The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-20
SHOW GIRL ID MAKE MAN 0F HUSBAND
Takes Him to Texas to Put
 Him to Work
HIS FATHER OBJECTED
MT. Daugherty Learned His New Daughter Was the Right Sort and Formed an Agree
 ment With Her

New York, February 19.-(Special)- Mrs. Dessa Gibson -Daughterty trailed up the gangplank of Texas-bound steamer today. In one hand she held bag stuffed with many yellow bills. Tn the other she held Mr. Draper Daugherty. her husband, whom she is taking to Texas to put to work. On the pier stood many sobbng members of the musical show with which Mrs. Daugherty has been connected in the city.
 "And believe me-" said one of the most prominent weepers, Tapping a soggy handkerchief at the departing bride, be leve me, kid, there's one stage marriage that will make good.'
 If appearances might be trusted, Mir. Draper Daugherty was not nearly so anx- ious to leave New York as his show girl wife. He displayed hesitation that might have been almost dubbed reluctance as she took him up the sangplank and showed him to their stateroom, and then sat modestly nearer to the door of the stateroom than her husband did during the fareweling. There were hints among the members of the musical show that MT. Daugherty has been deserted, that nothing but the fact that his supplies had been cut off induced Mir. Daugherty to leave for Texas, statement which he had hitherto regarded as traditionary.
 Mrs. Daugherty is widely known on the musical stage as one of the prettest of the Metropolitan crop of show girls. MT. Daugherty is the 21-year-old son of Harry M. Daugherty of Columbus, 0. MT. Daugherty has been very active m Ohio politics for years past.
 Some months ago he fell in love with a member of the musical show to which Miss Gibson belonged, as that organiza
 ticn played the Ohio towns. The girl he first fancied could not see the young
 Ohioan with a Lick telescope, so he
 turned his eyes toward Miss Gibson. After he had courted her through a pc- riod of weeks and over a course that comprised most of one-night stands in the west, she consented to become his bride. They were married in Buffalo. came on to the Hotel Astor here and waited for Father Daugherty to call around and for give Instead of which he cut them off. Mr. and Mrs. Draper Daugherty pawned all their valua bles. And now the un- usual part of the story begins.
 The elder Daugherty had been making some inquiries about Miss Gibson Every thing he heard was to her credit. So he came on to New York this week, looked the young couple up and got well acquainted with the wife. They had a flat on Amsterdam avenue, and according to the members of Miss Gibsons company the father-in-law and the daughter la " learned to admire and respect each other.
 Every now and then they sent Draper Daugherty out to get d job. He usually returned with a fresh pack of cigarettes The elder Daugherty decided that his
 sons wife could come nearer keeping his sons feet in the narrow path than any
 one else, and so he made them propo- sition.
 "PI send you to Texas" he told the pair. "Dessa will handle all the money.
 The most you get, Draper, is a chance to go to work on some of my properties out there. You are not given the opportunity to say No Dessa and I have talked this over and decided on what is to be
 done''
 According to Mrs. Dessa Daugherty' $ show girl friends her handbag was filled with 5000 in cold cash when she went
 away, and she had placed a combination lock on it, where she alone knew the combination. She trotted about town this week and paid all of her husbands petty debts and handled the disbursing end of wardrobe account opened for both. Every now and then Draper got an Ice cream soda The younger Mrs. Daugherty
 is president and general manager of the firm of the wife and young Daugherty, unincorporated, and the elder Daugherty is backing her in her new position. Relieve me-, said one prominent mourner heretofore referred to, on the pier, there is one marriage of a show girl and rich man that will make per- fectly good"