The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-27
BYEDBROOKLYN ROMANCE
,y2E TIE ROOFER OBJECTS TO
PLAYING LADY'S MAID.
uru,ncd Ills Brides Hair and Buttoned Her
waists for a While, hut When She Let
the HouscwOrk Slide He Hailed Her
10 COurt-She Gets Six Months.

waists for a While, but when She Let
the HouscwOrk Slide He Hailed Her
20 Court-She Gets Six Months.
Joe Ganly OF go Fulton street, Brooklyn,
r,as single man last March-and almost
hupuy. Had it not been for the endless
rm,nI of beef an and pale coffee that
Iera,dine, the naughty waitress in his
Furon street beanery, gave him daily for
meal, he would have been quite content.
But he wasn't.
He went to an aged friend OF his in the
Salvation Army whose name was Bill.
pefore Bill carried the bass drum In the
army he was a seaman and had left wives
in seven ports. On the subject OF matri-
mony Bill was wise as serpent. He
MIXED hi long, white beard and gave ear
10 the melancholy Joseph.
"Bn.' said Mr.. Ganly, Il ought to get
married Give me a word Of advice
Il hate to do it," replied the ex-seaman.
If tell you to get married and you tie
up. you'll be hun ing my graveyard after
I'm gone to write rude things on my little
white stone. If tip you off that it's a
queer game. me being in the know, 80 to
speal, you'll wake up alone some night
and cuss me for an old son Of seacook
ANY way you look at it. Joseph, my son, l
stand TO lose,
-Ill take chance" said Joe. Besides
I've got the girl tabled. Bill, she's a
wonder. she's got big blue eyes, the
sweetest mouth
They all have" interrupted the matri
mony expert. Il remember once when
The old Hannah b. King was at Rio that
made up with one of them kind. 1t was
very nice for while, but she tried to put
ground gass in my beer
The undismayed Joe reflected over the
rage advice Of the mariner and then took
the plunge He and Ida went before
sa.vatiDn Army minister along in April
and we're married. Old Bill assisted, Mr..
Gan'v took his wife to the hail bedroom
in Fulton street he had occupied for ten
years.
Ida was rather pleasing object to look
at Joe Thought. She was tall and rather
good looking and carried plenty Of red
hair that she built into a pompadour by
! putting rats under II, The general out
line suited Joe and he settled himself for
the joys of home, i. e., somebody to sew on
his buttons; somebody to darn socks and
keep tab on the rent money so as to ee
ready for the first of the month; somebody
to cook steak about an inch thick and
give him welcoming pat when he came
home from work.
For the first few days everything was
lovely and MIR, Ganly began to figure on
taking fiat When Ida asked him every
morning to comb her hair for her and please
button up the back of her shirt waist ice
blushed with pleasure and hustled through
the job before the whistle blew and he had
to SKIP with the full dinner pail. 1t wasn't
long though, before he got tired Of comb
ing his wife's auburn tresses and button
ing up her waists. One day he was docked
for an hours lost time and it made him sore.
He wanted to know why she couldn't do
those things herself and she informed him
be had married her and 1t was his duty.
Joe might have passed that over, but
Ida didn't take care Of the room very well.
She spent most of her time reading the
society items in the papers and novels
Of the "love grown cold" type. When
Joe came home from work at night he
The Dukes Bride" or all about Lizzie
the shopgirl who married rich, while the
| breakfast dishes were unwashed on the
table and the cat had run away with the
supper steak.
When Joe would get his coat of and sit
comfortably in his socks reading the base
ball score, she would quote the propriety
columns to him and tell him that it wasn't
good form to talk to a lady without his coat
and shoes on. Joe belonged to the plain
people and couldn't see it at all. He might
have stood for that. even, he says. but Ida
had the shopping bug and would sally forth
| for bargains armed with a reticule con-
tanning powder puff. chewing gum, a
blttonhook and the family change. Be-
sides aes Ida didn't care for home except as
Union had picnic or there was something
doing at Coney Joseph had to do the hair
comblng and buttoning up stunt overtime
and show her good time. Whenever he
objected, he says, there was catch as catch
can talking match, so he usually went.
Also Mr.. Ganly didn't think there was
any sense in Ida blowing in her loose change
ona beauty doctor for the removal of wild
hairs and freckles Yesterday he baked.
He took his wife to the Adams street police
court and made charge OF vagrancy
u was fool" said Mr.. Ganly. Il didn't
Know when had good thing. Just look
at me now" There was a weeks growth
Of beard on Joe's face. His shirt was more
or less buttoness and his trousers were
irayed at the edge.
She won't do thing said he. "but read
novels and tell me how l ought to act.
nave to comb her hair every morning and
mes so lazy she won't sew buttons on her
own waist, When she goes out In the street
she's sight and makes me ashamed she's
my wife. I've got good job az a roofer
hut can't make any money playing ladys
mad to her every morning. She didn't
even try to keep Ahings clean at home"
uanly was advised to have his wife sent
70 the Wayside Home for few months to
see ii that wouldn't be a useful lesson to
her. He agreed, Ida began to cry, but
after lit le while she dried her eyes and
seemed to lose interest in the proceedings.
zoe made the complaint Of vagrancy
ana MAGISTRATE Tighe committed the wife
" the Wayside Home for six months.