Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-14
Evening Story.
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BY GRACE

BY GRACE hEHHIGAN.
1918, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
When Miss Lionel Trenton was in
love with Mr.. Hugh Rexford her
father said to her one day:
"Mr. Rexford has one trait I wish
he did not possess"
'Is It a bad one?" was asked.
t'I think he Is very stubborn"
well, you and mother say that |
am"
'You surely are, and therein lies
the danger II you wed Rexford. Two
stubborn natures r sure to bring
about q clash" !.
II think Hugh loves me we'll
enough to give me my way IN most
things" said the daughter in tones
OF trust and confidence.
eyes, just now. but how about
later ont"
Father, o are a dear, old, gray.
headed man, and you are over-anx-
ious about me. You needn't be. how.
ever. Everything will be just lovely!
I know two different girls that mar
ried stubborn men, and they have
" had the least trouble. They
tell me that their husbands delight
giving up to them"
The father smiled and turned to hts
paper. What was the use? Love
sees the roses but not the thorns.
And Hugh Rexford's mother said
to him:
"My son, Miss Trenton IL . very
nice girl. but l've got = criticism TO
make"
"You can't have. mother-not 9
single one, he replied.
"She's got . stubborn disposition
s"She cant have"
But her friends say So"
"And you anticipate we shall quar-
rel?"
eft can't be otherwise unless you
her have her own way"
There will be no quarreling.
mother. We are both toe loving anu
sensible for that. OF course, Lionel
Will have her opinion about this n
that, as every woman ha ga right TO
have, but 1t will be for me to decide
question of moment"
"But II she refuses to surrender net
opinion|
"Why find lions in the path where
there are none, mother? don't
want a namby.pamby for a wife. !
want. one with opinions. II she Ii
wrong on a question l shall take
great pleasure In discussing 1t ana
showing her where she is wrong.
The mother smiled and sighed.
THE marriage took place and the
were very happy TOT q
time. II Hugh said tho sky was
green, then green It was. At least
the young wife, who knew It was
didn't dispute his color. II she
decided that the piano looked better
in the southwest corner Of the parlor
he accepted her decision without a
word:
Both firmly meant to avoid a clash
nat would bring out their stubborn
ness and for. a year things went very
well. They did not bring up religion
politics or the color Of the cats eyes
and at the end Of the year the pride
nFather was over here for awhile
today, and when I laughed at the
prediction he made just before our
wedding he didn't know what to
say"
"What did your father predict"
"That we would clash and neither
OF US give up
That's funny. Mother made the
same prediction"
"But we have not clashed."
They would have lived together q
and not disputed as to
whether, II a rabbit had q longer tall,
the fox could catch him q minute
sooner, or the height and weight OF
Adam as he stood In the garden OF
Eden waiting for Eve to come along
and keep her date.
There must be something more
momentous than that. It was com
ing and was very close at that, but
they did not e the shadow.
One morning at breakfast the wife
remarked as she slipped her coree.
..Huch. do coffee and tea grow on the
same trees?" -
Neither grows On q tree. dear,
ccffee grows on a bush and tea grows
~ think you are wrong about that
81 can't be. l know a fellow IN q
tea and coffee house"
4"But some n may have deceived
him. I have an uncle who lives II
Russia
"But neither tea o coffee II
grown in Russia
"Hugh, you must be thinking o.
sugar beets.'
aAnd the land only knows what yot