Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30


Mr.. and Mrs. Tringham- Tamms were, in
the general estimation, devoted couple; but
the obviously approving glances cast from
an adjacent table by Mrs. Slimms- Slosson
upon Mr.. Tringham- Tamnls, who seemed his
wife's junior by thirty odd years, threatened
to fix gulf between them. The GOODNESS was
not yet perceptible to the public, but it had
already lowered the domestic temperature in
an indefinable sort of way. Mrs. Tringham-
Tamms, had made no declaration of her dis
approval to Mr.. Tringham- Tamns, yet he
was conscious all the same that her senti-
nents toward him had undergone a change
Of course, the disparity in the ages of hus-
band and wife admitted of only one explana-
ton: Mr. Arthur Tringham, prior to his an
nexing the 'Tamms, had been bachelor of
uncertain prospects, but with the fatal gift of
beauty and the fleeting advantage of youth;
and in his native England he had met Mrs.
Tamms an American widow, with neither
good looks nor youth, but abundance of
what Arthur Tringham needed most
money.
They had agreed that it would be a fair
exchange-his advantages as against hers
and wedding had resulted. When Mr. Tring-
ham took Mrs. Tamns, he took also her family
name, by legal process, in addition to and as
a sort of tender to his own, thus creating the
TammS.
This nominal part of the bond was a con-
cession to the sentimental section in Mrs.
Tringham- T amms mental makeup. Al
though not averse, we have seen, to con-
selling herself with a second husband, she
kept green the memory of the first whose
name was not hyphenated but whose sig
nature in his lifetime had been known to be
good for easy two and half millions of
dollars So in fond recollection of the
original Tamms, and possibly in grateful
recognition of his generosity in leaving her
all his money unfettered by any conditions,
she had not only perpetuated his name, but
also rendered comparatively immortal his
features by carrying about with her, wherever
she went framed photograph of him, with
this inscription in her handwriting on the i
end of the mat: Not lost, but gone befc
This pictorial and literary tribute to the mer
of man who if not great certainly had been
to her. always hung above the head of
bed, whenever she happened to slunber in M
or in Madrid.
Tamms the second who had contributed not
to the copartnership except additional surn
felt no distress at this post-mortem manifesto
of his wife's regard for her previous spouse
Tamms the first was not lost, neither was his mo
and as the beneficiary of such tho1ghtfulnes
the part OF MS predecessor, la1ninS the second
too content with practical blessings to worry
a question of mere sentiment.
Up to the date of their arrival at Beachcom
therefore, Mr.. and Mrs. Tringham- Tamms had
life of ideal conjugal felicity; and it not
the foreboding shadow of Mrs. Slimms- Slos:
personality had fallen across their path that e
had dreamed of a rift being riven in the lutte.
The funny-if we may employ such adjet
in describing serious episode-feature OF
thing was that Mrs. Slimms- Slosson, the distr
of domesticity and possibly the advance ager
divorce, was even older and palmer than the wo
whose jealousy she had aroused. Yet, after a
was not so strange that she should have destr
Mrs. Tringham-T amms' peace of mind, bee
that woman, being really convinced that her CAP
of a second husband had been exclusively due t