Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-05-27
MARRIED
TWO MONTHS
A Domestic Comedy Drama De-
scrlbed In a Railway Coach

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-
tellaeshaped young man to whom she
had, beyond a doubt, been only re
Gently married, came back in deeA
bass: ION the head? I've always
thought that a woman"
"Fred!"
If they live together SO years, it is
doubtful that the husband will ever
hear more concentrated reproach in
his wifes tones than he heard in that
sleeper, in that one word.
Fred" she almost sobbed it the
second time. Laura Is the dearest
girl" -
"Sho certainly must be-" the pana-
tella said, grufly. "She must be
dear, to whsck her husband, her new
husband on the head with crockery
at the breakfast table"
1T was supper" the young wife in
terrupted What right had he to
say that about her fatber?"
"Her father? | 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
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 it got to be
a habit. He"
"Dick must have been saving on
sas-'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 Lauras
father said he wouldn't give her
dollar, and she stood by Dick and SAID
she'd not give him up"
Laura must have been to the Gil
liss."
Fred be sensible. After they went
to housekeeping they got along fine
tor 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 things.
Dick went to his office and Laura's
father went straight out to Dicks
house and told her what Dick had
said, that he, Lauras father, was q
two-spot,' think that was the term,
a two-spot in a 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.
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 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 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"
Il knew you'd say that, Fred" thu
young wife exclaimed, her voice hard
and cold. Il knew you'd refer to
that. Don't forget, please, that some
people call my hair red instead OF
auburn, and"
Il shan't forget it." Fred said, "and
I'll watch our plates, too"
you wouldn't speak so of nv "a,
Their, Fred Atchison," she retorted
you know you wouldn't A woman
has right to defend her"
Not with plates and cups ana
Fred insisted. e1f a woman
tried that on me-but, what did they
lo?"
What do you think? The next
lay, the very next day, Laura's fathe,
was down with his old stomach
rouble and he sent for Dick-fos
Dick, mind you, probably because Dj,E
lad been successful with other cases
Ind when Laura went home in an
Iwer to her mothers message Their,
le was in the bedroom talking to he,
ather as II they'd been friends al
heir lives. And / guess maybe they
will because Dick pulled him through
aura and Dick went back to then
lat and they haven't had row sincs
mot a broken plate"
"Jes passing Armstrong, sub" the
porter interrupted; Kansas city inl
I've minutes. 70 all want yo' coat
'reshed?"