The sun., 1908-06-14
MRS. RUBBERlNO !.
W WARNS A WIFE
Who Was Thinking Of Leaving Her
Husband In the /, City
This Summef. e

boCOfnnRf On, yo-0S, IN way pub thOfo
are 30 many Of the big hats now. my dear.
and-er-don't you think they ara rather
monotonous and common
aren't you rather late In getting yours7
understand that the big hats are going
out rapidly. that little bits Of hats will be
all the rage before midsummer. dis
carded my big hat last week-=or rather
/ gave 1t to the maid. You see. noticed
how everybody. had them. and then my
milliner told me that they'd soon be out OF
date and ridiculous looking. and 30 got
myself one of those darling little beehive
hats. and
by the way. my dear. do you think
your hair is puffed out enough fox so big
hat as that2 For such hat the hair should
be very full, you know. and Well. of
course, you would fnd 1t hard to wear
very full rat.
-Now please don't think me rude for
looking 50 closely at your pongee dress,
my dear, but it's the most remarkable coin
cidence. really. I saw q pongee dress thata
the perfect twin Of that one Of yours In the
window OF one Of those shops where they
sell women's second hand dresses only
last week. and when passed by the same
shop yesterday afternoon the dress was no
longer there.
"Of course somebody--one OF these
women, no doubt. that like to fapnt around
pretending that their plumage was made
for them-had bought It, Isn't that re-
markable. dear? hope you will never
meet up with the woman who bought that
pongee dress that was in the second hand
window. for that would be too ridiculous.
wouldn't it-both dresses being 80 amaz-
ingly alike?
Have you decided where you shall 60
this summer? Oh, the Thousand Islands!
That will be nice. The stories one hears
about the Thousand Islands being 80 ter
rifcally expensive are pure exaggerations,
my dear. You will not have to 60 to hotel
at all-the women do dress superbly at the
hotels in the Thousand Islands. must say
l understand that folks can find real
nice boarding houses there that make 1t
quite comfortable for couples who have to
be wee bit careful of mon
Oh, your husband is not to accompany
you, you say2 My dear. do you mean to
tell me that you are going to leave your
husband quite to himself for three months
in New York; A vai-ry dangerous experi-
ment. that. my dear-vai-ry.
"Of course it's wholly different with quite
young married people, but. my dear, after
one has been married eighteen or twenty
years. why. it's Oh. you We only been
married seven years? Now wonder how
l gained the impression that you had been
married such a great deal longer. But at
any rate fear that 1t TAX es mighty hand
some and attractive woman to hold hus-
band nowadays, especially when he is left
to himself for any length Of time.
"Howp You once spent five months away
from your husband. taking care Of your
mother when she was sick out in Mime
apolis, and he was begging you to come back
by every mail all during the five months?
Oh well. Of course there are exceptions to
every rule. But no matter il nothing worse
happens a man is liable to be badly spoiled
when his wife stays away from him for any
length Of time. She loses her control over
him, you know.
-One summer. after I'd been away from
James for only two weeks, found him
positively impossible, wholly out Of the
question. when l suddenly came back.
On the evening of the day I got back-I
had intended to remain away for a month,
but his letters were 80 strained like and
labored that 1 decided to cancel the re-
naming two weeks-on that evening OF
my return home. say, James picked up
his hat, cool as a watermelon on ice soon
after dinner and yawned in my face and
said that he guessed he'd take a little run
down town to see some men friends Of his
that he had date with-that's just the
way he said It, had a date with.
4Did you ever hear Of anything moro
amazing in your born days3 Did permit
him to go2 My dear. do you think 1 am
insane9 1 should say did not. told him
that he'd sit right down and rest his hands
and face or I'd know the reason why. and
told him also that II he dared to 60 out
ne wouldn't find me there when he got
back. For nearly week I had to keep
James right on the chalklino or he would
have got out of my hands completely.
mo, indeedy, I don't go away from
James at all in the summertime any more.
Along about this season every year James
gets lot Of booklets showing how fine 1t is
UP in Canada and around in Maine and so
on and hands them over to me, with the
idea Of course that I'll become enthusi-
astio over the pretty pictures and the
poetical descriptions In the booklets and
want to 60 to those places-but no, indeedy.
Men are just as transparent as glass-they
only imagine they're deep.
-You know Mrs. Flitterel that used to
live In the apartment above ours in West
End avenue-that rather overdressed little
thing with the big brown eyes; she used
belladonna on them, I am sure-and the
pouting mouth-she used to practise that
pouting mouth business before the looking
glass for hours at stretch, the janitor's
wife, who did the F'litterels' washing, told
me. Well, you remember how she used to
make her big lummoxy husband danoe'
"Oh, she certainly had him trained like
something OF Bostock's g. and she had only
TO look at him to make him do just what
she wanted him to do. Well, a couple Of
years ago she spent the whole summer with
her folks somewhere on Lake Champlain,
and she didn't see her husband for three
months. When she did come back, hoity
toity and prestol she found that he'd become
regular Malay She had completely
lost out you see.
.He had got taste Of doing as he pleased,
and her reign was all over. It's really
pitiful to see them together now Posi-
lively, he fairly makes her eat out of his |
hand. roll over, play dead, sit up and bark,