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The Brussels Post, 1938-1-19, Page 2, t "ROMANCE GNU MARRIAGE" By Rosemary Beryl (SYNOPSIS) Mary Desi eft, supremely happy, about to be married to Mallard Terrill, 1s warned by ,her !rend, -Lydia Market, that there are twu danger periods in marriage, the neeond year and the eeeeath. She marries Dick and in her hal" pinese laughs at Lydia's warning saying "pick is different' ' Five years later on return from a weekend business trip to parts Diene telle her 110 "is fed up wish line as he has ,found it." * * * The two whom God had joined! So finely made, so physically suit- ed! If only there had been laugh- ter in their eyes instead of stark despair, and .incredible hurt. "Fed up?' she said, with a ]idle choke, "Do you mean I have not been doing the right thing by you -- do you mean—yoit are disappointed --somehow?' ' Dick laughed shortly. He Wee a hundred' percent, blackguard ,.then, nd,he knew it, ,hut he wasn't going Sit o shirk, In his own mind' he had gone over all this again and again, 'Heavens! The littleness of his coop- Follow summer to its all -year home: Thrill to golf under blue skies, relax on warm sands - For For a winter vacation or a may, ay, there is never: a dull moment. And living costs are very moderate. Ghoo y wn some;: Fares app! direct() viatheCanadian Rockies, Van •Ruver and Vic- toria to San. Fr deco in one or both directions FULL INFORI ASTO ROUND • STANDARD • TOURIST FAR • COACH FARE aApplication to any Aaeai, TION RIP RARE ed up life with Mary, its crampo4 domestic limits, the stale lace of colour that marked the passing days. That hardened hire, "That's the word—disappointed!" Mary's face was tragic and she drew In a gasping breath. Disap- pointed! 1t brought a lump to her throat, "Of course, If it's like that," she said huskily. "And if you will tell ane what's wrong, Dick, why I'll do anything you want!" That lump in her throat nearly made ber voice break, and iehe was stili rather dazed, holding fiercely on to that table behind her fur sup. port. At any other time of weakness like that Dick's arms would have held her—.the Dick she had known, that is, "There isn't any particularthing that is wrong, it is everything, and You chiefly. I suppose I am wrong as well, but it is the way I am made." "Me?" I am wrong for you, Dick?" Her face was piteous, "1 thought—we were made for each other --S did, really. How am I wrong for you, Dick? And there le Dicky, too! Doesn't he count!" He was standing In front of her, leaning slightly back against the mautelplece, and a strange rook shot into his eyes at the mention of his son's name, but still there was that twist about his mouth. "It Is you 1 am thinking of chief- ly," he said stubbornly, "It is rotten hurting yru like this, and you can set me down for a cad, but I've got to do it! I have been thiuking lately, particularly when I've been away;, these week -ends. You cal me `Daddy,' don't you " Mary, leaning back too, looked at him, and the sound which came • from her was a sudden sob and laughter, a piteous mixing, 'So it was something quite silly, after all! Her hands relaxed their grip on the :table edge behind her and They , went up, very quickly, to his shoulders. There were tears in her 'eyes, "Oh, Dick, you silly boy!" she f said brokenly, "You frightened ills., T As quickly as hers had grasped b e- •eupicverds his herds shot out of his J Pita and he•gripped her wrists, ' bolding '!esn, now so that she was s upright a 'taut before hint, his 1 eyes hard and u ming. t 1 "Silly!' he exclai eiF�,itterly, "I to know tt sounds eddy and peevish, but it isn't! Than word is sumbclt- cal of what my life with you has be• come in .flue years, I am Dicky's father, but It has nothing to do with that; tt is the devilish significance of that word on the lips of a woman when applied to her husband." He was RAIN holding her wrists, brutal- ly, while she looked at him, white- faced and breathers, and he laughed harshly, "I lave seen men who have become slaves to the womenthey married. Their lives are bounded by their own kitchens, and the height of their ambition must- n't go beyond the bedroom cur:ains! I know ill! Life? They mustn't breathe the word because It has tak- en on a wicks 1 meaning, They are married and they mustn't look. St another woman's shoulders. I: they had known the'd ,have kept free. .And that is what 1 have been thinking about Mary. I ani going to be free." It had come tumbling out, with still not the half of it told ye;, but that was the main thing, the free. dom he had planned for himself and which she must be made to under- stand. „Dick!" It was a gasping little cry 1r.,m her, and she did not attempt to re- lease herself from him, She was trying desperately to grasp the meaning of it all. "You must be mad!" she chocked. He laughed at that and let her go, "you would say that, naturally," he said, "Every good woman thinks a man must be mad if he chafes under the yoke and sget restless In the eternal chains which wrap around b1m—when he is mar- ried to tbe wrong