Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-04-07

then for an hour or so to enjoy an
uninterrupted cigar, to chat with an
old friend he has Unexpectedly en-
countered, and whom he does not
care to introduce to his young wife,
or, last but not least, to stretch his
legs for a five-mile tramp. He is quite
sure his absence is a relief to his
dearie, who is doing her best to get
over the shyness and newness of see-
ing a mar constantly lounging about
her boudoir. He believes she may
want to do an hours shopping or
spend that much time with the hair
dresser, Or on the piazza chatting
with newly-made woman %acquaint-
ance. But alack and alas, what mere
man can understand the heart OF a
bride or gauge the depth Of folly she
may fall into If perchance a fit OF lone
Illness seizes her? If hubby remains
away a moment longer than the time
he has set to return, the fear seizes
her that he might be wearying Of
her, perhaps.
In her walks or drives with hubby
she could not help but notice how
many fortune-telling places there were
on almost every street, even II he had
not called Ler attention to the fact by
commenting on 1t.
She certainly needs her hair curled
and her dainty fingers manicured, but
despite that need she HES herself to
the nearest seeress' place she ear
find to learn the secret thoughts Of
her bridegroon's heart. The willy
fortune teller does not need to be
told, she sees at first glance that the
young visitor before her, with splck
and span new toggery from head to
foot, is a bride. She is quite prepared
for the faltering query; 81 am great
ly in love with a-a-gentleman, and
I want tc know il his love for me is
is-waning. That is, If he does not
love me as much as he thought he
did, etc. OF course the clever seeress
tells the young visitor a wonder for
tune, that the gentleman she loves has
just been welded, and to a girl he
fairly adores; that there was another
girl fairly beside herself with rage be-
cause she could not win him-an old
sweetheart Of his-but for whom he
does not care a snap of his finger.
Her tongue runs on glibly until she
thinks she has told quite two dollars
worth. The bride returns to her hotel
fairly radiant with joy-her doubts
all put to rout.
Young girls at the seaside may Wis
1t the fortune teller in groups Just for
a jolly lark, but they attach no i'm
portance to her prophecies, what she
tells them goes in one ear and out of
the other, fading out of their minds
as quickly as a laugh ends on their
lips. They do not take the seeress
seriously as the bride does, they
have no secret worries that they must
have probed. The maid or the widow
will haggle over her price; the bride
will willingly pay any amount in rea-
o to be assured that hubby is de-
lighted with her, and that his love
will always be hers, strong, true and
unchanging.
1t is an actual fact that many a
bride will go the rounds OF all the
fortune tellers in the place to make
sure there has been no mistake made
as to her hubby's being entirely salts
fled with his martial bargain, though
they had been self-conscious, and
certain or their sway ;ver his heart
before marriage. Their visits to for
tune tellers is a secret many a bride
will Eve divulge iL the after years.
She realizes her fcolishness and is
ashamed Of 1t. She always hopes
from the depths Of her heart that hub
by will never find it cut.