The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-12-27
WHAT SAM THOUGHT
BY BILLY BACHELOR.

Billy sam MdFJH HAClaltutui as H.
handed me the evening paper, point
ing to a paragraph under the head
ing. Social GIeanings,' which read
Mr.. 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
10 him
Its an outrage, a 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 a
hungry dog chasing a bone ever since
he first met her? l repeat, what
right has he to marry Ethel Hamil-
ton? Why, she's child, 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."
''It looks like it, must admit" said
l. And yet gave Oscar credit for
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 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
tickle minded should give them one
moments pleasure, or how, under
such circumstances, they can hope
for happiness passes my understand
ing.
ut just goes to show, think, that
the love such people have is very
small not the grand passion. the over
powering devotion of great soul, as
they like to imagine it Is. Hurt vain
lily. 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 a 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, We'll, maybe / won't show
} that girl a thing or two' The gir
tosses her pretty head, pins on {
saucy little bow of ribbon or dons {
new frock and fares forth vowin9
J that she'll just show that man how
little she really cared.
} "This Is far more dangerous for {
, man, especially man OF Oscars tenn
! permanent, than for a woman. Th'
woman may come to love her HUSBAND
: If he Is kind and good to her but, a.
| you know, Sam, no man ever give
> his heart to a woman after marriage.
"You are right about that old man
1t hurts, though, to think that Osca
: could display so much innate mean
ness. I can't understand how an
3 honorable mar could allow himself t.
| commit such a fraud 1t is a fraud
| lie. a cheat! Do you suppose evel
( silly little Ethel Hamilton would cor
: sent to marry a man who frankly &C
} mitted he only asked her TO be hi
. wife in order to get even with Ar
. other woman?
COS has committed not only one c
the greatest pieces of folly in his life
0 but has acted in a shameful manne
y toward the girl who Is now his wife
n BY George, feel like"
. But here / laid detaint0g hand o
4 Sans arm and told him it didn't ma
ter what he felt like doins. he mus
g not do anything. "If Oscar has bee
y fool enough to marry out Of piqut
then his life will be punishmer
enough, without any one else buttin
j in and making things more mlserabl
q for the girl"
i You're right, old man. Well s
I. long; it's about time to turn in. an
I'm tired"
q Good night. Sam. Don't worT
g about other peoples troubles. We a
have enough of our own
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