SLOPED!

NZ Truth, Issue 133, 17 August 1907, Page 6

SLOPED !

The Married Man and the *' Maiden." If love rules the world, it very often ruins a certain portion of the inhabitants thereof. It is sweet to love, they say, but oh how bitter to love a girl, and then not get her. But a Christchurch married man got an unattached single girl lately all right. She is a lady of Jewish descent, and wears the famous Jewish nose of a Semitic life. But no synagogue for her. Living m adultery with a married bloke who daren't face the altar for fear lest it should fall on him hip and thigh- m the law courts, suited her better. The lady has been doling out drinks m the sixpenny bar at Warner's Hotel,, and when passing the bottle she looked ravishing, and all, that sort of Queen of Sheba business ; and the bloke .who spent his sprats over the bar on whisky and lithia on pay day, and between whiles, was charmed with her delightful efiervcsence— or that of the condiment he stowed m his hold per medium of his throat canal. The couple soon, reciprocated, and pretty soon the man's attentions began to be most marked. They met ON THE LADY'S NIGHT OFF (unknown to the wife, of " course), and speedily a departure, to a place quite known was decided upon. It was Sydney. The scamp of a man had no scruples— not a dam one— and he procured tickets for- the city of the harbor, going via Wellington. The whole thing was kept very quiet, as a matter of course, but a lady friend gave the show away just after the departure of the runaway couple. Whether the discarded wife was then informed of the escapade isn't known to writer, [ but, at all events, the police aren't making any efforts to capture the scoundrelly wife deserter, who was employed m some office m Christchurch. He was a low-down hound, to say the least of him, and should be brought back, and docked, and made to answer for his rascally conduct. His wife is left unprovided for, so far as can be ascertained, and has one child to support, and another, one is expected to arrive m this weary world shortly. If .amorous men make what they are pleased to term conquests, so do single women, and m both cases it is often to the sorrow of somebody else.