The evening world. Newspaper, May 31, 1913, Page 10

The Evening Wor Belly Bacapt Sender by fhe Frees Psbiioniag Company, Nos, 58 & Row, rob PERS Bieta PIO hen = AS TO A CERTAIN KIND. OF WIFE. | AIN and extravagant habits of near-society women which lead Wy te and divoroé came in for a stinging and well- : merited from Supreme Court Justice Aspinall in « “Brooklyn divorce ‘ease, A woman sued her husband for absolute sroe and $78,000 a year alimony. The husband made affidavit the plaintiff “by her extravagance and extravagant expenditures, insane desire for social display and her irascibility of temper, bas been aggravated by her over-indulgence in intoxicating jore, bas estranged the defondant and made his home life unbear- ” Of the $1,000,000 fortune which the husband inherited only 000 is said to remain. It was when the wife’s attorney, demand- $78,000 a year alimony, protested that his client must be main- “according to her station in life” that Justice Aspinall ex- stern disgust. | _ “Her station in life!” exclaimed the Justice. “That sounds very in novels, but many a woman has to marry a rich man before has a ‘station in lifo’ at all.” In the opinion of the Justice the intiff had been living too high, had taken advantage of her hus- e “softness,” and in consequence had lost his interest and re- “These society women live at Rits-Caritons, smoke cigarettes ‘Grink wine. They spend money like water instead of trying to @ happy homes for their husbands. They don’t want children. y had rather ride the length of Fifth avenue with spangled poodle than care for their own flesh and blood.” -4f-more judges were to speak out like this it might not be as 7 as it now seems to be for frivolous, over-indulged wives to into court with brazen pleas for freedom and big alimony. Their to be sure, are often weak and usually erring. But does all be blame rest on the husband? More and more of these unhappy, “affairs” are directly traceable to the fact that the couple gone through a lot of money together and the wife finds there enough left to make life worth living—with him. To this type in the courts are likely to appear rather attractive places for parade. Lawyers and judges too often cynically or indiffer- help-along the show. Right thinking people will be gind that Aspinall has spoken his mind and put this,type of adventnrnss where ghe belongs. x ee WHY NOT? + Perhiape the perturbed Michigan e@itor could prove anto-intox- len on the Colonel. eS ROMANCE AND REALITY. THERE any city in the world where s novelist can lannch an Dp saventurous hero into a richer variety of. thrilling experience s ‘than right here in New York?. The @Artagnan of old made it for Paris and the court. What were his chances for an lifé compared with those of the modern American @Artagnan brings quick wits and a ready hand to hear on Manhattan? In Wonderful Night” Louis Tracy, author of “Mirabel’s Tsland,” the curtain on a vivid romance of New York life. The firet in-| t will be found in the Sunday World Magazine. to-morrow, In! seme issue Winifred Harper Cooley, National President of the} lated Clubs of Domestic Science, tells how to live on nine cents | Gay; John Pau) Farrell describes how it feels to be put throngh | third degree for thirty hours in the hands of nine detectives: n of polo, “the sport of millionaires,” shows why the coming three ‘Beye’ international championship contest will cost 826,000 n day, and, professor of astronomy relates how he made the shadow of a church ple save a man from the penitentiary. A new motor boat that} g0 sixty-five miles an hour, the prescnce in New York of the! family of Mexico’s slain President, a pair of lost pigeons tha: worth $5,000 to the finder, and more doing of Paul West's irro ible protege, Bill the Office Boy, are other features that maki World Magazine for to-morrow a good morning’s readi ae, 2 “oe here he ing for | -—2ee --——— Wf the Mayor’s pet Police Commissioner Is to be removed, then District-Attorneys, State Governors, Presidents and Supreme Court Judges might as well get ready for the rag bag. Letters From the Peop! e Meal sometimes causes indigestion as well an other stomach diseases, Masiy downtown einployera spend xbout an hour and a half for lune! 4 then go out for @ walk; while the peer office employees eagerly watch the clock f>: | Revit Comrmatha Was York Rvestag Wordly s Ate. Clara Mudridye-smith rolled Up the atreet in her electric car. |. Or, rather, the oar gilded up the street bearing that refulgent youns at ‘the precise hour appointed, ning downstairs, employer's wife eq je. But Mrs. Jarr Velaurely adjusted her veil and, even ily patted her hair new hat through t! hatpin while she held the other in her ips. Also did she most carefully and slowly draw on her gloves, and, as they were ° ‘were placed unwrinkled. I these (eremontes of the irini roum, care the back- at the glass to see if her or if, turning around er constantly consulted friend, the mirror, there was too much or too little powder on her nose. ‘Then she bit her lips to make them red (the other headgear stilejto now being Temoved from and thrust also in the hat); th he moistened her w lan ekirt hung to face ag that they might assume the closing hour so that they can gu home and eat a real meal. a F< i E E E oy i nt << and otherwise made all 1d Daify Mag to keep the waiting all afternoon? For, strani gay. she came at the time she said she would!