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WHY MARRIED Dorothy 13ix in New ni Marriage, ja s we see it illustrated in everyday life, is generally ? fail ure. It brings happiness to the very few, misery and diseuchantment to the njaoy. It is a dull plain of dreary monot ony, stretching from the altar to the grave, on which love yawns it?elf to death as soon as the honeymoon is over. There is never tho slightest diffi culty in picking out any married cou ple in apublio assemblage. If on the stroet you see a man walk ing about two feet ahead of his wife and letting her drag along as best she may over the crossings, you know the woman is his wife. If at the theatre you see a couple Bitting up between the acts in frozen silence, or reading the jokes in the back of the programme, you know they are husband and wife. If you hear a woman tell a story and a man sarcastically observes that be heard that anecdote in tbe Ark during the Flood, you know tbe gen tleman is tho lady's husband. ! If you see a couple treat each other with an absolute disregard of every canon of decent social intercourse, you do not have to be a Sherlock Holmes to deduce tho faot that they are mar ried. Now, nobody marries to achieve this kind of fate. Everyx youth and maiden believe that the wedding ring is the circle that bounds paradise, and when they marry they expect to be perfectly happy. They see that other married people are bored and weary and disgruntled, but that does not deter them from taking .the fatal step, for marriage may be best described as the final triumph of- hope over other people's experience. The most terrible thing in the world is the disillusionment of matrimony, and that the tie which is the closest and the holiest bond that can be forg ed between two human beings, in the majority of oases, becomes merely a ball and chain' that fetters them to gether like prisoners, and that you can hear olank as they walk. Why is it that a man and woman who have sacrificed everything for the privilege of each other's society begin to gape in eaoh other's faces the min ute they find themselves vis-a-viB across* their own hearthstone? If marriages were arranged by the parents, as in Europe, or if people generally married for money or posi tion, one could understand why mat rimony from the point of view cf promoting happiness is so often a fail ure. , . . Marriages, however, in this coun try at least, are almost universally love matches and it is a cynical com mentary on the brevity of affection that the country that leads the world in love matches also leads the world in the number of divorces. But it is not of divorce I would speak here. The aoutely miserable marriage gen erally finds its own cure. The average married couple's suf ferings are not aotive. They are merely the dull ache of disappointment, of a romance that bas turned to prose, of an unsatisfied longing for something they wanted ?nd never got, Yet these people were once in love with each other; they once idealised etch other; they once entranced eaoh ether. ; ; They married in order that they night spend their lives together; and the greatest problem of civilization is *hy, when they started out with so |~"ch material for happiness, they so n came to bankruptcy, t is easy to say that the reason ody realizes a lover's paradise is auso lovers expect too much. Jo couple could keep keyed up to high C pitch of sentiment of tbeir rting days. *o woman can remain forever young 1 beautifol, nor can any man really oy holding a lily-white band M ymaj?jbaj|retob. ft ?B at??^.1a blow to a young 'pie to find out that they have got live in a world that is full of bill*, ? cooks, and sickness, and oolickly ?es, instead, of one that is all ills and kisses, but even this docs ?ccount for the deolin* and falling in domestic happiness. MUife is different from the way imagined it, but it is only married ! that bores us. Carried life is dull because, as a >eral thing, it is lived amidst unat ctive and uncomfortable anrround 9i where. one ^hears nothingV but; ! creating of the domestic ma ??ry and tho groaning of the opera nd environment is everything. Hto difference between bil?-stj?k LIFE IS DULL. York -A, m er i can- J o Ur al. ! ers1 pasto aod sauoc Hollandaise is that one comes in a bucket and the other is served in a china dish. What makes a dinner of beefsteak and potatoes gay at a restaurant and dull at home? It is the pink-shaded1 candle and a woman who smiles at you in one place and a sickly gas jet and a wife who nags in the other. The earliest disillusionment of mat rimony comes from women not under standing the business of making a comfortable home. