The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-01-21

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as soon as I begin to read, and my
wife comes and tells me my snoring is
disturbing the nPiChbOrs."
ITS that way with everything We
look forward to-" observed the hotel.
keeper, sadly "Man always will be,
but is never hlest. MS some half.hnkcd
poet remarked Young Gouseworthy
wis in here last evening, huhhiing over
with happiness There wasn't any
body around. 80 he took me into his
confidence. He's going 10 marry
GwpndOlin Jimalong. next month. and
he's perfectly satisfied that his mar
ried life will be one long stretch Of
sunshine. He seems to have the idea
inal when he gets married bur the
Idea isn't new. Men have been getting
married ever since Christopher dis
covered Columbus. Ohio. and every
doGgone man Jack OF them Ind the
idea that everlasting bliss was going
TO be Inaugurated on the wedding day.
'T listened 10 Gooseworthy for three
hours, and hadn't the heart to say
anything that would dampen his en-.
thuslasm. His twtttering recalled the
long vanished days when ! was get
ting ready to be married. ] felt about
II then Just as he does nov. thought
the parson opened the gates of para
disc when he Joined two loving hearts.
NJ t,,tf l,+nI 20 olI hn nlonu and
specifications, and was and Is one q
the best women In the United States,
hut hadn't been married three
months before I had a sneaking con
viction that the man who gets married
Ia chump.
"A good many optimIsts say that a
married man doesn't need any more
money than single one, II he marries
the right sort Of woman, but they
might as well go to the blackboard
and demonstrate that two and two
make two, instead or four, fell for
that cheerful theory when | wnS mar
ricd ! WINS earning enough to keen
myself comfortably. and never had
any financial worries. 7 could have
been buried for less money than II
took to be married. and the expenses
from that time forward were double
what they used to be, although my
wife was 80 economical she used 10
make waists and such things for her
self out of my superannuated shirts.
ooh, dOggOnc 1t. there isn't any un.
adulterated happiness in matrimony, |
wonder that young fellows like Goose
worthy don't look around them, and
contemplate the detected appearance
of the majority of husbands. But even
II they did. It wouldn't do them any
good, | suppose. for they are full OF
pipe dreams and they think the girls
they are going to marry are different
from all other girls. and that they viii
prove exceptions to the general rule,
81 had a wise old uncle In those hal.
cyon days and about week before
the wedding day, he backed me into n
corner and handed me a dust-prOOf
package Of wisdom. He tried to lead
me into taking sensible view Of the
future ne lHihtl hDOul lIIt 'hI'N hiu
responsibilities that would he mine
after the wedding, end wanted to
know II I felt equal to them. He tried !
to show me that I wasn't going to
marry an angel. but a human being |
like myself, with human beings !
faults and frailtles. ,...as I
81 let him get that far, and then ] /
told him that his gray hairs alone !
saved him from having his head re-
and said never wanted him !
to darken my door, and he never did. /
I had to darken it myself, with wal
nut stain. But many a time after
ward, recalled his wise words and