El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-15
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There is nothing else in the world
7 that is more unfortunate than that
I We are so stupid that we do not realize
the virtue and value Of judiciOus alb
| sences from even our best beloved.
/ There are no two human beings that
can be together all of the time with
| out wearying each other and coming to
| lOathe each others society.
Even an angel from heaven would
bore us If we had to always look at the
same crown and the same wings, and
listen 10 il, day after day, month after
month, year after year. playing the
same old tune. in the same old key. on
the same old harp.
It is literally true that if people were
married only three days week instead
of seven there would be no more di-
vOrces- Never do the virtues of the
partners of our bOsoms loom up 50
grandly and beautifully as when they
are not under our immediate eyes.
When you said goodby % your John.
madam, on the pier. didn't you reflect
what d little humpshOuldered, dingl
man he wasZ And when YOU had been
away for three days didn't you revise
your opinion and begin to think that
he was a fine looking, outstanding gen
tleman, with an intellectual faceg
See Each Other Through Different Eyes
When Parted.
BY the time you reached London
weren't you Dragging about what a
handsome man your husband was. and
before your three months in Europe
were up didn't he look like a figure
of romance To YOU that you were hurry
ing back to as fast as steam would
take yOu2
And you. sir. didn't you find that
absence robbed your Maria of her fat
and gray hairs and made her slim and
beautiful TO your fancy, and that II
turned all her nagging ways into low
ing 101frfrrr6a for ~ MI
Dragged TO other mem You were so
glaC TO see her go you could scarcely
keep a decent race. but you are %
anxious 10 Sc her back that you wait
three hours on the dock before the ship
is due.
What the trip to Europe or Florida
or the seaside does for some couples.
the limited divorce Will do for Others.
1t viii give them the separation they
need ana chance TO get a perspective
on each others virtues. instead of hav-
ing their faults rubbed in at close
range.
Also it will give them the opportu-
nifty to find out that divorce isn't All
beer and skittles. as they imagined it
in their longing for freedom. It is in
evitable that when We contemplate the
past we put on IL coat Of gliding 10
which il is not entitled So when a
man and woman think of the Joys of I
q divorce. they picture themselves re- /
turning 10 life as IL was before they /
were married al all
Alas. we can never go back. Every
thing changes We change ourselves. I
The man who has been married and /
had q wife and children of his own q
finds out that he is more domesti- +
Gated than he thought. The idle rOuJ.1 {
Of dissipation soon pals upon him, and I
II he had his choice he would rather I
go home 10 pipe and slippers and his /
Daoys arms around his neck than sit !
I'm poker game.
When Woman Returns TO Her Home I
she Is Pftled.
The woman ascertainS that when she 4
goes back home she is tolerated rather /
than welcome guest People look at 4
he with pity and cal: iiST poor Maryi' }