Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-03

divorce on the ground that he was
forced to do all of the household duties
in addition to his work in the garden
evidently has just cause for complaint.
When the head of the family in this
day of all but prohibitive prices man
ages to keep a large and growing fam
lily supplied with food and clothing, it
is manifestly unfair for his wife to ask
him to prepare the food and dress and
undress the children. He has lone a
mans work n a days work when he
drags from the storehouses of monopoly
the raw materials to sustain life and
insure comfort. His wife is adding in
suit whatever other troubles he may
be bearing when she asks him to work
around the house,
Time was when a maiden fair might
choose with impunity from her adj
mirers which of them she liked best,
but that time seems to be rapidly drift
ing by. Hardly a day passes but some
rejected and ~frenzied lover resorts to
firearms n cutlery at the expense of
the girl who turned him down. It is
difficult to guard against this lowest
form of cowardice. as 1t is seldom pos
sible to know where it will break out
next. Occasionally, however, a dis
gruntled sutton goes about breathing
forth threats, n such q man should
be handled as unceremoniously as a
dog suspected o. -.abies before it is too
late, and after it is too late a painless
death seems unnecessary mercy.
Possibly in an effort to lake the
minds of his hearers off such unpleas-
ant subjects as the Indian lane frauds.
Vice-President Sherman went SO far as
to remark in Enid. Oklahoma, that the
Democratic party spelled disaster to
the country. Among other of the gilt
tering gems of speech which fell from
the mouth of the gifted president of the
Senate was this one: Higher wages
and increased earning power on the
part of the professional man and others
makes itseasy to pay the increased cost
of living" 1t is doubtful If more than
a very small percentage of Mr.. Sher-
mans audience felt that 1t might be in
ciuded among the land Others"
No bit of news is better calculated to
arouse almost universal satisfaction
among those who heal it than such a
one as recounted yesterday the man.
ner in which an unarmed engineer man.
aged to kill a bandit who was holding
up his train. AS he leaped from his
a at the command of the highway
man who had hin covered, the engineer
managed to pick up a stone. At the
first opportunity he crushed the ban
dts skull with it. While it may not
be exactly nice to gloat over a tragedy
of this description, it's natural. When
they gointo that sort of thing. denizens
of the underworld must understand
that their misfortunes will excite very
little sympathy among honest folk.
Authorities at Ellis island estimate
that for the past month 1000 Ameri-
cans have. been returning weekly from
Europe in the steerage. If this esti-
mate is true. the continent would seem
to have a shade on the races as a me-
dium for separating the unwary and
his roll. Few of those temporarily en-
barrassed tourists who started forth
so bravely with a first-class ticket ex-
pected to be forced to ride back in the
"innards" OF an. ocean greyhound, but
such is life. The purveyors of food,
shelter and entertainment abroad saw
them coming md were prepared
hence the third class tickets.
Stringent emigration regulations In
Russia make it very difficult, it is said,
for subjects of the ear to bid him a
fearful farewell and seek more con-
genial climes. So far as certain of the
Russian immigrants are concerned the
Russian regulations cannot be made too
strict to suit this country. 1t might
not be going too far to say that certain
students of the immigration problem
which confronts the United States
would not lose any sleep over it If
Russia made it absolutely impossible
for any of its citizens to escape.
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