Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-05-19


take the same view; lobe is a good
citizen and a moneymaker, and con-
sequently he ought to be a first-class
husband. Some of the citizens who
talk his way are venerable married
men, and they ought to know better.
"Of course a woman likes to have
plenty of money, and unlimited credit
at the stores, but the man isn't proper
ly educated who assumes that she will
be satisfied with that. / am not the
official forecaster, and I haven't my
gOoSebone with me, but | venture to
predict that the marriage will be
dismal failure. Tobias, with all his
excellent qualities, is the most close
mouthed man in town, and if he ever
had an emotion he probably took it
for a chill, and began doping himself
with quinine. There's as much senti-
ment in a concrete hitching post as
there is in that man.
"Jemima, on the other hand, fairly
Stops over with sentiment. She's d
languishing sort of girl, who looks up-
on herself as vine, and will want her
husband to be a sturdy oak, so she
can wind herself around him, as it
were. She will expect Tobias to tell
her, four thousand times a day, how
much he loves her; and every time he
takes a chair she will climb on his
knees and push her topknot into his
face, and expect him to assure her in
burning language that he simply
couldn't live five minutes without her.
when that sort of a girl gets the
right husband, my friends, she is an
excellent wife. She would make any
sacrifice for him. She wouldn't care
a picayune about the size of his bank
account. She'd be perfectly willing
to live under a bridge with him, and
wear burlap gown, if he'd only keep
on telling her that she is the entire
solar system where he is concerned.
1t is a tragic fact that this sort of
girl seldom does get the man she
ought to have. She should splice up
with half-baked poet, or a hungry
artist with long hair but there is
much irony in human lives and des-
TIMES, and so she usually marries
man who is strong on mathematics
and short on sentiment.
THAT'S the mistake Jemima is max
ing. Why does she marry such a hard
headed individual as Tobias? Because,
like all her kind, she is a dreamer of
1rnap1S on1 hn hos ryivn or Yi-
buteS which don't belong to him. She
has framed up a character for him,
and it isn't bit like the real goods.
When she has been married little
while she will see that her blueprints
and specifications were all wrong, and
the disappointment will make an old
woman of her, and her temper will
become warped and she'll be so dis
agreeable in every way that her hus-
band will spend most of his time
thinking up excuses for staying away
from home.
That's the way with a sentimental
girl; if she happens to marry man
who appreciates the poetry of her
nature, she is the best thing that ever
happened. She looks young when she
is seventy years old, and her whole
career is one long basket picnic. But
If she marries the wrong man, which
she does in ninety-nine cases out of
hundred, she loses her grip as soon
as she finds that her dreams were all
moonshine, and then she develops in
to a shrew.
"Why does Tobias marry Jemima?
That's the real problem. He's so clear
sighted in most things he should be
able to see that she isn't the wife he
needs, but men have blind staggers
When they think they are in love-"