The Natchitoches enterprise., 1922-04-27


as soon as 1 begin to read, and m!
wife comes and tells me my snoring Il
disturbing the neighbors."
'Tt's that way with everything VIZ
look forward to-" observed the hotel
keeper, sadly. "Man always will be
but is never blest, as some half-bakeG
poet remarked. Young GoOseworthy
was in here last evening, bubbling over
with happiness. There wasn't any.
body around, so he took me into his
confidence. He's going to marry
GwendOlin 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
that he's going to do something orig
inal when he gets married, but the
idea isn't new. Men have been getting
married ever since Christopher dis
covered Columbus, Ohio, and every
doggone man Jack Of them had the
idea that everlasting bliss was going
to be inaugurated on the wedding day.
II listened to Gooseworthy for three
hours. and hadn't the heart to say
anything that would dampen his en-
thusiasm. His twittering recalled the
long vanished days when l was get
ting ready to be married. felt about
1t then just as he does now. thought
the parsan opened the gates OF para
disc when he joined two loving hearts.
My wife lived up to all the plans and
specifications. and was and is one Of
the best women in the United States,
but hadn't been married three
months before I had a sneaking con-
viction that the man who gets married
is chump.
"A good many optimists say that a
married man doesn't need any more
money than single one, if 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 OF four. I fell for
that cheerful theory when I was mar
ried. I was earning enough to keep
myself comfortably, and never had
any financial worries. I could have
been buried for less money than 1t
took to be married, and the expenses
from that time forward were double |
what they used to be, although my |
wife was SO economical she used to
make waists and such things for her
self out of my superannuated shirts.
"Oh, doggone It, there isn't any un.
happiness in matrimony. I
wonder that young fellows like Goose
worthy don't look around them, and
the detected appearance
of the majority Of husbands But even
L they did, 1t wouldn't do them any
good, suppose, for they are full Of
,ipe dreams, and they think the girls
hey are going to marry are different
rom all other girls, and that they will
,rove exceptions to the general rule.
Il had wise old uncle in those hal
'yon days, and about week before
he wedding day, he backed me into a
orner and handed me a dust-proof
'ackage of wisdom. He tried to lead
ne into taking a sensible view Of the ,
uture. He talked about the cares and 8
that would be mine =
fter the wedding, and wanted to 8
now if felt equal to them. He tried
0 show me that I wasn't going to 6
1arry an angel, but q human being :
Ike myself, with a human beings
aults and frailties. +
Il let him get that far, and then h
Did him that his gray hairs alone r.
aved him from having his head re- h
lOdeled, and said 1 never wanted him q
darken my door, and he never did. o
had to darken 1t myself, with wal Il
ut stain. But many a time after.
ard, recalled his wise words and
ont