The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-01-17
THE FRIDE AND
The COSSIPS

and of the folds of their clothes. they
were so evidently bride and bride.
groom At dinner they were the cyno.
sure of all eyes.
They endured the stares and covert
jokes pretty well until they got up to
their own rooms, and then the little
bride had good cry. But they we're
too happy to be embarrassed for long.
and at the end of a week or so their
embarrassment and the sensation they
had created subsidized.
Then the woman in the second floor
front took 1t into her head to call.
She concluded that two people must
get dreadfully tired of one anothers
society when they have 1t all the time.
1t so happened that or the particular
night she selected for her visit the
bridegroom was called out on import
ant business. He hated to go, but
finally tore himself away. and, of
course the lonely little bride was de-
lighted when the woman from the Sec
ond floor front knocked at her door
and said she had come to visit.
Never mind, my DEAR" she remark
ed, with uplifted eyebrows and sig
nificant smile at the brides blushing
apologies for her husbands absence,
Il know just how it is. My husband
is that way, too. You'll get used to 1t
after while, though | wouldn't have
thought he would have begun it so
soon. But you never can tell. This
town Is so full Of pitfalls and things.
OF course, he slay have only gone out
for quiet game of poker; but as
have always said, there are only three
things to take a man out at nights,
drinking, gambling and women; and
it's hard to say which of those is
worst. For myself. / prefer gambling,
II I've got to have anything, but you
won't know for years what 1t really is
that attracts him away from you. Just
come up to see me if you get lonesome
and I'll try to cheer you up"
When her husband came home that
night he found the little bride up with
her hat on and her eyes red. She had
| gone over in her mind hundred times
| the blasting things she was going to
| oh, no! She would merely let him
| know that she could not be fooled.
| When finally, after storm of re-
| proach and weeping and lot of pa
] tient pleading on his part, they got
| to sleep, both of them realized that
| they had had their first quarrel.
A few days later the woman who
| in, hn arIn xubn
husband was an unknown quantity
a matter Of conjecture, since she had
not seen him for many years-honored
the little bride with an afternoon call.
"Now, my dear" she said when they
had got comfortably acquainted over
cup of tea, "of course you're young
and very much in love and you're just
beginning, but take a little advice
from one who has had lot of expert.
ence. Make him give you an allow.
ance. Oh, / don't care if he is as gen.
erous as Solomon and If you have got
money of your own, you've got to get
him trained from the start. They al
ways begin by a show of generosity,
but take my word for it, If he hasn't
means to put the thumb-screws on
you after awhile. You just put the
proposition up to him this very night"
And that is what the little bride
did. She was somewhat dumbfounded
at her husbands ready acquiescence,
and more than astonished at the curl
GUS GOODNESS he displayed toward her
| he Nf he oh
it gave her feeling of shame when
he had been so generous.
Then she got to talking with the
stenographer from the second story
ballroom.
"Oh, I've just had such dreadful
time." said the little stenographer.
MY boss got fresh and I'm going to
leave. I'll tell you l won't let my
husband have stenographer when /
get married. No, Stree! You never
can tell what man is doing all day
when he's away; and | suppose a
pretty girl around the Office is an
awful temptation to them. Your hus-
band has a stenographer, hasn't he?
She's beauty, too. l wouldn't stand
for it If l was you"
Then the maid came in one morn
ing.
81 seen your husband in the hall"
she said Hes awfully good look
ing; but If l was you l wouldn't keep
him around boardin' house with all
these women. | know what young
men around boardin' houses is like.
| has to give 'em all the glitterin'
eye myself"
And then the little bride woke up.
That night, when her husband came
home, he found her lying tired and
worn out on the divan. But she just
drew his head down on her shoulder
and patted it lovingly.
Harry, dear" she said, I've found
the cutest little fiat It's only got