Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13

Il wish TO be sure Mary said. and
tested him year after year.
Perhaps you think her cold
There are two kinds of women, and
Homer set them off finely in Helen
and Penelope. Helen ran off with her
husbands guest with not great
amount Of persuasion Penelope re-
jected her Suitors and was very slow
to believe that her husband had re-
turned. You remember that she tested
him thoroughly, 1t is a matter of
taste as to which woman you consider
most interesting, but Penelope is my
choice for good, common sense.
If Mary's mother had lived as long
as her daughter, perhaps the latter
would have tested her lover foraY er.
but at last, finding herself an orphan.
she said, yes"
In America it is not the custom to
advertise the ages of bride and groom
on their license. but it is in foreign
countries. and TINS stood the ages of
those two:
Julius Mohl, As; Mary Clark, 5S."
"Fffty-eight'' eNclaimS every woman
reader Those younger say, Hope for
me yet" IF they are unmarried) and
all the rest agree that the heart never
grows old. But this piQuant little
bride did not look old, which is an
other benefit of the artistic tempera-
ment. She had soul, intellect, charm
what the French call esprit She was
her husbands delightful companion.
Please remember this saying: IF a
man loves a woman for her looks, he
will love her five years. If he loves
her mind, he will love her ten years
If he loves her ways, he will love her
! forever" A Woman'S ways don't
change. If she is charming, there is
no reason why she should lack a lover
at fifty-eight any more than at eigh-
teen. And, bless you, dear readers
l am not inventing this story. 1t is all
true.
The women who are coy sWeethearts
make the most loving wives The
men who endure the most rebuffS when
! lovers afterwards receive most en-
dearmentS when husbands. 1t is not
surprising, therefore, that NJ. Mohl's
marriage was a happy uniOn-such a
marriage as refuteS all the cynics who
ever snarled. Long, blissful years sue
ceeded that late wedding day, and, as
the wife was the elder, she expected to
enjoy the last of her husbands devO-
! ton. But it was otherwise. At eighty
she was left a widow.
ViyaciOuS in her grief, as she had
! been in her love- she at first refused
to be comforted, but with her bright
! wit her next and permanent period
was to do something to express all the
love and admiration she felt for her
noble mate. She busted herself in re-
vising the MSS. he had left, publish
ing those which he intended for print
and arranging others which were of a
strictly personal value. One day while
thus occupied she found an old pocket
book. She knew that her husband hal
not used it for fifty years. She peeped
within. She saw a few old letters, yell
low and SOiled. A suspicion struck her.
She thrust it out of sight. But she
! could not get it out Of mind. jealous.
hurt, loving, she repeatedly vowed 10
examine the keepsake and know thu
worst. For fifteen days she suffered
an agony Of suspicion She coniided
her troubles to a friend. Il believe
that l was his only love, and now, If
l find it Otherwise1-I cannot look--it
is better not to know-but 1 suffer-
Examine the book at once" urged
her friend
1t required much persuasion, but
finally, with a little reckless gesture,
she again took the book III hand.
She was the same quaint little figure
which painted all day in the Louvre
and went to parties at night. She
wore the same kind of dress, cut square
| in the neck. The same tangled hair
gray now, fell over the piquant face,
Fifty years had left the same heart
yearning to be loved greatly.
She touched the letters She noticed
the old broken seals. She spread them
out. Oh, joy! They were her own
letters, written fifty years ago.-Kate
Kaufman, in Cincinnati Post.