Evening star., 1928-12-30

w YE continue and conclude, in
M this chapter upon Married
Life" daring and sensa-
tional disclosures, coming
straight from the heart AS
nefore, We offer no apology to the pub
nc. Our correspondent speaks with alb
bolute frankness.
In what I wrote before. I told about
my experiences as young girl and
how love first came into my life.
l want to talk now about my mar
ried life and am going to speak just
as plainly as can and tell my readers
things that have never yet ventured
TO say to anybody
It was a little while after mother
and had moved in the city, on ac-
count OF father having taken to al
cohol IN the country, that met my
first husband. His name was Mr..
Thomley, and mother and first met
him in one of the big stores where we
went to buy things for the apartment.
All we knew about him was that his
name was Mr.. Thomley and that his
salary was $42 a week, and that his
people had come from Ashtabula, Ohio,
and that he had had $40 raise last
,4nonth and another one promised for
New Year, and that where he boarded
There wasn't a word against him, al
though there were three young girls in
the house, one from Kentucky. Beyond
that, mother couldn't find out any more
about him.
Well, pretty soon Mr.. Thomley be-
gan coming to the apartment and TAX
ing me out places nights and then later
he would come and take me walks af-
nd ,iy1or ND kAaf1
games Sundays
So one day at ball game he asked
me if I would marry him and I said
all right. I remember it was Pitts
burgh playing Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh won the game, but I want to
say right now, since am writing con-
1identially, that I don't believe they
were the best team. / said to Mr.
Thomley just after he asked me to
marry him that I was sure the UNI
pire was crooked. At any rate, am
going to say it right here straight out,
that I believe there was some dirty
work on third base.
We went home right after the game,
and I told mother all about it and just
what thought of the Pittsburgh team.
Well, little after that we got mar
yfed, because my husband, whose
name, as said, was Mr.. Thomley, had
four days off from the store where he
worked. He was in curtains and cre-
tonne, and as it was the dead season
in curtains he could get off easily
enough; but for the matter of that, he
had a pretty high-up job and could
have got off for couple of days to get
married at any time.
So we went on our wedding tour to
Richmond, Va. I am going to tell all
about nv experiences
And right here will disclose a little
thing about married life that I never
saw mentioned openly before. though
everybody knows it is true, and that is
that you can order a single portion and
divide it and have a side order of
bacon or anything like that for the
same money.
That night a little before we re-
Gred Mr.. Thomley whispered to me
that all his life he had never liked
hotel food
We went for a long drive next day
in an open carriage, and Mr.. Thomley
told me lot of interesting and inti-
mate things, such as how they made
cement and the way the city disposes
Of the sewage and the different meth
DDS they have for marketing the to-
bacco and things I had never known
as girl.
Wei, pretty soon after that we
came back to the city to settle down
in our new home, and my married life
began in earnest. If had not decided
to make a complete revelation of what
married life first means to woman
and to keep back nothing, might not
icare to tell Of some Of the mistakes