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Show B A BRIDEGROOM'S CONFESSION B8 In tho Juno Woman's Homo Com- U panlon, a bridegroom writes an nrtl- B o'o entitled, "My Wedding Morn," in B'' Mlilch ho says that on tho morning BB of his wedding day ho was not In tho H I particularly happy frame of mind H ' wlilrh most writers on this bjbloi't H , ) report. Following is an extract from fi his frank confession: Ee "Hero I was on tho vcrgo of real- H felng tho thing that I had wanted Htt most for over a year; and suddenly HB I found to my uttor amazomont that B I did not want it. Bk "I was dlsmistcd with mysolf, I 4 bcrnted mysolf roundly for a card am' M a coward, but I could not cliango tho BBj: feollng. With tho drowning man's j pnnoramlo oyq, I saw all the cholc- K' Cb1 moments of my bachelor days. I )BBl remombored tho gay, Irresponsible j times that my best man nnd 1 had s! had together. That was a pretty good ' llfo, after all, that wo had lod, our pilK,,; ' j eld bachelor apurtment was a good In LiSB BbL HIHHBBBvJi place, I thought to myself. And I was leaving It! I had nlways hoard that folks with curly hair wero fickle, and had dismissed tho saying as Idle, superstitious su-perstitious chatter. Now it flashed upon mo that my hair is curly; I know In a terrlblo Instant that tho saying was true. My hair was curly! cur-ly! I was flcklo; hero was tlio first ovldenco of it. I was on tho edge of my marriage, and I didn't want to marry. "Suppose the tursod weakness, my fickleness, wero to follow mo thrnuph llfo. Supposo I wero to find that my love was not strong enough. I bo married forty years! Forty years tho thought staggorcd mo. "People had said that thoy novor knew a man who prized his lndepen denco moro than I. It camo over mo now of a sudden that in twolvo hours 1 would no longer havo any Independence. Independ-ence. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, for forty years, I would havo to make every decision not on tho basis of what I wanted to do but of what wo wanted to do. "For forty ears, I would novor bo ablo to go anywhere, do anything moot anybody, without a girl on my arm. Tho sweetest, loveliest girl in tho day after tomorrow, nnd world without end" |