Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-05-03
WOOING AND welded
BEFORE AND AFTER MARRIAGE As
VIEWED BY ONE MAN.

Tho Young Fellow Who IL Trying to Get
Used to Being Pa Rises to Explain.
Cheaply Than One Works.
1T is curious what difference there IL
| between before and after marriage" said
the young man who Is trying to get used
to being pa. "Before marriage all seems
90 haloyon and bright, to speak after tho
manner of tho golden jubilee. You meet
| a girl Possibly she Is very ordinary
sort of girl, but you don't think SO. To
you it seems that the stars shine in her
| eyes and that tho sunlight loves to nestle
| in her hair. You arc more than half in
clined to believe that she Is an angel, but
you do not quite admit to yourself that
this Is SO. for you think how an angel
would look trapsing around with you II
you should DO fortunate enough to get
her." Tho young man who Is trying to
get used to being pa paused and sighed.
Then he resumed:
"After time there comes an evening
| when you summon your courage to tho
sticking point and propose. 1t is hard
| Job, much the hardest, in fact, that you
ever tackled, and You were brought up OH
| farm too. It would have been vastly
| easier II you could have known that tho
dear girl had boon waiting, hoping and
praying for this very denouemont for some
| months then past. But you do not know
it. for she docs not coyly oonfido the fact
to you until later. So you take your heart
in your throat and propose. Joy, great
Joy! She accepts you. The Garth Is yours,
| and you do not care whether it Is fonoed In
or not"
Again the young man sighed.
"You sit down close, very close, togcth-
or, and after a time-it may DO on that or
another ovening-you fall to talking OF
tho future. You will be married soon, Of
| course, but the matter of finances must DO
considered You consider 1t, you and she
You prove that two persons can he sup
ported cheaper than ono, and you demon
strate 1t by several different columns Of
| figures. It is arranged, on hor suggestion,
that you aro to 70 without smoking, which
will save 1866 a year to tho firm and that
you never arc to got out with the boys,
which will. she says, save $3.50 moro. Oh,
1t will be easy enough for two who love
| each other to live on your income! Curl
GUS, IL 1t not, that sho and you never fig
urc OH what 1t will cost to support three
or four or ovon mOre-curiOus In u world
where tho three or four or ovcn moro fire.
quontly report at headquarters and do
mald board and lodging. 1t also is curl
Gus how different 1t Is aftor marriage.
"Thon, by way of diversion, you talk Of
your mutual faults. You admit that you
arc slightly quick tempered, but mover,
never, you vow, could you DO cross with
your own pot. Sho acknowledges that
she Is u trillc selfish, but honcoforth, sho
shyly says, all her solfshness will be for
you, hor highest and host self, and then
you both assert, emphasizing tho assertion
in n pleasant way which you aro apt to
adopt ut such times, that ull human frail-
tics and imperfoctiOns must DO lost IN such
great and unexampled love as yours (moro
emphasis). You have a slight quarrel, in
| decd. over tho question which ono Of you
will most bury his faults for tho sake Of
tho other.
"After awhile you aro married, and
then you begin to notice how different arc
tho before and after of marriage. 1t Ia
not alono that tho cold, chilly facts domon-
strIto that your demonstration that two
(throo, four or moro) can 1.-Two chonpor than
ono was badly warped, but othor things
also happen In ways that nro not accord
Ing to tho nntewodding programme For
u
you yet up In tho night, full over chair,
bark your shins and Immediately sny,
Great guns, Henrietta, what is your OBJ
jeot iE pillng implements Of death and do
struction in tho middle of tho floor every
night before you 20 to b"dr Then your
vito wceps, and you toll hor how dread
fully sorry you are that you allowed your
tompor to master you, and NIL is VOL again.
"But tho rift il in tho luto, and only
three mornings after that you and sho
have u long argument concerning which
shall got up and build tho fire. She has u
headache sho says, and you toll her that
II she wants to discover u desperately sick
man all she need do Is to fool OF your
pulse. Finally tho matter is compromised
by your getting up and building tho fire.
But you feel hurt, for you wanted to com
promise in tho other way, only sho would
not. And by this time you begin to SEQ
that heaven does not lie on tho forward
sido of tho marital limo and that both you
and she took u good dcal of common, Or
dinnry clay into tho domestic relation.
"Thon tho baby comes, and-and'-
Tho young man who Is trying to get
used to being pn gulpcd thrco times,
sighed deeply and lnpscd into silence.
And no ono else spoke, for I'LL in tho
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aminer.
Reason Enough.
Reading and writing nre not really
necessity Of lifo, when there arc other peO-