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L ric t- t r 1 i flow Contrary r p 4 r 4 f r T 7 I I 5 Mrs r 4 CP CPr Marjorie I one De Cou Ran r A r Away from Her Husband Because He Jle Was TOO PERFECT Thus Proving That the Course of True TrueLove 1 Love ove Ought Not to Run Smooth i t IK If s a good old Cockney joke THERE J often quoted to illustrate the manners man man- ners Tiers of or the English lower classes Dont you OU love me no nC more Bill Bill Bill- says the Ibe wife of or the coster O 0 course I loves yer yer Sal h is his reply Then says Sal wy dont don't yer b beat at me abart a bit This apparently was Vas exactly the frame of or mind Mrs De Cou was In when she left lefther lefther lefther her husband Mrs De De' Cou lived in Irvington Irving Irving- ton Cal Cat She was married to Edwin De Cou a prosperous merchant Two years ago una unable le to stand his kindness Bs any longer Mrs Marjorie De Cou ran aWa away Her husband has bas Just obtained a divorce dl on the ground of ot desertion According Ac Ac- According cording to Edwin De Cou's testimony he be hegJe gave e his big wire wife every luxury placed no restraints restraints re reo- on her amusements and never showed jealousy He admitted he had no bad habits she ever eer find any fault with r you ou the Jud Judge e asked Oh yes es Mr De Con Cou replied she frequently fre tre- 1 said that she could have hae loved me if it only anI I 1 beat her or at least scolded her one in a while J Here Is a new peril to married life Ute Husbands avoid perfection Men as yet ct scarcely realize how dangerous dan dan- lOUB kindness may prove pro to be Lest 1 1 unthinking careless of the first symptoms of or disruption married men men- may fall faU into inlo this pitfall listen to the awful example of ot Edwin and Marjorie De Cou I Mr Ir De Cou was an Idealist id He worshipped worshipped wor wet shipped his wife He tho thought nothing too good for her Tb The mediaeval Idea Mea of or f. f women was that th they y were half bait angel and half devil n Mr De Cou was a modern man F and he considered hi his wife wholly an angel 4 They had no trouble during their en engagement engagement en- en t His candy and flowers were pl pleasantly received Marjorie while admit- admit to h her er girl friends t that at Edwin was t easy did not protest when hen he suggested tI cabs I Instead stead of or the trolley car She let him carry her c coat at without rebuff She accepted the books he sent Lucille and The Prisoner of Zenda with no show of aneer Even the he beautiful diamond engagement ring failed tailed to Irritate her and when he tied her shoe laces got her a lass of water or mailed a letter without r forgetting it still she controlled herself It was of course annoying but she bore boreI I it ft it expecting the usual chango change after afler the tho 4 wedding C ceremony remony to Hardly had the bridal knot been tie tied however when Mr Nr De Cou showed plainly that what hat ho had done was a a. fixed habit 40 He had bad ad planned to go to the Yosemite on the trip The bride of ot course wanted s L. L to go 10 to Hawaii and insisted upon It It hopIng hoping hop hop- ing ling against hope that he ho would display the firmness a woman longs for Was he firm arm Alas He humbly apologized ox- ox changed his bis tickets and took tool her where she ehe wanted anted to go Docile as a 8 lamb was I Edwin De Do Cou This was lias a bad enough beginning to marx mar mar- x I fed ried life Ure for poor Mrs De Cou Con but she did not yet et know the full Cull depth of Edwins Edwin's pitiful weakness She began bean to flirt with witha a missionary as soon as the steamer had left San Francisco harbor Was Mr De Cou Coo jealous Here Is what lie hie said I know I can trust you Margy and whatever you OU do Is 15 rig right t. t If U this man pleases and amuses you go ahead and Ill I'll just have bave a little lUle game g-ame of or cards in the room room That night Marjorie De Do Cou wept herself to sleep It was a sad beginning to all her hopes for a masterful man She wept aloud keeping Edwin awake in Ia the upper berth Was he angry No He merely leaned over the ed edge e and remarked pathetically pa pa- If It I have ha done anything to annoy you or make you OU unhappy Margy please tell me and forgive me I would do anything In the world to make you happy Could fring f ring up the steward and get you a pIneapple pineapple pineapple pine pIne- apple ice OP Or shall I I read you to sleep Margy did not close her eyes that night The nc next t day it rIt was even worse Edwin De Cou brought up her steamer rug she was simply dying ding to wait waft upon him but men never know and he tucked her Int Into her chair gave her a Robert Chambers novel and brought up all the bes looking best looking men on tho the boat to talk to her hers her By the time their honeymoon was over poor Mrs De Cou was nearly distracted She came cam back from Honolulu a mere wreck Things