The San Francisco call., 1898-04-19
Settlement of the Famous San Rafael Divorce Suit Not
 Yet in Sight.
Wife of the "Aff1uent Pauper'' Unable to Pro- Ceed Until He Is Made to Ad- vance Money to Defray
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the defendant Is not destitute of means"
 But where is Colonel Finiean's eso- teric Klondike? Attorneys have sought in vain, though encouraged by the ad- vice of the court, by the necessities or the situation, by the inspiring | thought that to compel a man to pay his wife's counsel fees is the sweetest Kind of revenge: a combination of in- suit and injury beside which the old school teachers sending the bad boy doWn to the river to cut willow switches Tor his own reinstatement sinks into in significance
 Unless the good fairy of compromise comes 10 cut this matrimonial Gordian knot-and the very vigor with which this solution is secuted makes one hone TOT Its ultimate adoption-a new cen tury Will be born, whose round aS- tonlshed eyes will behold the quasi inn prlsonment for various terms of con- tumaclous Colonel Finigan, by a liberal Hllhded Ja1ler, the never-e ending pleas or poverty, and perpetual motion solved by the coniugal ianeIing of the flhigan endless chain. That is, if Col onel F1nigan and Mrs. Finigan's just wrath endure that long.
 III the meantime defendant is serene ana very comfortable at the Hotel Ra1ael. There he and his daughters i've, While son of 15 has all the ad- Vantages, educational and otherwise. that the son of pauper who used to De worth a quarter of a million should nave. On the hotel books the queerest items are charged up to Colonel Fini- gan eNer-lncreaSing account If Miss F1nlgan or either of her younger sis ters require drugs or clothes or books. these things are paid for by the hotel management and charged up. There
 
 Cash, $5; Cash, $10"; which betray to the world that exceedingly charita- ble spirit which animates the soul of thlS marvel of hotel keepers whose trust in poverty-stricken Colonel Fini- gan is so complete that besides board bills and rent for handsome apartments he assumes the entire burden of min lstering to the Finigan family's wants
 They harp upon the colonels living at the Hotel Rafael" said a friend of his across the bay. They insist that it hurts his case
 Why doesn't he leave them"
 Why? For the simplest reason. He couldn't live anywhere else A man like Warf1eld, who's rich, can afford to who kept the kind of lodging house people would like to see Colonel Fini- gan live in would have to be paid monthly. And the colonel hasn't the money"
 Which is funny and ought to be recommended to all paupers-those who have been worth a quarter of a million and those who haven't. If you're needy if you haven't a nickel to bless your self-and your suing wife-with, learn the lesson that the Finigan philosophy breaches. Avoid second-class lodging houses. You would only inf1ict your misery upon those who themselves are comparatively needy. Seek boldly the finest, the swellest inn in all the coun- tryside and trust to Providence to re- ward your solicitude for the misfor- tunes of others-as 1t has Colonel Fini- gan's-by raising up a Warfield for you; a Warfeld who'll clothe you, shell ter you, nurse you. wine you, dine you and all your family, out of pure big ness of heart, for the sheer, simple joy of sweet charity.
 MIRIAM MICHELSON.