The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-21
WHAT PEOPLE WILL DO FOR MONEY
Man in Breach of Promise Suit Grotesque and Pit
liable Figure1People Incredibly Mean About
Money-Poverty One of the Potent Ills.
eY.EsThER GRIFFIN WHITE.
A man instituting breach of pro,

eY.EsThER GRIFFIN WHITE.
A man instituting breach of prom
Use suit is a sorry spectacle
But man losing one is abject.
1t is lately chronicled in the papers
that one "Ruzzielamb" had thus been
coldly turned down by jury of his
peers
And for fifty-thousand dollars.
This interesting youth publicly
professed himself to have been madly
in love for nine years with fasci.
mating lady many years his senior. He
said that she had encouraged him and
had led him to believe that he was the
object of her hearts fondest aspira.
ton.
Il am amazed" deployed the fair, II
wary, one. 1T was only for amuse
ment. Surely you were not so silly as
to take me seriously. Pooh-nonsense
run along. l have no time to parley
thus. There are others
Thus handed the frozen heart. the
dabbler in feminine stocks saw his
chance of a fortune oozing into the
murky future and betook himself in
desperation to the courts.
But the seven obdurate ones finally
worried the Ave tender ones into that
state where juryman will agree to
anything if they'll only let him out.
And SO was "Ruzzielamb" buncoed
out of fifty thousand we'll earned dol
lars.
The question still remains. however
would this canny young gentleman
who still posed as masculine ingenue
led into the brambles, skirting the
primrose path by a too sophisticated
maiden-have maintained the same
degree of ardour if the lady in ques
ton had not been possessed of the al
Turing golden ducats?
A woman and her money are soon
parted. Sometimes.
Still another confiding man led
astray by a designing woman-thus
the moral
Alas for the men.
However the peculiar brand Of men
tally that decides to run to the courts
to recount its grievances in matters
pertaining to love and affection" IL
not explainable on any grounds.
If rejected of man, or woman, the
natural course to pursue would be tc
run to cover instead to the open and
there bowling and baying the moon
Or suing the tickle one. For, accord
ing to records baying of the moon IL
about as fruitful in results as suing
for breach Of promise or damages OF
anything else.
But woman scorned-everyone
knows the old saw. 1t seems, though
that man scorned is also urged on BY
the furies. Especially after he hal
served a nine years noviauate witt
the shining prize just over the border
or round the corner.
People will do anything for money.
Whenever you hear Of a family fuss
don't look for the woman but for the
dollar
People will be incredibly NEAR
about money. People, too, who may
oCCIAs vi AdFO 0NCuACOs IAO pOoSCo6OIk
of every virtue Or at least are decent
human beings.
Strike them on the money question
and see how soon they will curl up.
Did you ever try to sell ticket tt
an amateur entertainment to your
best friend?
1t is a true test. II they buy you
may depend upon them to attend your
funeral and even weep. If they dom,
you may know what to expect after
you're dead.
Men who profess to be philanthropit
whose voices are raised in the syna
gogue, who are constantly seen sitting
on the front seats at meetings to con
slider reforms, who are jovial back
slappers, who make neat little speech
es at banquets, who walk out will
their wives on Sunday afternoon and
take their children to the Glen to sex
the bear, will be guilty Of the mos
acrobatics.
When money is brought on the car
pet, SO to speak, every nerve is drawn
taut They are beings of another phas.
of existence.
Men deceive, side-step, four-f1ush
lie, cheat, steal, fight, scheme, murder
commit any villiany and consider
themselves justified-for money.
What men will do for money ant
what they will do for other human &C
tivities bear no relation to each other