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred the very first inkling that a young man gets that marriage is a failure is when he discovers that the angel he has espoused does not know the first principle of how to run a house, and the young wife ascertains that the romantic hero of her dreams has to bo fed night and morning, like the animals in a menagerie, to keep him in a good humor. Before a man io married ho thinks of possessing a home as a goal toward which to work. He looks forward to it as a place of peace and rest where he will go to throw down the troubles of life and be soothed and comforted. He Bees himself sitting down to daintily prepared and served meals, opposite a cheerful and neatly dressed wife. * When, instead of this, he finds him self returning home at night to au ill kept, ill-managed house, when he sits down opposite to a frowsy woman to a dinner of over done meat and under done bread; when, in placo of the peace and rest he expected, ho finds that he has added all of the multifari ous worries of housekeeping to his own business cares, all of his ideals of marriage and home and love are shat tered at one fell blow. He has struck the up-grade of mat rimony, where it is just one long, life less, spiritless pull. It is to be the everlasting disgrace of woman that it is her hand that oftenest first plucks the illusion from matrimony. To woman ihis is a sordid view of a romantic subject, and the thing that they never, can forgive man is that he can't be satisfied to live on love and soda crackers. " . They forget that sentiment is the outcome of a full stomach. Nobody ever felt like making lo\ when he was hungry. No man was ever romantio when he was unoomfortable. There are times when dinner is bound to take the precedence over kisses. " These are sad facts, but they are facts nevertheless. Doubtless a man ought to be able to so o?o his wife through the eye of affection' that she will look as muoh like an angel to him in a sjouohy dressing jacket as she does in dainty chiffons. . Doubtless he ought to be able to eat leatery pie and watery potatoes and love her still, and bless heaven for having bestowed a treasure upon him. Doubtless he ought to look forward with joy to returning home at night after his hard day's work and help get the dinner. Doubtless he. ought to find it en chanting to spend his evenings listen ing to his wife's tales of the domestic mishaps of the day and of what a mar* tyr she is. ' ' Th? only trouble is he doesn't. This isn't what he married. her for. " .t It turns love's young dream into a nightmare. It changes what ought to be a pic nic into ft dall, dreary, deadly level grind. And this is all that only too many men ever know , of married life, for there are plenty of men who never eat a good meal or spend one peace* ful and hftppy hour in their own homeB. Every woman who marries faces the question of the kind os a home she will make, and deoides it. j She can always keep the glamour of poetry and romance about it, or she can make it as bald and prosaic and monotonous and uninteresting as an alkali desert. She can make it a place that is the most loved spot on earth to a man, or the ono that fills'him with the greatest sense of weariness and repul sion?a place to fly to, or one to fly away from.s Of course to make a 1l. mo that is always fall of charm takos Work and thought, but it is worth the price. .3?or a woman not to succeed in J that is for her to bo a failure as a wo man. I It may be a .woman's misfortune { never to be loved and married, tit onoe }o h*vo been loved and married aod then to lobe her husband's affec tion is her shame. *A man does not love a woman pri marily because she is a good cook and a competent manager, but if he keeps on loving her after he is married to her it is hecauso she is. Show me a woman's housekeeping, and I can tell you to a mathematical nicety how 'ong she will keep her husband's love. Tbe first great danger of married life becoming dull consists in its being lived in unattractive and un comfortable environment,1 and this is a catastrophe that every woman has it in her power to prevent if she will. If tbe first snag that a young couple strikes in married life, and that jolts the romance out of matrimony, is the wife's total inability to wres tle successfully with the household problem, the second is the money question. The first disillusions the man. The second smashes the woman's ideals luto smithereens. Somebody?doubtless a matrimonial promoter?once announced the ohe?ry theory that marriage was a real econ omy beoause two people can live cheaper than one, and most men are taken in by this fallacy. They even marry on it, and when they find that it isn't true?that it takes twice as much food for two as one, and four times as much house reut, and ten times as many clothes when the other one is a vomau, it gives the man a shook of surprise from whioh he never recovers as long as he lives. He wasn't prepared for it. He had expeoted sportive cupid to play about his pathway, and instead of that the bill collector camps upon his trail, and it makes him grumpy, not so much beoause he is not willing to pay as beoause he did not expect to have to pay. It is sentiment with a price tag on it, and he grumbles at the price. For the woman the disillusionment is even more complete. Nobody but a woman ever knows the agony of the hour of enlightenment when she gets the first intimation that she, and the I household expenses she represents aie considered a burden. This isn't what she married for, either. During the days of