The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-09
A Rosary of Affection

HH0( KNOW something that you adore to know" chuckled the girl as she met her friend on the street corner downtown, both wait ing for a car to take them to their des- tination.
 Then why don't you tell me the other observed curious1y
 It's about a friend of ours" said the first speaker.
 ''Of course. or we wouldn't be inter- ested," replied the othes.
 It's so funny. I'm going to tell you without further barley" said the first speaker, and proceeded Its about Mary Wells. She has written to some woman magazine where they give Beatrice Beeswax advice to the love- lorn,' and she asked them to tell her how to treat her husband. whom she declares seems to have grown indiffer- ent and quite regardless of her these last few months.
 This little goose,9 exclaimed the second speaker. Let me see; how long have they been married?"
 Four years" said the first speaker. Why"
 "Oh, nothing said the other and be- gan to mentally figure up things.
 Mary Wells showed me the letter she sent to the Magazine" said speaker Number One, and in it she said that although Jack had never mistreated her. or struck her, or done anything fragrant or really violent, and although he had given her all the lovely clothes that she wanted and a beautiful home and scores of servants and loads of pin money and all sorts of beautiful jew elry, yet somehow he didn't. seem to be as infatuated with her as he was be- fore their marriage and she wanted to know what they thought about the situation and please to advise her what to do"
 That looks very much to me like somebody is hunting for trouble with q vengeance" observed the other. You know the old bromidisn. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you l wish I was the Editor of that junk that gives Advice to the lovelorn,' for. believe me, if I were Mary Wells would be knocked clear o.f of the track by a communication that l would sent her, and you can depend upon that
 What would your advice be-" she asked, interestedly.
 Why, l should write post haste to The Young Wife q know she signed her letter that way-they always dol that she was not a person to be pitied
 
 The whole trouble with her life is-not a lack of affection on her husbands s part but that it is too easy. If she didnt have clothes enough, she might have to worry over that, and, of course her mind would be occupied some of the time; if she didn't have servants a plenty she might be busy baking and scrubbng and dusting, so that she wouldn't be measuring her husbands caresses and kisses by those he used to give her Even if he were the kind of man who gets mad and blows the roof off the house occasionally, she would be occupied. because shed be trying to ward off these spells and keep him in a god humor As it is, she leads the life of the idle rich woman and so having nothing better to do must berate her husband for lack of affection
 Who is it that said that mans af- lection is like an elevator-always so- ing up or down came the question.
 T don't know" relpied she and while I wouldn't put it exactly that way, it's true in sense, because mans affection really does recede and flow like the tide. And that is as it should be. Which one of us could stand the strain of being upon the crest of the wave all the time? We need the going down to make the rising full of exhilaration and merely because man doesn't write Valentine verses to his wife in August she should not assume that his affection for her is any the