The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-14

pNE ndu CbIIlt, IlOltl VI ioS'o
and marriages.
- Every morning the dentist
read in his newspaper the long
list of marriage lie nses and the full
column of wedding stories. 1t was
maddenlng to him and the injustice
OF the whole situation smJte him. He
wondered If he was to be a social out
cast, bearing some defect which made
him odious To women. If not why
should he, with money and a ward
robe. have no applications. being
openly ready to marry any one who
pleased hlm-and Doc Horne?
From frett.ng at his failure TO at
tract WON n he would turn to re-
villng himself as one lacking courage
and enterprise. He had opportunities.
Why did h not improve them?
one day in the office he was pre-
scented to Miss Milbury, cousin of n
OF the operatives in the Neapolitan
Dental Pariors. They talked for sew
eral minutes and she suggested TO him
that he would be welcome II he chose
to come TO the fiat some evening with
her cousin.
Here was the chance. and he did not
allow it to slip BY. He did not re-
spond with the usual and quite in
definite Thank you" or ITS very
kind of you but said promptly, Yes.
indeed, 1 would be glad to call If you
will suggest an evening" and the
young woman, rather startled at his
eagerness, said. "Oh-ah-Tuesday
evening"" and did not urge him fur
ther. But he required no urging.
He notified Doc Horne that he was
about to call on one who prom sed
well.
As Doc put his chair alongside that
Of the dentist aid looked down the
hazy street, which was already settling
into an evening calm. a stranger of
harmless bearing and a rather limp
mustache dragged a chair toward them
and asked:
&c ntlemen, may I st with You and
enjoy this evening breeze?"
Certainly. certainly, my dear sr."
replied Doc. You are a newcomer at
the hotel?'
Yes. | am with o temporarily.
Ny wife Tnd the children have gone
into the country for a few weeks, 50 I
closed up the house and came down
here to live"
The dentist turned and looked at the
stranger Us soon as wife" was men
toned. Here was n man who had
entered that state for which the dentist
was striving. Doubtless he could give
Information.
Il should think that a married man
would find II rather lonesome around
this kind of a hotel" suggested the
dentist.
The married man turned and looked
at him as IL started. and then said
quietly: "Oh. ! don't mind it,
An three of us are bachelors sAi
the dentist.
Yes. poor. miserable bachelors
added Doc with a smile. for he alone
understood why the dentist was inter-
ested in the topic Of matrimony.
Il don't see why you should be
miserable said the married man,
shaking his head. You're just az
free as the air here. There's no one
TO find fault with anything you do.
You can come and go when you
Please. turn in when you want. eat
and drink what you like-oh. we'll.
some people never know when they're
well off"
You'd get tired OF Il soon enough.
and be more than nXiou To get bach
home said the dentist.
"Oh, well. perhaps-perhaps,' said
the married man. "Only / want to tell
YOU hat some peop'e never know
when they're well on"
Now in order that the married man
AT the Alfalfa European Hotel may
not be set up as a fair specimen Of
his kind II is well that one should
know something about his wife. Not
that she Is a fair specimen either,
but simply the kind of martyr who
would encourage a husband to seek
peace with the shaggy bachelors at
the Alfalfa.