The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-15
WHICH OF THESE WOMEN
WOULD YOU LOVE TO KNOW?

husband is man of whom any nor
NAL wife would be proud. He is
young, handsome, genteel, brilliant
and manly. His face indicates refine
ment, sensitiveness, amiability, ge-
MUS and idealism. He is universally re-
spected, even by those who like my
self, have no sympathy with many of
his beliefs.
Suddenly, his young wife left him;
and apparently for another man, Har-
ry Kemp. She and Harry are living
in the same house, with her parents.
Why did she leave her husband
and her child? From selfshness.
She does not allege that Upton
ever said an unkind word to her. She
alleges no cruelty of any sort. She
merely complains that he did not give
her more of his society. He is a
book-writer, and spent much of his
time alone. His wife resented this!
In all of her garrulous, shameless
talk to newspaper reporters she has
done little but talk of herself. Her
freedom" her soulmate, her enjoy
ment, her ideals, her happiness and
the sole text of her verbal outpour-
ings.
She appears to have forgotten her
boy; she has not said word about
him. She has not asked to see the
child-has not even inquired about his
health and his happiness.
Does the deserted infant cry for his
mother? Do the sobs and wailings,
at night, bring fresh misery to the
abandoned father?
The unnatural mother doesn't
know, and doesn't care. You know
how the child must miss it's mother.
You konw what questions he must
put to his father. You know how the
grief of the little boy must react on
the father.
Where is my mamma? When is
she coming back?"
Can't you imagine that you hear
the child asking such questions, all
through the long, long days? Can't
you almost hear him calling for his
mother. at highland then sobbing
in his sleep, after crying himself into
exhaustion? Doesn't it bring the
tears to your eyes to think of it?
But his own mother, unnatural
wretch! seems absolutely devoid of
any pity or affection tor her abandon
ed offspring! There she is in New
York, wagging her yoluble tongue tol
the reporters, sitting for her photo
graph, and preaching to the women of
America about the slavery" of mar
ried life! This depraved, soulless
creature has the effrontery to tell all
wives that, if they are tired of their
husbands, they should choose other
men.
And desert their children? If they
follow her example, they will.
A nice state of affairs, truly!
But, thank God! Where there is
one such wife as it was Sinclair's
misfortune to get, there are millions
who live for others; and who find
happiness in it.
Those who live for themselves
alone are never happy-never! We
are just so constituted that we must
do good to others to get any genuine
pleasure out of life.
Take, for example, the wife of zap
tain Van Shack, who has just been
liberated from Sing Sing.
He, you will remember was COM
mander of the excursion steamer,
Gen. Slocum," which sank off the
docks, in New York, some years ago,
and drowned a great number of peo-
pie. The old boat was unseawortny,
and someone was guilty of murder
by negligence.
| Who? Evidently the rich, power
full men who owned those excursion
boats. The captain in charge took
the same risks his passengers took.
The boat owners did not.
Consequently it stands to reason
that the captain either did not know
the boat was rotten or was helpless
in the premises. To have refused to
take the Slocum out would have
meant the loss of his job-and black
listing. He would never have got an.
other, for he was growing old
| Now, to his wife
She had engaged herself to him
previous to the accident. She mar
ried him, after his conviction and
ten-year sentence. She has worked
heroically to get him a pardon AT
length she succeeded, when he had
served about half his term.
Read what the noble wife briefly
said to the reporters:
He comes back to me an old
man." she says, but he is my hus-