Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
THEIR HONEYMOON.
B. E2TELLE MAR3H.
ECopyright 1910. by American Press Asso~
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"IdDDGu III IllS tE ICl Ntllll OINulleA- tion. I'm a practical sort of fellow" i he used to say, ''aEd don't go much on sentiment" It d!d not occur to him that there are two worlds-thc prac- tical and the ideal. One who could look out far iuto space at Il spiral nebuia-a forming uniVerSe-aud be filled with contempt for q transaction ill cotton yarn Evan could not under stand. He would call such person all idiOtic star gaZer.
 On Evans thirtieth birthday he said to himself: Fl have accumulated suf- fcient funds to have d home. There can be no home without a woman. She is needed to run the household. will marry"
 And so he married. lie was careful in his selection to secure a practical girl like himself. He asked her friends if there was any nOnseuSe about her, and they all replied ill the negative. He talked ''prac;icaT' to her. and she convinced him that she was more practical than he. Ill planning for the wedding he told her that honeymoons served no other purpose than to make brides and grooms tired of each other. They would come home at the end of their hOneymOon's first quarter. She assented.
 They had no sooner settled them selves ill their seats on the train after the wedding than Mrs. Wilder took a book out of her hand bag and began ,E her curiously. She paid no attention to him. but went on reading, and he turned away to the window. For the first time in his life he had felt a de sire to say something tender. But there was little encouragement to talk soft to a woman deeply interested in a book. He desisted. On arrival at their destination the newly married wife told her husband that she was very tired after the preparations for the wedding and wished a room to herself at the hotel. There was some thing so decided in the proposition that the husband did not venture an objection.
 The place of their quarter of hon. eymcOn was at the seaside. Evan arose in the morning, having lain awake all night in a mental grumble. He went down to breakfast. After waiting half an hour for his bride he sent a servant to her room to learn when she would be down. He receiv- ed in reply a bit of paper on which was written: Dear Evan-Don't mira me. I'm making up sleep. Hope y0u1t find something to do to kill time"
 Evan sat down to breakfast aIoa@, He had pictured that first breakfast and wondered how he would ever "0t through it. He would read his paper and his wife would object. He would lay it aside and try to say something agreeable 10 her and she would bout. She had relieved him of her presence at this undesirable first breakfast, and he was at perfect liberty to read his paper as he liked.
 He strolled during the morning over the beach thinking of how differ ent was the reality from what he had conceived, He had expected tO be bored, but in a different way. An old joke about the waning of the honey moon wherein the bride had wished for some friend and the groom even for an enemy occurred to him. He caught sight at the same moment of one of his chums walking ahead of him. He turned and walked in an op- i posite direction.
 1 At noon his wife came down looking refreshed and very pretty. "Why Evan," she said, "how dismal you i look"
 "I think have had cause. Am I to | spend the whole time alone?"
 Not all of it. I've some letters to write this afternoon, but we can dine together"
 Do you consider your action proper for a bride?
 Evan, dear, don't you understand?' P
 "Understand whatT'
 We don't wish to tire of each other during the first week of welded life"
 Wilder was silent.
 II wish you to get used to me grad ually," she continued, "as one be- comes accustomed to q new dish for which taste must be acquired"
 "H'mw
 Get boat or something this after noon. Cant you go fishing? We'll dine together at and listen to the music afterward."
 And thenY
 "Why, I'll do some reading"
 And tomorrow"
 You might go off with one of those yachting parties for the day" 1 Evan knit his brows. "Pll see about it,' he said.
 They dined together and for awhile after dinner listened to the hotel or chestra. Evan sat apparently conJur- ing up something in his mind. Pres ently he said, "The moons full to- night
 Some couples honeymoon is ended at last, and they can get away from boredom"
 Sweetheart" He looked at her re yproachfully.
 What is it, dear?"
 ''Iet us walk on the beach in the