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Show ONE PHASE OF MARRIED LIFE Seeming Unhapplness Most Probably Due to Lack of Something to Talk About. It is the eternal tete-a-tete of married mar-ried life that most critics of that blissful bliss-ful condition find fault with. From it spring boredom and dull, sodden silence, si-lence, assert these cynics. Therefore, a hint for escaping this one depressing depress-ing quality of marriage should have our best attention. To illustrate, you will see It frequently fre-quently on the trolley, when a man and his wife are sitting side by side it is almost perpetual silence. They have nothing to say to one another. Perhaps the wife will emit a cheerful peep, but the husband will respond with'a nod of the head or a hesitating yes or no. - It is most always that way. No common interest observed. In fact, it looks as if they are mad at one another; an-other; as if they were bored. A young man or woman looking on the couple would be apt to say: "0, you married life." But they are not mad. Let some charming lady acquaintance come in and sit down by the husband and be Is all smiles and has plenty to say. Then he is a cordial companion. He is a changed man. And the same it would be with the woman. Now, don't misinterpret misin-terpret the scene. When that man and wife get . back home they drop their trolley manners and act sensibly and lovingly again. Mad he would just as likely be mad at the evening star or a bush full of roses. But you wouldn't think it on the trolley. New York Tribune. |