The Topeka state journal., 1919-06-21
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weddin's and brides and May bios
SONS, and birds nestin', and the sweet
smells of spring, it makes a body
think about romance, and there amt
nobody too old to do 1t.
Sometimes 1 wisht that young folks
would keep on a romancin'. just SOS
they don't lose sight of the practical
side of matrimony. For when all's
said and done. marriage is a bust
ness, just like sellin' groceries and
writin' insurance, and defendin' liti-
gants, an buryin' the dead, and mar
ryin' the Twin, and preachin the gos-
pei o fire an birthstone, and all sich
like. And didn't no business partner
ship ever prosper unless both parties
to the contract was willin to make
concessions and try to get used to the
peculiarities of the other.
For we've all got those peculiarities,
and there amt no gettin' around
that. Don't you young girls think that
Just because HE says you are perfect.
that it's so. or that he's a 'goin' to
think 1t after he gets to eatin your
cookin' and payin' your bills. And
don't you go to gettin' it into your
head, neither, that he don't love you
no more the first time he forgets to
kiss you goodbye, or the first time he
puts the biscuits to one side and asks
you to please pass the bakers bread.
Every bride that ever lived thinks
that it's goin' to be different in her
case; she tells herself that she amt
pens to be late to meal. and that she
ain't+never goin' to get careless about
wearin' her hair in curl papers before
him; that she's a goin' to always be
playin' something soft and soothing
on the piano when he comes In, wore
out with his labors. and all that kind
Of thing. She don't figger that the
queen will be in the pantry. or in the
garden hangin' out the clothes, or
wherever the Mother Goose Queen was
or did.
But, la. the chances are that she'll
blood to buy for her, or sippin' Ice
cream sody down town in a drugstore
with some of her set, an that he'll
have to rummage in the refrigerator
for some leftover from the da ay-be-
fore sardines. in place of the porter
house steak the maid would a been
preparin' If thered been a maid,
which most likely they won't be.
But even IL there amt no car, nor
no ice-cream sody. nor no curl papers,
nor no sardines, nor nothin' of that
sort to annoy, more than likely he'll
make SO much noise when he blows
his nose that it'll get on her nerves.
Or mebbe he may drink his soup from
the end of his spoon. or tuck his nap
kin in his neck, or butter a whole
since o Drea0 at Oncet, or 90 some
thin that'H make her wonder why she
married him.
Or mebbe he'll look at the grease
spot on the front of her wrapper, or
the lines of ill-humor around her
mouth, and wonder the same thing.
Mebbe she'll have habit of tappin'
her foot when she's annoyed that'll
nearly drive him to drink; or she may
chew her finger nails, or use a tooth
pick in public. You can't never tell
nothin' about the mental processes of
a man and a woman, oncet the long.
slow march down the church aisle,
and the fragrance of the orange bios
SONS belong to the past.
So the sensible thing to DO Is to take
| a side-wise squint at matrimony from
ally angles,-only don't no young thing
that ever lived do it. bless 'em.
However. il all of 'em would just
| go into the real business of maxim a
| home together, with absolute integrity
| on both sides, bein' willin' to play fair
| to share the burdens that come along
| like good partners. each one tryin' to
/ lift, it'd make the way easier. and
| there wouldn't be so many divorces
It mebbe amt becomin' for a woman
/ that frankly admits she could a. vo.ed
when We women folks first had the
/ ballot in Kansas, to drop into poetry
/ but these lines. which fell in my way
when 1 needed them most. just gives
my idee about home-and after all
it's home that counts: nebbe it don''
seem relevant to what I've been sayin'
but you can't think about weddin
marches. without foiiowin' it up with