Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-03
Happily Ever After"

| Uutiice VI lHtiI tOuIbtIS tAplNoSlOl3
when they looked longingly into paradise
over hedge OF doubt. As curious is it
to watch the average married couple
taking a walk. He, when not yard or
/ two in advance, at any rate takes one
stride to her two. In other days, when
they came to an obstacle, with what ten
der solicitude he would pause and help
4 her across Now he stalks on ahead, and
| possibly he looks back, or possibly he
doesn't [ walked behind a country
couple the other day and studied them
from behind He wore a great checked
| ulster and top rat at the back of his
head, and she carried bag. Ii they had
had their marriage certificate pinned to
| their backs one could have been no more
absolutely sure OF their married state.
| She held his arm, and his arm was a
study. 1t hung limp and long, and his
hands had found refuge in The pockets
of his ulster. There was as much emo
tion in that arm as in pump handle.
She chung to it, and tried with little
mincing steps to keep pace with that in
considerate stride. All, yes, the counting
walk and the walk matrimonial are quite
different thingsi
Do you remember when you went
counting? You courted the whole fam
| lily. With what pathetic obsequiousness
you listened to mothers" remarks! You
used to agree with her even before she
opened her mouth, in your ardent re-
spect. How you used to chaser" for
ward to greet her with your most en-
gaging smile and the company crook to
! your elbow. As for father" you lis
tened to his views OK stocks and politics
as if they were heaven sent wisdom. You
listened to his snores as if they We're the
music of the spheres. 1t is eomical to
think of it,
! 1t never occurred to you that had you
not found and adored "her," you would
have found and adored someone elsei
Yqh even courted her young brother, an
Objectionable creature in an Elton collar
whom you not only bribed with half
sovereigns, but whom you took on a
round of pleasure you yourself loathed,
and that only for the JOY of hearing him
mention "her" You only succeeded in
convincing him that you were an inof-
fensive ass, your evident admiration of
"her'' being eliminating evidence. Do
Won ever court her brother now? | rath-
er guess not
Then there's her young sister who put
up her hair and discovered that she had
a heart at one and the same time. She
was Is and always in the way. Finally,
after YOU had vainly bribed her to go,
You broke out into cold perspiration as
YOU realized that she had made up her
mind to be in at the death. However, it
was ordained by heaven, with just
little bit of help from cher" in her angel
goodness, that one blissful day on yonr
arrival you found young sister had van
ished and she" was alone. What it
cost ''her" to get rid of young sister is
the one extravaganza of her life.
Then there was a rapturous day when
YOU took her to a concert under the
mistaken impression that she loved mu-
sic, which YOU hate. You both hate
music, still You will never forget that
enchanted afternoon when you sat
rather close together and drank in the
bad air of the hall, and didn't mind the
music at all, and it was all a rose-col-
ored paradise. You have never been to
"A concert since.
You hate music, but you used to like
poetry. You once wrote something not
unlike Tennyson and your mother, to
whom you read it in awful secrecy, said
it was much better than Tennyson. In
the days before you proposed she" said
she adored poetry. Now. when you Of
fer TO recite poetry to her, if you man
age to catch her at all, she says she has
no time. or she yawns in the most oh
vious way, and when you demonstrate
she remarks that it isn't an age for poet
ry. besides you don't recite well For
real brutal truth there is no place like
home!
On the other hand, once when she was
ailing, what bliss it was when she put
her aching head on your heart and you
kissed it to make it we'll Now wilton
her head aches and she puts it on your
shoulder, it is amazing to observe how
fragile You have become and how soon
You tire. Hadn't you better go to bed y
you remark in Il resigned way.
Once YOU consulted her anxiously on
the color of your neckties; these days
YOU may not do it with malice prepense,
only 50 it happens-you invariably
choose the color she hates. Once you
loved to look beautiful in her eyes, but
now YOU wear checks, big checks
There was, on the other hand time
when she dressed to please YOU. She
had a vague idea that you had taste.
Then it was that fathers check book
was stretched TO its utmost capacity,
, Yet he never complained FOR he had a
feeling inside of him that only one last
little effort more and il would be your
turn to pay these bills forever, But do
f You remember how soon your point of
, view changed as soon as you We're mar
| '2ed? On that occasion you remarked
> that when people are married they cease
, to know how the other looks 1t was
apropos of milliner's bin for two hats.
1t marks the first decline Of the matri.
monial temperature when a wife ceases
! to dress for her husband. Clothes are
certainly the female Thermometer.
Il knew she was going to elope with