The daily Alaskan., 1912-12-02
The Dark of the
 Honeymoon
Showing the Difficulty of Working In Double
 Harness
By NJ. E. ARCHIBALD

been compared Co team or horses yoked for the drst time in double har- ness. It is an excellent comparison. The start is made when the wedding tourney is over and the couple enter upon the routine of ordinary life. Their expectation usually is that the billing and cooing will last so long as they live. But lovers are elevated upon an emotional plain that cannot be main- tained any more than one can listen to music or look at beautiful works of art or read 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 ROsaliud Scrimser returned from their wedding journey to enter their cozy little home. RoSaiind was nineteen and Phil was twenty eight. RusaIind was at an age wherein a newly married person, especially a woman. is not prepared for a sudden descent from the courtship condition.
 Phil was naturally practical and old for bis age. The season of preparation for the wedding had come upon him when he was actively engaged in busi- ness. and the two together had worn upop him. Then came the honeymoon, and. though at first it brought a de HChtfuI rest, before it was finished he desired to get back to some important matters which he had left unfinished. The result was that when be found himself at home he was pleased Co re- turn to a normal condition both in bis private and business life. The first day on coming home from business he greeted his wife with just a tride lesi of a lovers exuberanCe than he had been in the habit of showing, and, throwing himself iu an easy chair, took up an evening newspaper and began to look it over.
 His wife eyed him askance. They had entered upon the collapse of the courtship honeymoon period, the begin ming of the real matrimonial life. Un- 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 trot while the other is still caracoling-so had Phil entered upon the affairs Of ordinary life, while Rosalind had nor 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 F1- nally he looked up. There was a cloud on RosaHnd's face no bigger than a 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 | supposed you took no in- tereSt in your home
 What's gone wrongT"
 Nothing that would interest you.'
 "NIy dear, how can you say th5tt Anything that concerns you interests me"
 50 I 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"
 k Phil didn't reply to this at once. For months he had been very much pleased at any reproach for any inattenton to his love Now he wondered why this one annoyed him.
 "TeII me, sweetheart, what has gone wrong today"
 "Oh, nothing that you need worry about. l dare say the cares of business have been quite enough for you to en- dure I can bear the rest"
 Tell me one thing you have had to bear"
 well, in the first place, telephoned the butcher to send a pOrterhouse steak and he sent a sirloin."
 That's too bad. What else?"
 There are mice in the house. One came out today and ran along the baSeboard"
 "We'n put traps about"
 "Or a cat"
 That's a good idea"
 He drew her down onto bis lap and there was a little cooing, 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 as we'll as upon their first tiny spat Dur ing these two weeks the bride was rapidly coming to the condition of one who assumes that in her marriage a .---fr.r. -..fas,f-. hoe h,1n rT4nHa fhnf