Why Is He Not Happy?

From the Pliiladolphia Ncivs. When Fred Falsestep wan 18 yeara oíd he married a girl from his mother's kitclien. She was pretty at the tim with the beauty incidental to youth, red clieeks, white teeth, bright eyes, trim figure. After the regulation family row Falsestep, Sr., diel. He left $20,000 to his son. Fred, being an energetic person, went into business. In the cours of years he finds himself worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars. He keeps abreast of the literature of the day, and 8ometimes finds time to read the classics. Without beinga heavy literary swell, he thinks and lalks like a decently educated gentleman. His wife'8 mental faculties have stood still, while his have matured and improved with years. Many of Falsfistep's famüy acquaintances stick to him in spite of his matrimonial blnndei. After a visit from the women of suchhouseholds, Mrs. Falsestep greets her husband with: "Them Scraightback girls were here this afternoon. You never seed how plain thiy were dressen." She wonders why Fred is not interested in his old friends and doesn't ask her any questions concerning t'nein. Mrs. Falsestep devotedly loves her husband. She thinks him the wiset man on earth. When she persuades him to drive in the park with herand a more brilliant spectic!á than Mrs. Falsestep attired for an Oütini; it would be diilïcult to fin 1 - she rattles on in this way: "Did you hear them cara, Fredï Where does them go to? Here's Mr. Oldsryle. Ain't he awful? You ain't looking the right way. Thia carriage comin'i? his'n." But Falsestep's wife is as true as steel to him. Why is he not happily married?