Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-06-18
A DIVORCE CASE.

| lnere was u man called BrOnCkDOrsG-a
three cornered, middle aged man in the
army, gray as badger, and, some people
said, with touch of country blood in
him. Tint, however, cannot be proved.
Mrs. Bronckhorst was not exactly young
though 5ycars younger than her husband.
She was large, pale, quiet woman, with
heavy eyelids, overweak eyes and hair
that turned red or yellow as the lights fell
on it.
Bronckhorst was not nice In any way.
He had no respect for the petty public and
private lies that make life little less
nasty than it is. His manner toward his
wife was coarse. There are many things,
including actual assault with the clinched
fist, that wife will endure, but seldom "a
wife can bear, as Mrs. Bronckhorst bore,
with long course Of brutal, hard chaff,
making light Of her weaknesses, her head
aches, her small fits of gayety, her dresser,
her queer little attempts to make herself
attractive to her husband when she knows
| that she is not what she has been, and,
worst OF all. the love that she spends ON
her children. That particular sort of
heavy handed jest was specially dear to
Bronckhorst.
l suppose that he had first slipped into
it, meaning no harm, in the honeymoon,
when folk find their ordinary stock of en-
dearments run short and so 90 to the
| other extren., to exDress their feelings A
similar iu,nuls, makes n man say ,tHutt
Won old beast " when a fayorite horse noz.
zIes his cont front Tnluckilv when the
reaction of u,nrringo sets in. the form of
speech remains, ard hetenderness having
died out, hurts the wife more than she
cares to say. But Mrs. Bronckhorst was
devoted to her Teddy AS she called him
Perhaps that was why he objected to her.
p.rbans-tbis il only a theory to account
for his Infamous behavior later op-he
| cave away ,o tbonueer SAVAGE feeling that
sometimes t,,.,,,s Inv the thrnat a husband
90 wears married when he Sees across the
tahlp thu =sa,,e s,,nn face of his yedled
wifi and .no,,. Than az he has sat facinp
il so mn.+ ne cnntinue To sit until the dav
of ts d,atb or his own Most men and
all women know the snasm II only lasts
for tbrea br.atbs a. a rple must ne n
"tLroW back" 70 Times when men and
women we're rather worse tbon they are
now and i. TOO unu1easant TO be discussed
DINNER ut rho Bronckbnrsts, was an i'm
nic,io, flow MON c,rnd To undergo
RrnnclI,r.t ,oul a Measure in SAVING
,bin.s ,l-,t mad. his wife vince when
| their little hoy came i'm mt dessert Bronck-
horst u,rd to rive him half a glass of wine.
and naturally euourb the poor little mite
yot FIRST riutous ueyt miserable and WAS
removed screaming. Bronckhorst asked
~ ~ $50
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