Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-01


Alma to Mr. Carey. can assure you that
in those weeks demonstrated, to myself at
least, that / had something of the heroic in
my nature.
Well, we were married. Alma and her
husband went away, and Laura and event
to housekeeping" as they say of newly mar
ried folk. I did my best to give Laura no
cause to suspect that was unhappy The
quiet happiness which shone day after day
in her face became joy to me. 1t even re-
buked me, too 1t was plain that she loved
me devotedly; and she was so unselfsh in her
love, SO wise, SO sensible that soon found
myself admiring her. In the wish to do
everything possible for her in order to recon-
pense her for the love did not have to give
her, thought of trying to remedy her defect
vie hearing We went to Philadelphia for that
purpose The best aurist in the city made
an examination and at once assured us that
the trouble was caused by "a slight obstruc-
ton which would yield readily to simple
treatment. In two months Laura returned
perfectly cured
Then began to notice what very bright
woman my wife was, and she seemed to grow
SUMMER and sweeter every hour. In less
than six months I loved her a thousand times
more. it seemed to me, thsn had ever loved
AlIt.-->> When l began to realize blessed
Fate over and over again for giving me my
own, even through such incomprehensible
ways. II might have known it." l said to
myself II always expected to have happi-
ness in my home, and might have been sure
of it, although the light refused to shine for
awhile"
At the end Of year I was so infatuated
with my lovely little wife that told her the
story Of how I came to marry her. That she
regarded as the Eest possible proof of my
love for her. Then she confessed to me that
she had loved me almost from the hour when
she first saw me, but had imagined that I
cared for Alma. Yet when l met her on
that New Years morning with such extra
ordinary cordiality her heart rather than her
reason caused the misunderstanding. Yet
she declares to this day that what she seemed
to hear was, 81 love you. Come and let me
make you happy all the days Of my life"
Perhaps my wiser self spoke to her in some
silent, heartward way and knew it not. At
all events am grateful that she thought she
heard these words if ! didn't say them.
did not see Alma for five years Then I
wondered how ever could have loved her.
She was still beautiful, of course; but de-
voted to life Of fashion and show, and was
not at all the woman I had imagined she
would be- She never knew how she had
figured in the romance Of my life.
You see, always expected good luck and
always got it, but not always in the way
I had expected. After my laundering mar
riage turned out SO well never doubted my
Spanish proverb again. It has never failed
me throughout my life, and will be eighty
in December. If were to preach a sermon
to young people every day in the week, I
think the concluding sentence would always
be: Expect good luck and you will get
it." If could send New Years mes
sage to every soul on the earth It would be
to expect the good Put it on your New
Years cards Write it in your letters. Tell
it to the little people. Keep it ever in mind.
Believe in it and live by it. The true phil
osopay of life is in it. Expect good luck
and you will get it."
GERTRUDE GARRISON.