The Wrangell sentinel., 1921-11-24

take the same view; Tobe is a good citizen and a moneymaker, and con- sequently he ought to be a frst-class husband. Some of the citizens who talk his way are venerable married men, and they ought to know better.
 'Of course 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. I am not the official forecaster, and I haven't my goosebone with me. but l venture to predict that the marriage will be a 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 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 slops over with sentiment. She's a 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 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 It is a tragic fact that this sort of girl seldom does get the man she ought to have. She should splice up with a half-baked poet, or a hungry artist with long hair. but there Is much irony in human lives and des- tinies, and so she usually marries man who is strong on mathematics and short on sentiment.
 That's the mistake Jemima is mak- ing. Why does she marry such a hard headed individual as Tobias? Because, like all her kind, she is a dreamer of dreams. and she has given him attri- butes which don't belong to him. She has framed up a character for him, and 1t isn't a 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 sentimental girl; if she happens to marry a 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 a hundred. she loses her grip as soon as she finds that her dreams were all moonshine, and then she develops in to 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-"