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Show THE HAPPICST MARRIED COUPLE I KNOW Tho Amerlcau Magnslno has been offering prizes for tho best lottors In I tho -toatest entitled "The Happiest J Mailed Couple I Know." In tho Sep tombei number the prise winning Iet-tera Iet-tera ure published. Following is an ctrapt from an nmuslns contribution, tram the contest: "Alter a coitful survey of the cou-llts cou-llts o: my acquaintance. 1 have, .xached tho conclusion thtt my hua-1 hua-1 and and t aro the two happiest raar-licd raar-licd people 1 know. And 1 attribute the .harmony of our household to our reso uta smoeMns of every Unown euhifce over set down for. the nsaur-:.ncn nsaur-:.ncn of marital' peaco. "I saw him first in -a diner and, noted with Joy thnt I had ilUoovered n man whose 'table manners vore laud .ally pel feet. Whereupon 1 ask od hiia for tho su t with tho sweetest smile 1 could muster, a thing no nioe gfi-i' would eer 4o. i was married to him uroe weeks later, In the Very tooth ot my horrified relatives, simply sim-ply because he was -going abroad for hi;, firm and' 1 haa OJ.faita in that nbsonce which make" tue heart bkiv lon'aei'. "Every other woman who has ever mentioned it to nic ioolt back on her huuomoon us a nightmare of thoee dlajpvumuueutB und adjustments which inevitably mar the first year ot married lite. Knowing nothing of my trnvollng companion beyond his table manners, I oscaed both disappointments disappoint-ments und adjustments, and, Varring a trifle of m&l de mer, had a por-Cect por-Cect time. " V e do not consult ae to the training train-ing of the children. If be irtorte a dlsol'JInary measure, be finishes it. It 1 d". thi.t la my ftffalr. Nor have e rtny metes to equtmon. Ho goes off fpr a mouth's fishing or hunting .hin the apt it motca, and I bu my opera ticket without notify tug Wm-He Wm-He ta vieifeetly free to go to the club rJ, any Urn, and bt goes about twice a. real'. J- "I hHv never put out his s'ipper or the etude In l drese ehlrtil have never uu him at the door with a rpe in my hair; I, do not write him rvery day: ,1 do not ow. whether he takes one lump or two, aud he has never inquired -whether I like it well ilono or rare. I havo never been perfectly frank with him, tiny more thau with othor people. I lie to him about something or other praotloally every day, ami I am euro he shov-s nr i'10 c.aio cou:.eey. Ho seems t . ' h 1 nui nbout t'T only wo-rosn wo-rosn In tho block who lino roses every Saturday night and whoso husband never falls to notice a now dress. "When wo started off on our honey moon, wo decided that whenever marriage proved n falluro wo would stop right thero. Thoro Is nlways that delightful prospect of freedom Just ahead, luring us on for another month or two, Just as It has for thirteen jears. hllo I nin not at all sure that I havo learned to love liltn, 1 do think hu Is tho most Interesting man 1 havo cvor met, and I havo nov q? censed to dellfht in tho perfect table nuinneiB." |