woman!" He said chat last deliberately, brutally, so that she should under- stand. Mary drew in a -deep steadying breath. The awfulness of under- standing was beginning to come to her, but it was still rather ine.'red- ible, Restless! That was the word he had used. "I have been tbinking this over or a long time Mary," he went on, Only I haven't wanted to hurt you. hat Is why 1 was late in getting ark this evening—thinking it over --a "Donk worry about hurting n:• ," he interrupted bulkily, "And I have come to the couclus- oa I owe this much to myself—and you. To be straight!" ' Two Neiv Ford V-8 Cars for 1938 ' THE BRUSSELS POST Itlary'a lips quivered, and her eyes wore looking .at !lint, ."Go en," she comutauded again, unsteadily. "Yost Flight as well dell me—everything." "I am trying to, This cooped up domestic life is good enough for yeti, you love 1t, and it oazt go an for You so far as I am concerned. but' 1 and cutting the chains which hold. ins down. duet because a man is married it does not mean that he bas given up the right to every particle of individual life of his Own, I have had five years of drinhing the 'plain water of life out of domestic the mug, and I want something different. It looked like Romance at first, but what a nar- row little cell! That's marriage to a man, Mary --when he has pick- ed the wrong woman!" The tears were in her eyes under the blow of He went on, saying much the same thing in other words, His marriage bad become irksome to him, that was tee bitter, devastating tr'ut'h of it. Nor was that lust a Mein mood, he had felt this far years, only he tad kept it from her for fear of hurting her. It was clear he accounted that to the credit of hit own nobility, but he had reached the end at last, and he was openly breaking the shackl- es which bound him to ber, "So," Mary faltered, "you really want to be free? You want to— leave me—and Dicky?" He laughed ct that, a little flatly. "I am not al: that sort of a blackguard, Mary. When 1 married you I took on responsibilities, a qi 1 am not running away from them nor from you, I only want you to know I am free to live my own life, and I owe that much to myself, That Is all it amounts to." "Dick!" Mary's voice was near to breaking. "Why haven't you told me all this before? I thought we were happy! I never guessed, somehow!' "There wouldn't have been the slightest use in telling you with the idea that you could change," he said, with a show of weariness. "You are yourself and I am differ- ent. I ate not tbe man you should have married. It was all right at first, but this everlasting domestic round from which there is no escape till a man break? .through!" Her Dick! Sanding on the edge 01 her shattered world in all the awfulness of revelation! She tried to cheek the sob which came, but eouid'et, while she w, u::g her hands. "There are those week -ends 'I have been away,' he went on, "You have suppose'! I have gone to Paris, bat I haven't; they have been escape for me. I have my own net in town, and I have had it for a long time, only I want You to know now—I am trying to be honest with you. If I am away for weekends, or for odd nights- =' She wasn't listening to him al. though he went on tacking, Phe was clasping her hands nervously fiercely. She couldn't let everything go like this without malting a fight for it. -, There was Dick, the man who had given her the refuge of his arms there was four-year-old Dicky up- s'tairs, the haven of her home, and the remembered beauty of every. thing. It was worth fighting for, blindly! 'Dick!" She came up close to him before be could stop her, and her arms went up about his neck to hold there, Pereely, "Oh, Dick, you haven't ben fair, if you had only told me—when you first thought about it!" And because the sobs were break- ing !core her helplessly, she held on to him more :tightly, ,pressing her face against his shoulder. 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"Altogether different. She is like the wine of life, all sparkle and colour and Romance. She is the woman I ought to have married. which held hor shoulders and step- ped back, "I didn't know it was—anything— like that --anything sordid," she gasped. "1 thought you were--rest- less-that I had --•that I had—cranlp- ed you, Well, go to Liane da Marva, and leave me!" He had been insensately cruel, and he was cruel now He laughed "Don't be a fool," he said. "1 am, married to you and that holds me, I havethat at it hi true, that is where 1 can express my own indi- viduality and live my own life when I choose, but I have no 1n• Mention of deserting you. I only want you to knhow thare," The tears wereow 10 iMaryings's eyes eti19, but the blue was beginning to show through with astonishing hardness. She could have forgiven him so much, but not that last, and she was clenching her bands against her side. "And it was for ber you took that She laughed again, queerly. flat In town " "Oh. what a dreadful foot T have "Liane has t.o:h(ng to do with been, Dick! I was a fool in not that. That t8 my affair," listenirg to Lydia Mary