The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-15
A HOani1S Honeymoon

dying to get back to those horrid men who sent you home stupefed the night before-I was going to say the we'd dIng-I mean my covenant with S0- tanY
 You mean that our honeymoon Waned because I got full at my bachelor dinnerP
 "This is no time for your witticisaS. I didn't know that was placing my life in the hands of one who could lose his self respect by pouring wine down bis throat"
 q thought all bachelors were priyt- legged to drink a last cupful of happi- ness before submitting to a life of misery"
 Before dragging wife into life of misery, you should say. Oh. that should have put my neck in a halterF
 "And mine in chancery."
 "Tm going back to my mother"
 And I to my club. My room there Is not yet taken"
 T suppose you sent to find out be- fore your promise to love and cherish was a day old"
 "No; as soon as yours to honor and obey was broken"
 q was a fool to promise to honor. never promised to obey
 "They should change tle words for women to not to scratch"
 ".Not to be devils would do very well for the men, only men could not keep promise to change their nn- tures."'
 "Singular that you didn't see the hoof under my stocking when we were courting."
 "oh, the devil knows how to wear gaiters."
 And his wife knows"-
 "He hasn't any wife"
 You don't mean it. I thought you considered your husband the devil"
 Satan, the king of devils, could9't get a wife. Fortunately women have too much sense for that anyway"
 My experience is that the bigger the devil the more wives he may get"
 During the latter part of this dia- logue the young wife was putting on her things" to go. She looked very pretty as she stood before a mirror thrusting pins through hat and hair. The anger in her cheeks and eyes was very becoming; besides, there was Occa- slonally a contrasting tremOr in her voice.
 Better not Jab that spike in when you're mad" said the husband, wit0 brutal plainness. You might pierce your brain"
 Little you'd care if did"
 There was more tremOlo, which would have led any but sulky man to seek a reconciliation.
 q might get new honeymoon" said the husband tauntingly.
 To this there was no reply except a new flash of the eye She was opening bores on the dresser and shutting them with an angry bang.
 Looking for your glovesr
 No answer.
 ,,If it's your gloves you're looking for I've got them in my pocket You re- member last night when we were walk ing home and you were telling me how happy you were because you had such an admirable husband. Your hands were cold, and you took on your gloves so that I could warm your fingers for you"
 He tossed the gloves on the dresser. Ills wife picked them up and walked out of the room. He heard the front door bang, then betook himself to hls club.
 Looking about for some of his former associates to dine with, he found they had all made engagements, and he was obliged to dine alone. After dinner he drank his coffee and smoked his cigar in the cafe. It didn't look 80 attrac- tive as 1t had once looked. He was bored-in fact, he was troubled. Low CTS who try to make up their minds that they are haters always feel trou- bled. It was not long before this one began to worry, thinking he might have gone too far and that he should have given his wife a chance to make up. At o'clock he concluded to so to his Cesolate home.
 As he was approaching he saw the figure of a woman turn the corner. She looked up at the house, paused, turned away, looked back, turned again and walked slowly to the house. The husband stepped behind a tree. The woman went to the front door, stood irresolute, inserted a key, opened the door and went in.
 "Oh, she took key, did shep
 He concluded to take a short walk. It would help matters for her to find him absent. The house would look as lonely to her as his club had looked to him. In on hour be returned and went in, humming a merry tune. His wife was not downstairs, so he sailed ID Into their bedroom. She was standing before the mirror in her nightdress combing her hair.
 "Hellog he said with felgned sur prise. Tired of your mother d. readyY'
 There was no answer.
 "oh, I thought perhaps you might be penitentF
 He could see a flash in her reflection in the mirror. She put her hair up h a knot, walked to where she had left her clothes and began to put them on. Re was a very mean fellow and per mitted her to dress herself, even to