Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1911 — The first Quarrel [ARTICLE]

The first Quarrel

' • , • ' ea I * . • ° ."I . she tossed the paper away. There were a few desultory observations? from each, but, strange to say, it seemed a trifle difficult to keep a conversation going. Of course there was the eternally fruitful topic of themselves and what each meant to the other, but this subject had been sb-thoroughly discussed during their honeymoon that neither felt exactly like taking it up again now. They were trying now to ignore their newness to’each other and wanted to seem settled and married-like. So there was a hint of uncertainty, a vague uneasiness in the air. Hubby glanced at his bride as if he felt that in his 'capacity as head of the household and her lord and master it was up to him to do or say something or other, but he didn’t know He glanced at her again. Their eyes met, and instantly each looked off somewhere in an attempt not to seem self-conscious. Finally he "Would yon like to go to a show tlijs evening?” ’ "Why, I don’t.know; do you want to go?" inquired the bride sweetly. .. “Why, no, not specially; but I thought maybe you’d like to go.*’ “Why, yes, I’d like to go if you think you’d care to.” ' . “Well, I don’t particularly wish to; but I thought if you felt as if you'wanted to see a show, why, we’d go." ZZ I":• SfZIZZ “But I don’t want to drag you out with you looking so comfy and fixed!” protested the bride affectionately. . - “How absurd!” said hubby fondly. “That doesn’t matter if you think you’d like to go out.” . “But I don’t want to go if you’re coming along-just because you think you’re pleasing me.” “Nonsense! Why, I want to go if you Want to go.” . ; ’’Yes, that’s just it! But I don’t want to go, unless you do.” . “But then it will give me no particular pleasure to go to a show un-, less I know you are enjoying U" “Why, of course I will enjoy It if you're along.” ’ “All right, then,” said he promptly., “Come on and we’ll go.” just now,” said she anxiously, “you said you didn’t particularly eare to; I am sure I shouldn't want to go unless I felt were getting as much fun out of it as L” “Fiddlesticks!” He said it a trifle impatiently. “Now listen to me and answer yes or no—do you or do you not want to-go'to a show?” “Why, you know', Harry, I’d Just love tp, but—”

“All right, then, we’ll <o!” exclaimed he a bit shortly, springing to his feet. "But Td be perfectly miserable all the time," said the bride, “thinking that you’d cqme just to please me, and that we might have had fa cozy little evening at home if ” J' , “All right then, we won’t go,” manfully repressing an impulse to anger and replying resignedly as he sat down again. i / He picked up the paper and pretended to become Immediately ate sorbed in It, settling back in his xx” -bX glanced appealingly at him, but his face was stony and gave her no comBride then broke it fearfully. •* “Harry," she said, “I feel perfect, ly dreadful—as if you were terribly you first mentioned a show that it would be nice to see Jdhn Drew. “Then you do want to go after all?” said her husband, laying down Ms paper ahd staring acron at her mystifledly? '■ ■) ' “Why, I always love to go to the theatre, but—-” "Their, for Heaven’s sake, come on and let’s go!" So they went, but neither enjoyed ftarry Wa “ grumi> * teh and his wife was hurt. On their return Harry stumbled over some!s&!■ 7e d .C gave way immediately. Then ensued tbeir first Quarrel. It Is said they aH go through it some time or S m.S'X'.’te" the Wrt " . Wil"’ y'• lAUgr. . . People Eating lew Meat. , Sanitarianiain, or half veftartanhra», hu gained mafiy converts slnte Minister Wu coined the new word. The theory of the stomach’s being the Mat of all disesls bantshlna nnat from' the bill of fan. of many hemes. r ; * Uc?