Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

- sweet brown eyes, that I shall
marry Oswald and then after
ward-well, you know mold him
over again into a little different
| man."
IT think" mimicked the elderly ma
tron, that if you are marrying OSWALD
with any idea like that you had better
change your mind before it Is too late
/ Husbands are not nodded like SO much
| gelatin, nor are they cut over as by a
paper pattern.
when married Edward had little
changes planned-it was something like
taking an old frock and making some
thing brand-new out of tit couldn't
be done to look exactly like what had
planned. Edward smoked before we
| were married. and planned gently and
sweetly in my virginia. mind how !
would appeal to him and sway, him
| over. I started in all right. but the
very first thing he stopped, according to
my plan, and was frightfully sorry
"Sorry?" echoed the girl with the
sweet brown eyes wonderingly.
Indeed. yes,' said the elderly matron
firmly. Edward was used to smoking,
and when he gave it up he was as
cross as a bear. There was really no
living with him at all. If I squeaked a
door or played the piano it rasped his
nerve so that he would nearly go to
pieces.
cat last, in order to get some joy out
of life myself, I urged him to begin
smoking again"
"And he did," prodded the girl with
the sweet brown eyes.
He did not" sadly responded the
elderly matron. He said that he be-
lieved his general health was a great
deal better for not smoking, although
he was nervous. He said that in time
no doubt that nervousness would pass
and he'd be all right. had to plead
with him urgently before he would
agree to take cigar. Then he said
that he believed pipe would be less
harmful to his general health than
cigars, and so he started on pipe
and IL you know anything about smok-
ing you know what pipe Is, how they
smell and are always lying around
where you don't want them seen; how
man takes long straw and wraps 1t
and is always running 1t up and down
through the pipe stem in order to clean
it out nicely. Then they forget and
leave those filthy straws around the
house. where they smell up everything
before you know what it is that seems
so much like civet cat"
MY goodness" said the girl with the
sweet brown eyes, and her expression
was that of alarm.
"Of course I don't know what 1t Is
in Oswald that you intend to change,
Mildred, but you take my advice and
find a man that at least approximates
what you want before you get married,
because they are ten times nicer before
they get you than they are afterward.
It is just as Edward always says when
chide him for not having the pretty
manners he had in our counting days
he says: Why run after car when
you've caught it?' And, of course, from
his standpoint you can see the sense of
it. It only goes to show that they act
much better before than they do after
ward"
But maybe the women do, too" de-
Tended the girl with the sweet brown
eyes. It don't suppose that before you
were married you ever let your husband
see you in hair waverS nor did he ever
see you with your face all smeary with
cold cream. And suppose that when
a woman is brushing her teeth she is
not nearly so attractive as she is when
she comes downstairs all ready for the
theater with her teeth cleaning like
pearls without the man having seen any
of the machinery of getting cleaned up"
That's true" admitted the elderly
matron, that's very true. / do lots of
things now that I never did when we
were first married. But If you don't
cold cream think how you'd look, and
unwaved hair looks wretched, I think. :
and besides that" went on the girl
with the sweet brown eyes, Il certainly
have no intention Of letting anybody
go making me over. have lived good