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Show THE PRIDE AND I THE GOSSIPS Whon they nrrlvcd at their now boarding houso you could almost seo tho rlco falling out of their pockets and of the folds of tholr clothes, they wcio so evidently brldo and bridegroom. bride-groom. At dinner they wero tho cyno-suro cyno-suro ot all ocs. They onduted tho stares and covert Jokes piotty well until they got up to their own rooms, and then tho llttlo brldo hnd a good cry. Uut thoy wcro too huppy to bo cmburrasscd for long, and at tho end of a week or so their embarrassment nnd tho sonsatlon thoy had created subsided. Then tho woman in tho second floor front took It Into her head to call. Sho concluded that two people must get dreadfully tired of ono another's society when they have it all tho tlmo. ft so happened that on tho particular night sho selected for her visit tho bridegroom was called out on Import-nut Import-nut business. Ho hated to go, but Anally (oro himself away, and, of courso tho lonely llttlo brldo was delighted de-lighted when tho woman from tho second sec-ond floor front knocked nt her door and said sho had coma to visit. "Never mind, my dear," sho remarked, remark-ed, with uplifted eyebrows and a significant sig-nificant Htnllo nt the bride's blushing apologlc for her husband's iUihcucc, "I know just how It Is. My hushnnd Is that way, too. You'll got used to It after a while, though I wouldn't havo thought ho would havo begun It so soon. Hut you never can tell, This town Is so full of pitfalls and things. Of courso, ho f my havo only gono out for a quiet gamu of pokor; but us I havo alwayfl said, thero aro only threo things to tnko a man out at nights, drinking, gambling nnd women; nnd it's hard to say which of thoso Is worst For myself, I prefer gambling, If I'vo got to havo anything, but you won't know for years what it really Is that attracts him nwo"y from you. Just como up to seo mo If jou got louesomo and I'll try to cheer you up'." When her husband enmo homo that night ho found tho llttlo brldo up with her hat on nnd her ocs red. Sho had gono over In her mind a hundred times tho blasting things shu was going to say to him. Sho would not quarrel! oh, no! Sho would merely let him know that Bho could not bo fooled. When finally, after u storm of reproach re-proach and weeping and a lot of patient pa-tient pleading on his part, they got to sleep, both ot them realized that thoy had had their first quarrol. A few days later tho womnn who lived In tho back parlor and whoso husband was an unknown quantity a" matter of coiVJocrure, slnco aho'had not scon him for many years honored tho llttlo brldo with an nftornoon call. "Now, my dear," sho said when thoy had got comfortably acquainted over n cup of tea, "of course you're young and very much In lovo and you'ro Just beginning, but take a llttlo advlco from ono who has had a lot of oxporlenco. oxporl-enco. Makn him give jou an allow-anco. allow-anco. Oh, I don't enro If ho is as generous gen-erous ns Solomon and If you havo got money of your own, jou'vo got lo got him trained from tho start. Thoy always al-ways begin by u show of gonoroslty, but tnko my word for It, If ho hasn't offered you an allowance already ho means to put tho thumb-scrows on you after awhile. You Just put tho proposition up lo him this very night." And that is what tho llttlo brldo did. Sho was somewhat dumbfounded nt her husband's rondy acqtilesconco, and moro than nBtonlnln.il at tho curious curi-ous eoldnosH ho displayed toward her for tho rest of tho ovenlng. Someljow, It gavo her a feeling of shnmo when ho had bcon so generous. Then sho got to talking with tho stenographer from tho second story ballroom. "Oh, I'vo Just had such a dreadful time," said tho llttlo stenographer. "My boss got fresh nnd I'm going to leave I'll tell ou I won't let my husband luuo a stenographer whon I get married. No, wlrreo! You novor can tell what a man Is doing all day when ho's awuy; nnd I suppose a pretty girl around tho olllco Is an awful temptation to thorn. Your husband hus-band has ti Btunogittphor, hasn't hoT She's a boauty, too. I wouldn't stand for It if I was jou." Then tho maid ramo In ono morning. morn-ing. "I seen your husband In tho hall," sho said. "Ho's awfully good looking; look-ing; but if I was you I wouldn't keep him around a board In' houso with all thoso women. I know what young men around boardln' houses Is llko. I has to glo 'om all tho gllttorln' oyo myBolf." Anfl then tho llttlo brldo woko up. That night, when her husband came homo, ho found her lying tlrod and worn out on tho divan. Hut sho just drow his hood down on hor shoulder and patted It lovingly. "Harry, dour." sho sold, "I'vo found tho cutest llttlo flat. Its only got four rooms and It faces on n dlugy old court, nnd the kitchen's tho slio of a good clothos clocot nnd I'll havo to do without a now dross this wlntor. but wo'll movo In thero next Monday If wo havo to oat off a box and sit on tho window sill and sleep on tho floor. Ono mora month In this placu would tako every bit of tho houoy off our moon. I'vo got a new cook book, too, and If you can stand ui) burnt steak and dough) biscuits fur awhile, it will como out all light In tho end-" "Anion," said her husband, fervently. fer-vently. Truly, when oblp comes In at the , door lovo flies nut of iho window. 1 |