The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-16
FRISCO LETTER
Continued from page one)
,mpliment a young woman could be

given.
Anna Gaffney was a decent girl"
To all the suitors who came her
way, good and bad-and there were
both, she tossed her sunny head-and
held her job. Not until Jim Langley
a well dressed, well hammered young
man of her district crossed her path
did she hesitate He was better
dressed little more romantic than
other suitors and he held her fascin-
ated. He pointed out a little cottage, !
vine covered, at the top of a nearby |
hill-and talked of love. She listened |
intimates who told her of another
side to Jim Langley. She half be-
lieved them for a time, but Jim eX-
planned everything away and she
loved him. A gentle mother protested
but for the first time in her life
Anna couldn't listen. She answered !
the protest by stealing away in the
shadows of a night and she and Jim
were married.
Her parents forgave her. From
then on they knew nothing of Annals
real life-until something happened.
Two weeks after their marriage hel
left her one evening Gust for a few
minutes" She waited all that night
and into the next morning for him.
A little later he took her and a girl
I friend down town, left them on the
corner at ten o'clock "just for a min
ute" and returned at twelve Keeling
with drunkenness. She could hardly
get him home, and everybody on the
, car laughed at her"
T She moved her home so the other
[ people in the house wouldn't know.
7 He drank more than ever, and she
l. moved again and again with him TO
/, escape the humilating knowledge
. her friends might gain. Finally he
/, quit work altogether and she had to
I, begin work again as a stenographer
d to support them both
s Then he stole my money" she
explained afterwards He pawned
r my watch and made me get his meals
n and pay the rent, and he abused me. 81
It 81 stood it up to Tuesday. One
It night he struck me, and a man came
/, in to separate us. Tuesday night he
,r tore my collar off and pinched my
W neck black and blue. He said het
Or kill me, and I screamed. A girl il
n the next room came in and he threw
us both out I lost so much sleel
at from worry that / couldn't do m,
as work properly. I lost job after job.
i'll 1t was just a story of beatings an
Of abuses after that. The kindnesse
on of a gentle girl were repaid wit
Ie- curses and kicks She wouldn't g
home. She had too much pride, an
"a did not want her folks to know all tn
N. terrible things he did after they hal
G advised her not to marry him. Sh,
l. loved her jim. She wanted to elevat,
mr. him, wanted him to be a man. Sh,
nj thought he was good once, and be
" cause she found him a brute she be
I'd gan her bitter struggle to put hin
on his feet She hunted jobs for hin
and so did her parents-they though
he was having hard luck.
One night her mother came witt
news of a job, but Jim was or
:. Anna waited until nearly morning
Of then he came home drunk and abuse
NJ her The thread of her strength wa
he near the swapping point She too
q. some of her things and went home
r.. Late in the day she set out to fin
DC him again.
Waiting in front of a saloon unit
R. he came out, intoxicated, she plea
Of with him to come home. He curse
her. vilifed her. She cried and the
he he struck her. An Italian bootblacI
ne protested volubly, 81 no treata my wifi
3o like a dat" he cried angrily Jir
a took her to a restaurant near by an
,r. she asked for her handbook and MAJ
TE riage license which he had take
IS. from her. He gave her the bankboo
N and demanded $40 to pay a man
ct saloon license. The saloonman, h
nd said, had lost all his money on tn
of races Anna refused the money, an
so Jim struck her and went back t
We the saloon.
he Crazy with it all, Anna ran into
tn pawnbrokers and pawned her waite
for something she put under her Goa
She went back to the saloon an
ri, waited She finally sent man in t
get Jim, and he came out drunke
than ever. He swore terribly, s
badly that even the DRINKS with hil
protested. go home with your vii
and be decent" bawled one.