Putnam patriot., 1912-12-20

Natr,mony's Door al Times Opens Hard
Since Putnam became 0retna
Green numerous little stories oil inter
mingled humor and pathos have been
brought to light as couple after couple
have approached matrimony's door,
knocked and have been refused admit
lance or have passed through alter
struggle with the door man In the
shape of old Mr.. Law, creature oil
hard hearted and unsympathetic iegis-
latures, matter of fact lawmakers de-
void of all feeling of romance, who
stands guard like a monster iceberg
unaffected by the most scalding tears
of disappointment. True love never
runs smooth, we all know that, at
least by hearsay, but when you have
reached that exalted plane, the time,
the place, and the girl, also the ring,
and are Just about TO take the plunge,
full of confidence and with smile up
on your lips, and then find this unre-
lenting creature, the law, barring the
way to the fields of NECTAR and amoIo-
STA, blocking the game when you have
reached the very goal-well, II takes
one good sport to laugh when every
thing goes dead wrong.
Two couples stepped oil of different
trains ON different days during the
past week Putnam to them looked
like the garden of Eden, and then
some They had Travelled the aiore
said rough road and had come safely
through and were happy 10 think ihey
were about to eileumNent the laws OF
| the commonwealth from whence they
had come. They supposed they had
reached the place where matrlmonN
was the easiest thing ever and to oe
had for the asking, and a small fee,
providing one had the girl, and she
had said yes and was willing to con-
tinue TO answer yes to essential ques
tons
For the first couple there was no
passing by the guardian of the state
who stood unmoved while even the
eyes of the accommodating town clerk
filled with tears as he had To say them
| nay as Mr.ILaw directed. The snag
was struck because the smilingly an
ticipatins groom was forced to admit
that he was born just wee three
months too late, making him that
much shy of the necessary q years
that the said legislators shave ordained
must be reached before license will
issue He had brought her down from
| Worcester and his pocket was bullying
with coin of the realm that he had
been saving for the event. lie intend
ed to return with her as his better half
| but those three months that he had
| not been born proved an insurmounta-
BILE stone wall to his purpose, at least
as far as Putnam was concerned.
! There was much sympathy for the
young man if that was any eonSola-
ton. lie told of an unpleasant home
where his parents made him give up
all but one dollar of his weekly wage,
which was from thirteen To eighteen
dollars per, and of his desire to have a
home of his own where he and she
could spend the money which he knew
was plenty TO provide a home, sweet
home, that would discount any estab'
lisnment ever imagined by the writers
of fiction for happiness and comfort.
Notwithstanding a desire To help him
out oof his trouble there was nothing
! TO do but reiterate that he was up
against Gibraltar that could not be
moved. And to make II harder he had
now 10 go out TO where the onliest girl,
waiting on the sidewalk stood and inn
agined that every passerby knew just
what the bunch of happiness was she
was waiting for. None there were
who cared 10 witness the scene, and