The Detroit times., 1908-11-14
nakes Wife Happy
By Newspaper Notice
Denying Her Credit
How An Extravagant and Spend
thrift Wife Was Conquered by
Her Husband and Agreed
TO HE Unique Plan.


N 1872 if.
y The notice inserted in all
New York newspapers parties being prominent city editors
3 hustled reporters the jump.
eve interrupted and imagine we hear some
saying little scandal in sight and OF course the
right after it. That's the modern newspaper
{ for you).
Now please don't city editors.
City editors human, just like other people
They always appecave all the tragedy and patos the
misery despair with the breaking OF home
with the separation of and wife and with divorce
The very they chronicle for and which you term
may depth of their sypathes and they
adverse their opinions the publicity OF the details that
you their professions they expected to
supply public demand and it is of their say
against the OF the divorce
holding family skeletons before the eyes OF the
public but that Just the reading your door
nhbor and the successful must aim to please
everybody.
prints leaving for the sub
choose for himself that which he to read
Excuse getting away from subject but being in
disrupted thought would that phase OF the
matter of nind)
These reporters up Martin doorsseps all
doubt for sensation and big headlines over their
Eosories
'NE Divorce in high society big headlines.
separation of prominent and his wife
would of wellodo business man by spendtht
And all these possibilities in the minds of the
S1sporters
But there wasn't anything the lines of the
fpublshed notice against Mrs Martin
Nor anything separation.
Me- Nor anything like ruin for the husband.
anything like unpleasantness unhaPpness on the
part Of either husband of wife.
But instead as a result publication the found
probably the hzppies married couple in New York
n this 5 the way it
those who buys to satisfy her eyes
Efather satisfy her needs
The show held peculiar fascination for her which
<ohe could resist.
when she came across thing strike her fancy from
pair Of shoes (tough pairs home) to hat
(houeh she hem). would into the store
order up and charged to her husband
cded buying all out OF proportion
- what he and all of proportion to his
<pocketbook. should she persist.
Mrs Martin didn't sit weep and declare she would
husband did she ny into rage
nd husband Mr. Martin would pay tor every
She very reasonably admitted had exravagant
further her inability to keep her hands on pretty
bounet she one in the store
And then wife their heads together to devise
plan whereby Martin would be able to overcome and put
her consuming passion until she could get safely away
~ show window.
The newspaper notice suggested itself.
Mira Martin agreed, to carry an empty pocketbook
credit shut off she wouldn't be able to buy ana the
6tuaton
And great deal more satisfactorily though Mrs Mar
had been go shopping district with her hands
dsd behind her back. and blndfolded
There are many women in the world like Mrs Martin
And many tendencies though man isn't quite SO
y TO be by in the matter Of dress
good for the merchant to have
proportion their husbands incomes
The wise merchant moderate buyers WHO CAN
AY rather extravagant buyer WHO CANNOT PAX
goods placed the windows with the idea OF caus
~ anyone buy they afford buy either but
guide style and aid the prospective customer in
oG1ing o the bargains.
up purchaser consult with herself himself to
eer buy the of ones balance the right
~ 81 the books should be the determining factor
Il was too bad this able overcome
veaness combatted It with the
which agreed that her husband publish
But hold that twist wrinkle in hat or
certain figure OF
esn ret on the things that paseh
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