The Citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1903-1912, 1907-01-19
THE TR|DE AND
The COSSIPS

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 a good cry. But they we're
too happy to be embarrassed for long,
and at the end Of week or so their
embarrassment and the sensation they
had created subsidized.
Then the woman in the second floor
front took II into her head to call.
She concluded that two people must
get dreadfully tired of one another's
society when they have II all the time.
Il so happened that on the particular
night she selected for her visit the
bridegroom was called out on import.
ant business. lie hated to go, but
finally tore himself away, and, OF
course the lonely little bride was de.
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 a sig
nificant smile at the brides blushing
apologies for her husbands absence.
II know just how II Is. My husband
Is that way, too. You'll get used to II
after a while, though wouldn't have
thought he would have begun II so
soon. But you never can tell. This
town is so full of pitfalls and things.
or course, he tiay have only gone out
for a quiet game OF poker; but as
have always said, there are only three
things to take a man out Mt nights,
drinking, gambling and women; and
it's hard to say which Of those is
worst. For myself. I prefer gambling,
II I've got to have anything. but you
won't know for years what II really Is
that attracts him away from you. Just
come up TO see me II 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 I'm her mind hundred times
the blasting things she was going to
say to him. She would not quarrel!
oh no, She would merely let him
know that she could not be fooled.
Whom finally after a storm of re-
proacb and weeplng and lot OF pa.
tiept 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
lived in the hack parlor and whose
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 little advice
from one who has had n lot OF expert
ence. Make him give you an allow
ance. oh, don't care II he Is as gen
erous as Solomon and II 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 II, II he hasn't
offered you an allowance already no
means TO put the thumb'scrcws on
you after awhile. You Just put tho
proposition up TO MIN TINS very night
And that Is what the Ittie bride
did. She was somewhat dumbfounded
at her husbands ready acanieseenee'
and more than astonishod AZ the curl
Gus coldness he displayed toward her
for the rest OF the evening somehow
II gave her feeling OF Shame when
he had been 30 generous
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