The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-04
THEIR WIVES
CAUGHT Them.
Rockaway Beach Fishing Party
Was Interrupted.
MRS. HOWARD'S CLUBS WORK.
She Used Il With Effect Until Her
Fleeing Husband 0utran Hf.
THEN SHE SAT DOWN AND HAD A CRY
II She Had Been In Bathing Costume She
Could Have Kept Up With fIlrtatIous
Husband for Miles,
THEN SHE SAT DOWN AND HAD A CRY

New York Aug. i.-Rockaway Beach
husbands who are inclined to fiirt or go
astray have just received a beautiful OBJ
ject lesson inflicted by Mrs. Morrison
by a Mrs. Howard and a Mrs. Morrison
at that resort upon their erring spouses.
Mrs. Morrison is the wife of the pro-
prietor OF Morrison's Casino, at Rocka-
way, and Mrs. Howard is known on the
stage as Miss Emerson, of the sketch
team OF Howard and Emerson, owners
of the vaudeville and burlesque shNv
travelling under the name of "A New
York Girl" company.
The Howards and the Morrisons are
very warm friends, and visit each other
for weeks at time when the Howards
are not out with their Company.
Among other burlesque performers who
are this week at Rockaway are Rose
Carlton and her sister, billed as the Carl.
ton sisters.
Rose Carlton and Howard have been
very good friends for several years. and
IL is supposed that the latter introduced
the sister to his old college chum,"
Morrison.
BE that as it may, Morrison. on the
plea OF having a whole lot of business to
attend to on Thursday morning, induced
his wife TO come to the city to buy a
new lot of beer glasses for his Casino.
THOUGHT SHE HAD GONE.
Mrs. Morrison started away <utifully
enough, but whether she suddenly be-
came suspicious. or whether she returned
TO her husbands place OF business for
more explicit instructions as to the size
and quality of the glasses she was to
purchase. Is not known.
At any rate when she got near the Ca
sino, she heard the voices of her husband
and Mr.. Howard intermingled with
staccato laughs that evidently belonged
to two extremely hilarious and frivolous
persons of the opposite sex.
One peep was enough for her. She saw
her husband and Howard drinking beer
with the Carlton sisters Smothering her
anger as best she could for the time she
ran to the cottage and called Mrs. How
ard.
They got back to the Casino just in
time. for Morrison. Howard and the
Carlton girls were starting for a boat on
little four-handed fishing trip.
They had several dozen bottles of beer
packed I'm cracked ice and lot of crab
meat and other sea food 10 take along
for their outing.
HOWARD'S HASTY FLIGHT.
Howard was first OF the quartet TO see
the approach of the angry wives. lie is
pretty well acquainted with Mrs. How
ard after eight or ten years OF married
life, and he knew that his only chance
for safety lay in precpitous flight.
He sprinted and beat his wife for the
sandy beach by length. because she
stopped to pick up a heavy club.
She managed to get I'm one or two fairly
healthy blows which made her husband
let out few agonizing yelps before he
gathered more steam for long run up
the beach
Weighed with her skirts and heavy
club Mrs. Howard gradually fell behind
until the husband got out OF sight Then
she sat down and had good cry TO re-
lieve her feelings.
If she had taken the precaution to come
upon the party in bathing costume and "A
light switch she could no doubt have kept
up with her firtatious husband for a
couple OF miles and given him a welt
with every jump.
But II was n beautiful race while II
lasted. and vas enjoyed by those who
were fortunate enough TO be on the beach
at the time.
HOW MORRISON FARED
While Howard was sprinting out OF
harms way Morrison was getting about
everything coming to him from his wife.
Mrs. Morrison got one hand clinched on
his right ear and buried the other with a
firm grip in the hair on top of his head
The Vows" he let out could have been
heard over on the Atlantic Highlands.
The wife shook him up and slammed
his head against few tables TO beat IL
into his mind that there are certain paths
In which the husbands of certain women
arc expected TO walk without deviation.
When she got tired humping her hus-
band Mrs. Morrison looked around for
the Carlton sisters. probably thinking
ltssN
not be wasted In their direction.
But the Carlton girls are wise. At the
first sign OF hostilities they trekked with
speed and manifest purpose to the tall
timber or any place where they could
conceal themselves from the eyes OF two
of tho angriest women who have been
seen In Rockaway this season