Evening journal., 1899-01-30
POST MARRIAGE VIEW.
An Instance which shows How a
Welded LIE Changes Many
ideas Rnd ideals.


The point OF view Of husband and
wife after marriage differs frequently
and radically from the horizon that
bounded the sky Of The engagement
seas The first year OF married lile
is The most difficult year TO live, f'f a
takes infinite patience as well G M
fai;e love TO adjust oae's self aai
tastes to another, even ~ the othe IS
the beloved companion of life. The .ol-
lov ing story illustrates the tiny peck
that mars the blue shy or the little rift
within The late chat makes discord out
OF domestic harmony;
"The wedding day OF this young
couple was far enough ia the distance
TO show a decided linear perspective,
and the husband had come to know his
wife sufficiently well to feel that
though she might be a very good little
wife, she was not the wingless angel he
had az first supposed her, and he was
not always exactly pleased with every
thing she did. Only little things. Of
course, but. knowing that great oaks
from little acorns grow, he felt IL his
duty TO comment occasionally upon
these little shortcomings.
Jennie he said one day, coming
into the parlor, where the little wife
was warbing a love song at the piano
and exhibiting an altogether care-free
enjoyment of life, which grated upon
the feelings at that moment, Jennie
he repeated, there's a hole in one of my
socks, and l don't believe that you
mended them at all No? queried
Jennie In an enigmatical tone. and con-
tinued her music, apparently without
further thought upon the subject. But
inwardly she was angry, and very an
cry. She had been we'll brought up by
a housekeeperly mother, and to be told
that she did not darn her husbands
stockings was gall and wormwood.
"I'll let him know whether 1 mend
his socks or not she said 90 herself
the next morning. the insult still rank
ling. though she had kissed her hus-
/ band good-by with wifely affection.
Then she put on her hat and coat and
hied herself TO the nearest dry goods
shop, and there she purchased q goodly
( quantity of bright, scarlet darnng cot
ton. Il won't miss q hole. either she
murmured TO herself. vindictively. as
she sat down that afternoon TO attend
TO the small family mending. She
/ didn't. If there was a suspicion of d
brcak in thread IL was a sufficient cX
cuse TO put in stitch of the bright
scarlet. His feet win look like q paii
Of paroquets,' she said, smiling wicked
IS as she completed her task.
Whether the young husband had no
an eve for color. or whether his con
science smote him for his former harsh
ness will never be known. for he neveI
said n word concerning his bright en-
hroidery, and il might have been con
tinued indefinitely If his motherin
law had not made her appearance oi
the scene. She felt it. her duty TO Sc
straight any little matters that wer
going wrong, and one of the first thing
her sharp eyes espied was the red
speckled black socks that came fror
the family wash.
Is it possible. Jennie she said, il
grieved tones, that. after all the in
struction ! have given you, and all IN,
efforts TO make you good house
keeper. you should 60 and darn you
b husbands socks with red cotton2 Civ
them TO me. That must be all takei
out and they must be darned over, eacl
, with the color of the sock Mamma
in-law heaved % deep sigh as she sa
down TO her seli-imposed task. Will
her daughter. with q wicked twinkle IL
, her eyes. went to the piano to sing care
, lessly the chorus of an old song; AM
Adam. the very first man, the very frs
! woman obcyed.' Chicago Chronicle