The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-11-21
BREAKING The BOND
sNm R. COCHRANE enters the
Ml drawing-room, where his wife
is seated at the piano.

is seated at the piano.
He-For goodness sake, Mabel, stop
banging that instrument and talk to
mel
She turning her head round)-Talk to
you? What on earth about? l saw you
at breakfast.
He-Is a fellow only to speak to his
wife once a day? l thought marriage
was meant for cOmpanionship and SYM
pathy.
She (crossly)-You think wives were
created just to fulfill the passing ca
price of the moment, but don't choose
to pander to your whims. I've some
thing better TO do. (Faces the music
and goes on practicing)
He-Most women give up all that
stunning when they get married and
take to more useful occupation.
She playing softly)-More fools
they. Changing hard and putting down
loud pedal)
He Gaising his voice)-If you go on
any longer with that noise Ill smash
every note on that old kettledrum!
She Qlfting her hands from the keys
Then I'll burn all your golf sticks.
Gets off music stool and confronts
him. BY the by, did you ever intend
giving up golf when you proposed to
me?
He-Oh, that's quite a different mat
ter! An open-air pastime is absolutely
necessary for health. It's mans duty
to his family to join a golf club.
She-And leave his wife to her own
devices, then grumble at her because
she solaces her loneliness with music.
He-But you carry it to such an eX-
cess. You're forever gadding about to
concerts, operas, musical matinees, and
what not. You are never in.
She-Why should l be, when you are
always out? l suppose you'd have me
waiting in the hall all day to help you
on and off with your coat, and to run
for your slippers, like some deluded do
nestle drudge. For years, Walter, I've
been trying to uproot your medieval
ideas of matrimOny, but they stick as
tight as ever.
He-You should have mentioned your
disapproval when I impaired them to
you before our marriage, then-then-
She-Then there would have been no
marriage-you'dh have cried off?
He (deliberately)-I certainly should.
She-Ours is a good illustration of the
old adage, Marry in haste, repent at
| Lott pr,1xr I
gret our precipitancy as much as you do.
He-But l don't regret anything. 1t
is only weak minds that indulge in idle
regrets.
She-Own up, our marriage is a mis-
take, and be honest.
He-I deny it, Nothing of the sort.
She Qrritated)-Call it what you will
an error of judgment, regrettable Incl
dent-there have been so many disas-
tiers the past year so named. But IN
homely parlance, we ought not to have
got married; we are not suited to each
other, and our marriage is failure.
He (calmly)-You are quite wrong
The real error only lies in your light
treatment of the vows you made at the
altar, and iii your neglect Of wifely
duties.
She-The fact is, you've got tired OF
me- In the early days Of our life to-
gether everything was fresh and new
Tou were kept amused, but now the
novelty has worn off, have no longer
the power to attract and entertain you
He (angrily)-Upon my word. Mabel
you take the cake for perversiOn OF
truth 1t was you who got tired of me
you were always begging to move tC
London, and complained so of being
dull and bored in the country. AS was
your sole and constant companion, Il
was a bit rough on me, and l felt it
You were always grumbling at me.
She-The fact is that n man withOu
any profession or business become.
hipped, dissatisfied and mOrOse. YOl
don't do half enough with your life.
He-And you do too much. The con
slant excitement you indulge in makes
you irritable, restless and Eighty.
She-I despise a man who makes gol
his whole life work, and has no definit,
aim.
He-I scorn a woman who has a scor,
of silly fancies and misnames then
"isms."
She hotly)-You would bind m,
down to the narrow tedium of domes
ITCHY, and stifie all higher aspirations.
He-Rot bosh. fiddlesticks. How
you go off in a tangent, Mabel Blu
this sort of thing between us can't &,
on much longer.
Cba (ouicsrIvl No indaod There