* Pete you get me nervous!” retorted ra. Jarre petulantly, “How did you that spot on your coat lapel?” ae it It was of no consequence, "It 18 of consequence!” replied Mrs. Jarr, rubbingly vigorously, “Only the Bicest people go to the tango matinees at the Hotel St, Croesus, and if I were Qs careless with my clothe: with yours I'd be a pretty sight!” Mr, Jarr, who was in all the tortures of his “pallbearers,” as he called his attire of frock coat, gloves, high hat and patent leather shoes, only groaned ‘2 \and murmured that he wouldn't be sur- prised Mf Mre, Mudridge-Smith, growing Impatient at thelr delay, should order her man ‘to “roll his hoop,” doubtless The Hedgeville Editor By Foha L, Hobbie. | Copyright, 1913, by The Prow Publish ing Co, (The New York Evening World). EV, FROST says that more young couples ‘would get marriod if they | didn't put It off until they well tired of each other, PNRY PARKS saya that the more IH hate he buys for his wife the Darder it ts to keep her at home, Saturday.’ May ry x CK CLK KKK KKK KKK KEKE KE KEKE KKK EK eee Mr. Jarr Adds to His Ignorance Upon the Subject of Womankind FHKE EK EEK EEE EK KEKE KEK KS KO Meaning to giide away in the electric, “Bill etorted Mr, Jarr, “Don't you motor, fee I meant she was simply angry be- “Don't you worry about Clara Mud- caves Clara Mudridge-Smith has cut her idge-Smith getting impatient,” sald since Clara had married so well and Mrs, Jarr. “It will serve Mra. Rangle|}has motor cars to take her friends dust right, too!” jSround in? Not that I think I am under “Why will our delaying” (he was any obligations to Claca Mudridge- afraid to say “YOUR delaying”) “pleane | Smith e added, “I guess not! your friend waiting in front of the; “Well, really we shouldn't keep her house and annoy your other friend who | waiting, you know," murmured Mr. lives down the street?’ asked Mr. Jarr.|Jarr. “You've got me to come home in “Bhe is just that spiteful, because Clara|time to tako yon to the tango tea and Mudridge-Bmith has what she has and jnow you are keeping the lady waiting. & motor car, too. And if you could hear | “Clara won't be ready till Tam," sald the way she talke! I put up with {ti Mrs, Jarr. “She hasn't yet dropped her Patiently the other day white she just gold mesh bag out of her car near the tore poor Clama @o pieces for two!pavement and had her man in livery get hours, and then I sald: ‘Mrs. Rangle, 1) down and pick it up and touch his hat Won't permit you to say a word about as he hands it back to her. my friend. You knew Clara Muariage-| “he's only’ had about time to take a Smith before she was married, just as/ rose out of the fiver vase in the car well as I aid!” and give it to a poor child. And Pll “Well?” inquired Mr. Jarr. ieee Mrs, Rangle is crazy mad if Clara “Don't you see how that was a facer|has handed it to her little Mary. May for that Rangle woman?” asked Mrs./she'll crush Mrs. Rangle by giving ¢ darr, ‘It was a good one, too!” child a penny, too, for Mrs. Rangle “T don't got you," sald Friend Husband/ean't very well stick her head out of t with a sigh. {the window from where she's watching {behind the blind and call the child. | “Well, we'll go now. Clara has the er car open so the sun can shine rings and her gold vanity box. we won't keep her waiting.” ,. “But why this frontal attack In the | Ladies’ War pulled off at our modest ‘menage?’ asked Mr, Jarr. as they RS, FORK says she never sus- {started for the stairs. M pects her husband until he be-| 1 thought it my duty to tell Clara th gins to figure out some good| way Mrs, Ranglo talked, and that exouses. |why I gave Clara a chance to mal os (Mra. Rangle wild!" LD FORK saye that the best) “What chance bas a man” Mr. Jarr Mother makes the worst mother- ‘asked himself, as he followed his wife ‘to her friend's triumphal chariot. top on SL. Kies y Conartaht, 1910, by ‘Tee frees Pubitshing Co, (The New York Rrentne World), T this time of year a man doesn't give hie heart to a girl; he merelp A sublets it to her for a week or 80. It te 00 hard for a man to tel whether his wife's kiss of greeting when he comes in late te one of forgiveness or merely one of investigation. In his most violent momente of irritation a man can think of no more Dditter and stinging invective to hurl at his wife than that grim, brutal, crushing reproach “Yer just like yuh MOTHER!” While the dashing, fascinating flirt is leading al men a chase the quiet, wise, Httle, long headed thing is usually busy making snares with WAIh to