Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-13
INTERESTS AND PROBLEMSF
The Honeymoon
House
BY Hazel Dale
janet and Jarvis Are Married and the


Bride Exacts a Promise
Someone had told Janet long before
she had met Jarvis that there was
nothing at oil in marriage, and Janet
had never forgotten it.
MY dear" said this careless
thoroughly disillusioned person, cruelty
marriage is only a state of mind after
all, and the funniest marriages arc
those made through love-"
Don't you believe in lover" Janet
had asked.
Yes, after fashion. I believe that
a man becomes infatuated with a wo-
man to the point where he cannot live
without her and he marries her. After
wards he wonders why he happened to
be in such hurry"
"And what about the woman?" Janet
had asked.
We'll women are all fools, they are
seeking for the divine romance which
does not exist. They forget that men
are human, and marry for an ideal and
discover when 1t is too late that the
ideal never existed at ALL"
Janet had always had plenty of at
tention. She had that subtle thing about
her known as charm, and she had been
told by this same friend that her life
was destined to be hurt because of this
fact. Janet had gone to college, she had
thoroughly sane outlook on life, but
she had never been in love.
Her little flareups had been desperate
love affairs while they lasted; but how
And then she had met Jarvis, and every
thing in the world hade been revealed
to her in binding flash of emotion.
A Strange Happening
they had vanished into smoke!
She never knew just how 1t had hap
pened, but she understood everything.
She loved desperately, completely, a lit
lie seltishly perhaps. but all youth is
selfish, and Jarvis, keenly clever, ro-
nance hungry, loved Janet. He loved
her deeply, tenderly and hungrily, as
every man loves, and this was the basis
of their marriage.
Janet never did things by halves, and
when Jarvis asked why they must wait
for wedding, she looked at him, her
eyes a little heavy lidded, and said de-
"Yes-why?"
Janet was always original. She had
the. faculty of investing trifies with her
personality, so that to know her was an
Jarvis in his first knowledge
of her was not himself, for Janet dis
tracted him with her manner and her
way of speaking. and blinded him with
her surrender. All this is necessary to
tell in order to show that this record of
the lives of two people must of neces-
sity be different.
The night before they were married,
Janet said softly:
Jarvis, think that we are going to
be different from most people. Do you
know why? l have tried to think over
every couple I know, and there is al
ways something wrong somewhere.
Some women don't love their husbands
the way 1 love you. Some men love
their wives only after fashion. You
love me Jarvis, just as I always knew
the man l married would have to love
me-.
Jarvis jaw hardened a little under
the stress of hiding his feeling, but he
said nothing, only crushed the soft
fingers in his own and waited.
jarvis" Janets voice went on, "the
man who didn't love me enough could
never hold me-" And Jarvis put this
remark away in the treasure house of
his memory along with the saying that
he had heard once and never forgot
ten. "A woman can forgive a man
save lack of love for her."
The two things were very much the
same and with girl like Janet they
were worth remembering.
So They Were Married
And so they were married. Married
IN church with dimly lighted
chapel, with just Jarvis's white haired
father, and Janet's own dear ones pres
ent. Janets mother tried not to be
disappointed because Janet hadn't want
ed wedding, and her thoughts would
'un to white satin and orange bios
SONS when she glanced at Janet's smart
travelling suit, but when the girl turn
I'd from the altar and lifted her lips
% her husbands, Mrs. Carew looked
lway quickly as though she had tres
passed upon something holy.
There had been a minute alone to-
sether in the dusty old vestry when
Iarvis's slender slnewy fingers closed
iercely on Janet's shoulders. and her
arms had swept about his neck. Just a
moment when she had whispered:
IT'S forever
And Jarvis had kissed her wet eyes
md had responded hotly.
Forever is going to be too short"
And Just as marriage in the old
ime stories ended the trials of the
heroine, so does it in the newer tales
'egin with the most important part, the
ife building.
(Watch for the next instaIment of
his refreahluE HerIes-vnu cau,x hale