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Show WHY SHE MARRIED HIM. She IvncvF HI J afaltM to Dot, Dt She IJn.l I'ac for Him.' It was their "first quarrel. "Well, I don't see how I came to marry you," ehe snapped. ' . "Same here," he returned.4 , t "Whatever I couhl see in you," she returned bitterly. "All men are the same, as lovers, but ns husbands it's different, dif-ferent, you know." "Oh, ho! all men are the same as lowers. Then you had a lot of lovers? Thanks for your extraordinary candor.! I always thought you were a flirt, but now you have epokem the words out of your own mouth." ,i "Out of my own mouth! Can a per- i son speak with seme one else's mouth, 1 you ninny? Why don't you try to be logical as well as insulting"? I suppose ' it's too much to expect from one whose brains are in his mustache or in his clothes, or in his pretty feet. Oh, don't whine; I know your fnults to a dot." ; "Well, since you do," he added, "I will be frank with you and say that I mnr- ried you to prhc you the opportunity ; to tell mc my faults, so that I could in , time nrmrcach your own angelic stand- i ard of perfection." j "Indeed, r.nd I married you because ; you were such an expert at repairing a bicycle tire. Don't you remember how you carried your jiffy outfit around j with you? Yoxt were so expert I". ' i "You used to tell me you married me because you loved me." .'. "What a silly answer that was!" 1 "Then you are a liar too, eh?" "I say I married you because you were such an expert, tire, repairer. .When I quit riding the bicycle I'll have no more' upc for you, do you hear? Go out in the shed and clean, my wheel, and let me hear no more out of you for a week!" Detroit News-Tribune. |
