Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-02-21
Some Modern Slaves of Matrimony

class now: I haven't had time to keep
up. They are all | have in the world.
but they belong to other people more
than they do to me. The worst is. the
loctor says | have Il weak heart and
may go Off at al minute: and L.
haven't been able to lay up anything
Tor them Tn live on when I'm gone"
When his friend demonstrated that
he situation ought Ia be explained TO
the family, he only shook his head and
said: The doctor told them all about
Il. They took 1t terribly 10 heart. That
winter they tried to economic. My
wife darned stockings till you could
hardly find n square inch Of the origi-
nal. then spent enough ON cab fares to
keep the family in silk hose for the rest
Of our days. The little one made her
own underclothes and then paid 5000
for an opera cloak. BY spring they
had apparently forgotten their anxiety
and relaxed on economy"
A few weeks after ho. had unburdened
himself TO his friend. THU man WAS
found dead At his work. His widow
now to keep herself and her
daughter housed and fed by a system
OF prolonged visits at the houses Of
those she was won to entertain.
Clothing she provides by giving lessons
In bridge whist. At a recent house
party the little one" was heard pref
lily apologizing for her mothers occu-
patton: You know. poo dear papa was
SO ~iinprovident. he left us without n
penny"
Lite Im%prisonmsnt for His Wife's
Debts.
Many a man reads with a grim smile
hat little fiction about the abolition
80 tk- .-i-- - -.
ae is In the Fleet for life. locked se-
rurely by q pretty jailer who carries
he key in her shopping bag. 1t is no
use to beat against the bars. he has
offered himself a voluntary victim to
he grindstone by giving his wife carte
blanche atoms of the big department
stores. You are not treated like a
edy when you pay cash" she pouts.
IND he stra'Hhtway opens an recount.
Everybody i'll good society runs bills
ofti!y remarked one woman In the pres
ance of two persons who knew that she
aad driven her husband not only out
IF good society. but Out of all society,
and kept him lodging all his former
friends from whom he had borrowed
money TO pay her debts.
Al an afternoon card party three fair
j%ailels We're heard exchanging methods
IF treating prisoners. One said. When
SIS bill came in last week. IL was
$3.50 over my allowance. simply tool
TO bed and stayed there four days. A
man can't growl when you're sick. and
Arthur wa: Sc slad when ! got well
That he never mentioned the bill" AT
= time like that" said the second. II
always manage tn call in a relative or
friend to stay n few days. Harry al
ways behaves beautifully before COM
pany.' she added archly. TIE Third
VAS more crafty. Il take care" she
said. to return iwire as many things
IS ] keep. and When 1 point out how
many things wanted and denied my
tif. G"org. thinks me an economical
'ars IN debt" All three agreed hat
he main thing vas To avoid discussion
and not make scenes.
Now IL one had not happened to
Know. one readily might have imag-
ned that Arthur and Harry and
George were poor dupes whose density
deserved nothing better than the
Srindstone and the debtors prison. In
"eai!ty they are men of more than av-
rage Intelligence, men whose abilities
ire held in high esteem in the world
Jf men. They know that they must
march through life in a lockstep to
he tune of pay. pay. pay" and they
lave braced themselves To face that
particular lind OF music.
The Office Ant and the Summer Resort
Butterfly.
Mother effective. means of holding
Sened!ct's nose to tho erindstone 10
n" summer resort. Who is no, fla
n!Iar with IN. huxon nairon and ath-
letic daughters spending a SUNNI. OF
'u!tiieSS ana ease AT the end of the
,eason comes papa" ito stay over
N " - - ,,,t. ~ ~ t.
WI" is scarcely of the boat before
fie is hustled into mis- evening Dress
ma carried off To n card party. Then
lhere is young Mrs. Jack. who knoNs
now 10 do everything and is quit. the
idol Of he colles. boys. When jack
arrives tor his two weeks vacation aft
er a hard working summer. they Won
Ter where that jolly little woman
picked up that chump of ii husba nd.
"h" .ah neither sail = boat. nor hit
i so'I Dali. nor play Il banjo, who hops
when he values. aud doesn't know
the twostep. Ever Mrs. Jack who has
really loised for his coming. finds him
rather slow" And this Is the reward
or Mr.. Pipp and Mr.. Jack for sparing
their wives and daughters a hot sum.
mer In town. Instances of summer re-
sort i~nhutnanities have been handled
90 often and too cleveriy by nara
,raphists and caiicaturists to need rem
.titioil. Ihey have mad. familiar. too,
he splendid specimens Of physical
w~oinanhood who make the rounds OF
me nedlih reaort,. res, cures and SAM
ltoriums. and in the interim are under
NJ daily care of a specialist. While the
la~rdworking husband. who rarely in
iulges in so much as a smoke. must
neip to SUPPORT some charlatan OF a
healer" in luxury and ease.
Abroad one finds in even greater
Numbers than the robust health-seeker
IN" interchangeable cul~ture-seek.r, who
explains that she owes 1t to herself.
or to her children. If she is dragging
them about with her. to broaden ont
She may drop the out" but she il
Invariably bent OH broadening, sublime
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