Life — December 10, 1896 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Ir is her opinion at the present time that no reform movement is fully equipped unless it has brakes on it “You see," she said, ‘I tried to reform George. “Of course,” said the engaged girl; ‘that's what you married for, wasn't it?” “Well, not entirely,” answered the young married woman, hesitatingly. “And, of course, you didn’t succeed,” put in the older married woman, who had some experience in that line herself. “ But that’s just the trouble,” replied the young mar- ried woman, ‘I did—at least, I got him started, and now there's no stopping him, You see, I got him to stop drinking first. He didn’t drink much, anyway, but I got him to stop it entirely, and for a few weeks he was cross and irritable. But be got over that, and I was so pleased with my success that I undertook to get him to stop smoking. He said he felt so much better since he stopped drinking that he was beginning to believe there was a good deal of benefit to be derived from abste- miousness, and he stopped smoking, It was three months before he was in a fit condition to inhabit the same house with a human being, and two or three times I begged him, for heaven's sake, to go to smoking again, but he wouldn’ “You ought to be gratified to think that you have “Yes, a good thing,” repeated the young married woman with emphasis. ‘A reform movement that you can't stop when you want to is one of the most annoying and disagreeable things that it is possible to have around the house. My husband thinks he feels so much better that he has become a crank. He doesn’t believe in pep- per or condiments of any description any more, and has instructed me to dispense with them entirely in the house.” ** Outrageous!" “ He considers coffee injurious and won't have it on the table, and he insists that candy will drive any woman to an early grave.” “* Preposterous! “Isn't it?) But there doesn’t seem to be any help for it, He says that now he’s started he’s going to reform that houschold from top to bottom.” “That's the way with men, my dear. You marry one to reform him, and he thinks you have married him to be reformed,” and the older married woman looked very wise, while the engaged girl looked in the direc- tion of a box of bonbons on the table and began to think that possibly she would better not try to reform Harry at all.—Chicago Post. “Do I love George?” mused Clara, softly, or is it affection that 1 feel for—" HERBERT S$, STONE AND COMPANY, CHICAGO, Stories from the Chap Book. The Fatal Gift of Beauty, and Other Stories. 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