The Wrangell sentinel., 1922-11-23

lii..''' 'f ss. two, and tlleg all take the same view; Tobe is good citizen, and a moReymaker, and conr. sequea;ly he, ought, to be a first-class husband. Some of the citizens who talk 'hiS way are venerable married men, and they ought to know better. a +0f course woman likes to have plenty of money. and unlimited credit at the stores, but the, man isn't proper l ly ffpchted who Ia ssaHes lcst she will be satisfied with that. I am not the official forecaster. and, l haven't my goosebone with nie. but | 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 all -emntion- he PFebably-teo it for chill, and began doping himself With qulrline. There's as much senti- ment in a concrete hitching post as there is in that man.
 ''Jemima. on tlie other hand. fairly slops oyer, with sentiment. She's Il languishing sort of girl, who looks up-' on herself as vine, and will want her husband to he sturdy oak. so she car. wind herself around him, as il were. She will expect Tobias to tell her four thousand times a day. how much he loves her: and every time he takes 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 a girl gets the right husband, my friends, she is an excellent wife. She would make any sacrifice for him. She wouldn't rare a picayune about the size of his bank account She'd be perfectly willing to live under a bridge with him, and wear a burlap gown. if he'd only keep on telling her that she is the entire solar system where he is concerned It is 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 a man who is strong on mathematics and short on sentiment.
 That's the mistake JemiIna is lnak. ing. Why does she marry such n hard- headed individual as Tobias? Because like all her kind, she is 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 bit like the real goods When she has been married little while she will see that her bfueprints 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 f.. -.t
 That's the way with sentimental girl: if she happens to marry man who appreciates the poetry of heI nature, she is the best thing that eSeI happened. She looks young when she is seventy years old, and her whole career is one long basket picnic. bui If she marries the wrong man, which she does in ninety-nine cases out ot hundred, she loses her grip as soon as she finds that her dreams were all moonshine, and then she develops in to sbreW. It ss=s aa#',f .Hss#
 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"