The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-03-02

lie that all Of our quarrels are love-
quarrels? They come from Jealousy,
because each Of us Is tormented by
worry over what the other one is doing
to kill the CHASTITY time till we can be
together again. He can't believe that
I adore him above all men. I can't
believe he doesn't think every other
women he sees Is ten times as attract
Nv as I am. When we meet we've got
to thresh all that out. Our time Is
gone before we've cleared things up.
Next time, we've got to do 1t all over
again. Once we're married we won't
see anybody else. Well be together
all the time and We'll never quarrel.
You'll see!"
reality reduced her father to despair.
He gave up.
20, what's the use? You won't listen
to reason and I'm only a father-a
dodo. But with your generation the
first wedding doesn't count. You can
always rub it out and do it over The
sooner you're married the sooner you'll
be home again. Well keep your room
waiting for you. So go on and get
spliced."
But how many times must I tell
you? We can't get married till he
graduates!"
%, well, you'll be interested in some
body else by then"
When Bruce took his diploma the
world was at the very height of its
most gorgeous orgy; the wild days of
the '29ers. But he couldn't find a
crevice for his genius, or so much as
a penny for his time.
The impatient bridegroom simply had
to wait for something to turn up be-
side his weary toes at night. And the
frantic would bride had to endure
her fathers peculiar delight in think
ing I-told-you-so's. He didn't have to
say them.
Then one day Bruce ran into an old
friend of his fathers and a~udaciously
struck him for a job. The youth al
most swooned when the old man said:
"Sure! Come along in! The waters
fine. Bonds are going like hot cakes
and almost any damned fool can sell
It was now the ominous midsummer
Of the boomcrest. Business was bad
but the pillows of speculation rolled
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struck his initial success in the sale
of a block of bonds to an elderly wo-
man. He made the mistake Of telling
Coralie about it.
That wa of their grandest en-
gagements while it lasted, but Bruce,
flushed with success and the need for
it, stood to his guns!
"Coralie, I love you but I must tell
you-friendlily but firmly-that I am
going to continue in my chosen pro-
fession. I shall continue to offer
bonds"
ITO women?"
ITO any body who will buy"
"All right! Our engagement is off"
Fortunately engagements that are
put off are easily put IN again and af-
ter a few days Of separation-days that
seemed to average six months in length
at least-Bruce skunk back with an
idea and made her listen to it.:
Everybody in the office gets a vac
alton. How about my taking mine now
and our getting married right away
and vanishing into some solitude where
there will be nobody but just us two?
Our only trouble seems to be people
around all the time"
Before they realized it they had
agreed that he was to buy a little SAIL
boat and they would take a cruise to
some desert island where they would
see nobody but each other and moth
ing but sunsets and stars and things.
And for once they carried out a plan
without allowing themselves to argue
it to pieces. They dashed to the license
bureau, had a quiet home wedding, and
bowed beneath parental God bless you's
which really meant heaven help you's.
Their best friends laid bets on whether
months.
Everything was delicious and anus
ing. The sun was delicious and the
ocean was amusing. And were bride
and groom witty? They sank-and
laughed themselves almost out of the
boat e their skill in improvisation.
The worse the better:
The owl and the pussy cat put to
sea
In a beautiful pea green sloo-oop
They took some honey and plenty of
Doodle
Wrapped up in a five dollar bloc
OOp.
Bruce actually sang right out with
no aid or paper, pencil or meditation:
The owl looked up to the stars be-
meath
And sang to a ukulele
O, lovely Coralely,
O, Coralie 50 morally,
What a beautiful Coralie you are,
every daily,
What a coralious Coralie you are
ralely.
When they reached the desert island
they found it even perfecter than the
ocean. It was not exactly q desert
island. Except at very high tide it was
q peninsula projecting from forest and
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