Sharp County record., 1907-04-19
The Love
DhsEfen
4 EEAEEE x
copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles,)
BY w. q. YarcOtf

copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Conversation had touched upon a
fully reported breach of promise case
action. Tom, whose quarrel, with his
fancee still burned, shifted his con-
tempt Of the unhappy defendant whose
stilted but earnest attempts to express
his passion in verse had been basely
read out in court by sardonic coun-
sell
Love" he concluded, "an' such-like
rot ought to be put stop to. 1t
makes me Ill to talk about ii"
Then why talk of it?" said Mr..
Nuts, the druggist Mr.. Nuts pres
ence was tolerated on the implied un-
Outstanding that he refrained from
insidiously introducing any OF his
mysterious compounds.
"Why talk of it?" he said again.
Nothing new has been discovered
about love since the first generation
after Adam. If a chap thinks 'e's in
love, an says he's unhappy, e amt In
love at ALL Most likely it's indiges-
ton. Cause when a chaps really in
love, he simply can't help being
'appy,"
Listen to Cupid" said Potty, grin
ming.
But look here, Pinch" said Tom,
"spose a chaps in love with gal,
an she amt with him. What about
It them"
"Nothin' at all to do with It," eX.
planned Pinch. Loves a thing by
itself, an If chaps got 1t he's hap
pier'n he could be if he amt got it.
II the gals caught it as well, that's
very nice, but even II she amt, the
chaps better off than If he hadn't got
It."
TITS my belief" said Potty, memory
touching his eyes and voice, that it's
as much habit as anything else. When
a chaps got into the way of 1t like,
1t amt easy to get out. It's like
smokin'. 1t don't matter very much
what you smoke so long as you're
smokin', an same way 1t don't matter
much to chap who he's in love with,
so long as he's in love-"
"Well," said Pinch, come to think
OF It, most things Is habits. What's
life but a sort O. habit? There's lots
O. people always grumbling about the
worry an trouble O. life, an sayin' II
amt worth livin', but they don't seem
very keen on givin it up, Can't get
out Of the habit, like. An I've noticed
that If one O them kind O people gets
a cold or headache, he's the one to
hop into bed an send for a doctor.
mother thing too! What's a wife
but habit? First Of all, she's sort
O. worshiped by man; then she be-
comes a friend, like but you look at
a man married three or four years,
an II his wife amt a habit more'n
she's anything else, well! If she goes
away for a day or two does he miss
her? Course he does. so he misses
his pipe or his half-pint II he's sudden
ly cut off EN-. Mark yer, too, lots OF
people would rave like mad II 1t was
put TO 'em, but II th'd speak the truth
which It's as we'll for them they don't
they'd say was quite right"
Ginger glanced at Potty,
I've often thought" said he, dark.
ly that place where q general
swap O wives could be made now an
then would be very handy"
What" said Pinch,
His face glowed with fury and hls
eyes blazed disgust at Gingers calm
and philosophic suggestion,
"What7" no repeated, and after a
struggle for breath-"Youl-"
Words failed him, and with a stupen.
dous effort he subsided into silence,
"a chap could make the swap dl.
rectly he begins TO find his wife
habit" continued Ginger,
Pinch gradually resumed an appear.
ance Of sanity as he realized he was
being chafPed
"Ah, said he mopping his brow, "yor
didn't exactly see what | meant, !
was talkIn' general not pussonal"
Herein is food for thought and self
analysis,
"Rummest thing about love" said
Bill Jones, "soeln' as we're talltin
about It's the idea chaps get into
their heads directly they catch it;
the idea as nobody else ever knew
anything at all about Il, Think they've
discovered America ey'ry time"
Woman broke in Tom; the only
way to keep woman In her place Is to
let her see yer don't think much OF
her-oven If yer do, Let her see yer
think she's an inferior, which she Ia,
an nine cases out o ten sho'l think
you're right, an treat you with proper
respect"
There was n pause, Pinch was
mentally dlsulIng wisdom from tho
unforood impressions Of lifo's expert.
once,
You're wrong Tom" said ho final.
ly, quite wrong, Women, for some
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