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Show ' TO AVOID M MONOTONY H BY LUCILLE DAUDET. H Ej r ' destroys onos nerves to bo jjg&A amiable every day to tho same H 5J human being," wrote Lord Bcaconsfleld several decadea ago. Today It might be a good idea If all thoso about to enter upon tho H career of matrimony framed that and hung it up as a motto in the most fro- H quently visited chamber of their Monotony Is probably the chief foo of love. When life gets worked out H by a formula It can hardly be expect- H cd that it shall havo tho joy of tho un- H solved. Human nature was built for H struggle, and striving to mako "cas- tics in the air" gives zest to living. H Life has to build itself on a series o" H dreams come true. It must not be an H affair of knowing that Wednesday's lamb and apple sauce and rico pud- ding will Inevitably bo repeated next H Wednesday. Neatness and orderliness H arc perfectly splendid, practical means H toward getting things done systemat- H icallv; but three hundred and slxtv- fl five days a year given to sixteen work- ing hours of system would fairly well H shut romance and suspense and tho fl Jov of the unexpected out of life. H Tho need of change is ono of tho big facts of life; and If married poo- H pic would just come up for air onco in a while, and get a little perspective IH on each other, it would do them worlds jH When Friend Husband comes back H from his trip to tho Maine Woods ho H has a lot,, of new stores to tell and H that in itself is a relief to the wife. H who hears last year's crop every timo they go out to dinner together. And H Friend Husband himself is tickled to H death at having something new to re- IH Tho professional dancer doesn't And. H dancing very stimulating; women who H write for newspapers seldom plungo H Into the folly of writing letters thev 1 wish they hadn't sent, and the people H who live within a stono's throw of 1 Niagara Falls take It about as placid- H ly as Indiana folks lake their own glo- IH nous, dcep-hucd heavens. IH Familiarity does breed contempt H and so true is that, that most of us H look on the old proverb as trite. "'Always!' That is a dreadful word. H Women are so fond of using it they 1 spoil every moment by making it last H forever!" wioto a cynic as ramous as H he was infamous. IH "Always" is a dreadful word. No IH less horiible than forty days of gray H gloom, with the rain diipping from jH the caves anl turning the streets into IH mud, would bo forty days of golden IH sunshine and cerulean skies. Tho flrst H day of even a northeaster storm Is 1 pretty good fun If you don't remember jH that there arc two more to follow. H Marriage ought not to cut people off jH fiom their old interests. A man who H has fouud joy in club life ought not to jH look on club life as a lost paradiso M because ho is no longer a bachelor. If H golf or Ashing, or a gamo of "Kelly H pool," or a visit to somo chum, or H even a trip to tho "movies" or thca- H ter with an old pal, lelax a man and H rest him and keep him from feeling M that marnagb is a harness which M chafes, why shouldn't any sensible jH wife urge the man she loves to go out M and kick up his heels like a careless jH joung colt? Freedom is most allur- H ing, most tempting, when forbidden- H |
