Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-02-18

oSoA1S ShoS Az "oNiN "SSS
Difference in the married state. l.
at is singular" said Mrs. Jones, /
''how our cases agree. l. too, have
met just such Il man as you describe
not one Of those men whose Difference
is accompanied by Il flourish that re-
veals it's insincerity. but there is some
thing genuine that speaks for itself.
You have asked me. dear, if I will
marry again in case 1 get my divorce.
l will make one exception among all
the men OF the world. If the n l
speak of should ask me / will not say
that l would refuse him." !
Upon this confession Mrs. Smith let
out a little more that she had not yet
revealed. She confessed that her own
particular friend had dared to make
love to bcr before her separation and
! that she had repealed him, wi,ereupon
he seemed broken hearted. Ii her pres
ent bonds were severed and b could
listen to this other love without shame
| she was not sure but that she might
| yield.
Beyond this the confidence did not
extend. Perhaps had the ladies' been
q dozen years younger each might AVE
told the other the name Inc home of
her admirer and as much else about
him as she could call up. But at thir-
ty-two one is not so confidential as at
twenty. Besides, there was a special
reason why neither cared to tell too
much. Each Of these men. so deferen-
tial to the wishes of the woman he
,I,~;,1I had n xrifN nF uhnno hn was
trying to get rid, or, if this is stating
the case too strongly, his wife was try
ing to get rid of him.
There was one comfort in this heart
matter which %pertained to both of
these ladies. Neither had any children.
There were no innocentS to be Wrung
by parental infelicities. The law be-
ing elastic, each was on the way to
prove that she had married a bad man
and had been made unhappy and she
would be able to marry a good man,
who would be q blessing to her. What
WAS to become of these two unworthy
mer neither wife considered.
1t is a long road that has no end,
INC both these ladies' at last found
themselves free from one matrimonial
yoke and delighted at he prospect of
taking on another. Mrs. Smiths resi-
dence in the west became unneceS-
sary a month earlier than Mrs. Jones,
and she departed for the east. By this
time the bosom friendship of their
younger days had bIossomed again,
and each had admitted to the other
that as 0 as the knot was united
she proposed to have Il clergyman-if
one could be fOund-tO tie another one.
Before Mrs. Smiths departure it had
been agreed between the two that she
should wait for her friend and that
they should be married at the same
time.
During the next months separation
letters passed between them, Mrs.
Smith writing of the subsection Of her
fiance to her slightest Whim and Mrs.
Jones chatting under he delay in her
W coming to the same happiness.
And it is worthy of mention that the
two men who were casting off their
partners to step into a blessed felicity
with these two women were also look
ing forward to their own weddings.
A few days after Mrs. Jones obtain
ed her decree she arrived in the city
of New York and the same evening
met her friend Mrs. Smith in a private
room at a fashionable restaurant. The
ladies met for the purpose of dining
together, and each had invited hel
fiance to be Of the party.
The ladies met some time before the
dinner hour and had a good, long chat
each congratulating the other on he
freedom from a brute and her ap
Y preaching marriage with a prince o.
chivalry. The princes arrived stimuli
e %taneously, were taken up to the dinne1
|. room in the same elevator and We're
ushered into the presence Of thei
f. fancees at the same moment, the at
d tendant announcing:
n "Mr. Smith and Mr.. Jones'"
e There was CONSERVATION on the fac
Of each and every one Of the -four
Mrs. Smiths fiance was Mr., Jones
x and Mrs. Jones fiance was Mr.. Smith
If 1t seemed for a time that the emba1
IS rassment would be u~nconquerable an
f. that the only way out Of the contre
o. temps was for the party TO Scatlel
h Mr.. Smith, addressing his recent wife
y finally said:
ly "My dear, please explain"
or Mrs. Smith pointed to Mrs. Jones TO
r. the desired explanation, but Mrs
ID Jones was unequal to the task. M
,e Jones came to the front.
le MY friends" he said, "it is evider
that we men have snapped wives an
IN you wives have snapped husband
IS Mr.. Smith, I have heard what a terri
at BILE fellow you are to live with, and
re have no doubt you have heard what
Of terrible fellow I am to live with. M
hy opinion is that none Of us are going I
better ourselves by the change. Madg
"a I propose that we make up and g
Mt married again."
HI oopoY1rO said Mr. Smith "wit