A NOBLE BEING!

NZ Truth, Issue 89, 2 March 1907, Page 6

A NOBLE BEING!

tives oh flis^ Wife's Earnings-rand His Own Prostitution.

There is about 6ft 2iR of animated ■S&atter walking about Christchurchffeearing pants and other articles of at/tire usual, with the male sex, (Which is so well got up, to represent a man that many people, m their ignorance, have often made themis*ake of supposing it to be one. It isn't a man, however, nor within cooee of being one ; probably nature intended it to he one, but at-the ; psychological moment something must have slipped, a cog or sortie .thing like ithat ; anyfcow, the article produced is altogJt&er different to. a real man, as tfo» following details tend to prove. ■' ■ . The- article under notice used to be a lot of. tilings, .but they never, turned out to be local Klondykes, and he didn't prosper worth a dam, sSfto speak. Last,' ganW he w ( as ever, RWlty of .preteiidihg. to work at was but as he was top feastiy bored to hustle round for ushiess and business : bas' T & ''.nasty knack, these times, of not coming .without being fetched the auctiorieerahf campaign went by the board, and the object hasn't even made any pretence of working sines. Some eighteen months ago he. had a rare /bit of luck. Dropped across a little woman whom- he found energy eriougn .to woe and wed. Since then, nary a stroke of graft has ,he dorie.i The. Wife finds the food necessary to feed, him,' bless him, -by .pairitl.ng V :.postcards at sixpence ; a do&n, - working I early and late at the job, , of , necessity. Shortly after they were married there. came a knock at the door one day, and a . young woman PRESENTED A. BABY BOY to the* poor wife, explaining that she (the pirn was the mother and -the skulking devil who lived- there was iihe : father. Further explained that as he : (the. s.d. Un question) wo.uldn 1 1 keep up the payments of 7s 6d l per week for his illegitimate child, its mother proposed to leave it for him to keep. And leave.it she did; and •the lazy swine's unhappy w\fe has had y to work harder even than she wasalready doing, to find food • and cl 6 thing- for the living testimony. to her husband's past blackguardly conduct. '■-}. ' Of course the beast under notice is head over heels m \ debt, and the method he adopts to keep hknseli from beinfe sent over the hill to 'Lyttelton, where he would hate to dp a little wholesome graft; is a masterpiece. He, married though he is, boasts of being the proud possessor of a loving darling of a: sweetheart, whom he vaunts on every concetyabie opportunity before his brok-en-hearted wife as his "-Lou" ! He goes out with his "Lou" night after fright does ; 'THIS 'CONTEMPTIBLE CAD, £nd as the new darling of his; heart 'is a woman bordering on the .halfcentury as to age, .and with, a face §oniewhat resembling a pumpkin cut. oft; /in i*s p^irne by ligbtninp- (jiidg/i# by thi photograph' A'Truth". saw ■ •of ' ; her, aM^ugh 4-hey 'te,^np% al^ys _ vrteHible J^^may Tlßel the lady*, m tliis instancS) it might be wondered to-Jiat attraction he can find .m her society The explanation is simple. •'Lou" loves him with a great, love, jftrifl m return for favors received (whatevef they may be) finds him m ,the funds necessary to keep him out tit feaol'. 1 Strand td relate the ;weary ' joared^and weary-souled wife of this beauteous specimen of humaniifcy never igts a murmur pass, Her lips • about liis conduct. He comes home at;.mMiiight ■ wiibh Jtis coat covered m burrs and grass, boasts that he and ''Lou" - have 'been m iihe. park, and flourishes money which "Lou" has given him before the suffering woman's, eyes, fend, she' utters ho complaint. She Sees •' ".; ' '"'/■ ■"> ''•'»■''. .:'■.'■■' '■ . 'i „ . HIS DARLING 1 / ■ come to the hpuse at Si. Albany on jie^.. Bicycle and the* two' go \ a^ray together , leaviok her alone m her haipery, and makes no sigh, Seem r . -irigly the .great love she gave this bas? imitation 0I- 1 a man' before she ioiihd /him. out in-, his true colors holds' her to him still, despite his cruel, callous conduct, or one would haye supposed she would have left him long ago. The house they live m is the wife's father's property, andfthey pay no rent, but even with, fchisi advantage, h* the' time the object under notice.' has been -led on her 1 earnings, the wife has to siibsiston a bread and hutter diet chiefly.,, >Happy New Zealand '. No pain and; no suffering here ! But "Truth." believing m the .old saw that "fair play is bonny play.;'.' and doubly so where ' a defenceless woman is concerned publishes these . details m the hope that it may brin^ rt,he ex-auctipneer and. his precioijs. "Lou" to their senses, if they -have any,- and ciuse them to drop _the' ilirty, despicable game they are engaged m. -If , this is not sufficient, asecond dose of. literary vitriol will be administered, compared wiith which,? so-far as a certain dofflifeile at St. Alban's and business premises- lipt, a, hundred miles from Linwood are concerned, the 'Frisco earthquake would he considered a mere circumstance.