The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-16
Heroic
reatnent
BY F. TOWNSEND SMITH

My friend Rogers was forty years
old and a bachelor. He had no TASTE
for society, and his life was solitary In
the extreme.
| had been TO his room occasionally
and his landlady knew nay name. One
such condition that she feared he
was going to commit suicide. They
hunted my name In the telephone reg
lister and called me up TO say that
she wished I would come round and
Take charge OF him. went to his
room and found him walking the floor
with desperate look in his eye.
took him out with me for dinner. after
which we went to the theater, and he
spent, the night In my rooms. Before
going to bed / said TO him.
Rogers. the thing for you to do is to
get married"
"Who would marry me?"
IL know several young women who
would be glad to get you. I'll intro
duce you to the one that think would
be the most likely TO suit you If you
like"
Anything to relieve me Of myself"
The young person TO whom | intro
duced Rogers was twenty-seven years
old. Not having thus far fulfilled the
condition for which she was made--a
wife and mother-she was beginning to
get dissatisfied with herself and those
about her. told her of Rogers case,
and she confessed that it was much
like her own. She, too, said amy
thing but the life Of an old maid" 1t
was understood when / brought them
together that 1t was for the purpose of
nlatrimony, and they didn't pretend TO
what they did not feel-that they were
I'm that delirium commonly called love.
They made short work of the prelimi- |
naries and, being very much pleased |
with each other, became engaged and |
were married.
think their honeymoon was as hap |
py as it is with married couples usu-
ally. Both seemed to have taken |
laughing gas. There was no attention
too great or too trivial for Rogers to /
pay his wife. and she seemed disposed
to suffer any inconvenience rather than
put him TO the slightest discomfort.
l called on them soon after their
Then / did not see them
again for six months. | met Rogers
and, grasping him by the hand. said:
How are you. old man? How goes
married life?"
"Oh. married life is well enough,
well enough? Why, I thought at
first you considered it delightful"
That was in the beginning, when
we hadn't really settled down to the
business of married life. find double
harness pretty hard to work in some
tines"
Have any company?'
"All we want"
WELL I'm coming round to see you
pretty soon"
When ! called Rogers had been de-
aimed at business. and / was enter
aimed by his wife Being an old
riend of mine, / did not hesitate to
SIX her how married life suited her.
"Oh. don't suppose" she said, that
I'd is any harder to live with than
most men,
HE isn't somber, Is hep"
''Oh. no; he is cheerful enough, but
surprise him every now and then by
OF being what he has always sup !
osed a woman to be, and If all men
re what he is sometimes they must
e.
While we were talking in came Ed
lie saw by his wife's expression that
he had been pouring her troubles into ;
~ ear. and he didn't like it. He sat :
own with a very ugly look on his
ace.
Well" he said TO me, Il suppose
aes been making me out pretty
ard nut" :
See here" | said, fiaring up, Il did
he best | could for you two In bring