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Show ONE PHASE OF MARRIED LIFE Seeming Unhapplness Most Probably Due to Lack of Something to Talk About. It Is the eternal tete-a-tete of married mar-ried life that most critics of that blissful bliss-ful condition find fault with. From it Bprlng boredom and dull, sodden silence, si-lence, assert these cynics. Therefore, a hint for escaping this one depressing depress-ing quality of marriage should have our best attention. To illustrate, you will see it frequently fre-quently on the trolley, when a man and his wife are sitting side by side It is almost perpetual silence. They have nothing to say to one another. Perhaps the wife will emit a cheerful peep, but the husband will respond with a nod of the head or a hesitating yes or no. It is most always that way. No common interest observed. In fact, it looks ns If they are mad at one another; an-other; as if they were bored. A young man or woman looking on the couple would be apt to say: "O, you married life." But they are not mad. Let some charming lady acquaintance come In and Bit down by the husband and he is all smiles and has plenty to say. 1 he is a cordial companion. He Is changed man. And the same it be with the woman. Now, don't nv terpret the scene. When that man 4 wife get back home they drop t: trolley manners and act sensibly i lovingly again. Mad he would . as likely be mad at the evening s or a bush full of roses. But wouldn't think It on the trolley.-' York Tribune. |