Life — September 30, 1909 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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RIVALRY ON THE HUDSON A MIDNIGHT RACE Husbands’ Correspondence Bureau (No connection with any other establishment.) HE widespread report that the manager of this bureau is having trouble with his wife, and the possible damage to our business as a result thereof, leads us to mention a matter that, under the most favorable circumstances, must necessarily be painful. But we shall meet it fairly and squarely. We care nothing for ourselves. t liberty to circulate any scandal that they choose against our character and motives. We expect to be misunderstood in certain quarters, and, indeed, regard it as an honor. But in justice to our customers—some of whom have been waiting patiently for months to undergo treatment—we must dispose forever of this base calumny. The facts in the case are simple. Our wife is not the easiest person in the world to get along with. She has threat- ened for some time to make public our strained relationship, merely because she thought, by using this method, she could wiex we MARRIED Our enemies are + get us to neglect our business and be- come a sort of man of all work around the house, at her beck and call morni noon and night. She thought she could frighten us by publicity She is mistaken. There things that no man of honor can permit himself, and this happens to be one of them. We are sensitive. Otherwise we could not have shown the broad sympa- thy for every case that has up to the present moment been brought to our doors. We are human, We shrink- more than we can say—from publicity But God has given us courage and a conscience, and in the performance of our plain duty we shall not swerve from our beaten path. There is another thing that our wife has evidently not counted upon. She fails to realize that vast, silent, suffering body of husbands now on our books, all waiting to be cured, waiting to be placed where they belong—at the head of their own households. If we should fail them at this critical moment, what would hap- are some pen to them? In their despair they would probably fall into the hands of some of our hungry rivals, only too eager to pick up, at all times, our left-over trade We think we fully understand how a gentleman actuated by the loftiest mo- tives should act under similar circun ind we shall, therefore, so far as our wife is concerned, be silent about her faults. She is unquestionably a pe- culiar person. Her disposition is—to put it mildly—not the best in the world, but such as she is the work of her Creator, and we have no complaint to make. We have no doubt that she was created good and useful pur- pose, and if, up to the present momen we have failed to find out that may be our fault The pursuit of our own profession has given us a vast experience with all phases of the human heart, and if there are two things that we have acquired in ding measure they are Charity and Humility. We say, therefore, that, al- though our wife may be quarrelsome and vindictive and mean and small in many ways, may talk us half to death when we come home late at night with the full stances, is she for some what it is, aboi comicbooks.com