CARSTAIRS THE CUR

NZ Truth, Issue 132, 28 December 1907, Page 5

CARSTAIRS THE CUR

WAKES UP WAIPUKURAU. Terrible Tommy and the Tarts. His JPoMic Pot Pnt- On. is a deadly; slow sort, •pf one-horse town which has not got, much to be put forward m its favor and where life is one dreary andweary blank. To, wake WJaipukurau from its drowsiness is no . easy feat, its a sleepy hollow sort of place,; and nqftbdy takes any interest m the affairs of the rest of the .world.. The individual who succeeds m arousing the township will be a sort 0f... hero, and the nearest approach to •anything .that can be considered as,excitement m the town is that caused by the late capers of a cove called Carstairs, who is something of a cocky sheep-farmer. Carstairs is not' by any stretch of the mind a hero ; he seems to. be a gay blade, m fact, altogether too gay, and naturally the denizens of the town are asking: curl* ous, and rather awkward questions. Thomas C&rstairs, sheep-farmer, has had marital troubles lately, and; judging from, the ■>- kind of cuss that Garstairs is ■ said, to be, the fact that he' Ms ■Had^matrimoni--' al troubles' is rioVWbe/wohdered at. All wives are. not built the same way. , Some are jealous and will not brook the casting of a covetous glance on any sweet thing. Others are of the long-suffering and patient variety, and Garstaifs seems to be blessed with' a better wife than the unfaithful fellow finally deserves. The other, /day hi,s wife, the mother of his two, got a separation and . maintenance order against him, and Car-*' stairs seems to have had , A' PARTICULARLY ROUGH PAS- ■ SAGE. >:. - -.- R-e's a great ladies' man is we said Tommy, who reckons now that his. little porriic pot has been : ' put ,pn, that New Zealand is 1 no place and no 'class, and. that the Af genuine is just the country for -him., >but if ' Tommy is> : bent on clearing to the Argentine and, prpppsestp leave his wife ami little-; children , behind him, the police haxl better take a ( hahd and prevent the .said Thomas of having the sin. of wife: arid child deser lion recorded against ,hinv m the' Golden .Book. , .Tommy,) moreover /.seeps, to ' be.yer-y, wild ' at the idea of his wife revolting. .against-' him' and he. has -accordingly ; advertised v ,that lie will, -not ' be , responsibie for; .any Idebts. contracted , by her,, which is: a nasty thing , to do,, -seeing /that; Tommy m . the past has lavished <■_ p.ll his time and affaction arid probably n. lot of boodlo on one family," which has three girls m it, ami Which tJhi-ee TerribleTom'm,yHtias-,been running all; he knows. So Jcind na-Sjthe, said Tom-; my, -fteen • 'tp;msjain<ily;of , : .giddy 'girls' that their old man has reckoned that 5 Tommy is a very good v sprt of chap, which jiist 1 aboutv '■explains the views on morality held by this particular pater fam£lia"s, (r Now 'Waipuk'urau, . a? '•♦Truth" "stated l' •has -been interested' and almost excited about ' Tommy .Cafstairs and his troubles, and the statement alleged to have \ been made by him', that he was riot married to his wife, ba^ forced other's;., to, call Carstairs some hard names, which are altogether unprintable.- And if I what is said about Carstairs anil his fondness for the , '.".,.., . 1 SOCIETY OF FEMALES [ \ other than his .wife" is' true,, no name is; tod hard fo^ .him:\Ca,rstairs seemß,V [moreover; to be a: cowardly/, sort of. | cur and brags about 1 his 'female, con-, t quests with' great gusto, and; is even alleged to have declared that, he . will force ' his wife to divorce him;. ( Carstairs seems to want a danin 1 goodthrashing and wants . teaching baidly. yrty&t a hushiarid's duties are to, his wife arid faiaiiy. He is m to^ with two or thr,ee young females who , s%em to glory m. their shame, and^, who,' 61. course;, forget that there is a wife and mother and two. little children who could do ' with a lot of Carstairs' affection. The whole affair,- of course, is a very sordid and squalid family squabble, but the sheep farmer, comes out of it covered m slime, and insteadpf being a farmer he sought v to i>e a Turkish Pasha and own a harem- The doings of Tommy ' have certainly created more, than ordinary . interest m Waipukurau, and ript without' good 1 : cause. ' AU : that . can be legally .don©.to Tommy was done when, his i, ' wife, went for a separation order. (Anyhow^ Waip.ukurauitesf now think Carstairs: absojutely nOjClass. They think him a rotter arid. saY so and have a lot of sympathy for his wife and family, but none for the 'three little . tarts thai; Tommy made the pace so hot wijthi Being Christmas and Mew y^ar time, this papet Would like to wish Tpinimy ' Carstairs all sorts, of good things, frut m such Circumstances as related. "Truth" cannot, conscientiously wish him atiyi good, or his tarts either, .THEY'RE NOT WORTH IT, :•■;; iThey have scandalised every/body, ancj ; W'aipukurau always endeavored - to 'be a model nioral sort of place. Tommy , ; if he is worth his salt, will go back tohas ; "wife arid-; begVfor/fo'rgivenness arid lavish his affection on ; his children. He should leave the three tarts severely alone, and advise them to become respectable or seek out some single man who is irresponsible and might not look with disfavor on them. They ought to get married and settle down and not 'break hearts- and homes and their father or mother, who says Carstairs is a damned good sort of chap, ought to become civilised, and Christianised. . But who can wonder at single girls carrying on with a married man : if the parents ■:, are so complaisant and 1 don't value their daughters' honor. Perhaps they have 4 n't got any now.