New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-11-01
HIS WIFE BLUFFED HIM OUT
Husbands Asylum Threat Was
Sort of Boomerang.
Family Troubles Drive Husky Far.
mer to Attorney.
Lord of Creation Advised to Fight
His Own Battles.

There are people in this world who
seem to be always in trouble and are
never happy otherwise, such a person
is a certain man in the town of Home,
and he is not content with having
trouble but has the faculty of having
others share it with him. In this con-
nection the attorneys of the city are
not exempt.
Sometime ago he conceived the idea
that his wife was insane and succeed
ed in having her sent to the insane
asylum where she was kept for a short
time and there appearing to be little
the matter with her she was released
and returned to her home.
Things moved along nicely for
time and the man presumably found
fault with the cooking or something
else and Immediately wanted the woman
remanded to the asylum coming to this
city recently to get the necessary
papers, which were placed in the hands
of the sheriff and that officer went to
the place to get the woman but was met
by the man who refused to let him take
her and he returned to report to the
Judge.
Shortly after the man followed and
requested the county attorney to serve
the necessary papers to have his son
sent to the reform school, saying that
he would not obey him and had called
him names and was exercising bad
influence upon the other members of
the family of which there are three Or
four children.
He was informed that upon the evil
dence he have to offer there was no law
that would permit sending the young
man to the reformatory and that he
had better try and govern him at home,
to which the man seemed to assent as
a matter of course and took it as good
advice. The attorney then asked him
why it was that after swearing out the
papers for the commitment of his wife,
he failed to let the sheriff take her.
He replied that when he told his wife
she was SO wrought up about it and
raised such fuss that he thought it
best to try and put up with her and
then the children declared that if he
had her sent to the asylum they would
have him put there also and as he did
not care to be taken to the place he
thought it was best for all concerned
that he let matters rest as they were
and he believed that if he tried hard
he would be able to stand it.
There is not much to this story ex-
cept that it shows the tendency of peo-
pie to 60 to lawyers as soon as they
have little trouble and the evident
suspicion that the woman is in the
right and the man in the wrong. L
the truth were known probably the
woman is doing her work in the house
taking the place of man in the tielt
when it is necessary beside the care O
the family which devolyes upon he
alone. Getting up in the morning be
fore five and toiling all day and al
she is getting out of it is her boar
and a few scant rags to wear. There i
something to these lords of creatio
that will not stand the light of investi
cation when the question of what i
right and what is wrong comes up
and the Office of an attorney is ofte
made the free dispensary Of advice t.
ill-mated couples whose lives are ad
justed on the plane that everybod
works but father.