Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-08
NEW YORK GOSSIP
Left-at-Home Husbands and
Their Ways.
BUTHISTURN COMES, TOO
MIR. SCHWAB HAS THE MONEY,
BUT NO HEALTH.
Gothamites Have Peculiar Not1ohs
About the Dog-Muzzling
Law.
BUTHISTURN COMES, TOO

stance New York husbands, almost as
unit have taken during the last two years
to sending their wives and families OUT VI
town, to the multitudinous resorts 1or TIC
summer, and remaining at nome 'hei
selves Never before has New YORK peeh
the abode of so many voluntary grass wiz
overs as it has been during the present
summer. The town is cluttered with eiii'
They're everywhere-on the roof earoeils'
at the nearby beaches and race TRACKS,
swinging along the circuitous paths or
Coneys Isle. swapping the city ana pam
restaurants, overfiowing the lounging
rooms and verandas of the road houses
even patrolng the great white lane
called Broadway. The voluntary grass
widower of New York is so easily disun-
guished. too, despite his elaborate efforts 10
make himself appear like one OF the great
unfettered and untrammeled! II you pos.
sess so much as one-haf an eye, you Can
see that his newly resumed )auntlness' as
of the mad glad sad, bad bachelor, Is the
veriest clumsy bluff, that his rogueishness
of manner Is just phony ol me iei
thing that his occasionally unnatural hilar-
ity is thing put on out OF spirit Oh rem
lessness born of the knowledge that 1t can
only last little while longer and that the
vein had better be worked 10 the emu VI
the tension before-well, before the iolks
come home. The illustrations IN the funny
papers of the summer widower valnly pat
ting around endeavoring to make hlmseh
imagine he is having a hot time IN the ap-
sence of his Wife have good deai more
truth in them than most of the alleged
comic pictures of the day possess. Inc
manner of the voluntary grass widoWer mas
in it a sort of rabid protestauon that ne
is having the time of his life, and the end
is that he protests too much and enables
you to see through him too easily.
Make Good Husbands.
1a,1x- n
the credit of the typical New York man
that can be said 1t is that he is nearly
always II first-rate husband, despite very
general and a very erroneous impression to
the contrary The New York man takes
his wife to about every place that he him
self goes toto many places, indeed, that he
hadn't oughter'' take her. He is per-
petually telegraphing to his wife to meet
him down town and take dinner with MIN
after office hours, and then the theater to
follow. He is giving her good time all
the time. He sends her candy and Vlole,s
with the same liberahty with which ne
bestowed these things upon her during Tn:
DAYS of courtship. If he permits himself
to lapse into infrequent tndiscreuons ne
never allows himself to lose sight OF the
living fact that his wife Is always ana
invariably No. l. 1t is the simple fact, ano
In simple justice 1t must be recorded that
the average New Yorker spends more OIL
his time blowing Off his wife than, yer
haps, the average husband In any otnel
American city. and he rarely perIits tile
domestic game to fatten OUT or his VIE
to feel that she has degenerated into ihe
unenviable situation OF the householo
drudge.
Where. then Is the method in the mad
ness of the typical New Yorker who adrolt
~ contrives to send his wife out OF towr
for the summer, while he himself remains
behind and SINNERS and SteWS IN Ut.
great blistering city? Well, in the nrst
place it gives him the chance to gain thai
'uberty' for which all married men, nc
matter how fond they may be OF thelI
wives. occasionally pine. and even knowing
as most of them do, that when they DO se'
that liberty 1t will be lonesome anC
grisly thing not worth the having. Aftel
the long autumn and winter ana spring II
close and constant contact, the fellow De-
gins to experience the banker for anothe;
whizz of that liberty" the chance 10 try
1t Just once again, even If he has the 1eei'
ing deep down in his bosom that II VII
again prove to be no go, as 1t has always
proved before. And at the very outset
when he is sending his wife away, he knows
that when the separation for the summer Il
all over and she returns he will be whole
lot happier man and extract more acute
enjoyment of his domestic life than woule
be possible were he to remain with his WIG
all during the warm weather
Poses as Martyr.
Then. again IT ena bles him to pose most
heroically in his wife's view-and most
married men enjoy doing that tremendous
", His wife's letters are filled with SYM
pathy for the dear. good unselfsh old
thing who, on account of business, re-
mains cooped up in the hot old city, and
when the voluntary grass widower reads
these things he has a chance to swell up
and pat himself on the midr.f and declare
unto himself. "Well, l guess l am pretty
decent sort of a proposition, at that, and
b lee It takes an appreciative woman Ike
wifi n give the credit that's coming
to a square man" He is thus enabled to
develop quite a cute and cunnin feeling OF
martyrdom. and can sit at the rustic table
in the park and sip his highball and get
himself into a delightful glow of self-appre-
citation. He knows, too, the foxy one, that
when the summer is over and his wife has
returned. and the inevitable little domestic
EcrapS take place, he will only have to
bestow a reproa chful. wounded-antelope
you-wrong me-Pearlne expression upon her
and then his wife will Immediately col
lapse and capitulate-"Di the good old
thing let me spend glorious summer down
at the beach last summer while he himself
shaved like dog in the city?' And We
guess maybe the average married man.
wherever he may abide doesn't keenly en-
Joy working a little edge like this his
wife! He knows that 1t Is bound to serve
sort of dam to any little reproaches
which might otherwise be coming to him
on account of occasional bad nights at poker,
or losings-out at the racetrack or even
few-and-f far between lapses into RUNNER
iferousness. He's always got 1t as a sort
of domestic hold-out. and what rafting
convenient things domestic hold-outs are
on side the other,
Finally, the man who unseIfishly permits
the wife and family to spend the summer
out of town can always get away himself
later on when he feels "trippy" If, along
in December or January or February the
hectic flush mounts to his cheeks and the
desire suffuses his system to Jump the
reservation and make a little war medicine +"
1t is the easiest thing IN life for him to put
on a tired. worn-out look for n couple of
days. and to hint around that his nerves
seem to be getting away from him and
then IT is up to the wife, who has had the
fine summer of II to come right out and
suggest that he'd better take a couple OF
weeks shooting down on the Chesapeake.
or ride down the coast to Florida the
boat. or joggle down to take look at what
they're doing In Washington. When, In
her grateful ardor. she absolutely insists
upon it-well. he consents. At the end OF
about a week, he usually returns home
from his trip, pallid and "all in" the whrl
all over, and then he has the opportunity
to exude the southerly zephyr that he has
missed her so acutely that he couldn't poss-
ible remain away any longer, and she be-
Ieves it-maybe.
In the meantime, what do the wives
themselves think of this thing of being