The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-08-03

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''the Masses could not understand it
in a thousand years. We say "her" pref
ace. The novel is published anonymous
". But we think the writer is a woman
from the aesthetic and extremely minute
descriptions of a lady's wardrobe to be
found in it. Nothing is omitted. And
the reason the ''masses" could not I'M
derstand this sizzling hot love story is
probably because its heroine takes away
another woman's husband and justifies
it on the score of her great gulping love
for him. That love nowl 1t is a 80 horse
power, II, 900 candle, quadruple expan-
sion affair. A little thing like a mans
having q wife and two children already,
with whom hitherto he has always lived
happily, does not stand in the way of
this Yosemite cataract of a love for
one single instant. Not much! Queer,
too, but it's exactly that kind of love
the married man and the girl who isn't
his wife always cherish for each other.
Inc luSDtuu III tuis siIZiiiS hoNSi ~
mismated, of course. 1t is strange, but
somehow he always is. He had been
inveigled i'll his green youth, in spite OF
the fact that he seems to have knocked
about the world considerably, by a wo-
man older than himself, entrapped,
bamboozled and ensnared. But being
older than he was not the wife's only
sin. She had worked for her living be-
fore she married him. 1t is true that
the girl the husband fell in love with
was doing that very thing when she
first met him and the great gulping
love took possession of both, but this
does not count. His new girl had a
''haughty head covered with short au-
burn curls, while the hair of the mis-
erable creature who had married him
was actually coarse. But the wife's
worst crime against her husband has yet
to be told. She never rubbed his hairl
Let wives whose husbands find their
soldering soul afiinities i'll young ladies
with naughty heads make a note of it.
They love at first sight-the husband
and the pretty girl. He takes her for a
carriage drive, and ''in a paroxysm of in
tensest emotion he kisses her. 1t most
ly happens that way. Thus the electric
spark jumped from the trolley wire into
the universal astral atmosphere, and
equilibrium was restored.
After that for a good while the siz-
cling lovers enjoyed themselves ip their
own way, and she rubbed his hair right
along. Time went on. AT last, i'll star
red day, the woman, who was older than
hold of a love letter the other girl had
written to the husband. 1t was of a
temperature of about 2, 800 F. Not be-
ing fine haired like her rival, the wife
naturally inquired into matters. She
desired to see her rival. In a scene OF
very high tragedy, which has a tendency
to make one of 1.-THE masses" who reads
it smile a broad grin, the meeting be-
tween the two females, the fine haired
and the coarse haired, is depicted. The
exquisite feminine spite with which the
girl speaks of the wife as THAT WON.
an will not be lost on the reader OF
this redhot tale.
The fine haired one, who evidently
tells the story, looks on the wife as q
monster Of cruelty and injustice because
she will not then and there forgive
both, say bless ye, my children, and lei
her husband go along with his affinity,
thus a~toning for the deadly wrong she
did the girl by marrying this masculine
passional attraction when she did no
know the girl was in existence. But tn,
coarse haired monster would not Civ,
up the man, at least not yet. Then there
came a sea of troubles and a will
sloshing about for both. The girl begged
her affinity to give mp his wife, throw
over his position as a great American
statesman and run away with her, al
for love. Naturally a great American
married statesman, however dead il
love with the wrong girl he may be
would hesitate before doing that.
The girl feels bad because he will no
give up ''all for love-" very bad indeed
Another mar falls in love with her, al
oldish philosopher who evidently has IL
passional attraction for the young WON
an, but is just thrown in to fill up, s.
to speak, and to show what an irresisti
BILE creature the girl is. But her hear
turns to the other fellow still. At lengtl
the cruel coarse haired wife relents an,
gives up her husband to her rival. 1t i
the most sensible thing anybody in tn
book does. The soul affinities are MAJ
ried. But we will bet a box of bonbon
against a bottle of ink that that husban,
will find still another affinity before h
is done with it.
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for the month of July. owing to in