The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-07-14
That British Man
Mrs. Banssmth Talk,
About Her Neighbors.

We'll, It's my opinion that men who
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 | know that he is a per
| feet brute beast to his own wife.
The Giddaps' washwoman told me
about it. 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 EN-,
| because she says it's such a relief to
| her to get the load off her poor mind.
But the very idea OF that Giddap
man talking about another man beat
| ing his wifc-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 cold 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 If, hoity-toity, a
married woman should be obliged to
make 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, MIS-, Giddap had gone to
the matinee performance of that show
only couple of days before, though, Of
course, she hadn't considered it neces-
sary to say anything to her husband
about it, and, of course, she didn't care
to see the same show twice. But,
would you believe it, Giddap got as
grouchy as could be over it! He said
that he wanted to see the show him
self anyhow-the selfish brute! He
never stopped to think for a moment
that there We're other shows in town
that his wife wanted to see.
yes, and he told her that he was
going to see that show, for which he
had the tickets, too, and that if she
didn't want to see it a second time,
why, he'd go alone and she could stay
at home. He fatty refused to run
downtown ahead of her and change
| the seats for some other show-the
miserable, callousy reconsideration of
these men, isn't it dreadful
Then he started to change into his
evening clothes right 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 ex-
element, the pair OF scissors that Mrs
| Giddap had in her hand few 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
Well when she saw that Giddap
| believed that she had thrown the scis-
sors at him a-purpose, Mrs. Giddap be-
came still more excited, aad she
started toward him, sort of screaming
| like, and what do you think the mon
ster did then? Why he grabbed ahold
of her from behind and held her arms
| tight to her sides, holding them there
| just as II 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 off 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
ne wouldn't have bought the tickets
for it-just like all these men, crazy
to make slaves OF their wives!
well, when she was so tired OF be-
Ing held that way that she couldn't
stand up, he let her into a 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, be 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 f1eld!"