The times., 1897-09-19
THE THEATRICAL HUSBAND.

set Oui a lfgN OF zoo q cigars You re going
inside. | hope. to see the show?
Wei. ] think youn enjoy it, and, 10y the
way, hen you're writing your notice
don't forget tc run in a pleasant little line
atent tic u:adBm, and if you wantanything
that we can do for you, box for the
folks stG the Wednesday matinee Our sat
urdays are running pretty full-why' Just
let me know, and III sec that you're
fixed an righ-.
On, she comes or about half past ten
That's her name on the progam, Sonora
Tapiocs, the worlds greatest slack-wire
performer.
No, that's not the same name nay wife
played under hen You knew US ten years
ago. It's not the same wife, either
What became of the other? The Lord
knows, ard don't care. All hope is IN
never see her again. Rut this Tapioca is
very different proposition from that other
fagot, can tell yon. AS perfect a little
lady as you ever saw in your life. Never
gets fan. never makes no bad breaks, no
profane language, 40 cGttin' up of any kind;
not even at home. Some evening I'dlike TO
take you back and Introduce you 10 her, and
wen haye a bite OF bird and a cold bottle
together Then youil say that you never
met a more elegant little lady IA all your
life, and tie best of it is she's making her
little two hundred ana fifty per With that
new Iigb-wire act of hers.
on, yes, tie other sang in grand opera,
and, what s more, she used to do some sing
ing al home that WASH quite so pIeasan ia ;
what she Goneon the stage. When think
or all that I had TO put up with when 1
lived with that woman, I IN ready 70 kick
myself for wasting the best years of my
life on her And yet, when I married her,
our prospects, were as bright a any young
couple could wish 20 have. She was get
ting l4g money, pretty near half what the
managers gave cut she was getting, and for
a ttne we were just as happy as Two turtle
doves. suppose We must have been ta1iu'
in about q thousand a week, On an naYeraee,
;turiuE tie twenty-five or thirty weeks Of
the year, and il III hadn't been for her in
ferEM Jealousy, the snap would have lasted
right along until now. But she spoiled
everything iust when we were beginning 10
lay 10y money.
How cid II happen? How does eTsry-
thing happen that's got woman iI.Jo {?
Jealousy, ana nothing else. Ny GaYvd!
1t maSes Ee sick to think OF it. George,
give.us ibe same over again. You Sse, ,ne
got 5eal3ns Of little Italian girl tuat was
IN the company, and one salary day .ai1
III step cut from tie hotel over 20 the
opera house and collect the money 1
never leJ her risk her health doing things
like tHat when I could do them for Ter,
even If I did get my feet vet, as I did
th8t dag when Il was pouring rIin- - wet
that J stopped into that little Italian HaCa-
r0ui -oiuU after coming from the theater,
JUS ito let my clothes dry and have a glass
Of something To keep the cold ont. The
little ItaLian chorus girl " as a-Settiu there
eatin her lunch, and when she seen Uie
She called out feI me % take a sat AT
her table, and we got 10 d.inkin wine
and cbatHn' and one thing and another al
IL got - be pretty well along toward :
O'Clock aud I thought we Right Just as
well have dinner there and Ia 70 home
later, as there " as 10 performance t.lat
night. So, after dinner, II was raining
pitclforSs and / called q cab u take the
girl home, and, selp me God. 1 llad no
more thought ol doing anything out OF the
way thau 1 have this minute bat thai
jealous wife us mine bad been baTkin uI
different trees for some time and Lad gCl
onto this Italian without me KNOWN it
All tile time we Nasdinin she was standing
IN a doorway opposite, pipin' Us both Off
ard when we come out 70 gitinUo the cat
she made one clean jnmplle panthercat
aud tie Lord only knows what followed
1 sec ber two eyes blazln in the dark and
lii ont, I can tell ye, but the way shC
claw ed tlat poor girl > face ana neck wa,
something fearful
No, she Couldn't get no divorce on takin
ar n lar
stood out so long in tie rain that she tool
cold and it settled on her lungs, and tEougl
] spent pretty near an the money she,
.1u d5cUr's bills, "a v couldn't do moth
ingforL rLcr. Sheneyer coald earn the none,
she made before, a3G, as am accustomed
to living like gentleman, We had TO part
NJ. Gapiora ana l didn't meet TIL las
Writer. There was two in between hel
and the other.
Who Werv thcy2 Well the first was F sc
hollis
Yes, that's her Irene EyebaIls, tile emo
tionaI actress: and if she hadn't been to,
duIned emotional we would have got OF
bettcs. Er.otional acting is all right OF
the stag. said 1, tut I don't want none n
it with my dinner or breakfast, and sc
EyebaIls was all righUup 10 a certain point
today If she had anyone to handle her
woman with a big draft. But she'd ha6
tive husbands, before / run up against her
ard l found that she want so allfireC
tustIng as 4 woman ought To be. In fact
she was ON TO pretty near any racket thai
could be put up, and the worst OF ii wa
Sue kept such Tight hold on the string
of The money bag tnat pretty so0E il seemed
TO me life want hardly worth living
Tgued with her and retnon nstrated, but She
kept goin on from bad TO worse, unit
one day ! told her thas she owed it to her
self 10 see that had money in IL pocket Il
snend, and then she told me to go out ant
earn il fuyself-after all I'd done for he
and I Ioob her al her word.
The neyt was wealthy societyIady tha
had been in amateur theatricalS, an,
wanted 20 appear OF the stage 1 begal
with tier as her manager and ended wit
her Us her husband. for she had nealry 80
900 COLD plunSs ia the bag, and l though
with ray business experience we ough
to make that last good while knew tha
thelonEer Kept her of the stage the Ionge
5he money would iold out and 80 ] kep
tciliu' her not 10 appear until she was sur
or maxim a success; but finally size kicke
up sucn a dust that I had TO let her act
Just TO give the public a chance OF KNOWN
as well IS l did what blamed fool sh,
was
Did she come out here? IN Juliet -sh
was forty-seven tae day married her
and such a roasunga as she got in the paper
the next day never did see. Even fel
sorry for her when found her lyin' on tn
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