The evening world., 1903-01-06
Carpenter Nelson HumblyS Says
He Needs Rest When His Toll
Is Over and Cuts His Wife's
Income OFF Altogether.
NOW ALL WILL GO TO COURT.
Five Children and q Black Cat Be-
eide to Be Fed, and Motto "Love
One Another" Hangs Upon the
Wall.

upon the home Of Neils Nelson, No.
1856 Bergen street. Brooklyn, n the
black house cat sits with portentous
gloom upon the cheerless hearth and
gazes specifically at the hand-worked
motto Of Love One Another" over the
mantel.
Tho Nelson's are plain, unpretentaous
people: Neils IL not q roformer. nor u
his wife q member Of q women's club.
yet the two B~rooilynites have become
tmbued with he spirit OF marital un-
rest and are striving to solve O unique
domestic problem.
The ethical problem which Is disturb
ing the matrimonial felicity Of the
Nelson's strikes at the very roo OF
mans sphere in domestic
Man Tires Il Housework.
Mr.. Nelson. who is a carpenter. says
he ID also a long suffering husband;
that In addition to filling the family
exchequer and supplying the financial
oil to the household machinery. he has
been compelled to q h upon himself
the duties of a housewife. At It's
point he has at last rebelled.
The five little Nelson's, who ms as
Mrs. Nelson puts it, from twelve
years down." take sddes with their
mother. They like to zee father at
the wash nj or bending over the kit
chen stove.
The aggrieved husband says the black
cat. NAME. strange to say. is Thomas.
and who naturally takes q masculine
view point. is the one in the house who
shows any sympathy for him.
Il don't think It's q mans place to
work all day and come home at night
and cook. though Nv stood 1t for twelve
years." said Neils Nelson this morning.
1T is not a woman's place to cook Inc
slave for a man who refuses to give her
money! retorted Mrs. Nelson.
'Isn't It just the same as giving
one to pay the bills?'' asked the hus-
band.
Can a woman live without q penny in
the house2" demanded the wife. Can
buy thread and needles and machine oil
at the butchers? I say u woman should
not cook for a mar who will not give
her any money to run the house om Can
manded of an Evening World reporter.
FOR fifteen years I have lived with
tl...s Unan n have borne him eight chill
money nren: any wh hSw o %s ss q Expect Go eye os m ms
Do you think I will work for him
never! For twelve weeks I've lived off
of the charity of the neighbours. and have
nearly starved. My stomach IL almost
unable to retain food now I've beer
starved. Is 1t q wife's duty to slave for
a man who won't give her money!"
Wouldn't Cook His Meal.
Ever since we were married. put In
Neils Nelson in a meek n d~isconsoiate
voice. u have given all my earnings ex-
cept 50 to my wife every week. kept
1870 for car fare and gave the rest to
out my wife was too kind to my nephew.
S sjss N Mas soo mus mneb on top Tst Sr everything hing
her money. but let her run bills at the
butchers n bakers. Isn't that acting
fair7 What did she DO? She refused to
night. and would have to cook my din
ner. Then I'd Y TO make my bed. II
There was q button off my clothes I'd
too much Of any man. II a man Eoes
out and works. It's his wife's place to
take care of h house. / have always
gotten up in the morning, and cooked
Of doing a woman's work on top OF a
The black cat rubbed up against the
It's aye. The feline's opinion upon the
domestic turmoil shone forth from its
bright yellow eyes. Thomas has seen
and heard too much family pickering in
~ p0oh ~" ANtANh " hNAS Ill oA-
p%retudlced stand POI the question:
THAT man Is a crank" said Mrs. Nell
son with Juror, giving a swish OF her
never Treated ate 'a @e Kindly. though re
tried to be a good wife, and now he
brings these charges against me. He
has never had a kind word for me. and
give me and the children any money,
I thought IT was my right to refuse 20
cook for him. The children don't like
Ssm n aaif I s.v .ei ms as a they m sG me ri spd tr y
and support them myself"
Motto says Glove One Another"
tearfully at her husband. The little
carpenter looked sadly and disconso-
lately at his wife. Over their heads
aSo 3 sns but : w ne ea m SSserve ai0y X S Snnt1
the black cat.
III she would only be reasonable and
tend TO tine ~housework and cooking
but It's hard for a man to do his own
work and that OF q woman"
when he will give me money and lei
%s ns sos him. but not e%sfore.S ssid thss
The domestic troubles of the NedIsonl
a&ys e ;Ss S.,: ~SSss.asrs Nssiso excitement : rent
ponter. though, hAs wife says she ha,
ne idea where he works.
Il know when y-d comes and
that's the main point" she explained.
The nve little Nelson's stand with
open-eyed silence and regard the do,
mestic trouble without comment. Neil
son says ne Is to appear In the Gates
Avenue Court on Friday. when he hopes
his troubles will be settled.
Will Abide By Decision.
"If the Judge thinks I ought TO dc
housework and carpentering too / sup,
Dose Ill have TO stand for IL, hut
don't think any man can be expected
70 double up on his work like that"
Until Friday the Nelson Golfers arr
20 remain closed to the wife. Neils Is still
TO preside at the kitchen stove when hs
wishes to satisfy, his epicursan tastes.
cook it,' says Mrs. Ada Nelson, "'and
suppose the children and l can starry,
before he VIII, AXE a reasonable view
OF the matter"
Both husband md wife nave admitteC
themselves Incompetent TO deal with tn,
matrimonial prODiem. Nells maAntalnI
that II ne pays the grocers' n butch,