Life — August 11, 1910 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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“LTP E* Husbands’ Correspondence Bureau Branches Everywhere, Including Paris, Constantinople and Philadelphia. No Connection With Any Other Establishment. HE unexpected has happened. Our — run my, office the way she does her house, T shouldn't expe self-respecting clerk 'to stay with me over night. Can you suggest obliged to suspend our business owing to any remedy? X- it lack of funds and other reasons, pro- In reply to our correspondent we will duced results that we had not dreamed say that his case is not at all unusual possible. As the case stands at present, In affairs like this we always direct our we can only apologize to all our friends attention to the husband, and by treating for having cruelly misjudged them. him, gradually get him into a philosophi- Money and protests have been flowing in cal state of mind, so that no matter what since at such a rate that we are happy happens he will be calm and happy. It to announce that we are once more on may seem absurd to think that we can our feet again. Husbands ali over the — do this. but let our friend send on an country rose en masse, when they real- dvance remittance and we will refund ized the possibility of our abandoning the money if we don't help him in a them. month As for his wife, we have lived w that we think of it, we under- long in this world and have had con- stand, of course, that the men of this siderable experience, and our observa- country really could not afford to get tion has been that there is no cure for along without us. We say this in all two women living under the same roof modesty. Our Paris branch has been and entering into business relations with thoroughly renovated, and the da each other. You may term it the serv- from the flood repaired. Hu! ant problem, but it's just as much the this country en route to the Orient are istress problem. There isn't much urged to stop over there and register hoice. As our friend Kipling once Our manager has the finest programme said: “The Colonel's lady and Julia yet devised. In case your wife accom- O'Grady are sisters under the skin.”* panies you, cable in advance, and every arrangement will 1b ade for your recent announcement that we were . Don’t breathe this, but my wife is a liar, amusement sans detecti { can stand_a litle of she has got the The handsome blonde in charge of our habit. and it gets on my nerves a hittle to h hear her reeling off lies to her friends every office has been reinstated, and everything —dgy. If she dacsnt want to accept an inet is as it was, except that with allthis tation, she sweetly puts it off on me, by say- P ing that I am not well enough to attend, and new capital we shall, of course, fil u then drags me out to an afternoon tea." She our place as it never has been fitted uj tells her friends that their clothes are lovely r A sd _Anthons and me that they are frightful m aware before. We have engaged Anthon: that this is an old story in t, t's only Comstock to secure a choice line of pic eet struck h bite 1G mae. ats know - if nothing can be done ab hy, my tures, rich, rare and racy. Call and Gear sir, I assure you that my wife hes no see. Opening day next Tuesday. An- — moral nature at all. She by instinet e pening Can't any kind of an operation be performed upon her to get her to simple truth patrons in plain envelopes. Watch for occasionally? n cements will be sent out to our old them. The mistake this gentleman made was We have received the following letter to as e at wh he married his wi F he was marrying a moral nature. Wives rp rene tothe car of a tensiy are not made for that purpose. Let him ould be over. ma accept the situation calmly, and come on TL have sehenedl at once and take advantage of our new rom sad experience.) My point i summer entertainment programme, just s: Owing to certain unavo ncies we are obliged to em: servants. t meanwhile ten cents for our We employ, indeed, a of them. eof B. ies. Besides, with my own wisdom, but I have an ide> thing of a liar himself. If he isn’t, then that if I ran the house those servants woul! y longer than they do now, The truth is our entert, ment committee will gr, that my wife is very inconsiderate of them ually put him on a par with bi She never puts herself in their places. She 2 atek bs wants the table waited upon in such an out What he needs is to be on the landish manner that we cannot get anythin plane with her, and all will be har- that we want when we really need it. She ii calls it good form and I call it damn foolish: monious, sess, Sint thats only! a scanll part of the We are now doing business at the old whole affair. She nags these poor creatures to such an extent that, although y may stand, and guarantee to relieve or cure arrive and usually dowith good disposi suffering husbands, no matter where they TALL, HANDSOME BLONDE HAS BEEN are actually savage. Then she blames me for hail from. Call, write or wire. % not taking her part, although I haven't said SSEANDG? (CORMESHONDENCE BUREAU: PED TAT ED, a word. “Secretly. I know that if 1 should HUSBANDS comicbooks.com