The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-02-20
IMPRESSIONS OF A TENDERFOOT
- Being Unorthodox Sketches Of Real Human Interest -
(By Will RoBiNsoN)


There are a good many low.
Hung pups in this geelorious coun.
try OF ours, but seems to me that
fellow Peter Leavitt, who married
Ruth BRYAN is about the measliest
specimen that disgraces America
by citizenship. The fact that
Peter is an artist and his pupiness
is laid 10 temperament makes
him all the more a dog. In the
first place every indication points
to the TACT that he married the
daughter OF the Great Comnoner
chiefly because she was the child
OF a man OF means who could be
calculated to keep the vol from
the door in case OF a pinch. He
took Ruth Bryan to PARIS with
him, starved the lie our oil her,
rubbed the freshness OF youth off
her with child bearing, and finally
when she went home to her folks
to he nursed back to health again,
he was thorough cad enough to he
mean about it. When the Bryans
saw the flower oil their family all
shot TO pieces, ill-clsd and hungry,
they were shocked and hur, beyond
expression, and they made the task
OF nursing her back to health and
bloom a labor OF love. They
saw the ioolishness OF her return
TO such a man, hut bided their
time. In the mean while, Ruth
wrote dutitul letters to the father
OF her children and every one was
iull OF a splendid womanhood, and
a healthy eason that would have
appealed 10 a mGa. Not to Peter.
He was Welded 10 his art" and
when her folks saw il, they finally
prevailed upon her to give him the
alternative OF returning TO this
country and keeping the coal hin
full aud the Hour lin free from ait,
OF submitting TO an action Tor
divorce. Realizing that he couldn',
connect with any OF the Bryan
money, Peter did exactly what
such a pimple might be expected
TO do. He submitted TO the di.
vorce. That would have been
decent OF him under the circum.
stances, bu; he submitted with his
consen, a copy OF his wiie's letters
to the penny papers. No sent.
ment OF shame seemed 10 be in him.
a real man would have guarded
the ouSpourings OF such a faithful
heart with his lite, because they
came from the mother OF his chill
dren, and the wife OF his youth.
Not so with Peter. He gave on,
the letters. there being strong
suspicion that he sold them, and
the gosslping world was given
proof OF how much a woman will
stand from an ornery man. how
true she car be IN the face OF dirty
treatment, how Truly Ruth Bryan
tried 10 instill some sense into this
thing that had promised her true.
Naturally after the publication OF
these letters II was all off with
Peter, and it there is any justice in
America Ruth Bryan will have her
decree. The only pity is tina, the
court can not at the same time
issue an order tina; IL Leavitt ever
comes back 10 America that the
nearest veterinary surgeon shall
perform a simple operation on him
that would make him entirely harm
less IN the future, and send the bill
10 the committee On the vicious.
IL may be gathered from this
that ! haven't very high opinion
OF Peter Leavitt. haven't.
think he rs the sorrles, scrub that
ever disgraced the title OF Ameri.
can. II is even a disgrace TO call
him a dog, tor a seli-respecting
dog is infinitely to be respected in
comparison 10 him. 1t is no, OF.
ten that we see his like in this
land OF ours, and il is d stroke OF
good luck that seems 70 be too
good 10 be true that he has taken
up permanent residence abroad.
lie has certainly no place tor a
creature who has the form OF a
man but iorgets the impulse and
the instincts OF istherhood, and
the whole.hearted devotion
oil a true American girl, the like OF
which Is worth more than all the
in the world, all OF the treasures
oil the spheres.