The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-05-27
A Married Mans Experiment That
Didn't Have the Desired
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III certain DdTDeT-snOp IOT his TURN
to be shaved, he picked up news
paper, and the first thing that caught
his eye was this:
! mo matter how busy man may
be, he should find time every day to
tell his wife that he loves her."
/ The paper fell from his hand as
he fell to musing upon the golden
past. Once more he was a young
man, living on hope and six dollars a
week, with wife and two children
to cheer him on his way. Those were
bright and happy days. because they
were full of love. He used to talk to
his wife great deal about love in
that halcyon time, but he didn't do it
now.
He couldn't tell how or when or
why he had dropped the practice, but
he had to confess to himself that he
had.
Just then the barber shouted:
"Next!" and the citizen reused up
with start, and got into the chair.
The barber said it was a nice day,
,, but the citizen was SO buried in
thought that he needed him not. and
made no reply.
The towel went under his chin, and
the lather went on to his face, and
the sable man who bent over him in
tmated that it looked very much like
rain, but he was SO deep in thought
that this remark was also wasted.
The citizen was thinking of the
happy hours when loves young dream
was his, and he was going without
everything in this world he could, to
save money to buy furniture. And
from that he began trying to remem-
Der the last time he told his wife he
loved her, but he couldn't do it to
save his life. 1t was too far back.
He had been married a long time.
At this he felt ashamed of himself,
and determined that he would do bet
ter in the future-yes, very much. So
he blurted out:
III do it! l will will"
whats that, sir?" said the bar
Der, stopping suddenly, with his razor
in the air.
The citizen blushed through the
lather, and said it didn't matter. He
had been bordering that newspaper
item so deeply that he had forgotten
where he was.
When he started for home it was
with the firm resolve that he would
turn over a new leaf, and make his
wife's heart bound with joy. He would
tell her that she was dear to him,
and see the roses bloom in her cheeks
once more.
The thought was delightful, and
made him feel as fine as if he had
money in every pocket
When the citizen reached home,
however, the wrong planet must have
been having too much influence in the
sky, for his wife had but just mo-
ment before come out of the kitchen,
after having had dreadful time with
the hired girl, about something that
hadn't been done to suit her.
The citizen was too much occupied
with his new idea to notice her eX-
element, however, and SO he walked
up to her side, stopped to kiss her, and
tenderly said:
MY dear, l love you"
SlluOll IItHTy. ckcldlneu inc
astonshed woman. whats the mat
ter with you? Have you lost your
senses?"
NO, no, my dear. II"
Don't you dare to dear me!
You've been drinking again. That's
what you've been up to. AS though l
didn't have trouble enough already,
that you must"
You're mistaken, my love. I"
Not another world" exclaimed the
angry woman, with swapping eyes.
You'd rever act that way if you
We're sober. o dear me! dear me!
You're beast. That's what you
are!"
TIE 'j''z tried to slip his arm
arcrrt .- waist, but she pushed him
frC;I p. AID shouted:
Keep a~av from me, or I'll hurt
you. | wcr'; let you make fun of me
to my facet"
And the disappointed citizen went
out into the cleaning and leaned
against the cold iron fence to think
some more.
He thought he would like to see the
man who wrote that newspaper item.
-"Ram's Horn Brown" in Indian
apolis News.