El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-29

{ stances, as does the common place Oar
by TO whom we are united
las the years 90 by, and we get far
I ther and farther away from Edwin and
Angelina and the gilt rubs more and
more off the ginger bread of matri-
mony that we are daily forced to con-
sumo, the pictures Of our early loves
grow brighter and brighter, with a
more and more rOseate halo, until at
last We come to the place where we
privately consider ourselves blighted
/ beings, who have made fatal mistakes
in matrimony.
visit the Old Scenes
'I am convinced that a great deal of
( domestic unhappiness arises from this
cause and think that 10 years after
marriage there ought to be a compul-
sorry excursion back to the scene OF
ones early romance, so that husbands
and wives could get a near view of
their first love. Take my word for it
that it would do more TO make men
and women satisfied with the life part
nefS they old get than anyth1ng else
on earth, for If there is one thing that
makes you want TO go out and burn
joss sticks to luck IT is to meet up
with the one you didn't marry.
I have just been seeing most il
Eliminating example Of the value of
my theory 1 have a friend, whom I
VIII call Susie because that isn't her
name, who, when she was a young
girl, Tell In love with good looking
and attractive young fellow who was
one OF those youths who live upon
their mothers.
Fortunately for Susie she had a SEN
s1ble, hard headed father who repre-
scented to her that a man who had never
supported himself was not likely to
support family, and as Susie had tot,
much Independence to want to settle
down on a poor mOtherinlaW to be
taken care Of she was kept from marry
ing the young man, and, of course, in
time got over her girlish fancy.
Eventually she made an excellent
match She married a thrifty business
man IN a distant city, who was able
10 give her a beautiful home fine
clothes. an automobile, and every lux
ury that wealth can supply. Also her
husband is man of weight in his com
mun1ty, looked up to, and deferred t..
But always her early love has
loomed in SuSie's mind as a FAM,
prince, and she has contrasted her hus-
band unfaVOrably with him. and said
to herself how blissfuI she might have
Deen with a man who understood her
poetic yearnings, and her graspiner at
the Whatness Of the what, instead of
with sordid business man whose souI
was not on material things
Well, last month Susie went bac,.
nome Tor the first time in many years.
and saw her early love. Also his
wife and children. The shiftIess Da'a-
do well had gone down. and dovvn
9ntll ne had become the village Ioafer.
FeopLe spoke of him with sneering
contempt His wife was a poor, pitt
IuI. oVerworked drudge who supported
MIN MIN by taking boarders. Half a dozen
qlrty little children chung to her
The Outcome.
You never saw such an instantan-
eous cure as that sight of the man She
didn't marry worked on Susie She
scuttIed back home as fast as she couId
&c, ana she's been so busy ever since
scattering roses in the path of the man
sne did marry that she has got him
guessing as to what has happened"
That's right" said the other woman
eoolngly, I never miss an Oppor-
tunity of inviting my husbands early /
loves TO dinner. They are sure to be fat I
ana 1roWsy, or living skeletons. and |
l can see his ideal crumbling to 3ieces
as ne contrasts them in propria per- /
soma with the way he remembered !
them"
But we also have changed since /
We inspired loves young dream" sug- }
Sested third woman
on, our husbands are used to US"
fepHeo the woman philosopher com
Iortably. And they've quit looking
at us, anyway"