New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-08
I tory For
..H Bride.
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Now. my dear ChrySIlne. 1 WISH on
the eve of your marriage to impress
one fact upon you. You are to man
age your husband A wife who is in
capable of managing her husband is
not fit to have one. a mans nature is
no more like a wonisnss than an ALI
gator is like bird of paradise. Civil
lization, the family circle, all that is
above tile brute creation forces him to
be satisfied with one woman Ours is
the best type of union between the
sexes, but it is not the only type. 20 /
lygany has always existed and may
always exist :
.Oh. mother, You brighten me, What (
are You going to say to me
"This, that you have a man to hold |
whose nature it is to fv away from
you On you will depend whether mar
rage is a failure. whether your fami-
| ~ remains unit or is eventually
broken up
And nothing depends on Dick p
"a great deal depends on Dick, but
4 he has the nature of man to fight
against. and nature is liable to get the
4 better of us ALL A married man is like
i a canoe in the rapids. His wife is The
4 pilot. She must guide him between
the rocks. But enough of this preface.
1t will tell you a story to illustrate
what say. a personal experience
fo+1,
Father
Eyes. your father is a man. If he
We're not would not love him, though
we have long ago passed the matfi-
monial rapids and are padding i'll
calm waters 1t was six years after
our marriage. Roy and Millie and you
had all been born and we were a
united and happy family. Your father
and | were in society, and one season
l went out so much that engaged a
hairdresser to come every evening be-
i fore dinner and dress my hair. She
r was very pretty, with pink cheeks and
: blue eyes. Usually father would find
: her dressing my hair when he came
: home from business and upstairs to
;, kiss me and you children. would be
: sitting before the dresser, where
could see myself reflected in the mirror
and watch the girl as she proceeded
. with my hair Father would come and
: kiss me and then go and have a romt
!, with you children. At I O'Clock he anC
would dine, and you little tots would
be put to bed by your nurse and father
:. and | would go out either to the opera
or some social function.
Zone afternoon While | was sitting
before the mirror having my hair done
l heard father put his iatchkey in til.
door, take off his hat and coat in TIL
hall and came upstairs. | was happy
as usual, at seeing him again after
days separation and that the hour
enjoyed most at home was about t
begin He came into the room behint
me. but could see his reflection in til
mirror The hairdresser turned tt
ward him and-they forgot the mirror.
ooh, mother'
THAT look froze the blood in N
veins Your father came up to me an
kissed me rs usual. BY an effort
controlled myself, and he did not kno'
what | had seen. | must have time
consider. My first and second thought
were simultaneously We're for "a.
self and the family. On me depende
whether we should fly apart or be til
81 happy circle we are today. Never b
IA fore or since have so many dreadfl
@ possibilities crowded upon my mind.
81 saw you children suffering under Il
2 loss of divorced parents, perhaps yol
father married to the hairdlesser.
neryed myself for a great effort
go on, mother; go on. What d
you do?"
Nothing then-nothng for sever
days. No one could see the slighte
change in me, though suffered agon
but one day when | heard father OPT
the hall door / jumped up from II
seat and told the hairdresser 70 sit
my place. Then I turned the gas
trif1e lower. When father came in
the room turned and smiled at hi
In the DINNER light he did not recc
nize me and, going up to the girl
the chair. was about to KISS her WI
/ burst into a merry laugh. he look
from her to me and from me to h
then went outzof the ROOM
ITO think father should ever ha
done such a thing. Why have you t.
me this?.
"Lsten Father didn't go in a
play With you children as usual
went to his own room. We We're to
out in the evening, and | supposed
was getting into evening dress,
when he came down to dinner he b
not changed his business suit. I CHI
ted with him gayly. but he looked "
much crestfallen. At the end Of
dinner. when there was nothing m
to be brought in and we We're. f
from Intrusion by the servants. he 10
ed at me and said