Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-26
That British Man
Mrs. Bangsmiih Talks
About Her Neighbors.

live in glass houses should pull down
their vests" snappily observed Mrs.
Bangsmith TO her caller the other day.
Yesterday, going down in the ele-
vator heard that sneaky Giddap man
sneering TO the man with him about
some acquaintance of theirs who beats
his wife. Giddap didn't know, OF
course, that l know that he is a per-
feet brute beast to his own wife.
THE Giddaps' washwoman told me
about 1t. She's a good Christian wom-
an, this washwoman, and the goings
on that she sees and hears in these
apartments where she washes hurt
her terribly. She tells me about 'em,
because she says it's such a relief to
her to get the load off her poor mind
But the very idea or that Giddap
man talking about another man beat
ing his wife-after the way he acts in
his own home The washwoman was
finishing up the ironing in her apart
ment the other evening when some
thing dreadful happened and / should
think that Giddap would be ashamed
to meet his neighbors in the halls.
1T was this way: Giddap brought
home a couple of theater tickets for
that evening. He showed them to
Mrs. Giddap at dinner. She mad
vertently told him that she didn't care
to see the performance again and
asked him If he wouldn't change the
tickets and go to some other theater.
HE told her that he didn't know
that she had seen the show for which
he had bought the tickets; that she
hadn't said anything TO him about hav-
Ing seen it-just as II, hoity-toity, a
married woman should be obliged to
make a father confessor OF her hus-
band and tell him every single, solitary
thing she knows! / suppose married
men tell their wives everything they
do yes!
"You see, Mrs. Giddap had gone to
the matinee performance of that show
only couple OF days before, though. OF
course, she hadn't considered 1t neces-
sary to say anything to her husband
about 1t, and, Of course, she didn't care
TO see the same show twice. But,
would you believe It. 0ddap got as
grouchy as could be over II! He said
that he wanted 70 see the show him
self anyhow-the selfish brute! He
never stopped 70 think for . moment
that there we're other shows In town
that his wife wanted 70 sec.
Yes, and he told her that he vas
going to see that SHOW. for which he
had the tickets. too, and mat II she
didn't want to see h . second time,
Why. he'd 90 alone and she could stay
q home. He fatty refused to run
downtown ahead Of her and change
the seats for some other show-the
miserable, eallousy instrumentation Of
these men. isn't IL dreadful!
Then he started 70 change into his
evening clothes hight after dinner and
he repeated that he meant to see the
show for which he had the tickets or
no show at all, and then In her e.
element, the pair OF scissors that Mrs.
Giddap had In her hand nev out Of her
grasp and they accidentally travelled
toward Giddap's head. only missing
him by an inch or SO, and it's too bad
they missed him at that, the stubborn
brute
We'll, when she saw that Giddap
believed that she had thrown the ecis-
sors at him a-purpose. Mrs. Giddap be-
came still more excited, and she
started toward him, sort Of screaming
like, and what do you think the mon
ster did then? Why he grabbed a-hold
of her from behind and held her arms
tight to her sides, holding them there
just as If she'd been tied with ropes,
and then he went on torturing the
poor, abused creature with a lot Of
fool-man talk about how she ought TO
be ashamed of herself for getting into
such a tantrum, and all that humbug
that married men get of when they
Just know they're dead in the wrong.
"And he just held her arms to her
sides that way for a quarter Of an
hour and he had the nerve TO tell her
that she should have told him about
having seen that show before so that
he wouldn't have bought the tickets
for it-just like all these men, crazy
to make slaves of their wives!
We'll. when she was so tired OF be-
ing held that way that she couldn't
stand up, he let her into chair, and
then he went on and finished his
dressing, and instead of staying home
and comforting the poor, dear thing
after the brutal way he had treated
her, didn't he put on his coat and hat
and go right down to the theater and
take in the show that he had bought
the tickets for! Yes, indeedy he did,
and he left her alone in the apartment
to weep out her poor bruised heart.
And he's a great one TO talk about an
other man beating his wife, isn't he,
The fandi"