Show S Alicia Hammersly A W Woman Who Wouldn't Remarry By idah idali McGlone Gibson I The Noted oled I I I Alicia Hammersly nee nee Alicia Atwell SitS and I commonly called All Is ia la tho the absorbIng absorbing absorb absorb- ing lag story of her girlhood She Site Is engaged to Hallot Hammersly l On tho morning of her wedding day she wonders whether she really knows the man she is to marrY Alicia's thoughts lead lad her to seek her mother moth for consolation She Sho finds rinds her mother In Inthe Inthe inthe the attic seated before an old trunk which is filled with memories As Alicia enters he her mother Is la fondling a a. pair of baby shoes Alicia's mother nother consoles her and points out the great happiness to bo be found In a a. marriage marriage marriage mar mar- based upon understanding but warns Alicia a. a that a It Is something V very different fe I tr ai from t the day dreams e of an engaged a girl l Alicia's education In matrimony progresses processes rapidly She learns in surprise that she sheI i doesn't doesn t really know her husband Without I consulting Alicia Hal plans a honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls Fails Of all pla Alicia didn't want to go there but In Hal's Hals arms arm I she yielded Alicia finds her lf without I I money mony enough to tip th the hotel maid She feels she cant can't ask Hal for it He lIe wouldn't understand TRYING DAYS I did not tell Hal lIal that I had sent the trunks down at tho the suggestion of ot I I tho the housekeeper neither did I 1 tell him that I gave no tips because I had no money I Strange what little things can change ones one's outlook on life lite When Hal questioned Question d me brusquely about I Imy my tipping g ho made me feel feel like a beggar in the presence of a strange i man So vivid was this revelation of I our changed relations that Hals Hal's features features features fea fea- tures seemed to have changed and become unfamiliar to me For the first time I noticed how peculiarly incisive I his speech was and what a different intonation he had when he was giving orders I know now that I should never beable be beable beable able to ask him for money for fear his face would change to that of the Unknown unknown unknown un un- known man my eyes now rested upon For this I did not blame hIa HaJ as much muchas as I blamed my nay father Dear old Easygoing easy easygoing easygoing going dad He lIe probably thought nothing about giving me money for formy formy formy my current expenses He lie had been brought up in the masculine theory that when he married his daughter off I he was just transferring the responsibility responsibility responsibility of her material wants to some other man and that tha t the tho man would t accept that responsibility with that same lenient patience with which he himself had responded If It dad had given me a II few hundred dollars in ready money instead of the generous check which was deposited among my wedding presents with the verbal intimation that It was to buy furnishings for our new home I would WOUd I have thought nothing of or taking money from Hal or even asking him for some I In that case it would be a mere token of companionship Q and love love love-a a g gift as asIt asit I f hiot i I It were were given given not because c I needed d It it but because becQUe Hal wanted to give me something which would in some way I ac accentuate our new relationship i I To give ghe me money when I felt I did I i I I I I I I i I I i not need it would only be saying saving You are my wife now I give she you this because it is a part of our new relationship Do with it what you wish Such a procedure would seem to me to be starting right but to confess con con- fess tess to Hal the day after I married him that I 1 must have money was to confess that I was a beggar upon his bounty before I was his wife O Of Or course I didn't analyze this In Incident Incident incident In- In in this way at the time but I have since often otten felt that the fact that my parents through thoughtlessness thoughtless thoughtless- ness had allowed me to go to Hal penniless put me in a ft wrong position at the beginning of my marriage Although I did not realize it I bel believe be be- l lieve that from that moment whole m conception of or wifehood changed and much of the romance and joy that I had confidently expected was taken out of ef it It while a certain sordid element I that I never could have Imagined InI in inthe inthe the relations between Hal and me en entered entered entered en- en in I 1 beheye this is true of ef every woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man who makes no after alter marriage plans with her fiance And I will venture that in ninety-nine ninety cases out of a a. hundred there are no plans pans Lovers ers confidently assert Love Lovo is all It is only after aCter marriage that I they come to understand that passionate passionate passionate pas pas- love is a kind of or spasm which no human being can experience continuously continuously continuously con con- I and live while marriage is isa isa a settled habit of or companionship and I toleration which if not very thrilling in time brings contentment and happiness happiness happiness hap hap- to restless humanity When one reaches the place where one can say perhaps say perhaps with wILh a little I catch of or the breath as the memory of loves love's thrills comes back If bac If love loe were only all one has reached a I place where the stream of or married life Ufe flows lows smoother I But a girl does not stop to analyze I during the first years of ot marriage Sho She only knows sh she is uncomfortable and unhappy She unconsciously blames her husband for not understanding the situation and making her place In her new environment as materially material material- ly as she had expected it to beShe be She has not yet learned that it Isas Isas is isas as Impossible to worship at the shrines of or love and Mammon as it is to bow to both God and Mammon Hal was not to blame blamo for hI his obtuseness obtuseness ob- ob in not understanding that I Idid Idid did not tip the housekeeper because I had no money The thought of or I mone money is the last thing that came camo to his mind He Tie was sure that I would be quite as content to rely upon him for fol my spending money as I was formerly formerly for for- I merl merly upon my father I am sure that if Ir he ho thought about the matter at all he told himself that I had no use for forI money as long as he was Vas with me I I All An the way to the station I felt i most uncomfortable Even wh when n Hal Ha I put his arms about m me In the cab ab and I I drew me toward him I was not able I to respond He lie of or I course not knowIng knowing know know- Ing my lack of ot money thought know know-I m my I coldness was because I resented his finding fault with me about the luggage lug lug- I gage gage and and there was another rift In Inthe Inthe inthe I the lute On my part when Hal drew away I did not realize Just shy he did itI it I I thought he was hungry and was 1 I planning on nn the dinner we were vere going to have ha on the train You see I It had I had I I I already found out that Hal had a one- one track mind consequently I felt Confirmed confirmed con Con- I firmed in my supposed intuition by his hissa I I sa saying We e will go into the diner I immediately I have been so busy bulY that I have forgotten all ali about lunch Did you ou order any I I No Xo Noe We e had breakfast so late dear I that I di did l not care for nn any I am I hungry hungT too I think It will be very Cry nice to have oae dinner In our cozy drawIng drawing draw draw- Ing room What That hat S Tomorrow Tomorrow AlIcia Alicia Gets Get a Surprise Copyright National r Newspaper Service Serice In Samoa Amos the natives look upon the male members of the tribe as cowards I until they are tattooed |