Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-23

THE DATLY STORY
A Needed Lesson

| rs tt bad oneT' was asked.
''I think he is very stubborn"
"well you and mother say that am
'You surely are, and therein lies tho
danger IL you wed Rcxford Two stub.
born natures are sure to- bring about q
clash"
"I think Hugh loves me well enough tc
give me my way in most things" said
the daughter in tones of trust and conf.
dence
yes, just now but how about later
on?"
Father. you are dear, old. gray.
headed man. and you are overanxious
about me. You needn't be, however
Everything will be just lovelyl 1 know
two different girls that married stubborn
men. and they have never had the least
trouble. They tell me that their husbands
delight In giving UP to them"
The father smiled and turned to his
paper. What was the use? Love sees
the roses but not the thorns.
And Hugh Rexfords mother said to
him:
my son, Miss Trenton is a very nice
girl but I've got criticism to make"
You can't have, mother-not single
one" he replied.
shes got a stubborn disposition"
"She cant have
But her friends say so.'
"And you anticipate we shall quarrel7'
1T can't be otherwise, unless you let
her have her own way"
There will be no quarreling, mother
We are both too loving and sensible for
that OF course, Lionel will have her
| opinion about this and that, as every
woman has right to have, but it will be
for me to decide any question of mo-
ment."
But If she refuses to surrender her
opinion2"
"Why find lions in the path where
there are none, mother? don't want
namby-pamby for wife. l want one
with opinions! If she Is wrong on a
question shall take great pleasure in
discussing 1t and showing her where she
| Is wrong"
The mother smiled and sighed.
The marriage took place, and the
newlyweds were Ver7 happy for time.
If Hugh said the sky was green, then
| who knew 1t was blue, didn't dispute his
| color If she decided that the piano
looked better in the southwest corner of
| the parlor he accepted her decision with
| out a word
Both firmly meant to avoid clash that
would bring out their stubbornness, and
for q year things went very well, They
| did not bring up religion, politics or the
color of the cats eyes, and at the end OF
the year the bride said:
"Father was over here for awhile to-
day, and when l laughed at the predic-
tion he made just before our wedding he
didn't know what to say
What did you father predict"
"That we would clash and neither of us
give up"
"That's funny. Mother made the same
prediction"
But we have not clashed."
They would have lived together a life
time and not disputed as to whether, II a
rabbit had a longer tail, the fox could
catch him a minute sooner or the height
and weight of Adam as he stood in the
Garden of Eden waiting for Eve to come
along and keep her date.
There must be something moro mo-
mentous than that. 1t was coming and
was very close at that, but they did not
see the shadow.
One morning at breakfast the wife re-
marked as she slipped her coffee: Hugh,
do coffee and tea grow on the same
trees?"
Neither grows on a tree. dear Coffee
grows on a bush and tea grows on q
shrub"
''I think you are wrong about that"
1T can't be. I know a fellow in a tea
and coffee house"
But some one may have deceived him.
I have an uncle who lives in Russia"
But neither tea nor coffee is grown In
Russia"
Hugh, you must be thinking of sugar
beets."
"And the land only knows what you
must be thinking of. T"
Very well; we won't discuss the mat
ter further
"I should hope not"
1t was a pretty cold parting when he
started for the office, and but for GER
tain happenings both would have felt
ashamed of themselves an hour later.
The husband had seen a bracelet that he
wanted to buy for the wife. and to get
the price he had made bet on the races.
1t was a sure thing, but he lost by yards.
Then some one called his attention to the
fact that he was getting baldheaded, and
he was so mad about 1t that he gritted
his teeth. Again the nickel that he de
pended on to get him home on the street
car turned out to be a base and low
down coin, and he was not only humili-
ated before men but had to walk a mile
and a half.
Meanwhile the young wife was having
her troubles. The telephone went deads
the grocer's boy had a fight and was de-
layed an hour eating patches and plas-
teri she burned her hand. and the pet hen
she had raised from chick started out
TO beat a neighbor's rooster at growing
and fell over as dead as door nail. The
old chap with the cloven hoofs had the
way all paved and sprinkled for the fine
little row that was to come Off that eve
ming.
The wife had half admitted TO herself
during the day that she had made a mis-
take In the country. but when the hus-
band sat down to his dinner with a smile
of half superiority and half pity she could
not resist saying;
well. do you know any more about
tea and coffee growing than you did this
morning2
''It wasn't necessary for me 20 iearn
any more" was his reply
"I didn't know that I was marrying
such a wise man."
''I have known for a long time that
bananas were not dug out of the ground"
"rhen it's just as father warned me-"
"And as mother warned me"
'Hugh, I have always said ! would
never live with a stubborn mule of q
husband a week after finding him out"
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