The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-11-10
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(C'opyright. 1918. by W. Werner.>
Every one wondered how Ada WcS-
ton ever got married at %all-ahovc all.
how she came tn marry christopher
Brent. For christopher could have
had his pick of the pretty girls Of
Westmorc. inasmuch as he vas good
looking earned good wages and had
the hest OF character. Indeed, it was
said that two OF three If the very
pretticst girls were a long time get
ing over the disappointment of his
marriage with Ada Weston. For Ada
Was plain. She was small and stocky
in shape: her feet and hands We're
orcrgrown: her hair was thin and no
adornntent. anyway: her chin rcccd-
ms. her nose ample. her eyes small
and SGT close together; her mouth
We'll, II was never intended for smiles
and kisses.
From the time she got out OF her
cradle life had been an unhappy thing
for Ada Weston. She got an cd,lca-
ton. but it. was a process of torture.
II never had any times at school.
She made no ardent friendships. Her
teachers tolerated her. Her school
mates endured her. She came and
went alone. The whole business OF
her school attendance was cnshroudcd
iii Il %frightful haze. through which.
however. the sun of Christopher
BrentS presence ultimately shone.
1t was her misfortune to fall i'll
love with him. She felt tina as soon
as she had done ii and looked forward
to Il lifelong agony of disappointment.
She n Christopher graduated in the
same class. .Afterward he got a good
job n Went industriously to work.
Ada. too, went to work. She had to.
AS 1t CHANGED. both presently shifted
positions and ound themselves under
the same roof. Ada as cashier. Chris
TOPPER as clerk. One night it raincd
and She had no umbrella. He saw her
home. That was the real beginning Of
their friendship.
All in all, Christopher went with
Ada -four years before he eve men,
toned love or marriage. All that time
she adored him silently. /. love be-
gets love. as. indeed, we read. tina
was the way he won him. Or it
might be Christopher had II wise head
and foresaw the wife she would make
patient. saying. even tempered, and
forever loving. However it was, he
married her.
So Ada found her heaven, such as it
was. She had her Christopher for
life. and it seemed a miracle. There
was great JOY i'll his reality and all
the %poignancS of pain. For she knew
that she must look to Christopher en-
actly as she looked to herself.
1t was no wonder she hated mirrors.
Her heart fell whenever she looked
into one. And Christopher's eyes, too.
were a kind of mirror. He never CALL
ed her ugly. yet she knew he thought
so. and her heart bled over the knowl-
edge. Gladly would she have had her
whole body skinned for the sake of
identifying it; not for her own sake.
but for her husbands. Sometimes her
ugliness seemed too great a burden
for her to hear.
In time presumably Christopher got
used to her face and did not mind Or
notice it. 1t no longer impressed him
unpleasantly. Ada could not he Ada
and look any other way. She was 4
good wife; his home was pleasanter
than nos mems; he had everything
done for his comfort. .And Christo-
pher thought a great deal about being