Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-02-14
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the rice falling out of their rockets
and of the folds of their clothes. they
we're so evidently bride and bride
groom At dinner they were the cyno.
sure of all eyes.
They endured the stares and covert
Jokes pretty we'll until they got up to
their own rooms, and then the little
bride had a good cry. But they were
100 happy to be embarrassed for long,
and at the end of a week or so their
embarrassment and the sensation they
had created subsidized.
Then the woman in the second floor
front took 1t into her head to call.
She concluded that two people must
get dreadfully tired of one another's
society when they have it all the time.
1t so happened that on the particular
night she sele; I'd for her visit the
bridegroom was called out on import
ant business. He hated to go, but
finally tore himself away, and, Of
course the lonely little bride was de-
lighted when the woman from the sec
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 sig
nificant smile at the brides blushing
apologies for her husbands absence,
II know just how it is. My husband
Is that way, too. You'll get used to it
after while, though wouldn't have
thought he would have begun it so
soon. But you never can tell This
town is so full of pitfalls and things.
OF course, he flay have only gone out
for a quiet game of poker; but as l
have always said, there are only three
drinking, gambling and women; and
it's hard to say which of those is
worst. For myself, prefer gambling,
If I've got to have anything, but you
won't know for years what it really is
that attracts him away from you. Just
come up to see me if 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 in 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.
When finally, after storm of re-.
proach and weeping and lot of pa
tient pleading on his part, they got
to slesp, both of them realized that
thn,y hod hod thnir frc% rrol
A few days later the woman who
lived in the back 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.
Nov, 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 a little advice
from one who has had a lot of expert
ence. Make him give you an allow
ance. Oh, don't care if he is as gen.
erous as Solomon and if you have got
money of your own, you've got to get
him trained from the start. They al
| ways begin by show of generosity,
but take my word for it, if he hasn't
| offered you an allowance already he
| means to put the thumb-screws on
you after awhile. You just put the
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 GOODNESS he displayed toward her
for the rest of the evening. Somehow,
it gave her feeling of shame when
he had been so generous.
Then she got to talking with the
stenographer from the second story
| ballroom.
ooh, I've just had such dreadful
| time" said the little stenographer.
My boss got fresh and I'm going to
leave. I'll tell you l won't let my
husband have a stenographer when
| get married. No, Stree! You never
can tell what man is doing all day
when he's away; and l suppose a
pretty girl around the office is an
awful temptation to them Your hus.
band has a stenographer, hasn't he?
She's beauty, too. l wouldn't stand
| for it if was YOU"
Then the maid came in one morn.
ing.
81 seen your husband in the hall,
she said He's awfully good look
ing; but if was you / wouldn't keep
him around boardin' house with all
these women. l know what young
men around boardin' houses is like
has to give 'em all the glitterin
eye myself"
And then the little bride woke up
That night, when her husband came
home, he found her lying tired and
worn out on the divan. But she just
drew his head down on her shoulder
and patted it lovingly.
"Har4-y. dear" she said. give fouuG