Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-11-08
The Dark Of the !
Honeymoon
Showing the Difficulty OF d.
Working In Double .
Harness .
By M. F. ARCHIBALD

A newly married couple have often
been compared to a team Of horses
yoked for the first time in double har-
ness. 1t Is an excellent comparison.
The start is made when the wedding
Journey is over and the couple enter
upon the routine OF ordinary life. Their
expectation usually is that the billing
and cooling will last SO long as they
live But lovers are elevated upon an
emotional plain that cannot be main
tanned any more than one can listen to
music or look at beautiful works Of
art or reHd poetry day in and day out
without doing anything else.
On starting upon a united journey
they find that one has been accus-
toned to go at one pace. the other at
another. One has one gait. the other a
different one. But 1t is the coming
down from the antenuptial roseate
condition that often brings about the
breaking In to travelling double on life's
turnpike.
Phil Ormsby and Rosalind Scrimser
returned from their wedding journey to
enter their coy little home. Rosalind
was nineteen and Phil was twenty
eight. Rosalind was at an age wherein
a newly married person, especially
woman, is not prepared for sudden
descent from the courtship condition.
Phil was naturally practical and old
for his age. The season Of preparation
for the wedding had come upon him
when he was actively engaged in bust
ness. and the two together had worn
upon him Then came the honeymoon,
and, though at first 1t brought n de-
lightful rest before It was finished he
desired to get back to some important
matters which he had left unfinished.
The result was that when he found
himself at home no was pleased to re-
turn to normal condition both In his
private and business life. The first day
on coming home from business he
greeted his wife with Just trihe less
OF lovers exuberance than he had
been In the habit Of showing, and,
throwing himself In an easy chair, took
up an evening newspaper and began to
look II over.
His wife eyed him aslfance. They
had entered upon the collapse Of the
courtship honeymoon period, the begin
ming of the real matrimonial life. I'm
fortunately both had not reached the
portal Of their new cOmpanionship at
the same moment As In the case
of a span of newly yoked horses. where
the one has settled down to n trot
while the other Is still caracoling-so
had Phil entered upon the affairs Of
ordinary life while Rosalind had not
left a world of romance.
Phil went on reading his newspaper
He was somewhat tired, but this was
not the prime course of his disposition
to glance over the news Of the day.
He half expected that his young wife
would say whatever she might have to
say, while he read but she didn't. n
nally he looked up. There was cloud
| on Rosalind's face no bigger than
| mans hand
Anything especial happened during
the day." he asked.
"A great deal has happened, but you
have been so occupied with your news
paper that I supposed you took no In
terest in your home"
whats gone wrongT
Nothing that would interest you"
''My dear, how can you say thatf
Anything that concerns you interests
me-"
$50 thought, until you came home
the first evening after our return from
our wedding journey and took more in
terest in the worlds news than in your
own household"
Phil didn't reply to this at once. For
months he had been very much pleased
at any reproach for any inattention to
his love Now he wondered why this
one annoyed him.
'Tel me, sweetheart what has gone
wrong today"
"Oh, nothing that you need worry
about ] dare say the cares Of business
have been quite enough for you to en-
dure. ! can bear the rest"
Tell mo one thing you have had to
bear"
"Well. in the first place, telephoned
the butcher to send porterhouse steak
and he sent n sirloin."
That's too bad. What else"
There are mice in the house. One
came out today and ran along the
Dashboard"
"Well put traps about"
"Or n cat"
That's a good idea"
He drew her down onto his lap and
there was a little cooling, but somehow
now that they could coo as much as
they cared 10. there didn't seem TO be
the same zest to IT, At any rate, Phil
was not sorry when they were sum
moned to dinner.
A fortnight passed during which
there were many occurrences Of such
scenes, though the husband did not
succeed in maintaining his serenity ms
well as upon their first tiny Bpat Dur
ing these two weeks the bride was
rapidly coming TO the condition OF one
who assumes that in her marriage a
terrible mistake has been made, that
her husband doesn't love her, and the
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