Show IWAS WAS HE JUSTIFIED Samuel w Yo Burdick of Chicago has been sued for divorce His Hlf wife charges him with extreme cruelty This Is the story as told by a Chicago contemporary He went Into the parlor There he found his wife at the window in hl moody mood contemplation of the vacant lot next door In the dusk he dimly made out the figure figura of ot his sister who had come that day for a visit Why Vh hello dearie deane the mat matter matter matter ter he asked with desperate de cheer cheerfulness cheerfulness f No answer Arent you feeling well No an answer answer answer there going to be any sup supper supper supper per tonight he next hazarded at attempting attempting attempting tempting to appear careless No there Mrs Burdick re replied replied plied still sUU intent upon the geography of ot the neighborhood Well Yell dearie deane why not he inquired d soothingly I Ill Til toll tell you ou why hY not Mrs Burdick replied with sudden animation and she proceeded to enumerate several reasons reason in all of ot which Mr Burdick was waR apparently at great fault Mr 11 Burdick remonstrated with his wife but she paid no attention except to increase the speed and volume of ot other her speech according to the story of ot Mr r Burdick yesterday when his case came up in the superior court You are doing this to humiliate hu me said Mr Burdick and if you dont behave yourself Ill IU turn you over my knee and spank you like a child Mrs Burdick gazed at the some somewhat somewhat somewhat what smaller proportions of bf r her hus husband husband husband band in scorn and continued to ex expatiate expatiate upon the failings of ot Mr Bur Eur Burdick ur dick until he gently yet ret firmly but let the curtain be drawn here From this ex cx parte statement not notwithstanding notwIthstanding notwithstanding withstanding a fixed and settled belief bellet that under no circumstances has a husband the right to spank his wife is it not possible to imagine that Bur Burdick Burdick Burdick dick was justified But the chances are that Mrs Burdick had hind failed to get dinner as a result of ot a long epoch of ot bad treatment from her husband Very probably he had stayed out late night after atter night without reasonable excuse Perhaps he had come como home from the lodge or from attendance upon the bedside of a sick brother at atall atall atall all hours of the early morning a wife be blamed for refusing to get dinner for such a man especially If It he found it difficult to diagnose the key keyhole keyhole keyhole hole properly on more than one occa occasion zion sion Still It must be admitted that there are art ar few tew things more aggravating tHan tHana a dinnerless home especially when the materials necessary to a good dinner are in the house Yet if It Burdick had been a really truly gentleman he lie would have Invited his wife to go with him to the best restaurant in Chicago and partake of the finest dinner to be bought with money That would have ave been indeed a coals or of f fire treat treatment treatment ment meat Yes Best Beloved Mrs Irs Burdick is unquestionably entitled to her divorce |