Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-24


aiQhs ~ be made love too as men do il 30
novels and on the stage. nud n"vor d. n
real life.
Pooh Nonsense AZ long ~ mar
hasn't anything " BE- jealous of excapt p
film, he's m luck There - no darge ~
that breaking up his happy home II nnly
he has aeuse enough 10 realize that the
Elrl ndmigalion for this stage hero, whom
ahe has never secn IL tho flesh and probe
bly never will Hpe is just little rptnsatlc
fneringuc % the lemon pic III life -hn rTi-
Joys just n bit ~ a. ngw and then. but she
doesn't want IL for a steady diet, aHd shc
no more dssres really ~ marry The man
than Rhe would toiive on pastry. It's
roast beef, and potatoes. and p good,
steady fellow with artib 1Ose. and nj roll
70 biH eyes that o woman wants ior regular
consumption
hs a matter of fact, every husband ard
wife in the world has ono Of thesa imagi-
nnry rivals Sometimes IL is n hrro n :
book Sometimes il Is an ncfor ~ au
actress Ge4erally it is no one particular
person. II is yIst the man or wptne1 vic
didn't marry. and who lu 80 different from
the ono we did marry
With the man, the woman he did rp'
marry r always young and beautiful
When he looks arr0es the table ~ tbr
woman he did marry and pororives her
fat, and grizzle haired with saggmg
cheeks, and triple chins be- thinks haw
different she il from that Other One vino
would have iho glory of eternal r1'fh
and beauty about her
And the woman he did not marry would
have bcru sarnc snrf ~ rjrffic worker
whn would ncvor havn bothered h.n
about moro9 She would 3 - pre- dot
over q house Tint wae alw4.e apos and
span, N which there we're psr5r~i nen
ard plenty of heat nnd ghf aud wcll
trained servants. but there would have
been no bills 70 bother him and m deadlv
VIII you leave ne s0rnc Tnorrv for tha
children shoes and the lGundrrse and ~
pay my mllmer1 shot acrosg the break
fast table IN r11'n ms day for him
And the woman hr didn marry vould
have boon q swcefly reasonable creature
who would always greet him with a 0iad
sweet srnlie when he car0r hofro ~ three
q " and told him how glad zhe wns that
he took n little diversion with tne boys
And she would knovy that bera'Isr mar
Is married eioesn afiict MIN w1t = any kind
of sstigmatism thar prevents hirn frnm
taking note of pretty fare or n frirn
ankle. that happened 20 drlst across biz
mania about having 3 man show mp on
tlrne Of an evening nor would she be filed
with deep dark siIEpiclous of every giri
who IA half her age and weight ~ whom
her husband looks. as the wife If his
bosom
4 beautiful and Iissorne yoluE creature
who ia never sick. yho has 10 nerves or
temper who WAS horn with permanent
wave ~ her hair with Paris clothes grow
ing on her back ike feathers on peacock
and who ran live on air. that IL 3 man s
mental picture Of the woman he dldn .
marry, and that il the deadly rival With
whom he y always comparing his v f. Ia
Lls thoughts
Of course he knows that no sIcn person
exists but all the same. she II kind ~
consolation % turn % when the real wife
calls him % book, and grows hard TO i've
with
The man a woman didE : NARY j the
perfect lover He would have wooed ana
won her in romantic situations, and talked
seutiment % her IN poetic language, ana
popped the question 70 her b q irenzled
a-tDurst Of passion which thrilled her to
remember 70 the last day oi her life IL
would never have said. Gee Mary, but In
strong for you What do Won say to ou r
getting tied up in double harness as did
the nan she married.
And the man she didn { marry would
never have wearled ot talking sentiment
u her He would have continued ; Sis-