The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-31
WOMAN'S WORLD

girl who marries and goes away to live
among strangers. First comes the in
evitable establishment of matrimony.
when love cools down from fever heat
to normal, and one begins to feel that
one could relish a beefsteak and onions
as a change from a steady diet of choc-
olate creams. This is a surprise to the
bride, for she had supposed that she
would never desire to do anything but
hold AdolphuS Augustus hand, and ask
him ZOOS ducky is me?"
Perhaps she wouldn't except that the
American husband is dissolving view
to his wife. Adolphus Augustus has all
he can do to hold a hand with the bust
ness men with whom he comes in RI
valry, and he has no time to play hands
with his wife. Besides. he didn't mar
ry to make love, but to quit, and he
ceases talking sentiment and comes
down to prose with a suddenness that
loosens her back hair.
He doesn't mean to neglect her, or be
unkind, but he forgets what a change
it must be to a girl who has been a
belle and who has had admirers signing
at her feet to be transported by a we'd
ding ceremony, from ball rooms and
theaters, and gay society to a domestic
mud puddle, where, after splashing
around all day in a two by four fiat,
she has the hilarious excitement of sit
ting up all evening by the side of a
dummy with a paper in it's hand that
only grunts when she speaks to it.
IT a girl comes from a small town
her plight is even more piteous, for the
city girl at least knows how to amuse
herself, whereas the country girl is in
an undiscovered country of new ways
At home the village maiden was per-
sonage. In the city to which she is
taken as a bride she is a nonentity, I'M
, less her husband has a large circle of
friends who take her in on suffrance.
or family who are unusually angelic
and who make her one of them This
seldom happens. The majority of men
have few friends except business ones,
and when they marry they leave their
wives to fight out the social campaign
alone. They simply wed a girl. take
her to the home they have prepared for
her, and dump her down with an air
that seems to say, You have got me.
Being married to me is excitement and
amusement enough for any woman. Be
happy
The result Is a thumb nail tragedy
the bad quarter of an hour of a wom-
ans life who has a good husband. At
nome there wasn't an hour of the day
When people weren't dropping in. In
her new home the bride is as lonely as
Robinson Crusoe on his desert island
At home she managed the church af-
fairs, and was an authority on decora-
tons and charity bazars. She soon
finds that a city church can diffuse
more frigid atmosphere to the square
inch than any other cold storage plant
on earth. The brand new carpets and
the brand new furniture of the new
home are hopelessly clean, even the
brand new clothes to which nothing
ever happens cannot be mended, and
so she has nothing to- do, but think of
what the people at home are doing, and
wonder why she left them. Is it any
wonder that She breaks down with
hysterical loneliness and boredom?
There is. of course, no way to pre-
vent brides from suffering with nos
talgia, except to quarantine against
strangers and force everybody to marry
within their own bailiwick. Something
might be done to assuage its agonies if
women would only save the delights of
shopping, and the absorbing joy of get
ting their trousseauX until after they
are married, but as long as girls per-
sist in falling in love with fascinating
men from a distance and marrying
them, inconsistencies is the price they
must pay for a husband-and some
times he is worth it.