LOVELY WOMAN'S LOVER.

NZ Truth, Issue 91, 16 March 1907, Page 6

LOVELY WOMAN'S LOVER.

How to Account for Her Idiosyncrasies.

The uncertainty and changeableness of women ! It was always so. About fourteen months ago Stanley Leyton Smith— one of the, great and ever prospering and ever increasing Smith family— was engaged as accountant at the Royal Cafe, Christchurch. He was married, was Stanley, but for some reason or other he didn't care for the superabundant charms possessed by his dear little wifie, and he did a slope. That was fourteen months ago, as stated above, and during the whole of that long period Mrs Helen Smith had the police searching for the lost sheep m the wilds of Australia. Turned out that he wasn't m the wilds' at all, but at Hobart, the last place where the searchlight of fervent enquiry was turned on. He was arrested and brought back to Christchurch under escort, and appeared tat the S.M. Court on remand one 'day last week. Immediately the case was called on the wife advanced to the Bench and said that she didn't wish to proceed with the charge ; she would give erring ltubby anothter chance. She had got him after a fourteen months' absence and intended to stick to him if possible. What generosity, what love for a man who had treated her so inexpressibly shabbily ! Magistrate Bishop asked the woman if she fully realised what she was doing, and received a reply m the affirmative. "Very well," he said, "I don't want to interfere with you. Take him away and I hope that you will make a better man of him." So the lady took the prisoner out of court what time Sergt. Norwood announced that all expenses m connection with the trip from Tasmania had been paid. The love of woman, for man, m such cases is beyond explanation. They'll vindictively pursue and bring back x the bird which has flown the coop, though, m many cases, they are "on with" another man, m his absence, and the moment they see him m custody it is "Jimmy, dear," and all is forgiven and forgotten.