The Cairo bulletin., 1907-01-11
THE Bride And
The COSSIPS


TIE rice falling out Of their pockets
and OF the folds Of their clothes. they
We're so evidently bride and bride
groom Al dinner they were the cyno
sure of all eyes.
They endured the stares and cover,
jokes pretty we'll until they got up tt
their own rooms. and then the LITTLE
bride had good cry. But they vert
too happy to be embarrassed for long
and at the end OF a week or so theh
embarrassment and the sensation the,
had created subsidized.
Then the woman In the second nool
front took II into her head to call
She concluded that two people mus
get dreadfully tired of one another,
society when they have it all the time
1t so happened that on the particula,
night she selected for her visit tn,
bridegroom was called out on import
ant business. He hated to go, bu
finally tore himself away, and. o
course the lonely little bride was de
lighted when the woman from the sec
ond floor front knocked at her doc.
and said she had come to visit.
Never mind. my dear" she remark
ed, with uplifted eyebrows and sig
niticant smile at the brides blushln,
apologies for her husbands absence
i know just how it is. My husband
is that way, too. You'll get used to i
after while, though | wouldn't hav,
thought he would have begun 1t Sc
soon. But you never eau tell. Thii
town is so fun of pitfalls and things
OF course, he elay have only gone gu
for quiet game OF poker; but as
have always said. there are only tire,
things to take a man out at nights
drinking, gambling and women; an,
it's hard to say which of. those i
worst. For myself, | prefer gambling
If I've got to have anything. but yol
won't know for years what 1t really
that attracts him away from you, Jus
come up to see me If you get lonesome
and III try to cheer you up"
When her husband came home tina
night he found the little bride up Will
her hat on and her eyes red. She hat
gone over in her mind a hundred time,
the blasting things she was going t.
say to him. She would not quarrel
oh, no, She would merely let hin
know that she could not be fooled
When finally. after a storm OF re-
proach and weeping and a lot of pa
tent pleading on his part, they 90.
to sleep, both of them realized tina
they had had their first quarrel.
A few days later the woman WHIT
lived in the back parlor and whose
husband was an unknown quantity
a matter of conjecture, since she ha3
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 ovef
a cup of tea "of course you're young
and very much in love and you're just
beginning but take little advice
ence Make him give you an allow,
ance. Oh / don't care IL he is as gen.
erous as Solomon and If YOU have got
money of your own, you've got to get
ways begin by show of generosity,
but take my word for II. If he hasn't
offered YOU an allowance already he
means to put the thumb-screws on
al aWhfIn Won nj fhn
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 coldness he displayed toward her
for the rest of the evening Somehow.
# gave her a 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 a dreadful
time" said the little stenogFapher
My boss got fresh and I'm going TO
leave. I'll tell you won't let my
husband have a stenographer when |
get married. No, sirree' You never
can tell what a man is doing all day
when he's away; and | suppose
pretty girl around the Office is an
awful temptation to them, Your hus-
band has a stenographer, hasn't he?
She's beauty, too. / wouldn't stand
for IL il | was YOU"
Then the maid came In one morn.
ing.
4 seen your husband in the hall"
She said He's awfully good look
ng: bat II was YOU | wouldn't keep
rim around boardin' house with al
hese women. know what young
men around boardin houses is Ike.
has 10 give EN- all the giitterin'
I'VE myself
And then the little bride woke up.
That night, when her husband came
nome. be found her lying tired and
worn out on the divan. But She just
rev his head down on her shoulder
md patted it lovingly.
Harry. dear" she said. I've found
he cutcst little fat It's only got
our room and r faces on a dingy old
.ourt. and The Kitchens the size ~ =
TODD clothes rlpset and IN have 90 do
Without a new dress this winter but
vel move in there next Monday Il