of money getting; it is as 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 twisted him about his
~''craze."
"Well," said the unblushing scoun-
drel, dye see, / have a sister who 40
end way up, and when / find she's going
TO give a party 10 the nobs / drop her a
line and say I'm coming. II fetches the
stuff, it does" This heartless scheme to
fitch from her money TO cover her dis
grace found a peculiar charm for The be-
sotted minds Of his companions. The
threat was more potent than the per-
Torrance, for If che good lady had had
the moral courage to send FOR an officer
and declare the fellow a lnnatic 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 their spousesi
The threat cannot be successfully
welded by men whose mentality lacks
intuition. To a man whose intuitions
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 a threat wielder. The
vulgar threatener 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 judiciously
I..TTew- - N1n. N1rn-e 1vTvra NI.g- --g--..
almost to desperation at a social func-
ton, and none but them know Of the
secret punishment. To employ the
threat so that it posters every fiber
Of your victims body the tenderest
points in your opponents armor must be
known. That once being discovered it
il marvellous what ramifications the
threat can take. The merest glance can
become a threat, and the person is as
completely under the glamour Of this
delicate inquisition us the diminutive
mouse in the claws Of a powerful cat.
The most successful threat is not TO
the woman herself, for a woman's pa
tience and pluck under such ciycum-
stances can be p~rovokingly humiliating,
and there is no man who feels exactly a
hero when the person he has sworn to
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.
dividual 10 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 d
b%ungstarter IS trivial when compared C
the sorrow for the manner Of his death
It would not be for the Eight Of her hus
bands soul the tears were shed, but fol
the d%isgraceful circumstances attending
the departure. The tact that IL was moi
a respectable demise for which she could
be properly consoied would be the only
bitter remembrance Of her sweet widow
hood.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Pun for the Monkey.
A pet monkey WIS sitting ia my grand