The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-27
BLIGHTED BROOKLYNRONANCE
,JOE TIE ROOFER OBJECTS TO
PLAYING LADY'S MAID.

brushed His Brides Hair and Buttoned Her
waists for q while. but when she Let
the Housework Slide He Hailed Her
10 Court-She Gets Six Months.
Joe Ganly Of Go Fulton street. Brooklyn.
xas a single man last Maroh-and almost
happy. Had it not been for the endless
round OF beef an and pale coffee that
Geraldine, the naughty waitress In his
Fulton street beanery, gave him daily for
neals be would have been quite content.
But he wasn't.
He went to an aged friend Of his In the
-slyation Army. whose name was Bill.
Refore Bill carried tho bass drum in the
army he was 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
to the melancholy Joseph.
BILL" said Mr.. Ganly, Il ought to get
married. Give me q word OF advice"
u hate to do It,, replied the ex-seaman.
III / tell you to get married and you tie
I'D. you'll be hun ing my graveyard after
I'm gone to write rude things on my little
white stone. If tip you OIL that it's a
Queer game, me being in the know, 30 to
sneak you'll wake up alone some night
and cuss me for an old son Of seacook.
Any way you look at 1t, Joseph, my son, l
stand to lose.'
.Ill take q 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 I
made up with one of them kind. 1t was
very nice for while, but she tried to put
ground glass In my beer
The undismayed Joe reflected over the
sage advice Of the mariner and then took
the plunge. He and Ida went before a
Salvation Army minister along In April
and were married. Old Bill assisted. Mr..
Ganly took his wife to the hall 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 1t. The general out
line suited Joe and he settled himself for
the joys Of home, /. g., somebody to sew on
his buttons; somebody to darn socks and
keep tab on the rent money 80 as to be
ready for the first Of the month; somebody
To cook o 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 Mr.. Ganly began to figure on
taking fiat. When Ida asAed him every
morning to CONT her hair for her and please
button up the back of her. shirt waist, Joe
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.
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 it was his duty.
Joe might have passed that over, but
Ida didn't take care Of the room very well.
society items in the papers and moves
Of the -love grown cold" type; When
Joe came home from work at night he
usually found Ida In a wrapper, reading
The Dukes Bride or all about Lizzie
the shopgirl who married rich, while the
table and the cat had run away with the
supper steak.
When Joe would get his coat off and sit
comfortably In his socks reading the base
ball score she would quote the propriety
good form to talk to 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 reticule con-
tanning a powder puff. chewing gum, a
sides, Ida didn't care for home except as
place to sleep, and whenever the Roofers'
Union had picnic or there was something
doing at Coney Joseph had to do the hair
oombing and buttoning up stunt overtime
and show her a good time. Whenever he
objected, he says. there was a catch as catch
can talking match, 80 he usually went.
Also Mr. Ganly didn't think there was
any sense In Ida blowing in her loose change
on beauty doctor for the removal Of wild
He took his wife to the Adams street police
court and made q charge Of vagrancy
Il was a fool" said Mr.. Ganly. Il didn't
know when ! had good thing, Just look
at me now There was q weeks growth
or less buttonless and his trousers were
frayed at the edge.
-she won't do thing" said he, .but read
novels and tell me how l ought to act. /
have TO comb her hair every morning and
shes 80 lazy she won't sew buttons on her
own waist. When she goes out in the street
she's q sight and makes me ashamed she's
my wife. I've got a good Job as a roofer
but can't make any money playing lady's
maid to her every morning. She didn't
even try to keep things clean at home"
Ganly was advised to have his wife sent
SEQ Il that wouldn't be a useful lesson to
her He agreed. Ida began to cry, but
after little while she dried her eyes and
seemed to lose interest in the proceedings
zoe made the complaint OF vagrancy
and Magistrate Tighe committed the wife
70 the Wayside Home for six months.
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