The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-13

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A MANS THOUGHTS OF
MARRIAGE

I
day.
What a long time ago 1t seems!
But Dicks reference to our we'd
ding day made me wish to refresh
my memory. l wanted again to
see what | really thought Of it all.
Little book. l read a long way
in fact l spent most of the daJ
in looking over the volumes In
which l have written down not
only my confessions but the an
nails OF my family and friends.
And now it Is all over. Nov
that part Of my life Is finished. l
almost feel that in a very little
while all that is interesting in M
life will be over and even you,
lttle book, will not be interested
in my everyday life. But / must
keep on telling you for a little
while about Dick and Dick baby
for this manuscript Dick has left
me shows that he, too. had very
distinct ideas of married life when
he stopped to think.
Wasn't 1t dear of him TO think
of telling me of all this?
IL he had not written il to ne
l would never have known tina.
perhaps he thought as much
about marriage as l did and
don't mind confessing to you that
some Of Dicks manuscript is not
very flattering to me.
Dear Dick, he has been honest
and that is splendid of him, for {
thing of this kind can have only
one merit and that is absolute
and honest sincerity not only OF
mind, but Of purpose.
In his manuscript Dick says:
do you know, Margie, when j
had my first disappointment In
you?
Don't shudder, dearest. | was
perhaps more to blame than yoI.
but | wonder if every man has
rude awakening after marriage
and il it always does come AZ
early as mine did.
You remember, dearest, that
beautiful ride right before our
wedding. You were SO sweet. ]
think l have told you it was the
passionate apex of my sell.sn
happiness. You wanted to be-
long, you told me. Poor child,
you did not know what you we;c
saying, but |, in my arrogance a;
a eonquering and possessing male,
believed you,
Then came the morning on tle
sleeping car when | compared you
with all the other women in the
cold gray morning after no.
or less sleepless night in a bert 1.
I saw that you were like a great
big baby in your fresh beauty he
side the worn and wrinkled wom-
en- who followed you to the dress
ing room.
1T was perhaps provident.al
that there were no other brides in
the car, Margie, and that could
only compare you with the much
older women who were travelin5
at that time.
Il did not stop to think that
you and | would grow old, | only
knew that my wife was the pref
test woman to be seen in the car
and was prop6rtionately happy.
Il was superstitious enough to
believe you brought me luck in
Buffalo, when l got that school
contract with so little trouble. and
wife O. mine, you were perfectly
adorable that day at the Falls
when we forgot everything except
this wonderful, wonderful woria.
and that we were alive to enjoy it.
TOO bad, isn't 1t, Margie thai
so many times since then we both
forgot that the world was won
derful? Too bad that now when
I can see that the path of life ends
in a mist that covers up every
thing beyond, I realize its Won
ders more than ever. Too ba !
that we cannot always understand
what is so oft on our lips, time
is fleeting,' until 1t has fled. Some
times l think that 1t is only AZ
the door of eternity that we real.
ize the time we have wasted IL
pursuit of non-essential things.
II still remember how you look
ed that morning at the Falls as
you sat close and trembling be-
side me as we went down tee
gorge. 90 not believe that I
ever after had that sense of pos
session that l had then"
ITO Be Continued.)