Connecticut western news., 1921-04-28
TOO MUCH ALIKE
Why Some Married Couples Are
 Not 0ver-Happy.
Chances for Domestic Felicity Great est When There ls a Marked Dis
 similarity In Character.

Two young people whom knew very we'll recently married, remarks a writer In London Answers. They had each taken distinctive degrc@ at a university, and,' to all outward appearances, were admirably suited to each other.
 Some time. after, when went to visit them In their new home, failed to see the suitability.
 do not know for certain that they bored each other-I hope not, sinca they are joined up-but, oh, how they bored mel
 The atmosphere was laden with knowledge; the eatables on the table seemed spread on a geometrical plan. Nay, the very jam looked scholastic.
 They meant to be very charming, do not doubt, and their conversation was edifying, but there was an ab- senee of jokes-poor or otherwise and lightness or gayety was nil.
 When I got outside I longed to see the wind lift the hat of the head of stout man and watch him chase 1t in vain, or something--to me-eQually funny and undignified, 90 that could laugh away the oppression caused by my visit There was bit too much like" in that wedding, l thought. She was a real sweet girl, but felt as If she ought to have married some good fellow with more love than knowledge in his composition, who would have greeted her with a good hug that would have disturbed her smoothly brushed hair, instead of the cold peck" she received. ,.
 He ought to have had a woman who would fearlessly have poked fun at him, as we'll as having spirit enough to tell him of his selflshness in taking the most comfortable chair In the room and appropriatlng the whole of the fire. True, there might have been an occasional flash fin the pan, but at least 1t would have been living and not collegiate stagnation.
 In the days when used to think I knew something remember being surprised at the choice of wife made seemed to me as though he, with all his attachments had simply thrown himself away on demure, domestic mouse @
 "What a companion for him." said to myself. "Why, she doesn't seem to have two intellectual Sideas in her headr -a That marriage proved a perfect sue cess, and learned why, for I visited them frequently.
 She just adored her clever husband, and he, coming home in the evening. often Jagged in body and brain, was glad to find thoughtful consideration and restfulness. Later, when the children came, he said, too, that they were brought up and cared for as only a true mother knows, how to do 1t.
 Once I mentioned something like the subject of this article to him. His words in reply are. think, worth repeating.
 'If I had married a brilliant or very intellectual woman I fear my club would have had more of my company. As 1t Is, turn my steps
 
 my haven of rest You see, after a day in the business arena, a man wants n change not new battle to lay down his tools. so to speak"
 once asked lady how she had managed to keep her husband still her sweetheart after so many years of marriage.
 She replied, with a merry laugh, and her eyes shone qulzzically: "John is such a big, good, serious fellow, quite my opposite, so expect it is just the spice O the devir in me that has charm for him."
 From my little gleanings and ex- periences have been brought to the conclusion that the chances of hap piness are greater where contrasts of temperament exist than when like marrles like.