The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-29
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FRIDAY. MAY %, 1850.
MATRIMONIAL.

evening, says a writer i'll tho New
York World, with lady and her
husband who were going TO the
theatre. Another wife and husband
sat just opposite us. How did l
know it was another husband and
wife? Easily enough, We all knew
they were husband and wife. She
was young and pretty, well-dresscd
and lonesome. Why lonesome?
Lonesome because her husband read
the paper and said never q werd to
her. My friends wife grew almost
frantic at the sight of it. "For
heavens sake, George" she said,
"never treat me that way"
"How? Why, what do you
mean?"
"Oh, don't you see?' she ex-
claimed, as she hid her face in her
hands and leaned up against the big
sleeve of his overcoat, "don't you
see he don't say q word to her. /
should feel miserable if you were to
treat me that way. l should actu-
ally die of humiliation. What
brute of a man it is that can ride all
the way down town with his wife and
never betray the slightest evidence
that he knows she is in existence.
Talk to me, George; do say some
thing. will jump out Of the car
if you don't talk to me. would
not look like that poor woman for
anything in the world"
And thus and thus. George got
up smile--a sort of forced hot
house smile--but smile--and said
something about the weather. That
was better than nothing. 1t quoted
my lady somewhat and enabled her
to look upon.her lonesome neighbor
with sort of commissioning con-
descension. 1t was not clear that
the married woman Oh the opposite
side would have appreciated the
sympathy of her fair sister even if
she had been aware of it. Perhaps
she did not want to be talked to.
Perhaps she and her husband had
had heated argument before they
left home as to the last pair Of shoes
she had got, or as to the merits of
the Watts collection at the Metro
politan Museum of Art. Perhaps
they were both cooling off. He
read the paper and she looked out
Of the window. When they got to
the street where they wanted to go,
he rose, and without looking to one
side or the other said "Come on"
and they walked out. No people on
earth could be so matter of fact ex-
cept married people. Perhaps he
was one of that class of men who
believed that marriage is the end of
all gallantry-whether to one woman
or another. There are men of that
kind. In fact, the world is full Of
them. My friends wife took the silent
Benedict on the other side to be one
of that kind. If there Is one thing
in the world that Anglers a woman it
is neglect and indifference. "Hell
hath no fury like woman scorned. =
A woman neglected is next to a
woman scorned. There is no period
in woman's life when she is so
happy as when she is being courted.
That accounts for the fact that a
great many of them permit them
selves to be courted by men who
have no right to do such a thing,
They like the gallantries of court.
ship, the playful words of sutton
his constant animation, his hundreds
of small compliments, his readiness
and agility in extending his han6
whether it is needed or not, his in
spirational conversation, his self
sacrifice and unvarying devotion
Heavens, what is there that a mar
will not do when he is in love
What else will drive him to sucl
lengths of brilliancy and daring? L
is then he becomes the cockbird
puts on his most brilliant plumage
struts about in his greatest glory
and reaches the most beautiful per
lection of his nature. He write
long letters, spends his money like.'
prodigal, is ready to go here, there
or anywhere, rain or shine, at tn
beck and call of his fair mis-
tress; wears his best clothes
walks with the erectness and spring
ing elasticity of a trained athlete
smiles on all mankind, and is bein,
much beyond and above the common
run of the race. All this he is t.
the woman to whom he is playin,
the lover. She takes him for wha
he seems to be--not for what he is
Perhaps he may turn out to be wha
he seems to be, perhaps not-gene
rally not. Most husbands are dis
appointing to their wives becaus
they Immediately after marriag
collapse-collapse into mere matter
of-fact, plain everyday men, VIII
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