The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-18
ZWEI BIER His SOLE CAROUSE
WHILE HIS WIFES TOES TWIN
KILLED. AT ANOTHER MANS HAT.

Mrs. HUNS Demand for $50 a Week All.
mony Draws Forth Catalogue Of the
Alleged Grievances Of Her Tailor, Who
Loves Her sim, Despite Cold Dinners
'The only real trouble between me aud
my wife, says Jacob Blum, tailor in West
l25th street, In reply to Mrs. Blum's charges
Of cruelty and desertion, sis that she would
not bother to give me decent meals when
got home late after hard days work.
Gold sausages or delicatessen meats were
good enough for me In her opinion.
didn't think 30 and used to tell her 80. Be-
sides, she didn't behave when away from
home In q manner betting a good woman,
wife or mother
Mrs. Blum, who married the tailor on
June II, 1900, wants a separation with ali
mony. She complains that her husband,
though refusing to take her to the theatre
or other places OF amusement or allowing
her to 20 away for the summer, spent large
sums drinking and carousing, rarely COM
ing home before midnight. Best des, she
saya, he abused her continually and wound
up by Offering her 5000 If abe would con-
sent to divorce
Blum denies all these allegations. He
says that, far from having no summer
vacations, his wife went away for four
weeks within a month of their marriage
and did not appear to be very enthusiastic
when he ran down to see her from Satur-
day to Monday He says that his business
oompels him to stay at his store from early
morning until late at night, save for an
hour at noon for lunch. But when he got
home, after o, his wife was generally out,
and there was nothing to eat but cold
victuals.
I, latr al ha hn llaI
him "a coward, born of pig family. Any
way she would tell him, anything Is
good enough for Hungarian II he
didn't like it, he knew what he could do.
urday nights, when he supped at some
restaurant near the shop. "Carousing'
exclaims Blum. AL ever spent oarousing
was about As cents for my lunch or supper
Concerning his wife's summers, Blum
goes into details. In 1900, their marriage
year she spent month at Bath Beach;
In 1901, Eve weeks at Rockaway, where,
he says she told him that he was disg race
to her and she wished he would stay at
home. The following year she went to
Spring Valley for six weeks. He went
up one Saturday and found her dressed
up In mems clothes and posing as the BRIDE
groom in a mock marriage ceremony.
In 1903 Mrs. Blum spent six weeks at
Mountaindale, and her tailor spouse learned
that, Just for a good joke as she ex-
she mao BOue 10 Uue TOOm Vi u
male guest, carrying lay figure OF woman
and, while the unconscious male slept, she
had laid the lay figure beside him, beneath
the bedclothes.
While Blum was there a ball was given
at which his wife astonished him by giving
an exhibition Of high hat kicking on the
ballroom floor amid applause. He remon-
strated, and forbade her to go on so, he
says; but she told him that he could 60
home, she was in the country for pleasure
and was going to get all the fun she could
So Blum went to bed at II o'clock that
night, with their baby child. His wife
came home at in the morning, and by
sunrise Blum had started back for New
York.
This year, because Of the visits to this
city of two brothers, Blum said he begged
his wife to stay home. But she packed
of to Green Field for a week, then to Noun
summer she spent in three and four day
visits to her sister at Bayonne. While on
one Of these trips he says, she dressed
herself UP like woman Of fashion" and
initiated a Irritation scene. going through
various lewd and Objectionable motions and
making herself vulgarly conspicuous.
ing the child with her When Blum came
home to lunch that day at his home, East
l1Tth street, he found their apartment ran
saol ed Of everything save the carpets
and heavy furniture. Dishes, linens
orockery, pictures, clothing, everything
movable had gone away in an express
wagon.
But Blum stil loves her, and for the sake
of their child he is willing to forget ane
forgive II she will only come back with
the baby But he says he cannot afford
to pay her the $50 week almony that she
wants the courts to allow her.