| Show THE JIACKAYi The MACKATS are now suing for libel the proprietors of a Paris newspaper in which something reflecting on the past his tory of Mrs MACKAT was printed The poor journalists will probably bo punished by fine and may be by imprisonment And then let us all hope that the distinguished sagebrushers wife and husband will get some of the good common sense which ought i to accompany the Immense wealth which they possess and will cease this business I of hiring high priced lawyers to vindicate their characters and early history by prosecuting prose-cuting editors and publishers Mrs MAC KAY is undoubtedly a very estimable lady She is kindhearted and benevolent and does much good in this world with her money Because she is estimable and good it is to bo regretted that she has such a weak spot in her mental makeup that she persists in pos ing so ridiculously before the world and insists upon doing those things which invite to her annoyance It is also to be regretted that her husband bighearted wholesouled man that be is should be compelled by reason of his affection and respect for his wife to pose in attitudes which men do not like to assume Mrs MACKATS especial grievance is that Her enemies through spite or for amusementsay that her blood is not of azure color and that in her less prosperous earliershe years concocted con-cocted the succulent hash for the hungry miner and purified his soiled linen Now of course all this is absolutely false the assertions are base and willful fabrications And yet being lies would it not be better for a lady to treat them with the silent contempt which is a womans most effec tive weapon and argument Would it not be better to do this than to rush into court to prove ignorance of broiling steaks and laundry performances only to be laughed at by everybody who despises vanity JOHN MACKAY should have a good plain talk with his wife in the course of which he should inform her that millionaires and their wives do not as a rule appeal to the courts to judicially establish the color of their blood nor are they in the habit of showing annoyance in public when enemies or vicious newspaper scribblers say unpleasant un-pleasant things about them He might if ho were sufficiently impressive induce her to feel that it was no disgrace that she was once poor and worked like millions of good women are working today for a living And probably he might bring her to think that this ostentatiom defense of a character charac-ter which has not been assailed in any vital part is not considered by society as S conclusive evidence of good breeding As excuse and justification for this square talk ho might tell her that her thinness of cuticle as to her antecedents frequently fqrced him into ridiculous attitudes and caused his old time friends and admirers the men who knew him and admired him as honest hardworking hard-working JOHN MACKAY who knew so little about physiology that ho innocently thought all blood was red to laugh at bio discomfiture while in their hearts they pitied him Unless the bump of vanity her head has developed abnormally we believe be-lieve that such a talk between husband and wife as wo have suggested would result in good that Mrs MACKAT would show by her contempt for slanderers that she is a lady and that the minersand other good people of the west would be spared these petty displays of weakness which an excellent ex-cellent but too vain woman has been making mak-ing for the past dozen years |
