The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-15
HE WAS so DIFFERENT.

uSlSI uInSu Jaw naQ nn1Shed what he
had wanted to say and it had been no
small speech. The pretty girl whose
mouth curled up distractingly at the
corners and whose brown eyes could
look serious as we'll as alluring, did
not glance toward him. She gazed
persistently out through the veranda
vines.
"1t isn't such simple affair as YOU
think" she said. Give been no.
ticing people-and men are lots differ
ent after they're married. Now, Just
the other day l heard the man next
door talking to his wife. It was after
dinner, and they were on their porch,
and I couldn't help hearing. He's
nice looking man himself and they
aren't poor. ...r.
"Well, he said: Good heavens,
h0hey HUE at tsfff ffe y8aaX FRsssn agH ggPSHndnG
looks silly in woman of 40 to waste
time on having her hands scraped and
frescoed. You can't make them young
and you can keep them clean yourself,
and that's all that's necessary. It's
just your vanity.
"Now, last week I saw the young
man whom my cousin Nell's going to
marry take her hand in his and rave
over her lovely pink nails. He called
them pearls, I believe, and said her
beautiful hands were one Of her great
est attractions. What do you think
of that?"
"Wel1," said the young man with
the square jaw, II don't see that it
proves anything. They were two en-
tirely different men, so it wasn't a
before and after example at all. 1t
just depends on the man himself, and
I'm not like that first man"
"How can I tell?" demanded the
young woman, mutinously. "There's
no way of being sure except to wait
fifteen years and see how you turn
out"
"Then before man marries girl"
she went on, che won't let her carry
so much as a spool of thread. He
loads himself down with ner coat and
umbrella and shopping parcels if he
meets her going home, and is tickled
to death because he has chance to
do it. If she demonstrates and wants
to carry some of the things herself he
regards her in shocked surprise. Does
she suppose for an instant that he is
going to let her weary herself carting
stuff around when he is there? Doesn't
she realize what a pleasure it is for
him to do things for her-and doesn't
she want him to put her handbag in
his pocket? No, he doesn't mind if
it does make the pocket sag
"Well, look at the companion pic
ture. Did you notice the Smiths COM
ing from the suburban train a few
minutes ago? Just as they got in
front of this house Mr.. Smith decided
pasteboard box ftouG StaiIof-sdnho
hand and three small parcels in the
other, but he said: Mary, 1 believe
I'll let you take my overcoat home
with you, because it's too warm to
wear it, and here's my umbrella, too
And she said: All right, dear, in
a patient way, and submitted without
a murmur to being loaded down like
a pack horse. He never even apollo
gized, and I suppose he thinks he
loves his wife !"
"What would you have done If you
had been Mrs. Smith ?" inquired the
young man with the square jaw.
The girl lifted her chin in deter
mined way. "Pd dropped his old
overcoat on the sidewalk and piled
my own bundles on top of 1t and then
walked on" she said.
eyes, 1 believe you would" ad-
mitted the young man. "Say, you're
picking out exceptional cases instead
of taking the decent general run OF
married people !"
"No, I'm not p insisted the young
woman. "When a mans engaged
he's worried if the girl sighs. He's
sure he's said something to hurt her
feelings. He wants to be told what
it is. If she sits five minutes without
speaking he asks if she's blue, or
what's the trouble, or if she doesn't
love him any more. He isn't happy
unless he thinks he knows her every
thought. She must have no lite
apart from his. They must think and
breathe in unison. They are twin
souls. And afterward-well, did you
ever see a woman trying to converse
with her husband after dinner when
he insisted on reading the evening
paper? Did you? :"
1T don't believe so, confessed the
young man, guiltily.
The young woman shook her head.
"It's comic paper joke" she said,
"when it really should be considered
a tragedy. He is only interested in
the news and doesn't care in the least
about Aunt Sally's dreadful headache
or John's failure in business, or the
new gown she is having made or wants
to have made. He doesn't care to
talk about any of these things. He
lust wants to be let alone and if she
persists in her timid efforts to make
him talk he is liable either to explode
In wrath or jam on his hat and go out
You know it's So"
The young man looked decidedly
gloomy. "You seem to have strong
views on the subject" he said. 81
don't suppose there's any hope fol
me, then. Isuppose you're trying tc
let me down by degrees instead oi
saying no outright p'
The young woman looked at him
bit shyiy. Then she faced him.
"N-n-no, I'm not, she murmured
"I really think these things are so il
most cases, but you see-you are Sc
different from other men. 1 think
they won't apply to you p
''I should say not !" said the young
man, frightening up.-Chfoag0 NeaOs
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