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Show HEART FAME I Drummer Has Peculiar Attack j I Whenever Better Half Asked for Money. jj DOCTOR SPOILS RUSE OF III A COMMERCIAL TRAVELER 1 j Then the Court Steps in and j Grants the Wronged Wife m a Decree. Jlfj Where n the man who would not throV. j J A fit In a careless way. jj w When his wife makca pica for a sou 1 1 iff' marquise ' Ij sh On the night he draws his pay? Ill To have an attack of cordiac "ViEl Doth prove a tender heart ii tj But tho wife complains of the frequent J 5 pains, If : And Iho Judge says, "Lot them part." ; j I Son; of Purse Strings. It George C. Gait, an uccountant and II i commercial traveler, also a follower of ,5! j the races, had a peculiar affliction of '3l .j the heart, which he played so often that jji J it coat him a wife, s.iys the San Fran- M cisco Call. Judge Graham settled tho Ifi! I penalty when he granted a divorce to lj 1 his wife, Ellen M. Gait, on the ground , of failure to provide, which in this ca30, 11 1 was the technical term for voluntary jp 'i heart failure. " jgfjl i Gait, so his wife swore, and he him- 3 j self admitted, had a neat trick of meet- -fij j ing his wife's demands for money. 3' i Whenever she would request a portion Ijii of the $150 which he drew each month, Ik j he would pretend heart failure. Tho 11 i case seemed serious and the wife would It r recant and run for a doctor. jl f For moro than a year Mrs. Gait ' worked for her own living rather than 13 j excite tho teudor heart. Finally, tho jLJ i family physician told her that her hus- j band " was a malingerer and so when Jtt 3 the next lit came ou she went for a fi lavo'er instead of for a doctor. The Ivi'; couple were married in Chicago in April, 1903. |