Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-08-24
The Good Fellow"
Ought Never Marry.

The Good Fellow"
Ought Never Marry.
II | had daughter at the marriage
,he age I'd smut her up i'll a convent
or fake her down TO Tahiti and teach
her to live in grass hut before I'd let
,ar fall in love with a good fellow"
,bo knows a lot of other good fellows
snd wants TO talk about them all the
lime
The good fellow is a fine friend, the
lost companion in the world. and more
than one Of George AIDES fables.
Rnt I'd Just as son think of marrying
one of them as | would think of marry
ING the Jack who jumps out of the box
when you snap the lid.
On the whole, I'd prefer the Jack in
the box, because ! could keep 'the lid
down over him. and I'd know where he
was when the lid was down.
one of the greatest mysteries out of all
the mysteries of human life is this:
What does good fellow marry for?
Why does he ever persuade himself
that he can be happy or make any wom-
an happy in the sort of a place he calls
home? A good fellow" is as much out
If place married as a fish would be out
of place in a poultry yard. Poor fish.
YOU couldn't help feel sorry for it if
Won saw it trying to swim and float and
IL Il
never see Il good fellow married but |
Shed two conscientious tears
One of the tears is for the good fell
low" and the other tear is for the good
fellows" wife. | don't know which tear
is the biggest.
know a good fellow" who was des-
perately in love some FIVE years ago.
He used to come and read me parts of
his Sweetheart's letters. and he spent
most of his time when he wasn't reading
those letters answering them.
He went to bed at 10 O'Clock every
night, so as to be up and waiting when
the pOstman arrived
He stopped drinking too much and he
said that he didn't understand how he
could have lived such a hollow life so
long.
Poor good fellow" The queen of the
poultry yard had caught him in her net.
and he didn't know enough to struggle.
| tried my best to make MIN understand
what marriage would mean TO him and
to the sweet girl he was determined to
marry. | only made him angry.
| sent the bride a wedding present
when they were married, and one even
ing | went to see her. 1t was lovely.
The good fellow was fairly radiant
with happiness; he was having a lovely
time having cold and being coddled and
petted and spoiled to his hearts con-
tent.
The little wife was so delighted with
her husband and with herself and with
the brand new pictures on the brand new
walls and the brand new chatting dish
on the brand new table, she couldn't pos
sibly keep her brand new happiness to
herself at all. and had to make a conf
dant of the milkman when there was no
one else handy.
l went home sitting with remorse.
Imagine" | thought what a fool
tba FOI lie
tened to my advice?"
A year after the marriage l spent an
other evening at the good fellows
home He had not been home to din
ner, his wife said, and was afraid she
looked as if she had been crying. He
came in about half-past TO- all apologies
and explanations.
The next time saw the good fellow
he was in a cafe with a crowd of his
friends. Just as he was telling a very
good story the telephone called him away
from the table. When he came back he
looked rather bad fellow. Boys I'll
have to 60" he said, that wife of mine
thinks she's scared, or lonesome, or sick,
or something"
About year later l heard that Mrs
Good Fellow" had gone home to her
mother and that Mr.. Good Fellow"
was having the time Of his life, trying to
forget that he had ever been married.
Now. this particular good fellow
was really what a great many so-called
good fellows" are not. He was good
man. clean, decent, honest, truthful
kindly. clever and good-hcGrted, but he
couldn't live without the things that
make good fellow" comfortable.
Friends. good stories, good dinners
good wine, good clothes, late hours. little
SPINS into the country by moonlight, and
Ittie arrivals at home by dawn. There
was no harm in any of these things as
i2ng as he lived them alone, but he had
absolutely no right to expect any woman
10 be happy at home alone while he was
ont having a good time with the boys.
mere We're no girls for her to have a
good time with, and she couldn't have
had good time with them if there had
oeen. so she moped and cried and nagged
and killed his love for her
Poor Good Fellow" Poor Mrs,
Good Fellowr'
Neither of you is the least to blame
i9r the wreck of all your hopes. MIR.
GOOD Fellow" was a fish, and he made
lhe mistake of marrying a pullet What
'"a.d either of them expect?
mere are great many compenSatonS
I'D he life of a good fellow.
~ ny don't the good fellows" make M
minds TO go without marriage, if
I''4or their own sake, for the sake OF
S"' Door women, who really ought to
nav Me consideration in the matter
!mtred Black in Philadelphia Even
ag Bulletin.
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