Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-05
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mirer.
On Christmas night, then, the young
woman sat in a theater box with her
father and mother and some friends,
witnessing this little French comedy,
and in II Of the front seats in the
orchestra sat her husband, alone.
The eyes of the young mar and Of
his former wife met furtively several
times during the progress of the play.
Along toward the finish of the COM
edy, when the stage husband and wife
were sparring, SO to speak, for a re-
sumption of their married bliss, the
eyes of the two in the audience met
smilingly as a number of the humer-
Gus points of the stage story were
made.
After the play the young
and her parents and the other men,
bers of her party went to one of the
hotel supper rooms for a bit to eat.
Curiously enough, the young woman's
former husband went to that same
supper room after the play for a grill
ed bone and a sup of ale. He sat not.
far away from his former wife and
the merry party. He did not join
his wife and the merry party at their
table-this is Washington and not
Paris, and perhaps stage license
doesn't go in real life, even in Paris.
But he caught his former wife's eyes
several times, and she seemed to be
glad that he caught her ~glances, for
her eyes were smiling. They had not
seen each other for more than a veal,
and then her eyes had frozen him.
So the mellowuess of her sly chances
in the supper room must be attribut-
ed to the little play, and perhaps
somewhat to the influences of the hol-
iday season. Anyhow, she almost
smiled at him, which was the main
thing.
He called at the home of her pa
rents on the evening following Christ
mas. The constraint between all
hands-her parents were present
throughout the evening-soon wore
off. They spent a merry evening.
There was little or no reference to
the marriage or the divorce that hao
followed. They just played whist
and had some music and chatted.
The situation was unusual, but this
is a decidedly true story, which prob
ably accounts for its unusualness.
The young woman's parents had al
ways liked the young man, and they
had been opposed to their daughter
leaving and divorcing him. They
were willing to let events take their
course.
On Saturday night last the young
man called again upon his former
wife. This time her parents wisely
permitted the young people to be
alone.
Correctly and formally, and, too,
with plentiful ardor, the young man
proposed to the woman who had been
his wife for nearly two years.
She accepted him without reserve.
There were not stipulations or agree
ments to he made on either side,
there was no rehashing of the past,
no casting up, nothing unpleasant of
that sort. They simply agreed to get
married again and to try to be happy.
They mutually acknowledged that
they had been too young before.
They are going to be married with
in the next couple of months, and as
the e rule among Washington min
listers as to the marrying of divorc-
ed persons doesn't operate in the
cases of couples remarrying, they are
going to have a church wedding and
all of the trimmings" as the young
man expresses it. Having eloped be-
fore, the marriage had, of course,
been an unceremonious and decidedly
hasty affair. Now, on the second
venture with the same bridegroom,
the bride-to-be-again insists upon a
church wedding, a reception at home,
a g~oing-away gown, rice and old
shoes, and-a honeymoon.
A French comedy may not be strict
ly correct. Indeed, few Of them are.
But a little French comedy that will
serve to reunite a couple of hearts
that have been pining for each other
is not such a bad thing, after ALL
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