Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-05-12
A MASCULINE FAILING
MANS TROUBLES WITH HOME ANN.
veRsARy DATES.
The Mnlc Crcntnrc's Persistent AbiI-
iiy To Forget the Dnrs Upon WIrich
Important Events, IucIuding Even
His Wedding, Took Place.

1t Is one OF the miSfortuneS of the
| average man that he cannot remember
anniversaries. lie can remember with
out difficulty the dates of his various
board meetings, the price of stocks. the
| amount of money he loses Mt "hrldge."
the price of his wifc's last bonnet hut
| twO-cvcrythng. in fact except the
day upon which he became engaged or
even. worse still, the one upon which
he married. And there is none Of his
| foiDlcs which make him so unpopular
at home as this one.
man Is sometimes born unpopular,
aud sometimes he has unpopularlty
thrust upon him, hut If he wants to
achieve unpopularity with bound Just
let him forget the date of his wedding
day and allow his wife TO find it out.
We know man who IS occasionally
greeted upon his return from business
by his wife dressed In her best gown.
with rose in her hair and smile on
her lips.
The man is always courteous, and SO
he grcets his better half kindly, even
while he asks in n tone Of distant dis
approval. Are we going anywhere to-
night dcar?'
Going anywhcrcw says that lady.
NO; don't you-is it possible you don
remember what today is:"
The culprit makes IL valiant effort to
rccollcct. lie runs his fingers through
| his hair and assumes 81 thoughtful look.
He knits his brows and bites his Inns.
and lie is painfully aware all the time
that his wife Is growing more and more
rigid and more and more sorry That sho
has assumed her best gown for an oc.
casion that is so little appreciated.
Il know it isn't our wedding ami.
vcrsary." says the head OF the house
presently ana pleasantly, "for we were
married in the spring am sure we
were, for You wore some sort of white
thing. 1t was very pretty" he adds
hastily, Immediately aware that tic at
mospliere has grown even cooler with
his remarks
II wore gray going away gown"
says his wife lcily. land nothing white
at ALL
ut isn't the anniversary of our en-
gagemcnt," goes on the laundering
masculine. for you told me Inst year
that came some time In June"
His wife absently takes the fowe.
out OF her hair and brushes 1t.
Tell me what 1t Isl commands the
man impatiently. I'll never guess 1t
By myself"
His wife leads the way into the H.
brary with nm mir. 'Its not Of the
slightest consequence Of course" she
says bitterly. II was very foolish to
remember 1t myself. but somehow L
did. Ithas been four years today since
met you at Mrs. Blanks thcnter
party. md you sat next to me during
the performance Of Romeo and Juliet
and said that SO long rs you lived you
would never forget that night nor the
privilege that had been yours on that
OCCASION"
1t would be very hardened criminal
who would not be bowled out by This
naive recital, and the mani in the, case
Is properly contrite and writes the date
down In his pockctbook SO that he will
have 1t for next yenr, but lie never by
any chance remembers 1t then, and
about the same scene will be gone over
again.
The woman who cannot recollect that
Columbus discovered America In 1892
or that the civil war was begun in 1881
Gun remember without difficulty the
day and date upon which she met her
husband, the day he first brought her.
n bunch Of violets. the first time he
took her to the theater and the play
they saw. the moment when he began
to look upon her as something more
than an attractive girl, the time lie
asked her to marry him, what he said,
what she said, what hour of the day q
was and what she had on. AS for th,
wedding day. each detail Of it is as
plain to her half century later ms If
1t had been yesterday.
Then she gets raging mad because
her beloved cannot follow her In her
flights of fancy.
Once there was q man who never re
membered until he was reminded that
the anniversary cf his wedding day
had rolled around again. He found
that his misconduct greatly hurt the
feelings Of his wife, and SO one year
he resolved to make great menta'
effort and be the first to speak of tho
occasion.
He mndc the effort, ne bought his
wife superb purse, and he had II
marked with her Initials in gold and
then inside the flap was the date-Oct.
6, 1893.
And was his wife pleased at this
delicate compliments
Not she.
TITS lovely" she said, 'fbut what 10 IL
for? The date, / mean"
"For?" asked the man mildly. .sWhy,
for our wedding day. Don't you re.
member we were married on Oct. 6,
1882?
His wife smiled sad, soft smile.
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