The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-02
is THERE ANY CHANCE
FOR THIS GIRL WIFE AND
HER FAI7F4LESS HUSBAND?

Tearfully telling the tale of a
temptress-or rather two of them
"a 2Q-year-old girl wife appealed
to Press reporter last night, ask
ing for some way to keep her low
able, but too erring husband from
the wiles of adventuresses who had
already wrecked two homes, and
were threatening the happiness of
third. Mrs. wanted adj
vice and perchance assistance, and
an appeal to the police she was
reserving as a last resort, feeling
that but little could be expected
from that source.
Three years or more ago this
girl-wife was married to her pres
quarrels, chickering's and broken
promises several times during this
time. Other women have attract
ed her husband, who is four or five
years her senior, and good-looking,
but he has promised and promised
again to be true to the one he has
promised to love and cherish, and
the brave little woman has never
lost her love. She married him to
reform him, and women who do
that generally cOnScientiously try
to fulfill their unspoken marriage
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While in Spokane, where she is
working in one of the big stores,
she has had periods of happiness
all too brief-living with her hus-
band at a hotel on Riverside. But
the two women-not more than
girls, either-who have blighted
her life, appeared on the scene.
They are sisters, who formerly
worked in one of the big depart
ment stores here, but were given
notice to leave on account of their
fast habits. One now goes under
the name of Johnson and the other
of just plain Smith.
These girls seemed to take a
spiteful delight in cultivating the
husband of this girl-wife, and they
used to come over to the table
where the two were eating dinner
in the evening at the hotel. They
would endeavovr to lead him from
his wife, and the temptation grew
stronger and stronger. Weak-mind-
ed and fool that he is, it was but
a few days before he hardened to
the invitations dinned into his ears,
and followed them to their roem.
Since then, at sporadic intervals,
he has returned to his wife, but
his intimate relations with the
extraordinarily fascinating, garish-
ly bewitching-girls. has caused an.
ache in her heart and turmoil in
her mind that have driven her al
most to the solace of the cool riYer
or the deadly drug. saH
Three times she has left her hus-
band and the hotel Three times
he has given the same old promise
and they have lived together again.
A few days ago the girl-wife' left
the hotel, and took a room by her
self. Yesterday her husband came
to her and pleaded with her to take
lunch with him at the hotel. She
yielded. and there was angered and
mortified by a recurrence of the
same old story. The husband
seemed not to care that he Haunted
the girls in his wife's face, and he
talked to them quite calmly at the
table, knowing that his wife knew
only too well what his relations
had been and were with them 1t
was then that she appealed to a po-
liceman-just the first ono y 90 70
happened to meet on the street.
but he said he couldn't be ooCnt red
butting in.
And the marvel of it is, this girl
wife still loves that husband. She
is still willing to forgive him. With
her, he is not yet beyond the lale.