The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-04-25

fully reported breach OF promise case
action. Tom. whose quarrel, with his
fancee still burned. smiled 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 a sardonic coun'
sell
Love" he concluded. AN such-like
rot ought to be put a stop to. IL
makes me III to talk about IL"
Then why talk OF IT." said Mr..
Nctts. the druggist Mr. Nuts pres
ence was tolerated on the implied I'M
Outstanding that he refratned from
insidionsly 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. II chap thinks 'e's In
love. an says he's unhappy. e amt In
love at all Most likely It's tndlges-
ton. Cause when a chaps really In
love. he simply cant help being
'appy"
Listen to Cupid" said Potty. grin.
aing
But look here, Pinch" said Tom,
"s'pose a chaps In love with a sal,
an she amt with him. What about
II them
"Nothin at ali to do with It, ex-
blamed Pinch. Loves thing by
itself. an n a chaps got Il he's hap
pier'n he could be II he amt got IT,
u the gals caught II as well. that's
very nice. but even II she amt, the
chaps better of than II he hadn't got
IT,"
IT'S my belief" said Potty, memory
touching his eyes and voice. that It's
as much habit IA anything else. When
. chaps got into the way OF II like.
II amt easy to get out It's like
smokin'. II don't matter very much
what you smoke so long as you're
smokin'. an same way II don't matter
much to a chap who he's IN love with,
40 long az he's In love"
Well" said Pinch. come to think
OF 1t, most things Is habits. What's
life but sort o. habitf There's lots
o. people always grumbling about the
worry an trouble o. life. an sayin' It
Amt worth iivin'. but they don't seem
very keen on givm' II up. Can't get
out OF the habit. like. An I've noticed
that II one o. them kind o people gets
a cold or headache. he's the one to
hop into bed an send for doctor.
Another thing, too! What's wife
but habit? First OF ALL she's sort
o. worshiped by man; then she be-
comes friend. like: but you look at
q man married three or four years.
an IL his wife amt habit more'n
she's anything else, well! II she goes
away for day or two. does he miss
herr Course he does. SO he misses
HIS pipe or his half-pint II he's sudden.
ly cut on EN-. Mark yer. too. lots OF
people would rave like mad II Il was
put TO EN-. but II th'd speak the truth
which It's as well for them they don't.
they'd say was quite right
Ginger glanced at Potty.
i've often thought" said he. dark.
ly. that a place where general
swap o. wives could be made now an
then would be very handy"
.'What?" said Pinch.
His face glowed with fury and his
eyes blaxed disgust at Ginger's calm
and philosophic suggestion.
'What?" he repeated, and after a
struggle for breath-"You.-"
Words failed him. and with stupen,
dous effort he subsidized into silence.
"A chap could make the swap d.
rectiy he begins to find his wife a
habit" continued Ginger.
Pinch gradually resumed an appear
ance OF sanity as he realized he was
being chaffed.
"Ah, said he mopping his brow yer
didn't exactly see what ! meant.
was talkin' general, not pnssonal."
Herein Is food for thought and self
analysis.
"Rummest thing about love-" said
BIil Jones, "seeln' as we're talkin
about it---ls the idea chaps get int
their heads directly they catch Il.
the idea as nobody else ever knew
anything al all about It. Think they've
discovered America ev'ry time
woman utOht III lhuit NV hhis
way TO keep woman in her place is tt
bet her see yer don't think much o
her---eyen II yer do. Let her see yei
think she's an inferior. which she Is
en- nine cases out o ten she'll thini
you're right. an treat you with propei
respect"
There was pause. Pinch wal
mentally distiiling wisdom from th'
enforced impressions OF life's expert
ence
You're wrong. 1om." said he, final
~: quite wrong. Women. for SOM
extraordinary reason. always do tr.
90 be what men thinks EN-. as yol
say. but the better opinion men haT'
Of EN-, they more they think o them
selves so. yer see. we shonld Away
th.nk the best 81 EN-, so as TO give zen
q chance Course. it's sometimes yer
hard. but IL never does no harm Z
try
Tom, with the rashness OF bachs
Ior yeatured 10 affirm that II was in
possible for anybody la sane stat
to hold Rn exalted opinion OF womer
postulating that the only attitude PEE
missible was sincere pity becsus
they were women.