Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1915 — ONE PHASE OF MARRIED LIFE [ARTICLE]

ONE PHASE OF MARRIED LIFE

Seeming Unhapptnees Most Probably Due to Lack of Something to , Talk About. ■ _,;x \ It Is the eternal tete-a-tete of mar* rtod life that moat critics of that bliseful condition, find fault with. From it spring boredom and dull, sodden silence, assort these cynics. Therefore, a hint for escaping this one depressing quality of marriage should base our host attention. To illustrate, you will see It frequently on the trolley, when a man and his wife are sitting side by side—it Is almost perpetual silence. They hare nothing-to say to one another. Perhaps the wife will emit a cheerful peep, but the husband will respond with a n<sd of the head or a hesitating yes or no. It is most always that way. No common interest observed. In fact, it looks as If they are mad at one another; as If they were bored. A young mtn or woman looking on the couple would he apt to say: “O. yon married life.Bpt they are not mad. Let some «*i*rm4fig lady aegonintaace come In •adrit down by the haabaadandhe hi

all smiles and has plenty to aay. Then he is a cordial companion. He is a changed man. And the same it would be with the woman. Now, don’t misinterpret the scene. When that man and wife get back home they drop their trolley manners and act sensibly and lovingly again. Mad—he would Just as likely be mad at the evening star or a bush full of rosea. But you wouldn’t think it on the trolley.—Now York Tribuna. »