courtship the lover lavished every luxury upon her. The husband complains at supply ing her with the necessities of life. While he wooed her ho swora that he asked no greater privilege of hea ven than the pleasure of providing for her. As soon as they are married he talks of having to support her. Before they were married he de lighted in bestowing gifts and treats upon her. After they are married he scrimps her on street oar fare. As a girl she had thought of the position of. a wife as being one of hon ored independence. , When she is married she finds that she is a dependent who has her de pendence continually thrown in her face. .She had pictured matrimony as an ?lysium in whioh she would be taken care of and protected from the world by a husband who would be a Prince Bountiful. She, finds it the only situation in life in which the woman has to beg for the money she earns. Practically every wife works harder for a husband than she oonld be hired to work for an employer, but not one wife in a thousand gets anything for it but her board and clothes. She has no separate allowance. She has no money she can spend on personal gratification. Every oent must be accounted for, and when tbe monthly* bills come in the average huabaud acts precisely as if she had eaten every mouthful of the food charged on the grocery and butcher bills, aod had worn all of the olothes on the dry goods bills, and had ab sorbed overy particle of the heat and light for the coal and gas bills. Is it any wonder that married life that is set to the tune of the hus band's complaint over tbe family ex pense s gets to be the dead march of a woman's sonl instead of the glad; sweet song that she had expeoted it to be? It is a man's attitude on the finan cial problem that strips the glamour front married life for women and turns i?i front poetry into proso, and if there were no money, question in the home we should hear very little of the di vorce question. If men would state their position on the matter as candidly hoforo mar riage as they do after marriage, there would be pre oi ou s few weddings. If a man would say to a girl that if sue married him she would have to. ask him for every dollar, and wheedle and cajole him out of it; that every time she bought a new dress, or a new hat, she would have to endure his sarcastic comments on her extrava gance, and that the arrival of the monthly bills would provoke a storm that would scare her out of her wits, the. girl.would say "no" every time. Shf? Wonjld prefer to earn her own liviog in son easier aud more peace able way. The pos* "on that men take iu re gar^ to then " es and money is tho most illoeie- treasonable thing on earth. n worthy of the name expei ">rt his family. I'robabU ' jo it, since it is a self-it ...u^tior that he takes upon hiuis Yet when ne has to do it he does it with the groaning and moaning of a martyr. It may be that men's com plaints, publie and private, over what their families cost them are merely a little pleasantry to call atcntion to their virtues, but it is a joke that effectual ly spoils married life for the woman who is tho object of it. When men and women acquire enough intelligence to settle the mon. ey question before marriage instead of afterward it will do more to infuse happiness into matrimony than any thing else. No man should marry a woman until he has thoroughly familiari/.cd him self with grocery bills and coal bills, and butchers' bills, and drug bills, and doctors' bills, and millinery bills, and dressmaking bills md all the other bills and ills to which matri mony is heir. And no woman should marry a man until she has got an ironclad contract for a definite allowance of her own personal expenses and house hold needs. There are just 30 times less friction in getting money out of a man once a month than there is in getting it from him every day. The reason that most married cou ples have not time to talk sentiment is because they are haggling over money. The source of discord has to be eliminated if the course of true love is to flow smoothly. The third reason that married life is dull is because the curse of com mercialism is upon it. The one deathless passion of the American man is the passion for mak ing money. He loves his wife, but he loves his business better. He gives one thought to bow ho pan make her happy where ho gives hours of concentrated study to trying to devise new ways of extending hia trade. He expends his amiability in jolly ing his customers, not in paying com pliments to his wife. He exhausts his diplomacy in deal ing with difficult olients, not in try ing to get along harmoniously with his wife. His witty stories, his entertaining conversation, his suavity and polite ness even, are for those who can bring grist to his mill. They are too precious forborne consumption. The best of himself, in mind and manners and body, he gives to his business, and all that many a woman ever sees of her husband is a man that comes home at night with wreck ed nerves and a temper that hushc the children's prattle as if they were striaken dumb, and makes the cat take to the cellar. No woman