The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
WoMAN's LOYALTY.
She Will Make Any Sacrifice for the
 Man She Loves.

The pretty young woman who was mar ried two years ago looked at the pretty young woman who is to be married m few weks with tender, sympathetic put pitying, smile.
 'sOf course. it's lovely to be married when one is married as happily as l am and I hope you will be, Alice" she said, gently, but you mustn't think married life Is all roses and sunshine. You're so deeply in love just now and so blissfully happy, naturally, that you don't think or anything but pleasantness. oh' you needn't deny 1t. I remember how Ieit before I was married to Fred-the dearest how he is. too. Alice. There never could be another quite like him, I'm sure. So | feel it's my duty to enlighten you lt- tle," she went on, quietly, taking the hand of the startled listener in her own. as | one who is about to communicate unfor- tunate but necessary facts.
 Men, to begin with. are utterly incon- sistent, as I long since learned, dearest. Talk of women being inconsistent and changeable. They're nothing to men. my dear. as you'll soon discover after you're | married Just let me tell you an incident | about Fred. You know how unpunctuai I am. naturally. Nature doesn't seem l to have made it possible for me to make appointments and catch trains and be on time just like other people. My girl friends always realized this, Alice, and made allowances. and my men friends did, too-before I was married. Fred was the most patient of all. But I hadn't been married. two months before found out that 1t fairly made him angry If he had | to wait half an hour for me, and as Co waiting in the parlor while I dressed for the theater, as he'd done many and many | a time before we were married. He just simply wouldn't think of 1t, that's all. More than once we simply stayed home because he wouldn't go after he'd waited little while for me. So ever since I've been married I've been patiently trying to | get to places on time, and 1t never was my nature, Alice, and you know 1t, and 1 it's awfully hard for me. But l never could make Fred realize this, somehow, so I'm still breaking my neck trying to be punctual. And then-but just listen | to my story.
 "I was to meet Fred one day last week and we were to go to luncheon together, and then to buy me a new hat to go home to mothers in tomorrow. And then, If there was time enough. we were to go to the matine I'm just as fond of the theater as I ever was. Alice, but we don't go nearly so often. Fred and l. as we did before we were married. And l wanted to go that day just as much as you can | K. breakfast and I got my hair all fixed when got up-it made Fred awfully dis gusted because I was late for breakfast 1 and I tried every way l could think or to get downtown in time. But something | kept happening somehow and in the end I just barely got to the place of meeting by the skin of my teeth. But 1t made me just perfectly happy to find that got there before Fred.
 Ipt ufo ha didn't appear. and I began to get fidgety. Besides. was hungry and I did want to go to the matinee so badly So kept getting crosses and crosser, and when 5 o'clock came I was so mad that I just simply couldn't see straight. So flew straight over to Freds office, and there he was as calm and cool as cucumber, reading the afternoon paper as though he hadn't thing to do But at sight of me he looked as cross as two sticks, Alice, and the lecture he read me would have made you feel faint. It was perfectly rude and unmannerly and inexcusable of | him. I wouldn't mention it, ever to | living soul. only that want to warn you. Alice of all that's coming Oh, of course. there was something to be said on his side too l did remember. afterward, that while we'd agred to meet at Fred's club at first, we'd decided to go straight to the restaurant later. And there he'd | been waiting and waiting, until just be- | fore I gave him up. And honestly, Alice, although I'd never admit 1t for anything, don't wonder he was vexed
 And then again, there's money. Now, | I suppose papa makes as much money in one week as Fred does in three or four. and papa was always so generous. had just about everything I wanted before was married. l cant have nearly so many pleasures and luxuries now. That lovely new suit of yours, for instance, and the trip to Europe you could have had this summer if you'd wanted 1t. Fred well, he wanted me to go to Europe If you did. but of course we're trying to save for our new home and I couldn't | think of leaving him alone all summer. especially with so many bold, flirtatious girls as there are in our set nowadays; so well. I expect to go away for a week | or two, that's all. l haven't had a nice long, really truly vacation. as we used to say when we were children, since was married. And as for clothes-I made this dress l have on, Alice. Oh. no. knew you wouldn't believe 1t, but I did You see, as I told you, we're saving money for our new house, and I could always do lovely embroidery and design things I used to do 1t for fun before I was married. So last winter 1 took a regular course in plain sewing and 1 dressmaking, and this year, although mo- body would believe it-I hope-I've made everything I've had to wear. Oh, yes. it's very kind of you, dearle, and I do fatter myself I usually look stylish, but still would like some handsome, new
 well-made garments once in a while, and can't afford to have them-not often, that is-now I'm married to Fred"
 She stopped, breathless, but smiling. as one who has bravely completed a dif- hcult duty. The girl who is to be mar | Tied soon looked at her in silence for a moment, then she bent forward suddenly, kissed the pretty woman who has been married two years on her soft cheek, and, lifting the delicate chin between her fingers, looked hard into the soft eyes | above it.
 It's all true you've been telling me, I'm sure,' she said, softly. 'and you re most awfully kind to take the trouble. But" lowering her voice to an envious, confidential murmur tell me the whole truth now, won't you? If you could be- gin all over again, wouldn't you marry inconsistency, impatience, little money and all?"