The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-06-30
HARDEST PART OF
MARRIED LIFE


Without any doubt the first year
of married life is by far the hardest
to get through After the first yea.
| is over il is usually pretty plain sail
| ing, for the worst is known, the
truth has leaked out, the parties UNI
derstand each other.
Prior to the wedding day both man
and woman merely act a part; but
after the marriage ceremony they
need act no longer. Little shams
may be set aside, the mask of good
temper and sweetness may be thrown
away; biting remarks. carefully sup
pressed before, may be let loose. and
so on. They are married, you see
why act any longer?
That seems to be the way in which
most young couples reason, and it Is
perhaps pity; but. so long as men
| ard women are constituted as they
are at present, there is little likeli-
hood of the real individual showing
up before marriage is an accom-
plished fact. Undoubtedly. the real
Individual never shows up during the
| sweetheart days.
| If man applies for a situation, he
| tells his prospective employer all
about his good points. He does not
choose to say that, at a pinch, he
might not be above helping himself
to the contents of the petty cash box
without permission. The employer
has got to find out for himself after
the man is in his employment.
| Similarly young fellow does not
parade his evil tendencies before his
lady love. Did he do so. he would
| run fair chance of losing her.
/ ha IN "a
an. She will not tell her lover all
about her disagreeable little traits,
else he would probably desert her.
Thus II comes about all the both
ersome little things are discovered
during early welded life, and during
the time one is reconciling himself
or herself to the others bad points
there is lot of trouble flying about.
Such lot. in fact. that in many
cases the peace of home is wrecked
during the first year of welded life.
OF course. there are plenty of SEN
sible couples who well know that the
shams of the counting days are many
and slim. These couples begin mar
ried life quite prepared to find out
many disappointing things, and il Is
well when that is the case. for usu
Tally they do find them out.
This article is not written with the
object of discouraging persons from
marrying it is more as warning
that these lines are penned.
1t is wrong to assume, as so many
young couples do, that, because the
lcourtship has been a delightful cpl
sode, married life will be the same.
Married life carries with it many
lveNations. and many cares and trou-
bles. True. they may be petty. bur
they goad one so that a temper, sweet
enough, perhaps, originally. is soured
ere one is aware of the fact
Many persons find after marriage
that they had been living through a
period of illusion during the court
ship days, and they bitterly resent
stern reality. 1t is not pleasant for
the young woman to discover that
the well-mannered. gentle, ever-will-
-to-please young man is in reality
a rather short-tempered, crusty indi-
vidual, who requires very careful
handling II things are to go along
/ smoothly at all.
And 1t is distressing for man to
find out that the round-eyed. baby
hammered. 'iuffy-haired little angel
is in actual truth a little tartar il
crossed. and always ready to take of
Tense at an indiscreet word These
are the trifing things that make the
first year of wedlock the hardest to
get through with, Truth is aften a
hard thing TO hear; but the cold
truth, as revealed during the first
year of matrimony. is the hardest
thing of all.
After the first year. however. a
couple settle down; they have got
over the worst: but it must be re-
memhered that the fate of the future
years of wedlocll always depends on
how the first year turns out Let
young couples keep that before them.
Mr.. and Mrs, ID. Walter Clark re-
turned last evening to their home at