White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-12-28
THE CASE OF MRS.
AOOLPHUS PAPE
HOW MATTERS A pPARENTLY
TRIVIAL But CONTINUOUSLY
IRRITATING SOMETIMES DE-
VELOP INTO IRREPARABLE
DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES.

Mrs. Adolphus d. Pape of New
York has filed a petition asking for
a legal separation from her husband.
She does not charge brutality or in
fidelity; on the contrary, she alleges
that her husband sneezes against the
glass door of the china closet; tn t he
is sarcastic; that he puts his feet
upon the dinner table; and, last but
not least he gossips with the servants
in the kitchen.
The Philadelphia Record takes a
serious editorial slant at the fore
going and makes 1t the text of a
sermonette on domestic friction and
the trials and tribulations of the in
compatible.
1t is easy to make these conten-
tons targets of ridicule; the fact re-
mains that In many instances of
marital infelicity 1T is just these
trivial matters that are as the proven
bial dropping that wears away the
stone. says the Record. When the
source of annoyance is mentioned it
may seem so insignificant that it is
beneath notice-yet to the daily and
hourly victim its importance is
magnified by its frequent recurrence.
The habit of snoring does not create
SO much of a disturbance as the dis
charge of a gun or the alarum of an
engine whistle, but TO one in the same
room who is kept awake it is an
acute discomfort. Surveyors and ex-
plorers have apologized for mention
ing insect pests in accounts of their
experiencesJ-but ants and mosqui-
toes have been responsible for the
collapse of more than one engineer
ing undertaking. But among the
concessions husband and wife must
make to each other should be the
abolition of disagreeable practices to
which one or the other is I'M
accustomed. 1t may be so trivial as
the pronunciation of a word, or a
trick of unreined table or
a slouching gait. or any offensive
portant as a studious failure in deli
cate consideration, or submergence
in ones own selfish interests and
creature comforts, or disregard of the
right of e ach to his individuality and
his own point of view. Whatever it
may be, the rift in the lutte of marital
concord is more often due to the
small beginnings of superficial fric-
ton than to the graver issues of dis
parity in moral standards or men,
tally or temperament.
Many persons remain together
merely because their separation
would precipitate a scandal, and the
reverberating echoes of rumor would
cause them discomfort more acute
than that of continuing to dwell in
proximity. They have long ago found
each other out and each Is bored by
the others society. Some receive the
fact with the passive submission born
of hopelessness. others resent the IT.
~retrievable error with occasional par
oxysms of ungovernable fury; but
there Is even in such instances a tacit
conspiracy to keep up appearances
and let the world know nothing OF
the infelicity that began 1t may be
soon after the wedding day. Mrs.
Pape is one OF many women who has
been made miserable by things that
seem small to the world, and yet
loom large on the domestic horizon.
Her experience emphasizes the need
of weighing well the small
peccadilloes. as well as the more
formidable infirmities. when making
the choice of a companion for a life
time.