The Washington times., 1923-03-14

JETS ITS JT6e0OW 20 ITS HOWtGs
Mrs. Schneider, going to the apart
pte1tt she has fitted up for him,
finds another aOOns07tss clothes and
tears her O1On picture from bureau.
Then she calls on Bstzzi md tells
him his 1Oife u liVing avith hen. lssts-
band. Bxzzi calls on Schneider,
aVho offers to giUe itp Mrs. Bnxzi.
But Buz@i decides lie Ii through
Nth her foaeUer. N0aO 30 on NTH
the story.
BY VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE.
Copyright. 1873. 81 Cosmopolitan
News Service
| NEW YORK, March 1.-THE
United States entered the war.
Frederick Schneider, veteran of
the Spanish and Philippine wars,
threw up his prosperous contract
Iinr busifess and enlisted. He be-
came b captain of engineers, doing
] important cant0nnaent work. For
= Tina he was stationed IN New
Mrs. Buxzi enlisted In the WON
ems motor corps. for whom she
drove an ambulance. She also be-
came 4 crack pistol shot.
When he came out of the army,
after the war, Frederick Schneider
resumed his contracting business.
He also took up his residence again
with Mrs. Buzzi, for whom he had
maintained home ever since her
husband divorced her on his ac-
count. Schneider's business pros
pered. He received contracts Tor
excavating for many Of the big
ing up In the Bronx.
Provided For Mrs. Schneider.
He continued to make ample pro-
vision for Mrs. Minnie Schneider,
his lawful wife. Besides paying
her rent, he made her generous
allowance and then bought her d
sedan. III which she spent much OF
her time riding around the coun-
try Mrs. Schneider had only to
let him know over the telephone of
any wish. and he gratified it. In
spite Of the fact that he was living
openly with Mrs. Buzzi as his wife.
friendly relations between his real
wife and Frederick Schneider were
never strained They remained the
best Of friends He never asked
her to divorce him and he took
pleasure III satisfying her wants.
But her wants were sAw. She was
content to live quietly among her
neighbore the most part people
IN much more modest circumstances
among whom she was everywhere
respected and admired. She was
q familiar figure In that section OF
the Bronx where her husband had
his contracting business quiet
woman with fading blonde hair and
gentle, kindly, still pretty face,
but growing stouter with the years,
riding around in her sedan even
dropping in at his office to have i
few words with him every now
and then.
But, meanwhile, what were Fred.
erick Schneider's relations with the
other wonnar--with Anna Buzzi,
who had left her husband because
Of him. and for whom he had left
his wife? Did love still reign in the
love nest? Was Frederick Schneider
content with his other woInan-I1ow
that she had become the one woman
in his life?
Not Altogether Smooth.
Friends say that things were not
altogether smooth between Fred
erick Schneider and his love bride.
Although he treated her with as
much consideration and respect in
the home as he had treated the real
Mrs. Schnetder-although he indulg-
cd her In the things that money
could buy--although he was q
nome man at home every night
for dinner with her, and almost
every night after dinner--still, &C.
cording TO friends. there were large.
deep drifts in the lutte.
Although In the apartmentson the
Grand Concourse where they lived
together the last months of his
life, she was known as Mrs. Schnei.
der, before that in the other homes
where she lived with him, she went
by the name of Anna Ferner. And
when she was out with him. he
did not always introduce her to
people as my wife, It Ali de-.
pended on the people they met
and how much their opinion mat.
tered. If theN were people about
whom he cared nothing, he pre-.
scented Anna Buzzi as his wife. But
1t were a prominent mana
judge or somebody with whom he
wished to make the right impress.
sion. he would refer to her as ''my
friend" That was constant
source of humiliation to tho woman
who had insisted on living out her
love with him in spite of every-
thing. And there were other hi.
mutations. His continued friendly
relations with his wife reused In
MS mistress the constant spectre of
a return, some day, to a conven.
tional mode of living. And then
there were other women.
Jealous of Office Girl.
Mrs. Buzzi had not the smoothest
temper in the world and she was
Jealous--Jealous of his friendly rela-
tons with his office help. Although
he was a serious man in his office,
still he would give the girls a lift
in his car-and with one of them.
Dorothea Helm, he went out on
occasions. And in his memorandum
book were the names and addresses
and telephone numbers of many
girls and woman, who could have
had nothing to do with his business
affairs.
And Mrs. Buzzi was jealous of
Mrs Schneider--the woman whose
place she had Isurped. There ia
always the dread In a woman's
heart that the man will some day
want to go back to his wife. And
what will she have with which to
hold him when that day comes?
One day Mrs. Schneider drove up
to Thwaite's restaurant, in City Is.
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