The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-04-24
BY Mihifred Black
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great artistic before she married.
She hasn't tlfnegto be an artistic
now. Her husband does wear oitnhis
socks 80, and the baby grows out. Of
every single thing every month or So
no,t6atter how big 1t Is to begin with.
sothe Great Artistic never sings any
more; she just dtends she doesn't
mend very wen, SIN she does mend
And her husbands family are all a;
good deal sorry for the Artiste's llus4
band, and when yodllook at the matter
,as Ii treaty rs they ought to besorry
for him.
@such goose about housekeeping
SAYS the mans mother. Can't even
mend a three.cornefed tear" murlnur+
ed the MANS sister. Couldn't play
q decent game of.bridge to save hen
life, cooes the mans aunt, who has
Just got into society and speaks OF
bridge very oftea to let people know
she really Is III.
Not a particle. Of style. says the
mans brother married TO nllllner,
who can make perfectly beautiful hats
and for next to nothing too. "a poor
economist says Tie mans father.
And they are all right all perfectly
and absolutely right
Yetwhen the mans wife vas a great
artistic before, she married the mai,
the family was proud to think that
John knew the artlste.
They had her Photographs all over
the house, autographed, of course, to
chow that they were not bought and
they never missed concert where
the artistic sang. She always sent
them a box, Of course. 50 that It was
very nice to so. and she always smiled
at them, and every one in the tlieater
always turned around and looked, and
said: why they know her do be-
lieye,s
But now she is married to John,
Just plain.every-day John, so she can't
be much after all or she never would
have married him, would she?
And SO she lives in her decent
house( and takes care of her decent
baby and when any one remembers
her and sends her tickets to the opera
or the theater John uses them himself,
for he never can bear to waste any.
thing, hut she does not go.
1t makes her restless. she says, and
the family look at each other when she
says this and say How funnyl9
And John, who is a perfectly good,
perrectly commonplace Young man,
whorisn't the iieast bit what his eyes
told the great artistic he was when he
asked her to marry him. doesn't see
anything at all odd about the situation.
He doesn't see why a woman
Shouldn't be glad TO darn his socks
tthey are always very good socks, you
have to sayithat for john take care
Of his house and entertain his rather
dull sisters, and be thankful she's
married to a good, steady-going man
I, with no musical temperamental non
sense about him.
And John is doubtless more rlEht
than wrong in thinking thus, and
1 yet
What would happen, | wonder, I
the great artistic should ask John
| dear old commonplace. absolutely un
Interesting. matter-of.faee John-tc
4 give up his work and live for the grea
ilartIste alone, spehd,hours doing thing
llrot Tor himself, but Just for her alone
4 wait dinner till she was hungry, tall
\ when she felt like talking. keep g
Hence when she was silently inclined
4 live as her family live. like the peopl
she, likes, forget all the people b
likes himself, learn the whole bushes
OF lie over again. Just for her?
!, OF course, the great artistic didn'
Ihaye to marry doar John. She wa
under no more obligation to do tina