Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-05
rrespondcnce Of The Star.
NEW YORK. February 1.

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HY do many New York
NJ folks disappear?
KAk Oh. because. That isn't
w frivolous answer. It's
the only available or SEN
sible one. There are as many reasons
for disappearance as there are disap-
bearers.
For example. the police statistics
show that eighteen thousand men
have deserted their wives in New York
during the past five years. That is
10 say. they disappeared. They had
become weary of paying rent. meat
and grocery bills. shoes and stocking
bills-and bills. Perhaps too. some of
them had been guilty of the out
rageous moral delinquency of becom-
ing weary of their wives Who
knows?
anyhow. they disappeared. They
went away from here. Their disap-
pearances were planned and carried
out and made good. Few of these dis
appearances got into the papers, be
cause the disappearers in these in
stances were poor folk, and therefore
Lopelessly unimportant. The few cases
out OF these eighteen thousand that
did trickle. largely or just $3.50 into
the news. were cases of men of large
means: which perhaps goes To bolster
up the theory that even rich man
might in some circumstances become
tired OF the Standardization of the
bills. bills. bills. Or even become some
what tired OF his wife.
And. on the other side of it. many
thousands OF married women have dis
appeared during the past five years
from their New York homes. Their
disappearance generally was coinci-
dental or synchronous with the dis
appearance OF some male person other
than their husband This goes to
show. what seems not in the least
startling TO this writer. that 1T is just
as possible. if not possibler, for wife
to become aweary of her husband. as
ii is vice versa.
Folks just go away. that's all. in New
York as elsewhere. though the proportion
of going folks i'll New York may
be and probably is greater than ia other
American cities.
A rule. there isn't anything what
ever mysterious in the cases OF these
iisappearers. The disappcarers know per-
fectly well-who should know better
why they go away. There s Il reason 70.
their disappearing and they know all
about il. It's thei: little secret. that's
all. and. beyond that. il is strictly and
exc usively their own business. Some
thing whispers unto them that the time
for them to- execute Il getaway has come,
and so they execute il.
There isn't any foul play" SO termed
by tho yallerinos. connected With one out
Of ten thousand of these disappearance
ases- The disappearances haven't been
sunk in sewer. or sewed in n bag and
tossed into the North East river. or
'.iurcd'' Ia some lonesome old manor
house in Westchester county and chained
in loafhsome dungeon. or anything
whatever like that.
They've just picked up their mocrasins
in "A way of speaking. and beat il when
they felt that the time had nudged along
for them 10 do that same.
Who among MS. leading the strenuous
Afe with Il soupcon of wandeciust mixed
therein hasn't accomplished one or two
or perhaps several of those disappear
ances? II the undersigned for example
had been plastered in the newspapers
every time het had made quick and far
jumps from the place he happened TO he
in. and without ever saying the teenchies;
little word about il to anybody because
he really didn't think il would interest
anybody. why. he'd have "A collection of
clippings about his disappearance that
could hardly be contained in an old fash
oncd Saratoga trunk.
II is OF course. when a young lady
,erson disappears whose papa has quite
bundle OF tucked-away loot-a Young
ady person who. by stretching ii a hit.
rs in recen. case. can be called an
theiress"-that the largest and noisiest
aubbub is raised over her getaway The