Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-01-10
WHAT SAM THOUGHT
BY BILLY BACHELOR.

well, what do you think of this
Billy" 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. T. Hamilton an
nounee the marriage of their daugh
ter, Ethel and Oscar Newman, at
Grace church, Oakburn Tuesday
October L.
What do you think Of it, Sam?
I inquired as I tossed the paper back
to him
It's an outrage, a BANKED 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 {
they known it for ever year? Hash t
he followed Beatrice about like a
hungry dog chasing a bone ever since
he first met her? repeat. what
right has he to marry Ethel Hamil-
ton? Why she's a child. a silly little
butterfly of fashion. Os never car
love that type of woman, and yoE
know it. Bill"
Yes. l know it. What do you sup
pose poor old Oscar did it for?"
Sam hitched his chair up closer to
mine, lighted his pipe and took a few
slow inhalations before he replied by
shaking his head slowly and pro-
nouncing the one word "Pique."
1T looks like it, must admit" said
l. And yet / gave Oscar credit for
too much common sense to ever let
him do fool trick like that"
Beatrice turned him down. and he
swore he would get even"
We'll 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
protested to love so deeply by turn
ing around and marrying some one
else. How the proving of themselves
fickle-minded should give them one
moments pleasure, or how, under
such circumstances, they can hope
for happiness passes my understand
ing.
1T just goes to show. I think, that
the love such people have is very
small, not the grand passion, the over
powering devotion of a great soul, as
they like to imagine it is. Hurt vain
lily, smarting pride and the fiendish
desire to hurt in return are more re-
sponsible for the marriage from pique
ho o-f 5sf al ~
woman may feel
THE man who has tried his best to
win the one woman in the world and
failed; the woman who has given her
best to a man who proves himself
false, will not be in any hurry to bind
themselves by marriage VOWS to an
other person.
such fatal steps-and they nearly
always are fatal-show suffering self
conceit rather than a broken heart
an error into which those who are
only half in love ever fall.
THE man squares up his shoulders
and says Well, maybe l won't show
that girl a thing or two!' The girl
losses her pretty head, pins on
saucy little bow of ribbon or dons a
new frock and fares forth, vowing
that she'll Just show that man how
little she really cared
This is far more dangerous for g
man, especially a man of Oscars tenn
permanent. than for a woman The
woman may come to love her husband
II he is kind and good to her but, as
you know Sam. no man ever gives
his heart to woman after marriage"
''You are right about that, old man,
It hurts. though, to think that Oscar
could display so much innate mean
ness. I can't understand how any
honorable man could allow himself to
commit such a fraud. 1t is a fraud,
a lie. a cheat Do you suppose even |
silly little Ethel Hamilton would con-
sent to marry a man who frankly ad-
nitted he only asked her to be his /
wife in order to get even with an
)ther woman?
los has committed not only one Of |
he greatest pieces of folly in his life, |
out has acted in a shameful manner |
oward the girl who is now his wife. /
BY Georgei l feel like"
But here l laid a OBTAINING hand on |
Sans arm and told him It didn't mat
er what he felt like doing. he must
lot do anything "If Oscar has been
DOL enough to marry out of pique,
hen his life will be punishment
without any one else butting
n and making things more miserable
or the girl"
You're right. old mani Well, so
ong; it's about time to turn In. and
m tired"
Good night, Sam. Don't worry
bout other peoples troubles We all