The Red Cloud chief., 1913-05-22
WHAT SAM THOUGHT
BY BILLY BACHELOR.

well. what do you think Of this.
pilly7" Sam Martin exclaimed, as he
handed me the evening paper. point.
ing to a paragraph under the head.
Ing, social Gleanings," which read:
"Mr. and Mrs. J. +, Hamilton an.
nounce the marriage Of their daugh.
ter. Ethel, and Oscar Newman. at
,Crace church. Oakburn, Tuesday.
October L.
what do you think Of II. SAM"
u inquired a. I tossed the paper back
TO him.
IT'S an outrage. a blanked outraged
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 II for ever a year? Hasn't
he followed Beatrice about like q
hungry dog chasing bone ever since
he first met her? I repeat, what
right has he to marry Ethel Hamil.
ton? Why. she's child, a silly little
butterfly Of fashion. Os never can
love that type Of woman, and you
know It, Bill"
"Yes. I know It. What do you sup.
pose poor old Oscar did 1t for?"
Sam hitched his chair up closer to
mine, lighted bis pipe and took few
slow inhalations before he replied by
shaking his head slowly and pro-
nouncing the one word. "PiQue."
1T looks like 1t, I must admit" said
I. 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 a 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 ono
else. How the proving Of themselves
flckle.minded should give them one
\ moments pleasure. or how. under
such circumstances, they can hope
for happiness passes my understand.
i ing.
II 1T Just goes to show. think. that
II the love such people have Is very
Il small, not the grand passion, the over.
II pOwering devotion Of a great soul. as
J they like to imagine 1t 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 OF
woman may feel.
J "The man who has tried his best to
win the one woman in the world and
n failed; the woman who has given hel
< best to a man who proves himself
false, will not be In any hurry to bint
themselves by marriage vows to an
other person.
Such fatal steps-and they nearl!
always are fatal-show suffering self
conceit rather than broken heart
Il an error into which those who ar
only half In love ever fall.
= "The man squares up his shoulder
!: and says, well, maybe won't shoy
that girl thing or two!' The gir
tosses her pretty head, pins on
saucy little bow of ribbon or dons
new frock and fares forth, vowini
that she'll just show that man hoy
little she really cared.
"Ths Is far more dangerous for
man, especially man Of Oscars ten
| permanent, than for woman. Th
woman may come to love her HUSBAND
/ If he Is kind and good to her, but, q
YOU know, Sam, no man ever give
his heart to a woman after marriage.
"You are right about that old man
It hurts. though, to think that Osca
could display so much innate mean
ness. I can't understand how an
honorable man could allow himself L
commit such q fraud. It Is q fraud
a lie, a cheat! DO you suppose evel
silly little Ethel Hamilton would cor
sent to marry a man who frankly ad
mitted he only asked her to be hi
wife in order to get even with ar
other woman?
"Os has committed not only one @
the greatest pieces of folly In his life
but has acted in shameful manne
toward the girl who is now his wife
BY George! feel like"
But here laid OBTAINING hand O
Sans arm and told him 1t didn't ma
ter what he felt like doing, he mus
fool enough to marry out Of piqut
then his life will be punishment
enough, without any one else buttin
: In and making things more miserabl
for the girl"
You're right. old man! Well. 8
long; it's about time to turn In, an
. I'm tired"
Good night. Sam, Don't Worr