The Natchitoches enterprise., 1922-02-23

way. S,tt SltSIJ
as soon as I begin to read, and nv
wife comes and tells me my snoring is
disturbing the neighbOrs.'
cts that way with everything we
keeper. sadly. "AJan always Will be,
but is never best, as some half-baked
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
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 I was get
ting ready to be married. l felt about
1t then just as he does now. I thought
the parsOn 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 1 hadn't been married three
months before I had sneaking con-
viction that the man who gets married
Is chump..
"a good many Optimists say that
married man doesn't need any more
money than single one. if he maTries
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. 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 II |
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-
ldulterated happiness in matrimcny.
wonder that young fellows like Goose
worthy don't look around them, and
the detected appearance
If the majority of husbands. But even
f they did, it wouldn't do them any
good, I 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.
II lad a wise old uncle in those hal
yOn days. and about week before
he wedding day, he backed me into a
0rner and handed me dust-proof
'ackage Of wisdom. He tried to lead 4
ne into taking sensible view of the /
uture. He talked about the cares and
that would be mine
fter the wedding, and wanted to
now If felt equal to them. He tried
0 show me that I wasn't going to
marry an angel, but human being !
Ike myself, with a human beings
aults and frailties.
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old him that his gray hairs alone
aved him from having his head re-
lOdeled, and said / never wanted him j
} darken my door, and he never did.
had to darken it myself, with wal
ut stain. But many a time after
ard, recalled his wise words and
ept over his grave"