The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-01
NO BUTTER ON THE TOAST
Mrs. Gates Gives a Queer
Reason For Her Hus-
bands Desertion.

Mrs. Anna Gates, of Edgewater, N. J.,
ing, in Chancery Chambers, that one of
the causes of the trouble between her.
self and her husband, Herman was that
she was too ugly to make him buttered
toast and instead of putting the butter
on the bread she persisted in putting it
in the milk.
Cross-examine by Senator w. D. Daily,
who represents the husband, complain
ant in the suit for divorce, Mrs. Gates,
admitted that she pursued her husband
from place to place and some months ago
she followed him to Mr.. Dalys office,
from which she was ordered out, because
of the language she used. She denied
that she went daily to his office and
tried to run his business as superintend-
ent of the Oil Company. Witness took
a trip to Massachusetts and Asbury Park
and when she returned to Edgewater she
found that her husband had taken a fiat
and was living in it with his sister and
housekeeper, and the Gates homestead
was closed up.
why didn't you go to the fiat where
your husband was?' asked Mr.. DAILY.
Because my husband didn't want me,
said Mrs. Gates.
AT the back of the court room sat
portly, middle-aged woman, with glasses,
and wearing a jaunty hat on her head
She giggled and snickered during the tes-
timony. She was Mrs. briggs, a bosom
friend of Mrs. Gates. This annoyed Mr..
Daily, who turned to her and said:-
You will please leave the court room
unless you can behave yourself.
All right, sir, said Mrs. briggs, and
was marching out of the room with all
her sails set when Lawyer Simpson, coun-
sci for Mrs. Gates, objected to his wit
ness leaving the room, and the briggs
woman triumphantly resumed her seat
and her giggle.
Mrs. Gates testimony as to her repeated
trips from home and an evident confusion
of dates led the Vice Chancellor to take
a hand in Strengthening out the tangle
but with little success.
What was the cause of the trouble be-
tween you?" said the Vice Chancellor.
"Well he said 1 was so ugly that I
couldn't make toast well enough, and
that I put the butter in the milk instead
of on the bread" Qaughter)
That's al'' said the Vice Chancellor,
smiling.
"Well if we had company, and after
they left he would say l didn't take
enough notice of him. said Mrs Gates,
frowning at her husband, who sat a few
feet from her, beating the devils tattoo
on the witness desk and smiling blankly
at his wife.
81 want to find out the cause of separ-
~, How.
'Well-well--well--he didn't want to
love me, l believe replied the wife, and
her husband laughed which brought from
Mrs. Gates furious look.
Mrs Gates said that, with her husband,
she took a trip to Washington and Old
Point. Comfort, but it was a sort of con-
tinuous performance of scrap and furry,
nag and squabble, and suggested, as Mr..
Daily said, trip to Old Point Discomfort.
The journey was such a cheerful one that
at Washington they parted in the hotel
and he started home and she flew after
him. They occupied the same railroad
compartment, but didn't sit together nor
exchange word. He got out at Phila-
delphia and she went on.
why did he get OFF," asked Mr.. Daily.
II won't tell youn snapped the witness
ssYou oppose improper language in court
''Oh, you have scruples then, about US
ing bad language?" asked Mr.. DAILY
Eyes, sometimes. and so have you
haven't you?"
Mr. Daily tried to make Mrs Gates spe-
city time and date concerning the trip
and bad language, and had to give it up,
Vice Chancellor Stevens adding
'sThe witness Is hopelessly mixed up as
to dates (Amiable look from Mrs.
Gates.)
MADAM, you must endeavor to recall
these events because we are now ap-
preaching that step in the case which ex-
plains the act which caused the deser-
tion.'
Mrs. Gates couldn't recollect when she
made a scene on a steamboat. 1t might
be three years two years. six weeks,
four months. or century, so Tar as she
knew All she could say was that 1t was
her husbands fault and not hers. The
case is still progressing.