The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-27

e. e. sla.sh. Shoemaker
the experience dsllusoned
who hoped gay into her first matrimonial venture,
with her head in the Clouds and brought down earth
the divorce courts by sorrowu realization Of the fact that
poetic fancy thing and the realities Of life quite
another.
She now writes:
II know that you whom love to-day,
Will time pass of my
What awful thing sayl Surely this prophetic
couplet drawn experiences with
She through saying
"An this Joy and laughterhis love which lights heart
will be mort"
significant cleancut straight
entirely
replaced by better based
fortunate matrimonial experience?
What other explanation discouragng
statement ths-that all the laughter
lighted her heart will pass away? ~.
thinking about was her
first marriage, when she wrote:
" glory dream, sladness Of
Ing lips, cannot last forever? r..
And the bride ends her dolefu with this
consulate sanza:
81 know that day I shall Alone
Looking with that cannot weep
Upon the future desolate"
Here then We have from the two utterly differ
points marriage One is the glorious
fight poetic Imagination been disi
usoned The other plainly the sophisticated
who had her dream shattered
experience that you whom love to-day win time
Yes, she undoubtedly had learned something
If she had read the warnings of Ella and
Beatrice Fairfax and Elinor Gn and other analytical
Of the human heart she would
she did in her first courtship and marriage
there is thing which these experts "Why
bands Leave Home" that the wife
much of cinging vine. Of these
standard authorities love she would have learned that
peculiar animal and does f up
honey-t makes him seasck.
The fatal mistake learned to
ton and 1of
your heart sleeve This agreement of all
the experts, fatal to masculine love.
And is right here that the made mistake
her first love Right after her marriage
with book of dedicated On
dedication is this:
TO NY HUSBAND
Thought fowrs bring thee woven of nv heart
And dear lay them wholly at thy feet
Hoping that thou wilt find their fragrance sweet
Since all these songs are Of our Love a part!
Very few men stand of this kind Elnor Gyn
and the late Ella Wheeler Wilcox say no mans aec
ton could possibly be retained telling that the wife had
laid her heart wholly thy feet is to make
the husband lay his heart pocketbook as
possible wholly the wfes only safe way to
play the game, they insist.
In this book tendery dedicated Alfred her first
husband is this:
soUL.swEerNEss
What do love him His lustrous eyes
or mirrored seachange deep yonder wave;
Or yet the wonder Of his spirits rise
When laughter him reflection grave?
Or is 1t for the tender suppiant way
He has in seeking close day
To put his head breast and say
thousand times he loves me? Is it for
His ardent lips gentle hands caress
Or yet his midnight locks that adore?
Not for these charms love him-nor not less
Were he to lack them: worship more
The InnerBeing In its loneliness!
why she adored hubby
one-t Afreds Being she
worshpped But what happened that lovely
Alfred which turned to be lovely lovesk
bride had supposed 1t was?
And another thing. What awful mistake was for the
bride have artist paint portrait carving
of her husband the bark woodland does
enough in the and the does not
well real life Husbands sort of
schoolgirl sentimentality.
considering all the facts suppose
shat Blanche had learned good deal from her marriage
She have looked back regreuy those loving
first husband realized
lot