El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-24

VIE second thing that leads to di-
vorce is that almost every mar
riage is founded on deceit and
| misrepresentation.
Courtship is a confidence game in
which both youths and maidens en-
deavor to take each other in. and if the
music of the wedding bells could be
translated into prose they would cry
out, Stungt StUngI Stung,
It is true that, except in rare cases.
| man does not. engage in a deep, dark
nefarious plot in order to lure a woman
10 the altar, nor are there many women
cold and crafty enough to deliberat eIy
ensnare men into marrying them. New
| ertheless, the man in love and the NO
man In love UneOnsciOusly act a part
| before the one he or she is trying to
win, and are no more like that real
person than a dog rose is like an Amer
lean Beauty. or a cold boiled potato
resembles the pOmmes de terre au
gratip Of the fashionable restaurant
Nor is the deceitfulness of mankind
and womankind altogether responsible
for this. Dame Nature, who, as we
have shown. is the great matchmaker.
inspires US in the counting season TO
put the best foot foremost The same
instinct that puts, in Spring. the live
lier iris on the FURNISHED dove. and
before his mate. makes a young man
put on his best clothes when he goes
Acquiring, and makes a girl Marcel
her hair to the roots when her. best
young man IS a-coming.
Game OF Pretend.
1t is what causes plain, prosaic John
Jackson to pretend that he adores Ger
man opera and understands Browning
because Gladys Gwendolyn Smith at
fectS these things, when his real taste
is musical comedy and George AIDE
It is what leads Angelina Jones to sit
up with a rapt expression at the base
ball game TO which Bill Jenkins has
dragged her, although she IS enduring
a martyrdom Of boredom and wondering
why her escort yeIls himself black in
the face over what some crazy look
ing men are doing 20 measly ball
No man who was trying to win
girl would dream Of such a thing as
showing himself to her with q three
days stubble Of beard On his face, Nor
would he let her see that ne was by
nature Overbearing, and tyrannical. and
stingy, and selfish On the contrary. he
Is chlvalrouS. and tender and self-ab-
negatinS, and lavish towards her He
anticipates her every wish and has no
thought except TO please her. and she
naturally argues from this that when
she marries him she viii get the one
perfect husband in the world.
In the same way a woman deceives a
man. You don't catch her appearing
before him in curl papers ard a Mother
wrapper. You never hear of
any girl who feels called upon TO tell
the man she is in love with that she
is utterly useless and no account. that !
she doesn't know how to cook an egg.
or make her own clothes. and that she /
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has the incurable bargain sale habit.
and that if he marries her he will have
TO board in hotel and hustle early
and late to make enough money to nav !
her bills.
She's Mild and Angelic
Nor does she warn him that she is
selfish and high tempered and has
nerves and that all Of her family are /
afraid Of her. Far from tin his pres
ence she is so mild and so gentle that I
butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, and /
she purrs so under his hand when he