The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
HE KNOWS or ONE 4oSERss nus BAND.
Troubled wife Tells of Her Husband. the Deacon. Who Changed some
 what After Their Marriage.
 Some of the Thfpxn That Happened.
BY ,. CUPEPPER.

Dear MT. Cuipeppers-You must exs cuse me fofsstrespassing on your vai- uabIe time. but it's q curious matter and if I can't go to you with 1t. where. oh!l where shall I go3
 They calIe you a hlosopher nut I think. to judge from your riting that you are just sweet spirited Saint ana can advise me in the bisness an about to tell you. of.
 Perhaps the trouble is what you may call domestic. You may know that often and often in home life every thing is not what 1t seems. That is. we draw a yail over what we don't want our neighbors to see and hear--sometimes we call 'em Jars sometimes we call lem scenes. but pKe in public affairs we don't want enny publicity about 'esn.
 To come right down to the matter My husband. John, lacks JugluI .,ss os being what he was before i married him. notice 1t in heap Of things he does and says.
 Before we married John was very paragone of attention and politeness. He was so attentive I couldn't get to see any other young men. kie came to see me every night and staid so longs Pa said 1t was because hB didn't have any better ssense. ~
 Every time he came hes brought me candy and fruit, which must have been very expensive. Occasionally he took me to the theatre. Right often he took me buggy writing. John was morning and evening to preaching. When I joined the church and got baptized John said looked like Venus rising from the waves. =
 Rebukea Rude Man.
 Once. a rude man used an ugly word (dam was the word) in my pres ence and John talked mighty ruff to him and told him that no gentleman ever used such a word in the presence of ladies. think John would have chastised the man if had not inter- seded for him.
 John pressed his suit right then and begged me to marry him that he might shield me from hearing such language. [ yielded to his pressure.
 once, just to try the good loving fellow I dropped my handkerchief, while riding and was some distance from 1t when I told him of the loss. Immediately he sprang out of the buggy went for the handkerchief, found 1t and almost beaming with rapture, returned it to me and when I regretted having put him to incon- venience he remarked that it was no trouble to him atalf that he would go to the end of tue world to do me a little favor like that. I treasured the deed in my heart. Once, after our be- traoughta1. John and me took a strole in the moonlight one night. It was not long after he graduated at the University. recolect he said some very. pretty things about the moon, though he called 1t tuner and spoke of the stars as steIlers. While he was going on at his pretty rate I broke in with q fear that he didn't love me. s.z hf~ kt0 and snolalmsd' yl s.Doubt that the stars are fire.
 Doubt that the sun. doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar
 But never doubt my love!"
 After that. I told him wouldn't doubt no more when he seized my hand and sealed my confession with c Kiss. John said If heaven was any better than that 1t was useless for him to go there--that he just couldn't stand it---ft would kill him dead!
 Some Lovely Things.
 He said some lovely things about my beautiful hands. my beautiful taperinf fingers. that he was going ~to cover with gems of purest ray serene" told John, then and there, that mother was teaching me to use those hands in the kitchen. He said when we were married that heed have 
 my fingers were for pianos and harps, for, said he,
 Such beautiful hands and fingers that Should never dabble in dish water or
 mix up the doughs
 John seemed to be full of poetry on that eve. t
 He got glimpse of my foot. one time, and he went into estacie sabout that He said Cleopatrer and Joan of Ark. nor CindereIler nor the Queen of China had such a small beauty as mine were.
 If all the- University men pay their addresses ras lovely as John did. II don't know how any, girl can resist 'em. 1asE 5Ea .s Ser
 I know couldn't.
 So to make long story short, we were married. YN
 For q month. or so there was no change in John. e
 Then by degrees there seemed to