laughed --actually laughed' me aboutyou! when she warner —but it was a desparat'e sound, I ass a fool ever to believe in y'iu at all, or in my This was the end, it was no use own happiness! You have killed fighting against this! everything now, Dick—everything!" She broke away .from the hands "We are married," he said thttkly ; see. ro.a� l cibeSNAPS1-101- GUIL Memory Pictures of Home eeireeereitei err Home "interiors" less photographs In after years. They are easy DARE is the person of middle ag " who retains a good memory image of the home or hones in which he lived as a child, and who does no wish he could. • How tbe exterior of the house looked is not so difficult to recall, but once -familiar details of living rooms, how the furniture was ar- ranged, what pictures were on the walls, the appearance of the fire- place, how the stairway looked, how the windows were curtained, grow vague with fhb passing yearn—un- less photographs of these rooms taken at the time are available to refresh the memory. Chances are, in the case of most grown-ups of middle age and older, no such pictures were taken. But, in these days when there is a camera in almost every household, what a pity, really, to let youngsters grow up and leave home, without any pic- tures ever being taken of the living roams and bedrooms in which they spent so many of their childhood hours! It is probably because such pictures can be made at almost any time that we aro apt to postpone taking them. Since they can now be made easily with any camera, by artificial light at night, as well as by daylight, why, with all this time available, should we any longer nag - loot to take them? Isere aro a few pints on taking views of interiors: b Since no movement of the subject n needs to be considered, time ex- i posures aro hest, whether by day- light or artificial light, the time de- k pending, of course, on the fllm used, 1 the amount of light and the stop re opening in the lens. d than most subjects, become precious to make If time exposure Is used. e A small stop must usually be used - In order to obtain sharp images of objects at various distances from t the camera, 0 Leave all the furniture in its usual place, as far as possible, and take pictures from' several viewpoints. Do not crowd a lot of furniture in a small space just to show it off. It will not be the natural arrangement that you want to remember. Leave clear floor space in the foreground. This may require the removal of a nearby piece of furniture for some views, Watch out for distracting re- flections from mirrors or pictures. Have the camera on a tripod or other rigid support, and placed low enough so that more of the floor than the ceiling can be seen in the under, If the whole area of tbe picture is not clear in the finder because of dark tones and walls, have someone hold a light near the wall until you have fixed the view exactly. For interiors taken by daylight coming from only one window, a re- flector (of white cloth or paper the size of a, window shade) will in Crease the illumination of the cor- ners of the room. Ploo0light bulbs may also bo used in conjunction with daylight to considerable advantage, Interiors at night may he taken at time" with the illumination of three or four ordinary electric light bulbs, ut the Inexpensive floodlight bulbs ow available for Indoor picture take ng will serve the purpose better. I are should be taken with either Ind that an unshaded bulb is not ncluded In the picture or "fog" win ' salt, to JOHN VAN GUILDER. "Accdt'ding to God's holy ord!n' 911001" The bitter jecr of it nearly broke her down, and site caught In a sob)). log breath; "Alanazuade wel'ds," Disk sal& brutally, yet they had been high. tlful to him' .ince, "And tnaan-lnad0 . vowel" She would break do)rn 121 a mtnnte, ani( she put her !rands to Per thee% "Well, AS this ie the end, Diets, you are free and can go. I ant not be- ing a 1091 now, and I mean it!" A gl+iht came into Dick's eyes, Hadn't he made it quite ,clear to her? It wasn't that !freedom he was going to take, the freedom of. leaving her in the lurch! He had his responsibilities and be would. stand by them since he had married her. Ile strode forward and gripped. her again by the sho1Iders, his mouth hard set, If Richard Terrill could have known his own character he would. have known it was a compound 01 weakness and strength. (To Be Continued) ELMER D. BELL, B.A. Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Phone 20X - Brussels, Ont.• Vallmmffamage HAROLD W. LOVE General Insurance Agent Ethel, Ont. —. Phone 22-8. WILLIAM SPENCE Estate Agent, Conveyancer -wor and Commissioner General Insurance Office Main meet, — Ethel, Ontario important Notice Accounts, Notes, Judgements collected Our coil -acting dept ,neat is a result of years of successful expert- ence in collecting local or out -of. town accounts. No collection, no charge, Man i3urkes Collecting Agency (License 176) Head Office, Seaforth Ont JAMES TAYLOR License Auctioneer for the Count/ of Huron. 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