The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17
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not deceived. my blushes come n botties and my temper is like dyna- mile and my tongue works on per- petuai motion scheme and the things don't know about cooking would fill book That would be turning courtship into a catechism and love- making into hard labor; and besides such little things-"
 Little thingsr' exclaimed Kitty. waying the paper contemptuously drop of water is a little thing. but they used to kill hundreds of Chris tian mnrtyrs by letting water drip on their foreheads In one spot until it ate it's way to their brains; and that's the way love Is killed by the little things that rub on enc spot n, your nervous system until your mind thred ems to give way. Two married people who are In love. can forgive one another the biggest sort ofscrimes X woman can forgive her husband for murder or bigamy or arson. but she never can pardon him for calling her a fright, CT ncgiecting her in public, or compit- rnehting her worst enemy. and the fact that she knows him to be a thief won't desenchant her half so quick as the fact that he eats with his knife, or wears an pnbeconing collar. or smokes an iil-smeIIing pipe. l know Il woman who got divorce for no-sup- port. when the real souf-,'acking secret that gpqwed at her heart was that her husband always got her letters first and opened them and then handed them out to her. page by page. alter he had finished reading them
 "And | know q man.' I declared, .Iwho got divorce for incompatibiity. when the acguai sorrow that was cat ing ou: his soul was the daily sight of the gape in the back of his wife belt where the waist and skirt never met. A man will forgive a woman for any sort of crime sooner than for sloSenliness or frazzled skirt. bind- Ing. And I knew another chap who deser. cd his wife because she couldn't see joke. There is nothing that falls ; with such dull. sickenng thud on the masculine heart as the dead silence that follows one of his most sciHtil- iating remarks
 And I knew another woman" re- joined Kitty defiantly. Who left her husband because he never noticed what she had on, If there Is one thing that woman can't stand IL Is being taken for granted. like the wall paper. or 4the parior lamps, and only missed or observed when she isn't in her place or is on. of gear. The average husband never sees his wife when she is all right; but just let button be missing from the back of her frock or her hat
 
 it in a minute
 .oh, we'll" I retorted. 'i.'s the mis- sing buttons and the things that get askew around the house that drive most men to the divorce court"
 And it's the missing compliments" sighed Kitty, and the arguments that get askcw-----"
 When a man makes a woman his wife," I interrupted with dignity, it is the highest compliment he can pay her"
 And usually it's the last" remarked Kitty laconically.
 well" I inquired. blowing a smoke ring. what are we going to do about tt? You can't find out beforehaHd----'
 You can visit his family" suggest cd Kitty.
 ,-'Wha.!''
 And notice how he treats the cook and how much spending money he gives hts sister and whether or not he ever compliments his mothes and how he acts when anybody asks him to strap a trunk or fi;: the water pipes or mend the clock. And there are hun drends of other ways in which a girl and a man can judge each other before marriage, The trouble is that we are so engrossed in the admiration of one another's blg qualities that we don't notice the little jars we are constantly getting and that are bound in time to jar us out of the hypnotic spell. A girl ought to realize that if a man tramples on her ruffles before mar rlage he will trample all over her H. lusions and opinions afterward. and that if he breaks his dinner date with her before the wedding he will break his word or her heart afterward. And a man ought to know that if a girl steps on his mental corus before she gets him she will tread all over his nerves afterward. and that if she shocks his sense of properiety before the ceremony she will chock his feel the mountains that show which way the wind blows: and the person who Is too busy admiring the mountain tops to watch for the straws is going to find that matrinony isn't.--isn t------'',
 "A straw rider' finished. And it isn't. It's coast down hill Tn a. cart without springs. over a lot of 'thank-you- mia ans; and the person who fancies it's going to be an auto mobile trip on velvet cushions is the one who gets upset at the very first jolt"
 And we can't escape the jolts." added Kitty, sorrowfully. The only thing to do is to brace ourselves for time weaving illusions about ourselves and each other, But poor Aleernon pictures Arabella as a fairy and fans cieS that her hair curls by magic and her clothes grow on tier over night. Then when he sees her in curing kids and cold cream and gets her dress makers bill he is horribly jolted, And Arabclla dreams of Algernon as a Prince Charming and never stops to