Show a O 0 I BRIDES r thY D Dix x xO O TIE OTHER DAY a young oung woman who had recently been Deen married and andI THE TUE I come to this city to live committed suicide because of homesickness The he wonder Is not that she did it but that so many mallY other brides re refrain reo retrain train frain f ill from dohig on It This Thill Is not nat the traditional way of looking at the matter It is the custom to picture the time happy bride as going away a with the man of her choice to live in a state of ot ecstatic bliss that is enough to make the angels turn green with envy en This is also the way the bride has figured out the future to herself and when hen she finds that instead of a Eden she has hns struck a particularly rocky corner of everyday lift life without even an Intelligent ser fier serpent serpent pent to talk to it is no wonder that she sits down lown and sheds barrels of or home homesick homesick sick tears dad and nd contemplates the cup of cold poison polson Nobody thinks of her as an object of ot pity pit but hut there is no more path c figure than that of the young girl who comes as aSa a perfect stranger to a big city to begin her married life Ute One of the most exquisite pieces of sarcasm ever ee perpetrated anyway en way Is calling the few months of or matrimony the honeymoon It Is bound to o be a time ox ot shocks and readjustment of ideals and disillusionments and the little strange bride adds to these miseries the anguish o or of loneliness and of realizing for the first time her utter unimportance in the world The American 1 u man Inan 0 is n the 5 most 1 husband In l Tint HP least sentimental He glory glo like UkE the Frenchman l or Italian in the therole therole therole role of a lover He feels like a fool in It and wants to get done with It and back to business as soon as possible So having told the girl he loves her and backed up the statement by marrying her he takes her away from her own home and people and dumps her down in a flat lint or a hotel with a full sense that he has done everything to make her happy happ In effect he says sa s Here are the best bet imitation oak chairs I could buy for money or ot a table equal to any In town Heaven bless you Enjoy yourself And when the little bride enjoy herself and lIe he comes home at night to find a bundle sniveling on the sofa he heaves a sigh over unreasonableness of ot women and considers himself It Is hard on him A weeping tride Is not flattering to a mans vanity It Is bound to be a blow to find out that the adoring creature who has led you to believe that all she wanted to lo make her perfectly blissful was a chance hance to contemplate your our many perfections p Is howling for and the girls gina but young husbands would have more patience with the time sit BIt situation situation If It 1 they could put themselves In the girls place for a moment To begin with at home she was as somebody Here she Is I nobody There she was the life of every company No gathering was complete without her presence Every hour of the day friends were running in and out Here except for forthe forthe forthe the busy husband whom she only sees at night she he is as much alone as Robinson Crusoe on his desert d sert Island Perhaps P In iii the village e she was a church worker As soon as she is set settled settled tIed In her h r new home she hunts up her denomination and makes a few shy tentative efforts toward friendliness but If 1 the north pole Is ever discovered It Jt will III be found ina in a city church and her experience leaves her feeling that she has no more part in a city God than she has in its society Worst Vorst of all perhaps for tor her she has nothing to do The brand new furniture and house offer no chances in house cleaning The misfortune of having more clothes than she needs cuts her off from the consoling joys of Nobody comes to see her She has absolutely nothing to do but watch through long Idle days for a man to come home at night and that thatis is about the most exciting and occupation on earth Unfortunately there seem to be any way In which to avoid t 1 tp little domestic tragedy It B t is simply Imply one of the bad Quarters of an hour that thata a woman must live Jive through Homesickness In time wears Itself out The little bride adjusts herself to city life Ute and lives to snub other coun country country country try brides While the loneliness lasts la ts however It Is a damp and sodden piece of misery that has ha few equals in this vale of or tears and It suggests the pro propriety propriety propriety of or some philanthropist starting a society for the amelioration of the homesickness of brides of which every young husband should hould be a charter member r |