Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-07-17
A MAsCULINE FAILING
MANS TROUBLES WITH HOME ANN
VERsAHY DATES.

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Hts Wedding, Took Place.
1t is one Of the misfortunes Of the
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 Mt bridge"
the price of his wife's last bonnet but
two-cverything, in fact, except tllo
day upon which he becnipe engaged or
even, worse still, the onG upon which
he married. And there is none Of his
foiblcs which make him so unpopular
| at home as this one.
! A man is sometimes born unpopular,
and sometimes he has unpopularity
thrust upon him, but II he wants to
achieve unpopularity with bound just
let him forget the date Of his wedding
day and allow his wife to find 1t out.
We know man who Is occasionally
greeted upon his return from business
by his wife dressed IN her best gown,
with a rose In her hair and q smile OH
her lips.
The man Is always courteous. and 90
he greets his better half kindly, even
while he asks In tone OF distant dig
approval, Are we going anywhere to-
night, dcar?"
Going anywherer' says that lady,
mo; don't you-is 1t possible you don't
remember what today is7"
The culprt makes valiant effort to
Iecollcct. lie runs his fingers through
his hair and assumes n thoughtful look,
| He knits his brows and bites his llps,
md lie is painfully aware NIL the time
that his wife Is growing more and more
rigid and more and more sorry that she
has assumed her best gown for nm oc.
| caslon that Is so little appreciated.
II know 1t Isn't our wedding ami.
vcrsary," says the head of the house
presently and pleasantly. FOR we were
/ married In the spring. am sure we
were, for you wore some sort of white
thing. 1t WINS very pretty" he adds
hastily, Immediately aware that the at.
mosphere has grown even cooler with
his remarks.
u wore gray going away gown"
says his wife lclly. "and nothing white
| mt ALL"
at isn't the anniversary Of our en-
gagcmcnt," goes on the laundering
masculine, "for you told me last year
that came some time In June"
His wife absenlly takes the flower
! out Of her hair and brushes It.
| "Tell me what 1t Is" commands tho
man lmpnticntly. "I'll never guess 1t
by myself"
His wife leads the way into the H.
brary with an air. "Its not Of the
slightest consequence Of course" she
says bitterly. II was very foolish to
remember 1t myself, but somehow I
did. 1t has been four years today since
met you at Mrs. Blanks theater
party, and you sat next to me during
the performance Of Romeo and Juliet
and said that so long us 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 Gis
naive recital and the man in the 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. E
The woman who cannot recollect that
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, the day he first brought her
a 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 moro
thnn an attractive girl. the time he
asked her to marry him, what he said,
what she said. what hour of the day It
was and what she had on. AS for the
wedding day. each detail of 1t is as
plain to her half century later rs II
1t had been yesterday.
Then she gets raging mad because
her beloved cannot follow her in her
flights of fancy.
Once there was n man who never re-
membcred until he was reminded that
the anniversary OF his wedding .daJ
had rolled around again. He found
that his misconduct greatly hurt the
feelings OF his wife. and so one ven,
he resolved to make great mental
effort and be the first to speak of the
J occasion.
He made the effort, he bought his
wife superb purse, and he had It
marked with her initials in gold and
then. inside the Zap was the date-Oct
6, 1893. N
And swas his wife pleased at this
delicate compliment
Not She
TITS lovely" she said, 'but what h Il