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Show TOO MUCH ALIKE ) . Why Some Married Couples Are Not Over-Happy. Chances for Domestic Felicity Great at When There Is a Marked Die. similarity In Character. Two young people whom I knew ery well recently married, remarks a writer in London Answers. They bad each taken a distinctive degree at a university, and, to all outward appearances, were admirably, suited te each other. Some time after, when I went to Tlslt them In their new home, I failed to see the suitability. ' I do not know for certain that they bored each other I hope not, sine they are joined up but, oh, how they bored me I The atmosphere was laden with knowledge; the eatables on the table seemed spread on a geometrical plan. Nay, the very jam looked scholastic. They meant to be very charming, I ' do not doubt, and their conversation was edifying, but there was an absence ab-sence of Jokes poor or otherwise and lightness or gayety was nil. When I got outside I longed to see the wind lift the hat off the head of a tout man and watch him chase it In tain, or something to me equally funny and undignified, so that I could laugh away the oppression caused by toy visit. There was a bit too much llke" in that wedding, I thought She was a real sweet girl, but I felt as if she ought to have married some good fellow with more love than knowledge In his composition, who would have greeted her with a good bug that would have disturbed her smoothly brushed hair, Instead of the cold "peck" she received. He ought to have hod a woman who would fearlessly have poked fun at him, as well as having spirit enough to tell him of his selfishness in taking the' most comfortable chair in the room and appropriating the whole of the Are. True, there might have been an occasional flash in the pan, but at least it would have been living and not collegiate stagnation. In the dayjs when I used to think I knew something I remember being surprised at the choice of a wife made by a professional friend of mine. It seemed to me as though he, with all his attainments had simply thrown himself away on a demure, domestic mouse. "What a companion for him," I said to myself. "Why, she doesn't seem to have two Intellectual ideas In her bead I" That marriage proved a perfect suo-v suo-v . fess, and I learned why, for I visited them frequently. ' She Just adored her clever husband. V : and he, coming home in the evening, often fagged in body and brain, was ' -s glad to find thoughtful consideration S1" and Tearfulness. Later, when the children came, he said, too, that they were brought up and cared for as only a true mother knows how to do it. " ' Once I mentioned something like .' the subject of this article to him. His words in reply are, I think, worth repeating." . "If I had married a brilliant or a Tery intellectual woman I fear my club would have had- more of my company. As it Is, I turn my steps most willingly each evening toward my haven of rest. Ton see, after a day in the business arena, a man wants a chance, not a new battle to lny down his tools, so to speak." I once asked a lady how she had managed to keep her husband still her sweetheart after so ninny years of mnrrlape. She replied, with a merry laugh, and her eyes shone quizzically: "John Is such a big, good, serious fellow, ' quite my opposite, so I expect it Is Just the 'spice o the devil' In me that hns a charm for him." From my little gleanings and ex-. J perlences I have been brought to the conclusion thnt the chances of hap-4 hap-4 piness are greater where contrasts of tempernrnent exist than when like marries like. |
