RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31234, 5 December 1966, Page 28

RANDOM REMINDER

MARRIAGE LINES

If and when love’s young dream gets shattered, the tinkling of the broken pieces can be heard from afar. Any girl, setting off in married life, has stars in her eyes, for a while. Not many have has as rude an awakening as the newlymarried lady we were told about It was positively shocking. She was installed by her husband in a suburban residence, and there left to unravel the intricacies of house-keeping, a science with which she was not perhaps, as fully conversant as some. But she got by, not too often ordering

four times as much milk as they needed, or half a loaf of bread to last a week. She quite liked the life—being in charge of the domain gave her a sense of importance and well-being which she discovered was quite pleasant There was only one snag. It was the electric stove. It must have started its working life long before its new owners were bom, and it was a highly unsatisfactory contraption. It often gave off evil blue flames, and nearly every time she turned a switch she received a sharp electric shock. She mentioned this matter, in her diffident way, to her

husband. He said that if there was one mistake they were not going to make in their married life, it was buying things they could not afford. The stove kept on giving off shocks, she kept on mentioning 1L He said he would do something about it She regarded him with adoring eyes. He was really her man, and he would see that everything was fixed. If not a new stove, at least a thorough overhaul of the old one. He came home that evening, with a present for her. It was a large, black, rubber mat, which he put down at the foot of the stove.