Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-03

N. \. newspapers have been
running a serious of articles
lately on marriage and wheth-
er it's a success or vice versa and
every day they been printing letters
that was sent in to them by husbands
and wifes stateing their views on the
case and the editors seems to think
they should be the people that should
ought to know, but as far as l been
able to make out from their letters
the game will go into extra innings
and they will finely half to call it off
on acct. of darkness. 1t looks like
what the papers calls hung jury and
it should be.
Most of the letters seems to be of
the female persuasion. and they's been
very few of them where the ladies,
God bless them, has give themse1f the
worst of it. If their marriage has
been a success it was their own fault
and if it's been a failure the credit
goes to Gee. That is with few ex-
ceptionS The other day for inst. they
was a woman wrote in and owned up
that her hymeneal nuptials haze
Hopped but maybe she was to blame.
That was in the 1st paragraph. The
rest of the letter give her husband a
pasteing as they say. but at lease it
shows that some woman can be fair
minded even If it's only for one para
graph.
The trouble with the discussion and
why it amt libel to get us nowheres
is on acct of the big majority of the
letters ~comeing from people that has
only been married one time. What
can they know about it? Its lust like
you was to go to bird that had shot
one round of golf in his whole life
and ask him how to hit the ball in
order to get. back spin. The only
husbands and wifes that has got a L.
-cense to talk on the subject is the
ones that is habitual brides and
grcomS and has made a practice of
tying the conjugial slipknot. l got
a friend of mine that is now running
his 5th relay and ought to know what
he is talking about, so the other night
asked him to give me his frank
opinion on the subject, thinking my
host of readers would be interested,
and here is what he had to say in part.
-Four marriages out of five, or in
other words 80 per cent is a bowling
success. The other 20 per cent is a
fiasco of the 1st. water. I am at
present in the midst of one of the last
named. but as the successes. is more
p1easanter to talk about than the
busts. l will start in on the former.
The 1st. gal ! married was the
daughter of wealthy real estate man
name Ella. The old man give her a
check for $4,000 for a wedding pres
emit and as we was waiting for the
train to take us to the Falls, got her
to indorse the check on the grounds
that maybe we would run short on
the trip and half to get one of the
porters to cash the check. Well, we
got to the Falls and set there looking
at them for about a " mr., and finely
hny hn cd CHI
said her it. hurt her in her going
away shoes and besides if they was
pleasure to be got out of stareing all
day at bunch of running water why
not do it in comfort by going back to
the hotel and go in the bath room and
turn on all the faucets. She said that
as far as she was concerned Niagara
was cheese. So l told her that OF
course they wasn't no sport in just
setting there and gapeing at it. but
the real fun was to rent empty Dbl
somewheres and get inside it and leave
the stopper out so as some air could
get in and shoot the Falls. So she
liked the idear and we engaged Dbl
by the hr. and come to find out they
wasn't room enough in it for the z
would flip coin and if it come heads
she was to go LIST. and Tipped coin
and sure enough it come heads.
II sunk the $4,000 in some highly
recommended investments up to Sara
toga that promised fair yield, but
one of them was facing the other
way when they sprang the barrier
and the other one win but was dis
qualified because the jockey got con-
fused and used his whip on another
horse that he didn't happen to be ride
ing that day, but they looked a whole
lot alike.
i THE next gal I married was name
Claire and she didn't have no dowry