The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-04
wanted-Good Wives for Good Men.

Marriage at its best is very hard
proposition and nowadays with the high
cost of living and the natural domestic
| infelicitles which follows marital differ
ences, one is not inclined to Jump reck-
lessly into the sea of matrimony. Also,
unfortunately, girls of certain class,
| live for clothes and effects" There is
really dearth Of encouragement offered
to the eligible benedict" to take life
partner. In Pictorial Review for All.
gust, some interesting sde-lights are
given by young man as follows: Why
he is not married and will not marry
'Her fathers an automobile man-slid
| from bicycles to motors at the beginning
of the game and made his stake quick /.
but he married when he was selling BIZ
cycles on the commission basis, and her
mother did her own work and made her
own clothes. Well, | came out here
right after our engagement was an
nounced. / didn't get back to see Maud
until the Christmas holidays. First
thing her people showed me her outfit
all sorts of wonderful, expensive silk
dresses for receptions and dinners such
as are never given here in A, silk
stockings, lace and silk thing-em bulbs
for mornings, shoes that cost ten dollars
a pair, table-cl trimmed with reai
lace and everything in proportion. One
aunt had promised us a chest of sterling
silver; another was sending service
plates at ten dollars a piece. Her ia
theirs brother would give her an electric
brougham.
l remember sitting down with sort
of all-goneness in the pit of my stom-
ach. Since I'd asked her TO marry me,
her father had been making money hand
over fist but you see I was making
only thirty-fve a week. When | thought
of keeping up an establishment to match
those silk and lace thing EN- bulbs. the
lace trimmed table cloths and the ten
dollar plates, | turned dizzy
Now understand / had told Maud lust
what my income was and had told her
father about my salary and my pros
poets. Well, after I'd said few stumb-
ling things about the show spread out
for my benefit. | carried Maud off to
the library for a nice quiet talk.
showed her a picture of my bungalow
which l had tried to describe in my
letters. She was frankly dismayed |
did little figuring on the back of an
envelope, and her chin quivered OF
course we could not live on my salary.
She had never expected we would She
had supposed that my father would help
m out. And couldn't her father give us
a nice house-something better than the
bungalow? And if we had no rent to
pay, surely I could keep it up.
"You see she was determined to live
during the first year of our marriage
the same way in which her parents and
mine were able to live after from thirty
to forty years of good stiff money max
ing on the part of her father and mine.
If my salary would not allow this
then if loved her-I would earn a big
ger salary or borrow the money from
my father or hers 1t is terrible to see
the woman you love cry when she is in
the wrong and you don't dare let her
have her own way. The next ten min
utes were the worst | ever lived through
ain the end | went TO her parents. !
was too late. The mischief had been
done in the purchase of that extravagant
outfit. Either / had to live up to it
or give up Maud chose the latter 1t
wasn't so much the trousseau ] rebelled
against; it was the standard of living
which was indicated by the inery. With !
that taste for purple and fine linen, ae
luired during the enga cement she would |
have made me wretched, and / couldn't /
have made her happy. Now I'll wait /
until I have the income before tackle /
again Maybe by that time |
III be resigned to getting along with !
out it."-From August Pictorial Review.