The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

course. he considers your fault. l think
with pleasure of the fault-hnding mans
hereafter. He will be married, II there Is
such thing as marriage In nell, TO new
Woman. who will treat him as he did his
wife and then he will know the rather
doubtful pleasure of continual mental ana
ply sical pin-pricks.
Usually the fault-findlng man comoiiies
another vice with his chief one, and that
vice is the abominatlon of desolatlon.-
stinginess. He is not at all inclined TO De
stingy with himself but he wants TO
know what becomes of every cent wnlcn is
spent by his wife. The fact that she is MS
wife and has an absolute right to certain
part of his income never seems TO Dawn
on him, and nothing gives him greater
pleasure than to discuss with two or three
of his cronies the extravaganza OF tne
woman who bears his name. II she looks
shabby he blames not himself, but her.
He doesn't know and doesn't care how the
little bit of money which he gives her Is
so we'll managed that he always has a
good breakfast and good dinner, whlie
she and the children have starvation
luncheon. If he happens to take her out
he SCOTS at her quiet black frock, never
dreaming that it has gone through all the
economical possibilities that only come
when a woman hasn't much money and
must freshen her old frOck. The cents
worth of soap bark to wash it. the as
sistance of little dressmaker whose value
lies in her cheapness, the careful arrange
ment of the ribbon bows here and trim
ming there, concealing a bad place, are,
to you and me, pitiful, but to the stlngy
man it is all 10 more than his wife ought
to do. He is as stingy with his love and
his pleasant words as he is with his
money, and, although, before he was mar
ried, he used to make most ardent VOWS OF
love, love that was to last till death and
after, he doesn't think it necessary, nova
days, to even express his appreciation of
the way the woman he has married tries
to cater to nis wishes.
He is apt, in addition, to be suspicious.
Stlnglness and suspicion are close kin, and
usually go hand in hand. He questions
the children as to their mother having
seen anybody during the day; he manages
to drop into the kitchen, and, by being
that Mrs. Dash might have been more
economical If she tried. He knows some
jolly good fellows and is forced to think
that when their wives call upon his wife
they must discuss him and compare him
to them to his disadvantage. He forgets
entirely that he is married to a woman
and when one says woman one usually
means something that has all the faith
fulness of a dog without his occasional
lapse into bad temper. and, as a natural
sequence, bite. If the mother of his
wife visits her he is never quite sure that
the days would pass by so quickly unless
his vices were under discussion, and if his
own mother happens to be to the fore he
feels sure that she tells his wife what he
used to be and that they both sigh over
what he is now. Oddly enough in his
heart of hearts is a positive contempt for
himself, for he knows that he is a cad.
One or two thrashings week might, per-
haps, make man of him, but doubt it.
When fauit-tinding and suspicion control
the heart of man he is about as near
degradation as any human being can be.
She asked me another questionable this
little woman who wrote the charming let
ter. She said, "Do you believe in divorce?"
| wish | knew how to say mo" so loudly
woman who had ever thought of it and
convince them that one of these wonder
full new guns was near her and that she
was struck by one of the five hundred
shots that they sent out every minute.
Sometimes between two married people
things reach such point that it is wiser
for them to separate-to live apart and 10
lead lives that give no scandal. But the
divorce-oh, mol Once woman is d-
vorced from one man and marries another
she becomes demoralized and fails to see
why she may not continue the divorcing
and the remarrying as long as she
pleases. She forgets that the day will
come when the only bloom on her cheeks
is an artificial one; when the beautiful
hair is false; when the eyes have lost their
glow and she is tired of life. What will