The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-15

modish matron or maiden indulges in the fad of the moment.
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 Sly stabs at Vanity Fair.
 Edith Sessions Tupper in Chicago
 Chronicle.
 sof all pitiable objects in the matrt- monial liae l think the husband who has married for money is the one most to be commisserated.
 You cannot help a feeling of con- tempt for him, but you also pity the poor wretch.
 Not long since sat studying g. mar scrawny and ugly. There was not one redeeming feature in face or form I know very ugly women who are also extremely fascinating. They are, in themselves, an illustration of mind over matter.
 But not so in the case of this wo- man. She has no mind to speak of. When you talk of servants and their short -comings, or the ever-welcome topic to most women, dress. she prlgh- tens up If, however, you turn the question in any other channel the poor thing is all at sea. She sits silent, bored and distraught.
 The husband of this woman is big,
  well bred, of rather poetic and artistic instincts. There Is s-between the two not one sympathy in common. She adores her broad -shouldered, good looking spouse. She has always an air of proprietorship which is anus ing. She calls him dearest" and darling" before people and insists upon his kissing her in the presence of her women friends. I fancy she thinks they envy her her choice possession. The husband? I have often seen this strangely assorted couple together, I have never yet seen him give his wife a. voluntary caress. l have never yet seen him look at her as If he loved her. think you can always tell If a man is in love with woman by the Way he looks at her, have often | surprised that glance in a crowded l room-not always, I regret to say oc- tween husbands and wives. And have smiled to myself.
 | Why. then did this clever, handsome | fellow permit himself to be chained to a tiresome, ignorant. homely little wo- man? She has big income That tells the whole dreadful story.
 The man who married for money de- | ceives himself He faneies that his | wifes love for him will show itself in uherality. that a generous allowance or nerhaps the management of her for tune will enable him to live his own | life. away from her good snare or the time. He discovers his mistake when too late. He sees himself ara g. 1 ged about at his wlfes chariot wheels, an adjunct, an asset. Oftentimes she denies him the luxury Of woFk. why should you work?" she asks T wish I VV tu | you to be with me. II IS not hecessa- | ry for you to work.
 | Fancy what such an existence must bei Work-why work Is necessary for | avervbody. The most miserable life | is inc idle life IL Is bad enough for a woman; 1t is frightful for man. | know another man who married for l nancy He welded a rich widow, who | is at least fifteen years older than he. Her money set him up in lucrative busfness to which he Is devoted. He spends every possible moment away | from his homely old wife
 1eads an absolutely useless existence. She has no mental resources Ser ,,an+s relieve her of domestic respon-
 sthItties She sits for hours and broods broods about her husbands ab- 1 sorntton in business and his lack of | devotion. or she goes forth and shops huying the belongings of dress s,,ttabIe for a young woman, vainly honing to win her husband by display | of fnery l u,err,,in0 for money on the part of .h4 roan A woman. sometimes, may ha e~cusabIe for selling herself. a man never such a union entails suffering \ Ea. o,a eide often both.
 Sometimes when see the nervous, fren1jed business man, thinking abso- inteIv of nothing save dollars and cents, | m roindful of his dotted old wife; some. | tioes when see the clever writer, try ing 10 foEGA ahead in his work but