The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-06
Drawbacks of
 Matriirnonv


 "This getting married" remarked young Mrs. Allison, isn't all that it's talked up to bel" She picked up her embroidery and resumed operations on large blue butterfly.
 The other embroiderers looked shocked, with the exception of the fluffy haired blonde, who giggled ap- preciatively. "Is Fred developing dys- pepsia?' she inquired with mirthful solicitude. My dear!" cried young Mrs. Allison, with wide-eyed protest. Fred can eat anything, I'm happy to say. l ran completely out of ideas about meals day before yesterday, so l had fried soles for dinner, to break the monotony of steak and chops and roast and chops and roast and steak. and roast and steak"
 That will dol" sternly interrupted the young matron with auburn hair. That way lies madness. Some of us are housekeepers ourselves, you may remember"
 And" went on young Mrs. Allison, meekly, Fred ate his sole with pos itive enjoyment, though I couldn't even bend my own. No, Fred is not dyspeptic."
 Well, then" said the fluffy haired blonde, "he must be getting the club habit"
 "Wrong!" said young Mrs. Allison promptly. Fred doesn't belong to a single club except the Beethoven. He hates smoke and he likes women, and he thinks that mems clubs are little short of relatively clean pigpens. Guess again."
 Well" said the fluffy haired blonde after judicial pause, there are only three causes that make a happy mar ried woman sore on matrimony. If you will pardon the phraseology. They are dyspepsia. jealousy and lack of money. Is lack of money the canker that's eating the blush from your damask cheek, or words to that effect?'
 Mrs. Allison shook her head again, emphatically. Nobody has enough money" she said with conviction. But that's the least of my troubles, and l have as much money as Is good for me, no doubt. Besides, woman's a fool to let money worry her, if it's only matter of luxuries."
 The fluffy haired blonde nodded as- sent. Right you are," she said. And, what's more, there are fewer fools than people would believe when 1t comes to that. But whatever is the trouble, Celeste?"
 Young Mrs. Allison sighed lugubri- ously. What 1 object to in matri- mony," she explained, jabbing her needle vigorously into the left wing of the blue insect, lis this sensation of permanence. Married people feel so disgustingly settled in life, and I loathe feeling settled.''
 Every one smiled.
 Well, times are changing" remark ed the auburn haired matron, with a suggestion of scorn. Do you notice married people feeling so dreadfully settled these days?"
 q mean decent people. of course" corrected young Mrs. Allison concisely. The sense of being hopelessly settled descends upon you when you come down to breakfast the first morning after your honeymoon trip is over, and it continues with you from that time on. When l go to the matinee, or to teas, or to the settlement, guild, or anywhere like that. and see lot of girls of just my own age. whom went to school with, and who haven't married-old maids like you"-she in. dicated the fluffy haired blonde, who rose and bowed profoundly-"an see how positively juvenile and efferves. cent they look, and how delightfully."- unsettled they are in their attitude to- ward the world, get pessimistic, that's all. say to myself: Brace up, Ce- leste. You're a married woman, so hurry home or Fred will be there first, and will wonder what keeps you"
 "T tell you," went on young Mrs. Al lison, you can just reverse what the old negro mammy said abOut sinister