The Prescott daily news., 1912-11-16
WHAT SAM THOUGHT
By BILLY BACHELOR.

well, WnaC QO you tnlnK or tnlS, Billy?" Sam Martin exclaimed as he handed me the evening paper, point ing to paragraph under the head ing, Social Gleanings," which read: MT. and Mrs. J. T. Hamilton an nounce the marriage of their daugh- ter Ethel, and Oscar Newman, at Grace church, Oakburn, Tuesday, October l.
 What do you think of it, Sam?" I inquired as I tossed the paper back to him.
 Its an outrage, blanked outrage! What right has Os Newman to marry anybody but Beatrice Price? Don't all her friends all his friends, know he is wildly in love with her? Haven't they known it for ever a year? Hasn't he followed Beatrice about like & | hungry dog chasing a bone ever since he first met her? I repeat, what right has he to marry Ethel Hamil- ton? Why, she's a child a silly little butterfly of fashion. Os never can love that type of woman, and you know it, Bill"
 Yes, know it. What do you sup, pose poor old Oscar did it for?"
 Sam hitched his chair up closer to mine, lighted his pipe and took few | slow inhalations before he replied by shaking his head slowly and pro, nouncing the one word "Pique"
 Tt looks like it, must admit" said SAnd I FO, too much common sense to ever let him do a fool trick like that"
 Beatrice turned him down, and he swore he would get even"
 ''Well, of all the! It's a mighty queer thing, Sam, how men-and women-try to prove how little they really care for the person they once professed to love so deeply by turn ing around and marrying some one else. How the proving of themselves fickle-minded should give them one moments pleasure, or how, under such circumstances, they can hope for happiness passes my understand, ing.
 Tt just goes to show, I think, that the love such people have is very small, not the grand passion, the over- towering devotion of a great soul, as they like to imagine it is. Hurt vain fly, smarting pride and the fiendish desire to hurt in return are more re- sponsible for the marriage from pique than any heart wounds either man or woman may feel.
 "The man who has tried his best to win the one woman in the world and failed; the woman who has given her best to man who proves himself false, will not be in any hurry to bind themselves by marriage vows to an- other person.
 Such fatal steps-and they nearly always are fatal-show suffering self conceit rather than a broken heart an error into which those who are only half in love ever fall.
 "The man squares up his shoulders and says, Well, maybe won't show that girl thing or two! The girl losses her pretty head, pins on a saucy little bow of ribbon or dons a new frock and fares forth, vowing that she'll just show that man how little she really cared.
 "This is far more dangerous for a man, especially man of Oscars tenn perament, than for a woman. The woman may come to love her husband If he is kind and good to her, but, as you know, Sam, no man ever gives his heart to a woman after marriage"
 "You are right about that, old man! It hurts, though, to think that Oscar could display so much innate mean ness. I can't understand how any honorable man could allow himself to commit such a fraud It is a fraud, a lie, a cheat Do you suppose even silly little Ethel Hamilton would con- sent to marry a man who frankly ad- mitted he only asked her to be his wifes in order to get even with an other woman?
 "Os has committed not only one of the greatest pieces of folly in his life, but has acted in a shameful manner toward the girl who is now his wife. By George! I feel like" But Mere I laid detaining hand on Sam's arm and told him it didn't mat ter what he felt like doing, he must not do anything. eff Oscar has been fool enough to marry out of pique, then his life will be punishment enough, without any one else putting in and making things more miserable for the girl"
 You're right. old man! We'll, so long; it's about time to turn in, and | I'm tired"
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