marries to get this sort of a matrimonial bargain. She married for a companion, not to get a patent adding machine or human cash register. She expected to have some one to talk to, some one who would be in terested in her and sympathize With her, and make her life brighter and happior for her. . She finds that she is united to a man who grunts out replies to her over his coffee and rolls in the morn ing because he is so busy looking over the financial oolumn in the news papers he has no time to talk. As soon as breakfast io over he gives her a perfunctory peok on the cheek in place of a kiss, because his mind is too absorbed in planning the business of the day for hica to realize her existence, muoh less to be con soious of any thrill of love or regret in parting from her. At night he returns too tired to talk, too tired to go to any place of amusement, too spent with the efforts oF the day to even think of such a thing as amusing or entertaining his wife, and with bis only desire to be left undisturbed to pursue the finan cial edition of the evening paper, when he does not go out to meet other business men, and plan for the morrow; If his wife dies, he regrets it, but he conspleB himself by plunging deep er and deeper into business. He does not . commit suicide over her grave. He only blows out his brains when his business goes to smash. Is it any wonder that a woman married to a man utterly absorbed in his occupation finds married life dun? y This is a mistake. Women require something more than money to make them happy. They are not willing to tradeoff love for a fine- house, and their husband's oompanionship for a diamond brooch. it is a nice, thrilling, exciting sort of existenqe, isn't it, for a woman to spend her dtys trying to. make a com fortable home for a man who is too busy to notioo her efforts to please him and to pass her oveniggevfcj^g society of one who is buried in a news paper? Of course, men say that the reason they work so hard is because it re quires so much inouey to support their ivcs. To this women may well retort that the reason that their husbands avo to furnish them so much money is because they give them nothing lse. Wh en a uiau is disappointed in his wife he geucrally takes to drink. Wheu a womau is disappointed in her husband she takes to extrava gance. Mauy a womau goes out und buyo mportod gowns because she feels neglected and miserable, and is try ng to stifle her heart by eoveriug it up with chiffon and velvet. Many a woman would joyfully ex change her automobile and stables for a certainty that she could raise the same sort of a heart thrill in her hus band that a five point rise iu stocks does. A man thinks that he can make a woman happy by giving her the things that money buys. Hence he has a clear conscience in absorbing himself in business as long as he lavishes lux uries upon her. A man who wants to make his wife happy and to make married life in teresting to her must put her first in bis heart and "his business second. If ho will do that he will find that he docs not have to work so hard and that it does not require so much to support a wife. One of the chief reasons why mar ricd life is dull is because it is all work and no play in the family circle Dorothy Dix. His Reference to Signs Fatal. A favorite prank among Dartmouth students thirty years ago wae the shifting of storekeepers' signs 'jo that for example,the college treasurer would find a barber's sign over his door, the druggist would find a blacksmith'i sign, and so on, says tho Boston Her ald. A current tradition tells of how 6ophomorca attempted to remove sign one night in tho late '70's awe the owner who immediately gave chase. The boys escaped, but tho offended owner "spotted" their room and the next morning reported them to Presi dent Smith, who at once summoned tho culprits to his.office where the fol lowing dialogue ensued: "Whore were you at 12 o'clock last night?" inquired tho president of one. "In my room," was the quick re ply "What doing?" "Heading the Bible.*' "What portion of tho Bible were you reading at such an hour?" "I don't recollect the chapter." "Can't you tell what it was about?' persisted the president; "it must have been something interesting to keep you up so late." "All I recollect is one verse," the student replied. "A wicked and per verse generation shall seek after a sign, but no sign shall be given it,' and he was suspended for three months. War Relics Not Highly Regarded. A Washington veteran who recent ly visited historic South Mountain, in Washington County, Md., found that there are many grim relies of the sanguinary battle of Antietam, and the fight of South Mountain, in the possession of farmers in that vicie* ity. "The strangest part of it," said tho Washington man, "is that those rel io8 are regarded by the natives as of little value. In one place, not far from Eakle's Mill a farmer has a beautifully engraved Masonic sword whioh has been used as a plaything by the ohildren of the neighborhood. The handle of the sword is of ivory oarved with Masonic emblems. 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