trip up the most eligible among them as they go by. « During a summer flirtation, when a man's conscience begins to act, @ te @ sure sign that his heart is beginning to react. Of course bugs, deettes, wasps and cows are fearsome and appalling things, Dut there is nothing for a summer girl really to be afraid of except @ red headed widow. dna Goodrich says that “diondes must go!" Go! Where? And they do, won't all the men sudderily discover that they have engagements in that direction too? Most girle marry because they are tircd of work; most men because they are tired of play, and then they biame matrimony for giving them “that tired feeling.” The average man's love 4s fearfully and wonderfully made. The Week’s Wash By Martin Green Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World). 66 qT seems to me,” doctared the head total wreck any man who doean’t ad- polisher, “that Col, Roosevelt here to their standards of conduct’ keeps closer tabs on his liquor than any moderate drinker that ever crooked an elbow.” “Col Roosevelt,” declared the laun- @ry man, “isn't a moderate drinker More jed Citron? 66] WENT up and looked at thd ] monument to the memory of the H herocs who went down with the Maine yesterday,” remarked the head polisher. y: “So did 1,” eald the laundry “and I haven't got over it yet.” that the monument has been dedicated and {ts fastened on the city for all time He's an anchorite and I can prove it, Any man with a mint bed under his nose and an old negro mint julep mixer (addicted to Putting ® slug of brandy in with the rye at his elbow) who restricts himsoif to atx Julepe in seven years is a lem- perance hero, If I were on the jury I'd let him off on his mint julep batting average alone. “To those who have seen much of the Colonel it is not surprising that reports as to hie overindulgence tn Uquor have spread over the countrs and were believed by many. I have seen him many times when a casual ob- server would have sworn he had been tanking up. But ho was perfectly sobe; and hadn't tasted liquor, When the Colonel is interested he simply turns himself loose all over the place And phlegmatic persons have often misjudged his enthusiasm, “From the testimony given thus far tn out at Marquette the Colonel does: appear to have surrounded itn all his life enough to last a seasoned booze fighter through more than two or three Jags. But walt until the temper- to come it Is proper to say th have picked another artistic lemon, “In all the great crowds in the Cirele yesterday IT heard few words of coms mendation for the monument as a work of art or a harmonious memorial. It looks more Uke a soda fountain than like a monument. But I suppose it was the beat the committee could dm * Strangely enough, when the time ones for designing @ lasting memorial to be set up In a public place in this town'all the masters of art and sculpture take to the woods aud leave the job to sub: stitutes.” 6s said the head polisher, | the Board of Education & talking about discharging a mare ried wornan teacher who hag become @ mother.” “The Board of Education,” reptied te = laundry man, ‘is consistently £ et through with him, His mail will be flooded with Importunities for him to give up his tippling habite and confine himself to water an@ mili, “Ita a strange thing that an ex- President of the United States should fihd it necessary to go into a court of law to prove that he is not a drunkard, Such a proceeding could come to —_ only in this great Republic, w the theoby that the less a women knows hypocrisy masquerades as morality and | about children the more competent she the gelf-proclaimed elect regard ag a| is to teach school.” \ | I Weather Prophets 4,000 Years Back LONDON theologian has recently A claimed for the prophets ef old & Knowledge of science far greater than modern man gives them credit to "He says that they prophesied because they understood perfeotly the laws ef nature, For instance, the weather moves te cycles and that was ® fact known ages jamiths| He. oe By P. L. Crosby ¥ ago. Tho cycle is nineteen years. Mijan Predicted a drought in the land, “Am the Lord God of Israel liveth, there shall not be dew nor rain these years but ae cording to my word." The scientists of those days eqsia : have predicted the drought as well as Elijah, for it was known at that tme that droughts move In cycles of mine- teen years, says tne Chicago TRbane, and it was then just 42x19 years aster Pharaoh's drought in thé days of “o: Seph, and that was 6x19 years after the drought in the time of Isaae, as re corded in Genesis xxyt, Nineteen years after down Bijan calles drought and famine om the ‘Vor the Lor hath The drought in predicted, but it was | Pharaoh's drought, we In all probability the astronomers "9¢" the ancient world were familiar with’ the cycles of drought and famine jest {as they were with the cycles of eclipses 4,000 years before our era, fe | undoubtedly the Egyptians of the cycles of fat and lege