Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-29

court her supreme plum tree. respon.
sive to her gallant shake She notes
with complacency that Gods appointed
estate of husband has little considera.
tion, opinion, or authority in the eyes
Of our courts. American law is rancid
with the spirit Of false gallantry.
which would leave wives no duties or
penalties, and husbands no rights or
safeguards. Alimony-alimony with
out benefit Of iury-alimony, seizing
money without stipulating the sufferer
to be rendered, or at least offered some
degree Of equivalent-is the anarchy
of matrimony And that we have any
security any homes at all, is through
the praisewOrthy conservatism Of re-
spectacle women themselves, who ig
more the alimony temptation"
The Lieutenant here cut a caper, and
after having sang
When | was young I served a term
AS apprentice clerk to an attorneys
firm.
| busted the books and swept the floor,
And polished up the handle Of the big
front door
polished up that handle so indus
triously
That now am the freak Of the whole
nayee."
He loaded his starboard guns, and
bringing his broadside to bear on
the piratiCal craft referred to as the
prizes tender, let 90 with this effect.
Hear him!
"The siren sang: Sing, hey, the
merry maiden and the tar She acted
propriety tin the day November Sd
last) she found herself safely married
Then she tossed mask one way and
harp the other, and began. cutting up
the shines Of the pagan goddesses A
man marrying i'm Canada is not peace.
ably allowed to get away with only one
of those girls. The first or sole brides
maid is eX-oficio privileged to force
herself along as a brevet wife, and GU
riOusly enough, with the brides ac-
cord. OF course, Canada means we'll
wants its bridegrooms to get good
measure; but defendant thought this
reported custom of the country Joke
He soon experienced, however, that the
Canadian institution of brevet wife
was earnest. They insisted on being
inseparable, duplicates at all times and
doings. They sat down on my lap to-
gether, one on each knee. Their ulti-
matum was both or none. Everything
since has flowed from this dilemma.
Keeping both I would not have had
this misery, but morality lost me both.
They wantonly ran away January
last, tempted by their attorneys assur-
ance Of alimony. all the same, how
ever badly they cut up; and that as
corporations have no souls. so courts
have no morals, which advice suited
the fair clients exactly. But when her
Church of England clergyman father
heard alimony had broken up the mar
riage so fervently performed, he re-
called to Canada his daughter the |
brevet, and the wife remained here to |
work the court for alimOny. And with |
short intervals-futile reconciliation
has been working It ever since. And .
this court can never get rid Of her till |
her husband first succeeds in doing So
He hopes he will not be thought sport |
i've in calling for the prayers of every
body, as any man, cOntending with a
woman well needs to.
This woman demands-she always
demands dost want the earth sort
Of a woman needs a spanish matador
for a husband, an expert dodger, de-
mands she take advantage, avail her.
self Of her own wrongdoing; thus out
raging the vital legal maxim, she de-
iantly says her own wrongdoing never
yet stopped her I'm anything, and never
shall"
While the lieutenant's syntax is
little mixed the meaning is plain
enough. He has enlisted for the war
md will see the thing through with the
ady whose name figures (like the
Princess Amanda out at Lincoln Park)
N Burkes Peerage; the lieutenant will
)nly surrender when boarded by the
OF the District Of Columbia
md compelled to surrender horse, foot
md dragons.