The Washington herald., 1918-05-22

The other day the papers told about
young woman who was out riding
with a young man to whom she was
engaged. The horse shied at a paper
in the road, and that made the young
man angry, and springing from the
| buggy ne seized stick and beat the
animal numerically.
whereupon. being an intelligent
young person who could read signs
when she saw them, the girl imme-
diately broke her engagement, de-
claring that she knew that man
who would beat horse that way
would beat a woman as soon as she
was his wife and in his power.
This incident is interesting because
| it shows that at least one woman has
enough sense to take a hint when 1t
is given to her, and thus save herself
, from trouble. 1t is also illuminating
because it calls attention to the stupid
| ity of most Of us, who blindly shut
our eyes and go stumbling on into
misery when there are plenty OF dan
ger signals posted all along the road
of life if we would only bother TO take
note of them.
| ohc VI lHt CANusCo hilab
people make for matrimonial blund-
ers is that they were deceived. and did
not know the real disposition and
character of the individual they were
marrying, or else, Heaven knows.
they would never have been fools
enough to have united themselves to
ones they did.
To say this is to admit that we are
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ties of an idiot, and yet it is only too
true. We do marry people who have
] the most Objectionable characteristics,
without so much as suspecting them.
when all the time we might have seen
their faults, IL only we had used the
slightest detective ability.
| Not many people are clever enough.
or designing enough to hide their real
natures. and pretend to be something
| that they are not. They couldn't
take US in II they tried. And they
don't try. 1t is we who deceive our
selves simply because we don't use
enough penetration and common sense
TO argue out what certain signs must
inevitably portend.
No man, for instance. would marry
bossy woman who will henpeck him
all the days Of his life, il he knew 1t
beforehand. Yet he will see a girl
who has got her family under her
thumb. who runs her home, and
doesn't let her little sister come into
| the parlor, or her father smoke a
pipe, without once perceiving that she
will extend to her husband the tyranny
she has always practiced over her
own people. 1t is his fate calling out
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megaphone. He hears the noise but he
doesn't take the trouble to investigate
its meaning.
Nor would any man deliberately
marry a shrewish woman with a red
headed temper, and a double action
tongue, If he was aware of 1t in
time to sidestep the altar. Yet a
man will observe that a girl is nery-
Gus, with thin lips. and quiverins
nostrils, and that she has the facility
for saying sharp things, and is easily
"riled" If things don't go exactly her
way. Nature itself has hung out the
red light danger signal in the hectic
flush that comes with the slightes,
excitement in such a woman's cheeks
but the poor. blind bat of a man
never stops for It. He rushes righ,
along into marriage that is a per.
petua1 battlefront.
| No man would marry an extrava.
CANT woman IL he was aware that
the lady he was getting for a wife
would be first aid to bankruptcy
Yet when he sees the pretty daugh.
ter of poor family dressed as II
she were a millionairess he never re.
fleets that when such a woman 1.
married she will keep her husbands
nose to the srindstone to supply hel
with the luxuries she Graves and i.