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Show COULDN'T REMAIN j II MODEL HUSBAND 1 St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 33. (Special) Jflj If you are a model husband or pre- M t tend to be you get up at four in the j ij morning and do the family washing , I ! before skipping away to work. What's more, you take your wife to ) M any place of amusement she wishes, I SrI ' no matter how meager your salary. Mlial' Edward K Fischer of this city Is a wwi model husband. In filing suit for di- 1 ! W vorce from his wife, Catherine E., he mUm produced a list of capacities and at- Klsffll tainments that proved he has earned lw, his title. Fischer is more than a mod- flnB? el husband. He is an archangel. mtiM In addition to the family washing Sjjffl item and the entertainment of his IfWli wife, here are some of Fischer's rex:- oJUfi" ords. jwlffll Saves All His Salary. fjJh Before his marriage, while earning Mill 550 a month as a railway clerk, he Flp saved $000 ( 5j In the eight years of his married fillHi life he has not lost an hour from the ma office. I toi( Almost Immediately after his mar- iftai riage his pay was advanced to $60, Mil his present salary. fJiif ' Ho owns his home, uaid for from In ml his savings, 11 'J? He is the father or four children. Wh the youngest one a year old. While isij2t the children were babies he arose f f! ijjij, every two hours during the night to I W prepare their bottles for them. Ijjj! I He undresses the children each i 'g night and puts them to bed. j;Hi Did Family Washing. wjjfi He arose regularly at 4 o'clock Jn P every Monday morning and did the i t ira ' famllv washing before going to the i ! 'a ' office. lE ' He assisted in doing the dishes j si -M three or four times a week. !', rl Working mornings and evenings, he I'Mffl1 made garden and raised chickens. it jw Every month he gave his pay check jjjl j, I to his wifo, and she gave bim 25 cents ' jl'll K spending money, which lasted him I ifjli 1 two weeks. 1 tl jjjj To save carfare, he habitually walk- J 'ill ed between his home and his place of ji il M employment, a distance of two miles. j1 I ! 6 Seldom Away From Home. 3fj M In the entire eight years of his Jill if! married life he has been away from 'a his family not to exceed nine or ten S'ffl evenings, hut has attended entertain- ' 'S'ljH ments with his "wife during that per- fl ' ja He has sent his "wife on two trips j l( 'H 1 to San Francisco, ono trip to Buffalo, j i Bill two trips to SL Louis, one trip to J. iEf,il Chicago and numerous trips to Oma- ' y ,W ! hn. I jnj ! Ue has only one weakneBS- That Jar ,1 fj ( basobalL ; jM m I'll -JJH |