The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-02-22

'N'N N'N wv piIS Wa l.1oIa l'IcA-
tily apologizing for her mothers occu-
patton: You know, poo dear pap was
so irnprovident. he left us without q
penny"
Life imprisonment for His Wife's
Debts.
Many a man reads with a grim smile
hat little fiction about the abolition
IF the debtors prison-he knows that
ae is in the Fleet" for life, locked Sc
rurely by a 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 at one OF the big department
stores. You are not treated like a
ady when you pay cash." she pouts,
and he straightway opens am account.
Everybody in good society rum bills
oftl!y remarked one woman In the pres
.nce of two persons who knew that she
had 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.
AT an afternoon card party three fair
~jatlers were heard exchanging methods
Of treating prisoners. One said, when
SIS gill came in last week. it was
$50 over my allowance. simply took
to bed and stayed there four days. A
man can't erowl when you're sick, and
Arthur was SO glad when ! got we'll
that he never mentioned the bill" lat
a time like that" said the second, IT
always manage to call in a relative or
friend to stay q few days. Harry al
ways behaves beautifully before COM
pany.' she added archly. The Third
Vas more crafty. II take care she
said, to return twice as many things
as l keep, and when l point out how
many things | wanted INC denied my
ieif, GeorGe thinks me an economical
,ars in debt All three agreed that
he main thing was to avoid discussion
md not make scenes
Now if ore had not happened to
know, II readily might have mag
ned that Arthur and Harry and
ieorse We're poor dupes whose density
deserved nothing better than the
srindstone II the debtors prison. In
'eafitN they are mon of more than av-
rage i~ntellisence. men whose abilities
are held in high esteem i'm the world
IF men. They know that they must
march through life in a lockstep to
he tune of nay, pay, pay" and they
nave braced themselves to face that
particular kind of music.
The Office Ant and the Summer Resort
Butterfly.
Another effective means of holding
3enedict's nose to the e~rindstone is
he summer resort. Who is not fla
1l!l&f with the buNom matron and ath-
Ietic daughters spending a summer of
idieness and ease? At the end of the
season comes papa ITO STAY over
sunday a pale, Pipp-like little man,
who is scarcely off the boat before
ne is hustled into mis- evening dress
and carried off to a card party. Then
mere Is young Mrs. Jack. who knows
to 90 everything and is quite tho
of the college boys. When Jack
RfriNes for his W weeks vacation al
.er a hard working summer they WON
der where that jolly little woman
picked up that chump of a husband.
VINO can neither sail a boat. nor hit
n solf BAN, nor play a banjo, who hops
he Values, and doesn't know
the twostep. Even Mrs. Jack. who has
really longed for his coming. finds him
rather Slow" And his is the reward
Of Mr. Pipp and Mr.. Jack for sparing
their wives and daughters a hot sum
iller in town. Instances of summer re-
sort inhumanities have been handle
zoo often and too beverly by para
sraphists and ca~ricaturists to need rep
elttlon. They have mad familiar. too.
me splendid specimens of physical
Womanhood who make the rounds of
hcalth resorts, rest cures and sam
atorlunls, and in the interim are under
he daily care of a specialist. while the
husband. who rarely in
iulgeS III so much as a smoke, must
nelp to support some charlatan of a
in luxury and ease.
Abroad one finds in even greater
numbers than the robust health-seeker
the interchangeable culture-seeker, who
explains that she owes it to herself,
Or to her children, If she Is dragging
them about With her, to broaden out"
she may drop the out" but she is
Invariably bent on broadening, sublime
y unconscious of the fact that it NAV
entail a ~shrinkage in the one who pays
the bills. A feted foreigner once re-
marked to his hostess. Il am not sur
orised that the brilliant American
adde's take such pleasure in entertain
.ng guests from abroad. The American
nan / find insufferably stupid" Where
pen the conscience-stricken woman
hastily launched into a eulosy OF the
men behind the brilliance, the self
denying husbands who are willing TO
into dullness that their
wives may shine. The lion merely
shook his name and shrugged his
such devotion was, from his
point Of View, senseless. When the in
llgnant hostess repeated his remark to
aer good natured husband. he replied;
\ don't mind the complacent concert
ot aspoi.ed musician. but it .ocs a.4Iast