The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-12-03
A HANS FIRST WIFE.
Does q Nan EIsP Forget Ills First Love,
Even II He MaRHles AGaini
what Does COnstaney % his First
LOVe MeanP--NOt 90 be Forgotten,
. woman should stay Alive.

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evil you love me always, as long a. l
liver" questioned the fond young wife.
''Always," answered the adoring hus-
band "aliye or dead, you will be the one
woman Of my existence TO me. l could
never love another. II you should die
life would be q desert 10 me-a lonely 10
land, where I should wait and watch for
the ship Of death to coms to my rescue
and bear me away to you"
He means what be says, and when he
dies the gloom on his fAce Is as deep as
the band Of crepe on his hat is wide.
Yet as months 90 by the band naTows
and the gloom lightens. Where at frst
he only noticed other women to compare
them unfavorably with his dead darling,
and to wonder bitterly why they were
spared and she taken, he begins now
to notice them individually and to COM
ment upon their charms, and before the
crepe band has wholly disappeared from
his hat the gloom hss lifted enough nom
bis heart to let in the sunlight Of another
Woman's smile.
He struggles against the temptation
which assails him; he tells himself that
bis heart Is buried in the grave Of his
dead wife, but his heart insists on quick
ening ct the sight Of this new woman's
face and at the sound Of her voice. The
dead face is hidden under six feet Of
earth. The living face smiles near. One
cannot cit by tombs forever In the pride
Of ones manhood. His darling was too
unselfish to desire him to mourn his life
away In loneliness. She would tell him
70 be happy could she speak. He can
never forget her, he can never love a. he
loved her, but he needs q companion to
look after his comfort, and to keep him
lrom utter desolation, and tobe . mother
over his children, perhaps.
So be reasons and maTfies. The new
wife IL tactful and aFectionate. She
knows more Of the world than his first
wife did, maybe, and she manages him"
with skill that astonishes him. What
began as q good comradeship" and .
marriage Of convenience DEVELOPS into
love match.
aONE-FoRGOTTEN.
Those who know the first wife and
thought Il an ideal marriage look on the
second union with shocked surprise at
first, afterward with resignation; but they
say to themselves and to those who knew
him in the days Of the early marriage,
"He can never forget his first wife. II
was 4 perfect love match. He married
again merely for convenience. II ID all
right, Of course. She makes him . good
wife, they say, but be must have many
sad hous when he thinks Of his first vile. "
Alasi for sentiment that is 80 seldom
true. The fact is. be rarely thinks Of biz
frst wife at all, and when he does be
thinks Of her in the same way be thinks
Of some incident Of bis childhood; she ID
Q vague, sweet memOFy, no more. Tho
dead are 30 very dead; the living are q
much alive.
At the very Hrst, after he has married
the second wife, he received a shock nov
and then when he looked at the portrait
Of his first wife, or came across somC
souvenir Of their love life; but even thos,
things ceased 10 effect him after little
The 6nor sensibilities become easily dull
ed BY custom, especially when the pas
siOns are Satisfied and the heart AMI
stomach filed.
, recollect being In the house Of I
Widower once who had TO be restraints
, by force from going TO the grave Of hi
wife at midnight in a pouring rain. Hi
devotion to her 10 life had been sincer
and nniaIling, yet scarcely q year later h
brought home another wife whose low
and companlouship caused him 10 forge
the second anniversary Of the other
death. Her portrait hung slvays In hi
room, yet have seen his eyes rest upol
It without seeing Il. whilS he sxpiats
upon the wit and charm Of bis Twin