Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-08-26
A MASCULINE FAILING
MANS TROUBLES WITH HOME ANN
vERSARy DATES.
Tke Male Creatures Pcrsistent Abil.
tty to Forget the Days Upon Which
Important Events, Including Even
Ills Wedding, Took Place.

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Important Events, IncIuding Even
His Wedding, Took Place.
| 1t Is one OF the mlsfortunes of tho
| average man that he cannot remember
| anniversaries. He can remember with
out difficulty the dates of his various
| board meetings. the price of stocks, tho
amount Of money he loses ut bridge"
| The price OF his wlfcs last bonnet but
| two-cvcrything, In fact, except thu
| day upon Which he bccalpc engaged or
even, worse stil. the onS upon which
he married. And there Is none of his
toihics which mike HIN SO unpopular
ut home us this one.
man Is sometimes born unpopular.
aud so!nstimcs he has unpopularlty
thrust upon hin. but if he wants to
| achieve appropriately with bound Just
let HIM forget the date Of his wedding
| day ana allow his wife to find 1t out {
We know man who is occasionally
greeted upon Ills return from businosa
by his wife dressed In her best gown.
/ with Il rose IN her lair and smile on
her lips.
| The man is always courteous. and so
he grccts his better hnlf kindly, even
| Willie he asks In II tone of distant dIs-
approval. Are we going anywhere to-
night, dcar?'
Going anywhcrc!" says that Indy,
NO; don't youis II possible you don't
remember what today ls?"
The culHrit makes Il valiant effort to
rccollcct. He runs his fingers through
bis hair and assumes II thoughtful look
| lie knitS his brows and bites his Inns.
and lie is painfully aware all the time
That his wife Is growing more and more
| rigid ana more and more sorry that she
has assumed her best gown for IN oc,
casion that il SO little appreciated.
Il know II isn't our wedding amt.
versary," says The head Of the house
presently and pleasantly, "ror we were
married In Tie spring. [ am sure we
were. for you wore some sort of white
thing. lt was very pretty" he adds
hastily. immediately aware that the Mt
mosphcrc hus grown even cooler with
| Ills remarks.
II wore Il gray going away gown"
says his wife lclly, "and nothing white
| Mt all"
ut isn't the anniversary OF our en-
gagHmcnt," goes on the laundering
masculine, "for you told me last year
that cnmc some time In June"
Ills wife absently takes the flower
out OF her hair and brushes 1t.
TEL me what 1t Is" commands the
man impntienuy. "Ill never guess It
BY myself"
| Ills wife leads the way into the H.
brary with an mir. Its not of the
slightest consequence OF course" she
says bitterly. 81 was very foolish to
rcmcmher 1t myself, but somehow I
did. 1t has been four years today since
met you at Mrs. Blanks thcatcr
| party, and YOU sat next to me during
| the performance of Romeo and Juliet
and said that so long as you lived you
would never forget that night nor the
| privilege that had been yours on that
occasion"
| Ut would be very hardened criminal
WHO would not be bowled out by this
naive recital, and the man In tho case
Is properly contrlte and writes the date
down in his pocketbook SO that he Will
have 1t for next year, but he never by
any chance remembers 1t then, and
about the same scene will be gone over
again.
The woman who cannot recollect tina.
Columbus discovered America In 1892
or That the civil war was begun In 1861
can remember without difficulty the
day and date upon which she met her
husband, tho day he first brought her
a bunch Of vioicts, the first time he
took her TO tho tcatcr and the play
they saw. the moment when he began
to look upon her as something more
than an attractive girl. the time he
| asked her To marry him, what he said,
what she said, what hour of the day u
wax and what she had on. AS for the
wedding day each detail Of 1t Is as
plain to her half a century later as IL
| Il had boon yesterday.
Then she gets raging mad because
her beloved cannot follow her In her
flights OF fancy.
Once there was man who never re
mcmberctl until he was reminded that
the anniversary Of his wedding day
had rolled around again. He found
/ that his misconduct greatly hurt the
| feelings of his wife, and so one yea,
he resolved to make great mental
effort ana be the first to speak OF the
| occasion.
lie mndc the effort, he bought his
| wife superb purse, and he had It
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 compliment
| Not che