The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-11-14
Iakes Wife Happy
By Newspaper Notice
Denying Her Credit
How An Extravagant and Spend
thrift Wife Was Conquered by
Aer Husband and Agreed
20 His Unique Plan.

New York and the parties being prominent CITY
81 hustled reporters the jump.
eve ourselves interrupted imagine hear some
reader saying yes little scandal in sight and OF course the
newspapers right That's the modern newspaper
for you). -~
Now please don't these city editors
City editors human just like other people
always apprecatve of all the tragedy and pahos the
and misery despair that with the breaking OF hoe
with the separation mi and wife and with divorce
The chronicle for and which you term
may depth their sypahes and they may
opinions publicity of the details that
to them as you but professions expected to
supply public demand and it is of their say
You may have scrups yourself against of the divorce
holding family skeletons before the eyes OF the
public but that just the kind of reading matter your next door
nebor and the successful newspaper must aim to please
everybody
To which end it prints all kinds leaving for the sub
scber choose for himself that which he cares to read
excuse getting from subject but being IN
thought would get that phase OF the
matter off mind)
These reporters who daed the Martin doorsteps were all
keyed up no doubt sensation big headlines their
stories-
Divorce high society draws big headlines
So separation of a prominent and his wife
So the of wetodo business man by spendthft
wife
But there wasn't anything the lines of the
published notice against Mrs Martin
Nor anything like separation.
Nor anything like ruin for the husband.
Nor anything like unpeasantness unhappness the
part of of wife.
of the publication the reporters found
probably the happiest married couple in New York
And S the
Mrs Martin those who buys satisfy her eyes
\ rather o satisfy her needs.
The windows held peculiar fascination tor her winch
she not
When she came thing strike her fancy from
pair (though pairs home) to hat
Though of the) she would into the store
it up and charged to her husband
Finally buying all of proportion
% and all of proportion to his
pocketbook should she persist
Mrs Martin weep and declare she would
tell her mother husband did she fly
that her husband Mr. Martin would for every
thing she bought
She very reasonably had been
md admitted inability keep hands off pretty
bonnet when she in the store.
wife their heads together to devise
plan whereby would be able and put
down her consuming passion could safely from
n show window.
" The newspaper notice suggested itself
Mrs Martin agreed too carry empty pocketbook.
With of she wouldn't be able buy and the
situation
III had been shopping district with her hands
e ia behind her back and blindfoded.
Bx There are many world like Mrs Martin.
And many tendencies though isn't quite
MY to be by his the of dress.
They good customers for the merchant to have either
1cse Of proportion their husbands incomes
The welcomes moderate buyers WHO CAN
PAY than the buyer WHO CANNOT PAY
placed the windows with the idea Of
anyone buy than they afford buy either but
1ey Ss guide style and to aid the prospective
r6e1ine to the bargains.
II q up purchaser consult with herself himself
and the Of ones balance the right
rds of the should be the determining factor.
York able
could combatted
with which she agreed that her husband publish
hold that certain twist wrinkle in hat
figure in
lace certain one OF the things that paseh
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