DREAM HUSBANDS

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4251, 13 April 1921, Page 1

DREAM HUSBANDS

THERE-ARE MANY WIVES WHO IDEALISE MEN FRIENDS.

Mabel has been>married only once; yet she wears two wedding rings. She says the thinned gold band is to keep the other from slipping off.

Many a girl emerges into the married state with something of the breathless sensation of leaving a cold' bath in winter. And she is scarcely married to one man before her whole mind becomes filled with another.

There are far too many girls like Mabel.

This type of girl makes what we hke to call the "ideal" match. Her husband loves her adoringly. . Thej have a cosy home and no serious money troubles.

Therefore it is with surprise and concern that friends find man and wife beginning to drift apart almost before the first year of marriage is over.

Mabel is such a sweet little thing that you would never think of her as a home wrecker. She seemed to have her heart's desire when she married Tom. And certainly Tom, in hi& uneasiness and distress at his •wife's change from affection to mere friendliness, never thinks of her as the destroyer of his happiness.

The truth is that Ma Del has a second husband, Jack-—a <lream husband! Jack is, however, very much a creature of this world, t though quite unaware of his flal'lei'ing relationship to Mabel. All he knows is that she is honey-sweet to him whenever they meet, and that fora platonic pal Mabel is "it." But to poor, foolish little Mabel, Jack is the only man in the world.

BABY WILL BIND THEM

TOGETHER,

Many a Mabel misses happiness because she has lost control over her imagination. Vain, visionary Mabel has never been sincere with herself; therefore she has never been herself. She has lost all sense of proportion in relationships; she moves in bright realms of delusion and turbulent emotional unrest.

It is said of the late Charles Garvice that he could make any girl who read one of his novels feel that she was actually the heroine of the storySome girls go one better —they weave themselves into the fabric of their own fiction. '

Of course, the instinct of selfpreservation invariably makes the moral bigamist keep her "buehshee" husband to herself. Mabel may tell her intimate friends. But rarely does she take her dream husband into her confidence.

Despite the fact that here mind is always in emotional surge, however, there are deeper tides in her nature. When the novelty of her dream hushand has worn •away she is capable of a lucid interval. Wherefore, though to-day she leave Tom disheartened at her indifference, a month hence she may be sobbing rapturously in his arms.

But not until baby comes will Mabel be her same sweet self. What better bond than baby can bind man and wife together? Let us hope for her sake that Tom will bear with her till then.