Judge — September 20, 1919 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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September 20, 1919 Forever Is a Long Time By Wiasast P, Stenstan Ti. had quarreled. His bride of a few weeks had gone home to mother, He packing his suitcase and re- h.arsing in his mind the words he would use the note he intended to leave for her. Burn- ing words, like these, would burst forth from the paper she would find on the table when she returned: (He was sure she would return. She always had before.) Sweetheart: We can never live together. 1am convinced of that. So I going away for- exr. But [want you to know that I love I have always loved you—that I will al- slove you. Dick.” He read it over, then made the underscoring un‘ler forever a little heavier. He wanted that to be the punch word of the entire note. Signing after the manner of a husband who has written his wife a note that he is going away forever, he folded it neatly and placed it by her plate on the table. Then he remem- bered that she always left her notes beside the ¢ box on her dresser. So he put it there. Sighing again in the same manner, only more deeply, he picked up his suitcase and looked about for his hat. Even husbands who are going away forever dare not go bareheaded. It was nowhere to be found, Just then the phonograph in the flat above started to play. Ordinarily, he would have called it a bad name and shook his fist in its direction. But this was an extraordinary occa- sion. He was leaving home forever, if he ever found his hat. He listened, though it was hardly necessary for a loud needle was on and the muffler cut out. What was the darn thing playing? Folks upstairs must have pried them- selves loose from a dollar and bought a new record, He ght the words of the chorus: “Forever, is a long, long tim The words cut into his soul. “Forever is a long, long time.” The phonograph was right Forever is the longest time there is. Yet he had used the word in his note. 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