El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-23

. would say viuiolic things 10 him that
I must have scared to the bone.
et l think my parents were truly
allacned TO each other They simply
belonged TO that large class Of people
who feel that they have right TO take
out on uheir own the nerves and tenn
per they dare not iuflict on the out
sue world and thar the freedom OF
the home circle is freedom To lay aside
their good manners with their good
clolhes. and go negligee in conduct as
well as dress
4 Thing to Avoid.
However. that may be, my first i'm
preston of matrimony was as a thing
10 be avoided, and I remember as a
small child 7 used TO think that if I
ever old marry I wouldn't get a hus-
oand VINO was as disagreeable about
the bills as my father was Then
would wonder why a man would work
himSen TO death TO support a woman
in luxury who manifested as little ap-
preclaton OF what he did as my mother
uld OF what my father gave her.
AFTER 1 was grown and began to
look around bit. I didn't see very
much 10 alter my original impression
tnal marriage IS the greatest gamble
on earth, and the one in which you
risk the most with the least prospect
Of winning the prize. Ny girl friends
married. and from time TO time I
visited them. but there was nothing in
their lots that made me want to 20
There was Susie. the daintiest. most
delicate. the most flowerlike creature
ever knew in my life. She was one
Of those girls who are all ideaIism
and dreams, almost too ethereal for
this sOrdid old world Susie married
a nice young fellow. but he proved TO
be one Of the kind of men who are
simply incapable Of money- making
After she had been married about
four years ] went to see her and she
n -s7n
wrath of a woman you ever saw. with
three or four sickly little crying chill
dren hanging to her untidy skirts. and
her shabby home looking as If a KAN
sas cyclone had passed through II.
And there was Mamie the gay
hearted, the laughing, a perpetual
spring of bubbling fun. Mamie mar
ried we'll That is she married a pros-
porous business man, and she had all
the comforts Of life. but the hard hand
OF a master that had wrung a fortune
out Of the women and children that
worked in his factory was laid with
equal heayiness on his wife and il
didn't take long to crush every bit OF
wipe the smile off her lips.
Never n Penny.
Mamie has charge accounts at all
the big stores. but she never has a
penny Of her own and last year when
her poor old mother was sick and in
borrowed few dollars from me. She
didn't dare to ask her husband for il
for fear Of the brutal insults about
her 'pauper family as he calls il, that
he would hurl at her.
And there's jamie. jamie went into
business when she finished school She
had genius for il, and went I'D in
her office by leaps and bounds until
she became assistant TO the manager
and was earning a big salary. She
gave ID her position to get married to
a man who believes that a womanfs
place is in the home. and that a wife
IS nothing but servant without wages
JAMIE works ten times as hard as
she ever did before. and twice as many
hours day cOking. scrubbing, sewing.
mendinss and she hasn't even a
cooks wages.
Jamie traded off independence and
luxury for the life OF domestic slave.
and II she doesn't think she made a
1901 bargain. I misread the look in her
eyes
of course, I know that not all mar
riages are failures I know that the
successful marriage is the nearest ap-
preach to heaven on earth that we
ever get in this world. but 7 have
asked myself, Who am I that I should
hope TO be one so blessed as 10 win
the capital prize in the great matri-
mOnial lottery"
And 10 answer forthcoming have
the throw OF the dice. That's why I
am an old maid=just sheer cowardice J
10 undertake the great adventure"