El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-16

different If might have beenl Adolf
phus would have understood her
agSravating ways that John has
AdOlphus would never have smoked in
the house, or come home late. or been
groUchy and grumpy. or begrudged
her the price Of a new frOck.
On the contrary he would have
known that she was not like other
women, that she was temperamental,
and highly organized, and sensitive,
and thar she didn't mean things when
she said them, and Adolphus would
have spent his evenings holding her
hand and telling her how beautiful
and wonderful she was.
Oh. Johns a good man. and a good
husband, and q splendid provider but
he isn't AdolphUs. and if only she had
married AdolpEus what heaven on
earth life might have been,
Probably there is not a married
man. or a married woman in the
world who doesn't cherish some such
glOrified vision OF what might have
been. With most of US II does no
Lost Paradise in which we ta6e ref
UEe when the strenuOsity of cOnnUbial
life drives US TO cover.
Dream Ruins Life.
Occasionally, however, there are
those who let the dream OF what life
might have been with another ruin
the good of the life they have. and 1
have just been listening to the story
OF such a foolish woman When she
was a very young girl she was en-
gagged to q poor youth who went forth
to seek his fortune He was so long
in finding it that she married another
man, fine, honest honorable man.
who is kindness itself to her and whO
gives her every comfort of life.
This woman has a lovely little
daughter ten years old, and should be
happy as the day IS long And she
would be except that she IS always
"a
be If she had married the other man.
She is sure that # she had married
him life would have had never jolt
in it, but that everything would have
moved along on rubber tired wheels,
and existence would have been one
long. rose lined romance.
She has thought about this man
she didn't marry so long and so much
come to actually hate the man she
did marry She pines TO see this old
sweetheart whom she hasn't seen
since he was q youth, and she wants
TO know what ] would advise her to
do under all these circumstances.
Ny advice is for her to pin on her
hat and take an excursion to where
ever the supposed affinity lives. It
will work a cure, effectual and last
ing, for there is nothing else under
the sun-nOt even matrimSny itself
that is so Disseminating and disillu-
sioning as to meet an old love after
the lapse Of 10 years
Loves Broken Thread
The one thing that can never be done
is to knit together the broken threads
Of loves young dream Nobody can
take up q friendship, much less a rO-
nance. where they laid It down The
hottest passion cOOls off The most
bGbbIiug sentiment loses its effer-
vescence. You have changed He or
tshe has changed Love itself has
changed. Come away and shut the
door.
You have remembered Adolphus az
slim and 1.-THE. Can it be that this
aenemlc dyspeptic wrinhled man is
he2 Amaryllis has lived in your men,
DRY as fairy. Alas. is it true that she
has changed into this matrOnly lady
with triple chins2
Many a night you have lain awake
recalling with a thrObbing heart how
Adolphus used to quote poetry to you.
and how il thrilled you. He doesn't
seem nearly so willing and romantic
when you meet up with him again and
find him shabby and poor, and that
people say he's one Of the dreaming
moaning sort OF men that lack the
practical sense to get along.
How often you have thought Of what
a darling, helpless, Clinging little
creature Amaryllls was, and how she
would look into your eyes and ask YOU
the most adOrably simple questions
Great heavens, can IT be that this sim
pliciuy was stupidity-fOr Of an fha
dull. heavy, tiresOme creatures on
earth Amaryllis now IS the cbiefesti
She would bore you stiff
OF course, the Jane OF John YOU mar
ried has changed since your Wedding /
day but you are familiar and accuse
toned to the changes in HIM or her !
and have kept pace with them. They I
don't shock you like the changes in the /
one ycu clint marry. and whom you
remember encircled with the illusions
Of youth.
Be sure that there IS no cure for an
old love like behOlding it again after I
q lapse of a few years, and If any man
and woman want to get the last symp-
tom Of blighted romance out of their
system, let them hunt up the ones they
didn't marry, and take good long
look at what they have escaped. Ana
they'll thank God for His mercy.