The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-04-22
WHAT SAM THOUGHT
BY BILLY BACHELOR.

A-AuSu Auc Tue c'Sil-dS pdpcTs pUlHl'
Ing to a paragraph under the head.
Ing. Social Gleanines," which read:
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Hamilton an.
nounce the marriage of their daugh.
ter. Ethel. and Oscar Newman. at
Grace church. Oakburn. Tuesday.
October L.
What do you think Of It. SAM"
] inquired az I tossed the paper back
to him.
tits an outrage. q BANKED outrage!
What right has Os Newman to marry
anybody but Beatrice Price? Don't
al her friends. all his friends. know
he is wildly In love with her! Haven't
they known 1t for ever a year? Hasn't
be followed Beatrice about like .
hungry dog chasing bone ever since
he first met her? / repeat. what
right has he to marry Ethel Hamit
ton! Why. she's . child. . silly little
butterfly Of fashion. o. 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 It for?'
Sam hitched bis chair up closer to
mine. lighted bic pipe and took Z few
slow inhalations before he replied BY
shaking bic head slowly and pro.
nouncing the one word. "Pique."
TT looks like It. must admit" said
l. And yet ] gave Oscar credit for
too much common sense 70 ever let
him Do . fool trick like that"
Beatrice turned him down. anl -
sworo he would got even-
We'll. Of Ill the IT, Z mighty
queer thing. Sam, how man-and
women-tsy 70 prove how little they
really care for. the person they once
protested to love 20 deeply By turn.
Ing around and marrying some one
else. How the proving of themselves
dcklerminded should give them one
moments pleasure. or how. under
such circumstances they can hope
for happiness passes my understand.
Ing.
TT Just goes to show. I think. that
the love such people have 10 very
small. not the grand passion. the over.
powering devotion Of Z great soul. -
they like to imagine It 10. Hurt vain.
Fly. smarting pride and tho llendish
eesire to hurt In return are more re.
sponsible for tho marriage from pique
than any heart wounds either man or
woman may feel.
"The man who has tried bic best to
win the ono woman IN the world and
failed: the woman who has given her
best to . man who proves himself
false. will not be In any hurry to bind
themselves BY marriage vows % On.
other person.
such fatal steps-and they nearly
always are fatal-show suffering self.
conceit rather than . broken heart
IN error into which those who ars
only half In love ever fall.
THE man squares up his shoulders
md says. Well. maybe I won't show
that girl . thing or two!' The girl
losses her pretty head. pins sn .
saucy little bow Of ribbon or dons .
new frock and fares forth. vowins
that she'll Just show that man low
little she really cared.
This 10 far more dangerous for .
man. especially . man Of Oscars TEN.
permanent than for . woman. The
woman may come to love her husband
II hs 10 kind and good to her. but. -
you know. Sam. no man ever gives
bic heart to q woman after marriage"
"You are right about that, old man!
Il hurts. though. to think that Oscar
could display 60 much innate mean.
ness. I can't understand how any
honorable man could allow himself to
commit such q fraud. It Is a fraud.
= lie. . cheat! Do you suppose even
silly little Ethel Hamilton would con
sent to marry q man who frankly I'd.
United he only asked her to be his
wife In order to get even with an.
other woman?
"Os has committed not only one q
the greatest pieces Of folly In his life.
out has acted in a shameful manner
toward the girl who IL now bic wife.
81 George! I feel like"
But here I laid a OBTAINING hand O
Sans arm and told him II didn't mat
ter what he felt like doing, no must
aot do anything. 'lf Oscar has been
fool enough to marry out Of pique.
then his life will be punishment
enough. without any one else butting
n and making things more miserable
'or the girl"
'You're right. old man! Wen, "a
long: It's about time to turn In, and
I'm tired"
Good night, Sam. Don't worry
,hout other peoples troubles. We III
nave enough Of our own"
Explosion Of q Flower.
Sometime . the floral spathe Of q
treat palm tree will nv open With q