Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-31
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
Mis-Mates.

Last night | watched couple who
had been married for 1s years
watched and listened, and wondered
how their romance had started.
Mr.. r, is "a rather striking figure
of man--tall and distinguished IooE-
ing, quick and decisive In his manner
J of speaking
He is amusing. teo, in dr., quiet
way His sallies called forth laughter
| time after time, as he discussed poll.
ties and books, music and the theater.
Mrs. b. must once have been pretty
In an appealing, youthful way. One
can see, even now, traces of pink
and white. brown.eyed loveliness.
she isn't bad looxing--iust rather
faded and duh after her Is years of
| matrimony.
Not that her manner is dull-far
| from 1t. She gives one the impression
of the greatest vivacity. Her voice
can be heard way above the noise Of
| the party.
Yes, my dear, we do hope to build
next year. We're so tired of the place
we're in now. My mother was saying
! only the other day-my mother is
with us now, you know; she's been
staying at our place for a month now
| She was going home, but she got
| rather bad attack of appendicitis
and we kept her on for while Isn't
| 1t awful the way every one has APP
! pendieitis these days? I'm scared to
death for fear the children---I have
| two, you know. Such perfect darlings.
Buster-that's the youngest
And she goes on and on, wandering
| from one subject to the other entirely
obltvious OF the fact that she's boring
her audience to pieces and torturing
| her husband.
Poor man, he fidgets and looks at
| his feet, and tries to stop her He's
acutely uncomfortable every minute
she's speaking.
He Knows that she bores him-that
her endless prattle gets on his nerves
| and he deduces that it's having the
same effect on every one else present
! Shes entirely out of sympathy with
| MN. His dry humor leaves her cold
She s vaguely aware that he's funny.
but considers that her own. vivid
| recitais OF domestic affairs are much
more interesting.
So there they sit--one bored to
death with the other.
Later Jackson, who's known them
both since childhood, told me about
their romance.
Ethel Mrs. b. married Jerry when
they were both kids. She was awfully
pretty then and she was dead crazy
| about him.
she didn't sympathize with any of
his ideas at ALL didn't have a taste in
common with him, really-but she was
determined To get him
Il think he always knew that they
were mis.mates. but she was so darn
| pretty and she pretended such an
interest in all the things he thought
worthwhile
Wen, she pulled the wool over his
eyes. finally. He came to the con.
cluslon that she really liked the things
he liked, and she got him After all.
she got what she wanted
Yes. but what good did it do her?
She got her first few years of married
life, and then she found herself with
a bored, dissatisfied husband---a hus-
band who Just tolerates her remarks
and ideas-a husband with whom she
has no sympathy and who has no
personal interest in her at all
However great the temptation to
pretend to your sweetheart to be
something other than you are-resist
H. You can't keep up your pretense
forever and 1t will be an unhappy day
for both of you when he finds out
that he married what he thought you
Were-not what you really are