Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-06-03
MARRIED
TWO MONTHS
A Domestic Comedy Drama De-
ocrIbed In q Railway Coach

two months when she struck him
with dinner platoon the head.
The man in the next section had
been trying for an hour to keep awake
over a prosy volume describing The
Earth as Modified by Human Action. :"
Failing in this high purpose he had
just settled back against pillow
with disquieting reflections as to ITS
germ conductivity when the girl be-
hind him, in No. 7. brought him to
quick wakefulness with her observa
ton about the dinner plate.
Hit him-with platoon the
head" she repeated, and the tall, pana-
tella-shaped young man to whom she
had, beyond a doubt, been only re-
Gently married, came back in dee1
bass: "On the head? I've always
thought that a woman"
Fred"
If they live together 80 years, it Is
doubtful that the husband will ever
hear more concentrated reproach in
his wife's tones than he heard in that
sleeper, in that one word.
Fred she almost sobbed 1t the
second time Laura Is the dearest
girl"
"Shs certainly must be-" the pana-
tella said, grufiy "She must be q
dear, to whack her husband, her new
husband. on the head with crockery
at the breakfast table"
at was supper" the young wife In.
terrupted. What right had he to
say that about her father?'
Her father? l thought it was the
mother. 1t must have been terrible.
What'd he say, anyway
Il started to tell you before the
train got to Lawrence. Laura's father
didn't want them to marry He
didn't want Dick to come to the
house. but believe that was because
ne called so often. Dick boarded on
Penn street. you know, and they lived
only two blocks south on Broadway,
and 1t was so handy that it got to be
q habit. He"
"Dick must have been saving on
gAs--and gas is cheap and plentiful,
tho. But how about the platter"
well, they were married in Leaven-
worth and came back and told the
folks and there was scene. Laura's
father said he wouldn't give her a
dollar, and she stood by Dick and said
she'd not give him up"
Laura must have been to the Gil
Mss"
Fired, be sensible After they Went
TO, housekeeping they got along fine
fo- month until one day Laura met
her mother on the street and quar-
relied with her, and-imagine 1.-THE
very same day Dick met her father
and they quarreled like cat and
dog"
Scratched and"
mo, silly, but they said thinga.
Dick went to his Office and Laura's
father went straight out to Dicks
house and told her what Dick had
said, that he, Laura's father, was q
'two-spot,' think that was the term,
q two-spot in cheap deck Of an.
tiquated fossils calling themselves
Doctors That was it. So"
pretty good for Dick" said Fred.
well that night, when Dick went
home to supper, he found Laura in
tears She tried to tell him he
shouldn't have said that to her ia
Their, and he replied-Laura told me
this herself-that if the old man
spoke to him again he'd thrash him
good and plenty and then she sprans
up, anG--tne table was set-and she
snatched plate and struck Dick on
the head. Laura said he took his has
and left the house Immediately. Wen,
back to his old room and staid ali
night, and the very next day"
"She had no right to hit that man,
Fred declared, thinking, possibly, Of
future contingencies. "Of course
Laura's hair is"
81 knew you'd say that, Fred" the
young wife exclaimed, her voice hard
and cold. Il knew you'd refer tc
that. Don't forget, please, that sons
people call my hair red instead OF
auburn, and"
Il shant forget it" Fred said, "and
I'll watch our plates, too"
"You wouldn't speak so Of my ia
ther, Fred Atchison," she retorted
''you know you wouldn't. A woman
has right to defend her"
Mot with plates and cups and
knives" Fred insisted. III woman
tried that on me-but, what did they
dor"
What do you think? The next
day, the very next day, Laura's fathel
was down with his old stomach
trouble and he sent for Dick-fol
Dick. mind you. probably because DisE
had been successful with other cases
and when Laura went home In an
lswer to her mothers message there
he was in the bedroom talking to hel
father as II they'd been friends al
their lives. And guess maybe the,
will because Dick pulled him through
Laura and Dick went back to thei,
Sat and they haven't had row since
mot a broken plate"
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