El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-03

kS"H HE real reason I married" said
the second man." is because 1
spent a week in the country
in Nav at a house in which there was
q girl who wore a blue linen frock
This sounds like a totally inadequate
reason for doing what you have sworn
YOU would never do, and taking a head
er into the sea Of matrimony, but 1t Is
a true tale. and not a psychological in
vestigation that 1 am due to deliver
And. anyway, 1 contend that matri-
rnony is the result Of (a) atmospheric
conditions and, OBJ adjacentness.
IF it hadn't been spring, or If she
hadn't been there, or If she hadn't had
that blue linen dress, or-but what's
the use in specializing about contin-
gencies that didn't happen?
ITO begin with, want to say rlgnt
here that / have always made this ex-
cuse for myself: If 1 hadn't been weak
ened mentally and physically by that
accused disease, the grippe, don't be-
iieve that even the place. the hour ana
the girl would have got me- / should
have put up some sort OF fight, OF
fled in time, or have done something.
and not have gone under as l did,
without even shouting 'helpr a single
time.
The Breath of Spring.
But, you see, had had the deuce OF
an attack of grippe along in February,
with threatened lung complications,
and somehow, after 1 got out of bed, I
couldn't seem to get we'll / was as
weak as kitten, with no appetite, and
a temper that made my partner beg
me. with tears in his eyes, 20 stay away
from the store before I had driven
away all of the best Gus toners.
Then my doctor ordered change,
and said that the very hest thing in
the world for me would be for me to
go up into the country to some quiet
farm house. where there wouldn't be
anybody to talk to, and I could sit out
in the sun all day and breathe in the
fragrance of the spring flowers.
THAT sounded good to me. and so
packed up my duds and went to
place that had been recommended to
me as one of those country elysiums
where they have real cream, and don't
get their chickens out of cold storage
When I got there the place looked like
Eden itself, with its green grass and
snow of apple blooms. and then / look
ed up and saw Eve was already there
before me, and that was going the orig
tnal garden one better.
Common Ground.
Eve was also city bred She was a
schoolma' am. and she likewise had had
the grippe, and had ben sent to the
country to recuperate from it, and be-
fore 80 minutes were over We were ex
changing symptoms and telling what
our respective doctors had given US
and done for US.
There is nothing that cements &C
ouaintanceship like a bottle Of medf-
cine, and you may take it from me, that
the original two souls with but a sin
gle thought, two hearts that beat as
one were two geezers that had had
the same operation performed on them
for appendicitis or softening Of the
brain, or something medicinal or an
stomicaL
TT takes time in town to get ac-
quainted with anybody. especially a fe-
male Lady person. You take a woman
into dinner, and you have an hours al
legged conversation, broken by what
everybody else is saying, and the but
Ter pressing the different courses upon
you
six months later you meet her at a
ball and dance twostep with her for
the sake of auld lang syne. Three
months after that you bow to her
across & theater, or run into her on
the street and ask her in to have a cup
OF tea with you. or something Of the