asked that her wishes be respected in not seeing the man's family.
She recovered, but it was later found that her husband, while not
doing all that he might for her, had been living at home a good deal
of the time and did not know that his family was in receipt of aid.

Some years ago a charity organization society, which maintained a
special bureau for treatment of desertion cases, was asked by a Mrs.
Clara Williams to help her find her husband, John, who had left her
some years previously and was living with another woman, so that she
might force him to contribute to the support of herself and her two
children. Mrs. Williams was a motherly appearing person who kept a
clean, neat home, and seemed to take excellent care of her children.
She was voluble concerning her husband's misdeeds and very bitter
toward him, which seemed only natural. The fact of the other
household was corroborated from other sources, and Mr. Williams'
work references indicated that he had been quarrelsome and difficult
for his employers to get along with, although a competent workman.
The problem seemed to the desertion agent a perfectly clear and
uncomplicated one and he proceeded to handle it according to the
formula. Some very clever detective work followed, in the course of
which the man was traced from one suburban city to another, and his
present place of employment found in the city where his wife lived,
although he lived just across the border of another state. The
warrant was served upon the man as he stepped from the train on his
way to work, and he appeared in the domestic relations court. He did
not deny the desertion but made some attempt to bring counter
charges against his wife. When questioned about his present mode of
living he became silent and refused to testify further. He was
placed under bond, which was furnished by the relatives of the woman
with whom he was living, to pay his wife $6.00 a week. No probation