The log cabin Democrat., 1916-03-28


 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 sec ing man constantly lounging about her boudoir. He believes she may want ito 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 bride CT gauge the depth of folly she may fall into if perchance a fit of lone- liness 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 if he had not called Ter attention to the fact by commenting on it.
 She certainly needs her hair curled and her dainty fingers manicured. but despite that need she hies herself to the nearest seeress' place she can find to learn the secret thoughts of her bridegroom's heart. The willy fortune teller does not need to be tcld, she sees at first glance that the young visitor before her, with spick and span new toggery from head to foot, is bride. She is quite prepared for the faltering query: q am great ly in love with a-a-gentleman, and l want to know if 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 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 it 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 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 req son to be assured that hubby is de lighted with her, and that his love will always be hers, strong, true and unchanging
 It 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 satis- lied with his martial bargain, though they had been self-conscious, and certain of their sway over his heart before marriage, Their visits to for. tune tellers is a secret many 8 bride will never divulge in the after years. She realizes her foolishness and is ashamed of it. She always hopes from the depths of her heart that hub by will never find it out.