went wont steadily from bad to worse Still blindly pursuing his fatuous theory Edwin Dc De Cou loaded his wife wits with compliments com com- com om compliments and caresses Marjorie l when n she first sa saw w the new house he had provided for their home borne could s stand and It no longer How dare you ou she exclaimed You know I have been used to living JIving In a a. four four- room flat fiat and bore here you have a fine el elec electric lighted house with elevator and outside out out- side Bide plumbing in the most aristocratic part of town You h have va engaged three thre servants and filled the place with expensive 1 Live sive C furniture The next thing I know you will be presenting me with an automobile I warn you Edwin you may co too far I 1 thought you'd like It it Mr De Cou re re- re- re plied But of ot course Ill I'll apologize Apologize she screamed Will you IOU pile insult on Insult For some time this cowed him He even had bad the courage to try to reform I He Ie told her that her new Spring hat bat was unbecoming unbecoming unbecoming coming and that if she got ot a facial massage mas man sage liage occasionally It would Improve her looks He FIe managed with great effort to drink a cocktail and say nay darn Margy beamed be-amed with happiness but alas this ideal state of ot affairs was too good to be true true- Before Belore long Edwin had begun to lapse Into his bis original altruistic condition For a few days dan he succeeded in concealIng conceal conceal- Ing fag hIs bis lapse laps from vice Ho He threw kisses at her behind her herback back and remarked U upon On her beauty only at his club But this could not go on long Ions Edwin De Cou wasat wasat was wasat at heart a paragon and his true nature cO could ld not be hidden One afternoon while his wife wIre was 1 at a bridge party Edwin smuggled a n. co costly rosewood rosewood pianola Into the drawing room As Margy had Just been boon elected a president of or the Native Daughters of or the tho Golden West Vest Irvington Parlor No 3 37 her head Dead was so turned that aho sho did not notice the th gift at first W When en she did there w was a scene Then half crazed half crazed by his lo love loe e for o oher her he took a pearl and diamond necklace from his pocket and thrust It Into her hand MarJorIes MarJorIe's rage knew know no bounds She was scarlet With a Q swift gesture she he flung the gaudy gems gems across the room smashing I Ia a vase of rare old Venetian glass en route Viper she hissed For three months I have stood insult an and degradation such as no wife yet ever endured Now W you complete the outrage by giving me worth of ot jewels Do you think I 1 can stand any more Im I'm going nome home to ma tonight to to tonight night She was as aR good as her word Edwin r however Insisted upon calling a taxicab packed her trunk for her and placed a thousand thousand dollar dollar bill In the tray Fight as she would against the outrage outrage- she was but a a. woman and had to submit to his his his' willMa will Ma Margy exclaimed when she reached the parental home Ive run n away way from Crom Edwin How can I 1 confess contess my shameful story You know that when T I married him I was a perfectly g good od woman Now Vow I am completely spoiled 1 She burst into tears Margy's mother was a a. woman of or world Take my advice she sho said and try Edwin a little longer Give him another another another an an- other chance hance Remember that the first year of ot married life Ute is always a readjustment readjust readjust- ment went and things will be arranged in time so that your our two characters wont won't clash Perhaps he didn't really mean what he be did He may have suddenly made a mil mI lion Hon dollars in tn stocks and didn't know what else to do with the money rh These se things are often mere accidents No doubt the presents resents were cro intended for some rome one else Edwin is la not too old to reform and in time he may learn to treat you with the tha cruelty you deserve Cruelty Cruelly Margy exclaimed Why ma do you know that man hasn't t so 50 much as raised his little finger against me in all aU the time weve we've been married If It hed he'd only slap my face occasionally occasional or pull puJI a chair charr out from under me mc I could stand It But to have to endure his sickening politeness day In and day out out well well Its It's just getting on my nerves I tell you and Ill I'll go mad Have you tried nagging him 1 asked aslet Margy's mamma Sometimes with a littie lit lit- tie goading you OU can get a man to act do do- savage Suppose you burn t the e chowder or put too much sugar in his cof cot fee men fee men are awfully particular Y you U know If U you would empty the carpet sweeper over his dress shirts occasionally Little things things' like that are often more effective than t tears ars I once got a beautiful assault from troI your father by merel merely pouring a teaspoonful