Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-25
TROUBLES ON THE HONEYMOON
when Girl Marries a Doctor She q.
Apt to Find Them Rtpbt -

| MS Dosss heaved a deep sigh as
she named her dainty pink-and-white cur
ae'oss the little tea table to her bosom
'e"o' hrs. Iubiets, for Just one more
lump Oh sugar, and helped herself to an.
| other wafer.
MRS. Tubiets was startled. MY deares,
LAURA she exclaimed. what can such a
neart--ending sigh mean on the lips of a
orioe out just returned from her honey
moon? What has happened?"
L do not mind admitting to you, dear
MARIE said Mrs. Boggs. putting her now
empty cup upon the table, that have al.
! ready found out that the fate of a doctors
wire is not In all respects an enviable one -
"hy' Laura, what do you mean? You
can as yet have had no experience of inter
rupted dinners, midnight calls and bad
bills"
IL is quite a long story" sighed the doc
TORS bride. and my troubles may un-
uouptedly be classed among les petItes
miseres de la vie humaine;;' but, 1 assure
you' they are none the less real and trying
on that account"
MY poor GIRL said sympathetic Mrs.
Tublets. do tell ne all about it."
AS you know. dear Marie" replied young
MIS- boggs, we started Immediately after
our wedding for Chicago-that bourn of all
the newly-married couples this year-and
my hrst trial began the very evening of our
arrival. We reached the hotel about 9
CLOCK TO ma that, instead of the fine suite
Vi rooms we had engaged, only one rather
shaopy bed chamber had been saved for u.s.
OF course it was too late to change our
quarters that evening, even supposing we
could do better at one of the other hotels
1eit very dusty and dirty, and made up
my mind that u nice warm bath was the
thins needed, and 50 l rang the bell and
ordered one prepared. Upon hearing the
oIder, Dr. Boggs turned to me with a look
OF horror upon his face
DO you mean to say he cried that
you would actually take a bath In a public
cents can battle?
Certainly 1 replied, when 1 have not
private one. l must keep Clean
Laura, cried the doctor, do you not
know that number of dreadful diseases
may be communicated in that very way?
You really will have to countermand the
order l am very sorry to disappoint You.
but not for thousands of dollars would i
nave you run such risk.
And so, of course, i had to give In my
much-coveted bath"
Poor Laura" said MS Tublets. a very
little smile of amusement curling the cor
ners OF her mouth. But Mrs. Boggs did not
see IL and continued sadly
MOST people had trouble in getting their
luggage ana we were among the unfortu-
nate In that regard; but l consoled myself
with the idea that the next day l could
easily go to one of the dry goods shops and
buy some clean clothes. Il shall not mind
the inconvenience at ALL l remarked cheer
Iuiiy TO William, because. you know, / can
try them on and be sure that they fit nice
ly. Alas! poor little me, l seemed destined
TO shock what l call his prejudices
VI course you must be Joking he cried:
but assured him was never more serious
in my life. Then he looked actually grieyed
at my ignorance and remarked thar shon
keepers who allowed undergarments TO be
tried on ought all to be subject TO arrest
and fire. If not actually to imprisonment
or course none but thoughtless. care
less persons would dream of wearing ready
made underclothes until they had been
laundried, considering the fact that they
are commonly made in tenement houses fuiI
or dirt and bacteria but to actually go 70 q
shop where people were allowed to Try on
such garments thus propagating disgusting
skin diseases. one must be simply mad.
of course l was very angry at being
called mad. and then and there we had our
first quarrel
You might have supposed that this would
be lesson to him not to interfere with nv
personal liberty-but not at all HardIy
two weeks had passed when, one chilIy
morning. when we were going to breakfast
In the little sitting room which we had
,i'aiS SeSuieu' silppeu on lovely wadded
japanese wrapper of pale blue silk most
deliberately embroidered in canary colorad
floss, and. as l took last glance at myself
before leaving my bed room, 1 felt that I
looked very nice, indeed.
When l appeared at the breakfast table
however, | saw a shade of displeas SIRE cross
my husbands face, as he looked with
marked cisapproval at my pretty wrapper
Laura he said very seriously. have
you ever worn that gown before?'
I "a
coming next was
" Then DO me the favor to take II off and
never put 1t on again. Yes, my dea-. /
know 1t Is exceedingly pretty but as likely
as not the person who worked all that
elaborate embroidery was a leper or tho
victim of some cutaneous disorder. Those
Orientals a-e so prone to such diseases. and
cannot allow you to run the risk of wear
ing the garment, rich and comfortable as it |
"Of course. after that I could never +aks
any pleasure in the dress even If he rad
rot absolutely forbidden my wearing IL. I |
was so disappointed that cried as I chang
ed 1t for a plain American teagown of |!
Dear Laurar' exclaimed Mrs. Tub,ets
all sympathy cnce more. How perfectly
hateful of him! II you give me the wrap |
per. l will gladly risk the contagion, and
dear Jim, not being a physician, will only !
wonder where l got anything SO swell"
IF that is the case, you shall certainly |
have II, my dear Marie. 1 Will send the
doctors boy up with II tomorrow morning"
How altogether lovely of you, dear" the |
grateful Mrs. Tublets exclaimed Then
Mrs. Boggs continued:
In early September We went To the |
mountains for couple of weeks We We're
at such nice hotel! One of the first things
that charmed me was the fact that every
evening we found in our room a nice nitcbar
OF Ice water. The doctor had ascerta ine3 |
shortly afte: our arrival that the water was
safe to drink, and ] was enjoying a glass of |
1t in my room one evening when William 1
entered and said:
You are not drinking water with ice I'm |
it, l trust
Upon my replying that 1 was. he asked |
II no one had ever explained to me the |
udhser Oh ice IN country places. OF |
course, he added ice is not easy to nro
cure in sufficient quantities to last all s,m-
rner for a large hotel, and SO they take any |
ice they can fiad, and much of IL comes
from ponds of stagnant water Many cases
of typhoid fever can be directly traced to ne
of ice water made from such ice
The latter, of course, melts very quickly
and SO II is as If you were drinking the nm
healthy, staGnant water direct
From day to day found that on va rious
pretexts, most of the luxuries of life were
being cut off one by one. There was some
plausible hygienic reason to urge in every
instance. When we went to New York we
spent great deal on cab hire, because WI
liam objected to my sitting next to dirty
and possibly unhealthy people in the horse
cars and cable cars. Save for the EXPENSE
was resigned to that restriction. But, my