The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-10-31

I IAI pilt yes Nuppoo' Sos bts
land this may be the way
fate takes TO even things
up-there are cases in which
man, the individual, gets far the worst
OF IL as compared to woman. l am
! bound TO say that the individual man
who thus pays up fate for the short
comings OF mis- sex I'm nine cases out OF
ten is married The bachelor hardly
ever does pay.
There was Wibling. who defauited.
Wibing was manager of a great COM
mercial house. He was the most trust
ed. most respected man in the business;
had been with the firm twenty years
when they found that Wibling had stol-
en- $4,000 from the house. $4,000 for
each year nc had been employed. The
partners were themselves the last 10
believe &C. Forced 10 do so. they set
tied down TO the conclusion that IL
must have been the innate depravity Of
human nature that made him steal and
that no man is honest. Wibling had
never played the races or gambled in
any FORM. He was temperance itself
He dressed plainly almost shabbily,
stayed home evenings and went TO bed
early Wibling had everything TO keep
him i'm the middle OF the road, they
said-the most charming wife, the hap
piest home. nosts OF friends. Yet today
Wibling h wearing stripes behind bars.
This is the reason: His charming wife
refused 10 live i'm the style of s.. 900 a
year. but insisted on ''splurging' at the
rate of $4,000 a year. When tucked
chiffon hats came in, requiring new
one every two weeks to keep them fresh
looking. Mrs. Wibling was conspicuous
for her perfect millinery. When pug
dogs went out and fox terriers and toy
Pomeranians came in, Mrs. Wibling had
not only fox and toy Pom. but also
a blue Devonshire terrier, little rat OF
creature over which her lady friends
went into ecstasies. The three togeth-
er with their keep, their bells blankets
and ribbons and taking them TO dog
shows cost third of Wibling's annual
wage. Wibling could deny his wife
nothing. He was proud of her beauty
he was fond of her, he would have coin
ed his hearts blood TO maintain her in
the style of wives whose husbands had
three times as much money as he. Be
sides. il he had not done so sweet Mrs
w. would have made the house too
hot TO hold him. He knew IL, though
the world did not, and when he fell
that is TO say, when the world found
out he had fallen-all the world unan-
imously began to pity his poor. sweet
wife. Wihling tripped because of his
wife's extravaganza and vulgar social
ambition
Many a time the faults Of wife re-
suit i'm the defaulting of her husband
There Is Skopley. Skopley is an art
list. Years ago, say twenty. he started
out 10 embody in material form the
fairest, brightest dream that ever lured
gifted young soul upward. He saw
in America and i'm himself possibilities
of artistic development equal TO. though
different from. that even of the olden
isles of Greece. His spirit burned with
in him and leaped forward beyond him
10 realize his splendid dream.
Well, Skopley saw one day a plump, |
lively girl with large eyes, waving hair |
and a white angel hand He promptly |
fell in love with her. Result, marriage
very early. a large family TO provide |
for before he reached his prime an un- |
stable. torturing- nervous system, a
man struggling under debt and disap
pointment with little happiness in the |
present and less hope for IL i'm the fu-
ture The flying Pegasus is harnessed |
TO a plow. Skopley makes advertising |
pictures. He has never made so much 1
as a sketch that realized any of his I
ideals. lie does drawings and takes /
them TO tobacco houses. brewing firms I
and fancy soap factories on approval |
Herein people who use soap and tobac- I
co get, the benefit of really artistic I
work on advertising labels, but Skop- |
ley. poor Skopley. is light that has I
done worse than fail. 1t flickers feebly. I
but goes not quite out.
Skopley's productions are very un-
even. Sometimes they are brilliant T.
and lis artist friends say. Look what
Skopley can do when he triesi" Again, 1
Of something he has done, in the Ian 1
suage which they understand, they say: I
Look at that, It's rotten, Skopley's
got one of his lazy fits on" The truth 1
Is Skopley never had a lazy fit In his
life. Since he married the plump. live /
~ girl existence TO him has been a I
yrrrd Uf work TTs- SKopTeyTS View of 7
is that II is a husbands
iuty to give his wife everything in life
hat she wants, and not only that, but
she wants for her children