MISSING HUSBANDS

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 66, 14 September 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

MISSING HUSBANDS

" You would be surprised what a number of faithful and devoted women I have met .on the voyage to America," said the stewardess of a great Atlantic liner, "who are going out all alone to look for husbands who have unaccountably disappeared, and of whose addresses they have no notion whatever. In most of these cases the man has gone out hoping to better himself, and has written one or two rather gloomy letters, and has been completely silent. And the faithful wife at home has slaved and toiled to get the passage money, and has then journeyed all those thousands of miles to olearup themystery. I could tell you a chapter of romance of this kind, for I have often met these poor women on their voyage back. In one case the unhappy woman found that the man had been sent to a State prison foi life for the murder of a fellow-lodger. In a great majority, however, the man. hah simply been denpondent, and has resolved Hot to write till times mended, and he could send money home. It is astonishing how j hopeful these women are— they never in words attribute the long silence to anj fault of the absent one — whatever they ma\ think." }