Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-03-09
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Honeymoon

ana TO ne su1lecteu 10 sucH tFSaltlSIt.
Honeymoon replied. There
mighty little honey in it. If that's all
the moon has to eat | don't wonder Il
wanes SO soop."
How could It Selr waning, with you
dying to get back to those horrid men
before-I was going to say the wed
ding-I mean my covenant with Sa.
tan?"
You mean that our honeymoon
waned because / got full ut my
bachelor dinnerEr
This is no time for your witticlsms.
| didn't know that | was placing my
life in the hands of one who could
lose his self respect 10y pouring wine
down his throat
Il thought all bachelors were privi.
legged TO drink last cupful of happi.
ness before submitting TO a life of
misery"
Before dragging a wife into life of
misery. you should say. oh, that /
should have put my neck in a halter!'
"And mine in chancery."
I'm going back TO my mother"
"And to my club. My room there
is not yet taken"
Il suppose you sent TO find out be
fore your promise to love and cherish
was day old"
NO; as soon as yours to honor and
obey was broken"
Il was fool to promise to honor. !
never promised to obey"
They should change the words for
women to not TO scratch"
mot to be devils would do very
well for the men. only men could not
keep promise to change their ma
lures"
Singular that you didn't see the
hoof under my stocking when we were
courting"
"oh. the devil knows how to wear
CATERS"
And his wife knows
ale hasn't any wife"
you don't mean IT, I thought you
considered your husband the devil"
Satan, the king of devils, couldn't
get wife. Fortunately women have
too much sense for that anyway"
My experience is that the bigger che
devil the more wives he may get"
During the latter part OF this dia-
logue the young wife was putting on
her Things" 10 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 coca,
s!onally contrasting tremor in her
voice
"Better not jab that spike In when
you're mad" said the husband, with
brutal plainness. You might pierce
your brain"
Little you'd care IL did"
There was more tremolo. which
would have led any but sul1y man &c
seek a reconciliation.
Il might get new honeymoon." said
the husband tauntingly.
To this there was no reply except
new fash of the eye. She was opening
boxes on the dresser and shutting them
with an angry bang.
Looking for your gloyesT'
No answer
IF it's your gloves you're looking for
rye got them In my pocket. You re.
member last night when we were walk.
ing home and you We're telling me how
happy you were because you had such
an admirable husband. Your hands
were cold. and you took of your gloves
hof I
you"
He tossed the gloves on the dresser.
His wife picked them up and walked
out of the room. He heard the front
door bang, then betook himself to his
club.
Looking about for some OF his former
associates TO dine with. be 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. 1t didn't look so attrac-
tive as II had once looked. He was
bored-in fact, he was troubled. Low
ers who try TO make up their minds
that they are haters always feel trou-
bled. 1t 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 go to
his desolate home.
AS he was approaching he saw the
figure of 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 irresclute, inserted key. opened
the door and went In.
.Oh. she took key. id SheY'
He concluded TO take short walk.
1t would help matters for her to find
him absent The house woald look as
lonely to her as his club had looked 10
him. In an hour be returned anI u ent
In, humming merry tune. His wife
was not downstairs, so he sad up