teaspoonful tea lea spoonful of or mucilage Into his slippers That night Marjorie returned home She filled his smoking tob tobacco cco with perfumery she cut off oU the buttons from his bis trousers 6 she e pricked holo In his cigars she sho filled his vest pockets pocket with h mashed potatoes j I Then h hoping against hope she awaited his return I e Next Iet t morn morning n there was a deceptive calm a about bout him At first Marjorie Marjore thought that her r dream had come comet true e She took his cane case and carefully lly placed it where he could easily got get at it she held her pink cheek ready for tho the lon looked long g 1 for coked blow Edwin camo came down to breakfast B smiling He always smiled It o of f his worst traits tar tarI I guess well we'll e 11 have havo to discharge th tha th maid ho said eald She too careless aa e p r p nap J In- In r. r iq I 4 I t II I. I 1 t ti ft r N If V j E r I tt i. i s 's J Js s 3 t r J yr b J I l r l a F Fn n r 4 S 'S 1 S. S i a t 4 aC 4 S' S 4 4 4 t vr v- v r ri i 0 r J R a w f X lC l 1 D A tl C. C E r il 1 4 s r r K k x M Mrs n. n P 14 pe Cou f 1 Who Left Lefty 4 y y s Her H Husband Because qi f. f He Gave 1 Her f I. I I E Every very very- 1 w thi thing J Jai ai Y Sh II ST M L Wanted Want e et d r S 1 t E Except a Ir S u J Beating t r t 1 i r r f t r W F. F L t. t di A. A R k t JL J L is- is s. s Tc T 1 c tk 1 o. o l 4 P tA 7 r 1 She be begged ged ec him Aim o on n. n her r l knees ee only to be cruel to he her beat bear beather r af her he anything anything and and like a perfect per pe feet dummy husband all he lie hedi di did d was to give her more diamonds diamonds diamonds dia dia- dia- dia monds more more French dresses i more gore I. I luxuries It was I who did It all she said It 11 It Itt wife And what's t was your you r own wn little more more Im I'm goIng to do It again I hate hat you back and laughed Edwin De Cou leaned both long and and loud Then to complete the indignity he we went t over and d kissed his wife She had been expecting to be ha hat hall killed How she longed to fuss tuB with arnica and court plaster How proud she sheP P would have been of even one tiny Uny black black- and and blue spot The shock prostrated her It took her weeks to recover weeks recover weeks of ol expensive flowers rare old port wine celebrated celebrated cele cate- brat d physicians lans trained nurses everything every evory thing thing there there was nothing Edwin could do dot doL o t L to wound her feelings that he left undone No woman could stand such treatment long tong She grew worse and worse At last I g when when- her life Ufe was despaired of her sian Bian attempted to reason with the tho hue nus- bandI band I can give yo you T very rr t little hope sale said the doctor unless you rou can consent to change your treatment of your wife Even with the worst possible abuse it may be bB possible that she may not recover You ought however r to try at least If y you yon n could only drag your y wife out of b bed kl kick k kh h her a few times pull pun down her hair black her eyes and call her a few opprobrious names she might rally rally- I appeal to you Mr De Cou as ass man to man Are you going goIng go go- ing lug to let your wife die for the need of ot an unkind word Mr De Cou however was obdurate and refused to yield The only answer he hB gave to this advice was to present Margy with witha a It solid soUd gold manicure outfit and a set of Russian sables That night Margy almost dying of kindness kind kind- ness was smuggled out but of the house by her ber mother and she left Edwin Do De Con Cou never to return Now if Jt Edwin De Cou had only read Nietzsche h he hp might still be happily wedded For Nietzsche like hauer St St. Paul and others had a rather rattier poor opinion of or women One ODe of Hof his remarks remarks remarks re re- marks is famous Are re you going to meet meeta a woman Be sure sure you ou take your whip Poor Poor Mr De Cou Indeed need not net have looked up p even this high highbrow high brow advice There is an old English proverb which goes A woman an as ass and a hickory tree the tho more you beat them the better they be Tn short all aU Mr De Cou lacked tacked was vas a little common commonsense sense and a slight knowledge of oC women's nature Mrs Marjorie Do Cou is no suffragette no modern ultra ultra educated educated hyper sensitive female with a a. higher education edu edu- cation callon She is Tie just a plain woman oman and poetry and science e provo prove her to be right She has bas well read her Shakespeare for tor IH Is the fifth firth act br or Me Measure sure for Measure you I Imay may read Margy's whole argument i They say best men are molded out ol of faults And for the most become much more UK better For being a I little Ul bad laze In fact tact suffered from what It Is scientifically termed masochism the masochism the d desire desire de de- sire siro to suffer auger pain |
