Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-08-10
GEORGE
WON'T
KISS
Me TO the Jail First Says the
Man Under Sem
fence

81 am so glad Magistrate Higgin.
botham told George he must kiss me.
I would rather he did not have to be
told, but IL is so long since I have
been kissed that any kind would be
better that none. And maybe he will
turn sweetheart again IL he does as
the judge says. ! am ready 10 help my
husband obey orders. "-Statement Of
Mrs. George Lindsay, the unkissed
wife.
"Kiss my wife because / musti Not
on your life. Jail for me rather than
lose my freedom to kiss when and
whom I choose. "-statement Of Geo.
Lindsay, who has been commanded
by Magistrate Higginbotham to kiss
his wife once a day.
Those two statements outlined the
situation last night in the Lindsay
home, No. 1875 Dresden st., Brooklyn.
II seemed as IL the magistrates decis-
ion and well meant efforts to bring
back happiness to the Lindsay home
were n dismal failure.
The wife spent the day with her
mother, but returned to prepare her
husbands dinner. The meal over, he
disappeared in to the matmaker's
quarters in the yard, and the girl
wife, with her baby in its carriage,
started to find companionship among
the neighbors. The oil lamp burned
dimly and dismally in the home until
tho two returned, driven back by the
lateness Of the hour. 81
"Funny, isn't it, how a man will
change" said the young wife, reflect
lively. "Now, when George was
wanting me TO marry him he did not
need to be told by anyone to kiss me.
/ did not ever need to give him one
little hint.
HE thought I had the prettiest
in the world, or at least he )
said so. ] believed him. Even now I :
no meant it-then. But II is so !
long since l have had one little kiss. !
He got so business-like after we got :
married. For n while I coaxed him TO :
me goodbye when he left in the .
morning. But they were wooden
he gave when I asked for them.
And by and by he quit altogether.
"I wonder how that judge under
things so welli Queer, wasn't
~ I think maybe II George would
get into the way Of kissing me every
lay he would get TO be my sweetheart
Igain. We would not have a bit Of
II he would, for he was jolly
We used to 60 out together. II
Ieemed marriage spoiled him. He took
everything for granted then. And a
woman wants to be made love TO a
II makes life so much easier.
"Rubbish, every word Of it," de-
,lared the husband. "a man has to
make a living, and he hasn't time to
be making love all the time 20 his
He marries 20 have a home and
De comfortable, lie can't be trying
please a woman forever. lie wants
eome home to a good dinner. j had
10 cook my own dinners. She would
be gone somewhere, and there would
be nothing 10 eat"
Gas for kissing my wife because a
Judge says so-well, just see me do IL.
fhis is a new ruling in law, l am told.
Fine time the judge win have II the
women begin appealing 10 the court TO
their husbands TO make love
10 them"
"Now, what do you think Of that"
Asked the wife. "That Is the way he
talks. There will be no kisses
ia tho house except those I give to the
Mrs Lindsay goes for sympathy to
her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson.
The latter is not permitted to visit the
LAndsays, the judge having so ruled,