The Prescott daily news., 1908-04-27
MARRIED TWO MONTHS
A Domestic Comedy Drama De- scrlbed In Railway Coach

The mau 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 It's germ conductivity when the girl be hind him. in No. !, brought him to quick wakefulness with her observa- tion about the dinner plate.
 Hit him-with a plate-on the head" she repeated. and the tall. pana- tella-shaped young man to whom she had, beyond doubt been only re- gently married, came back in deep bass: "On the head? I've always thought that woman"
 "Fred!"
 If they live together 50 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"
 "She certainly must be-" the pana- tella said, grufiy. "She must be a dear, to whack her husband, her new husband, on the head with crockery at the breakfast table"
 Tt was supper" the young wife in terrupted What right had he to say that about her father?"
 Her father? thought 1t was the mother It must have been terrible, What'd he say. anyway"
 "I started to tell you before the train got to Lawrence Lauras father didn't want them to marry. He didn't want Dick to come to the house. but believe that was because he called so often. Dick boarded on Penn street, you know, and they lived only two blocks south on Broadway, and it was so handy that 1t got to be habit He"
 Dick must have been saving on gas-and gas Is cheap and plentiful. too. But how about the plate?"
 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 10 the Gil liss"
 Fred, be sensible. After they went to housekeeping they got along fine for month until one day Laura met her mother on the street and quar- reled with her. and-imagine 1.-the very same day Dick met her father. and they Quarreled like cat and dog"
 Scratched and"
 No. silly, but they said things Dick went to his office and Laura s father went straight out to Dick s fiduse and told her what Dick had said, that he, Laura's father, was a two-spot, I think that was the term, a twospot In a cheap deck of an, tiquated fossils calling themselves doctors That was 1t. 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 ther, 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 sprang up. and-the table was set--and she snatched a plate and struck Dick on the head. Laura said he took his hat and left the house immediately. Went back to his old room and staid all night, and the very next day"
 She had no right to hit that man, p Fred declared thinking, possibly of future contingencies. Of course Laura's hair is"
 T knew you'd say that, Fred" the young wife exclaimed. her voice hard and cold "l knew you'd refer to that Don't forget, please, that some people call my hair red instead of auburn, and"
 'I shan't 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 a right to defend her.
 Not with plates and cups and knives Fred insisted. If a woman tried that on me-but, what did they do?"
 What do you think? The next day. the very next day. Laura's father was down with his old stomach trouble and he sent for Dick-for Dick. mind you. probably because Dick had hAnfn f,,l xIrIth nfh