Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-17

out.
Poor little
thing" they said. she is SO sweet
looking and fragile-and that nus
band Of hers certainly has a horrible
disposition even if he is so good look
ing! You can tell it by his face!'
Strange to say. they were not
wrong. Slane did have a wretched
temper and moreover he had none OF
those graces which are supposed to
attract women. He was grnf and
rough and cranky and inconsiderate
and selfish and several other undesir-
able qualities. In just what strange
moment of mental alteration Mrs.
Slane had decided to wed him was
popular question.
She must have had other
chances" said the neighbors. 1T
couldn't have been that! He must
make her perfectly miserable!"
She looks so resigned" they said
when several years had passed. is
pitiful to see her meekly tagging
along after him as If she was afraid
to call her soul her own! What he
needs Is some one TO talk back to
him."
Unfortunately Slane ran his own
business downtown. so the chasten-
ing effect of knucklng to superior
there was not exercised on him. There
did not seem to be any one with the
power and the authority to beat some
nj f.,,vvn nit - C1onn
The way he talks 70 her when they
play cards." said one OF the neigh
bors after a whist game with the
Slanes. MY dear. it is positively dis
graceful! II had been his wife I'd
have thrown a chair at him! would!
Just as though she didn't have mite
Of sense of her own, So embarrassing
before outsiders! What on earth
could she ever have seen in him."
Through Slane other women man.
aged their husbands beautifully. He
would have been a remarkable man
who could have been otherwise than
amiable and liberal and attentive aft
er his wife had voiced a sugared SEN
timent like this: Henry. thank
my stars every day OF my life that
am not Mrs Slane! You are so diff
ferent from him! I don't know what
I'd do II you forgot to kiss me good
by every morning the way he does
and I am sure she is just as pretty
and sweet as pOssihle!"
Or the sentiment was expressed
like this: Tom. what do you think?
I ran in to see Mrs. Slane this morn
ing and heard her asking him in
trembling tones for so cents and he
said she could have a quarter! What
do you think Of that? just can't COM
prehend a woman's enduring 1t. be-
cause you've always been so generous
oh. thank you! I can find good use
for this SO to-day! I'm 30 glad you're
not like Mr.. Slane:"
Or the remark was like this: Il
really ought to give thanks publicly,
James. that you are 80 good natured
and kind. after hearing the way that
Slane man goes on! He doesn't care
. bit II all the windows on the court
are open. You are 20 different"
Nearly any man will be a model
husband II his wife thus sings his
praises to his face. insisting that he
is such q paragon. He'd be ashamed
not to be!
In time everybody got used to the
fact that Slane was . brutsi sort OF
person who ought by good rights to
be shut up In an iron cage and that
his wife was suffering martyr over
whom the looker-on must drop q tear
and sigh. n MIS- Slane had taken
all the revenges on her husband that
IN eight years all the other women in
the neighborhood Had suggested IN
their conferences she would have had
to get her normal lease Of life extend
ed and hire an assistant At that. Her
abno-mally meek and lovely DISPOSE
tion was a constant and never-faiIing
topic when the weather and styles
fasled.
She was . qniet. reserved H<tle per-
son. vas Mrs Siane. So there vas
not hint nor rumor Of impending
revolution. until the deed was done.
She simply packed up her bs,oaeines
aad left Slane for good snd III with
ont saying word or asking anybody's
advice
After the hrst riotous excitement
had Gained down In the neiehborhood
SIX Of the women who had always
most violently wondered how Mrs.
s'ane ever stood !, and had yesrned
for chance to plunee slsne into boii-
ing oil. met IN q faacy-work session
and talked long
Well" said one Of them At last,
all I've 60; 70 say u that I'm very
much surprised. "a always thought
Mrs. Slane was such . nice little
thing You never can tell! Leaving
tina, poor lonely man IKE hat You've