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Title: Why They Married

Author: James Montgomery Flagg

Release Date: November 24, 2007 [EBook #23611]

Language: English

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WHY THEY MARRIED

TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG

NEW YORK
LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1906

_Copyright 1906_
LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY
BRITISH COPYRIGHT SECURED
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

DEDICATED
TO SEVERAL OBLIGING MARRIED COUPLES
WHO HAVE POSED
FOR SOME OF THESE PORTRAITS

Don't be ashamed to let us know
Why you tried matrimony,
For others brave the under-tow
For reasons quite as funny;
We give these little facts away,
Perhaps it is a treason,
Don't marry in an off-hand way,
Be sure "there's a reason!"

THE AUTHOR

[Illustration: Yellow Dog]

[Illustration]

STUNG!

He was a gentle and sensitive chap,
He married the forceful Miss Howe,
He wanted her sympathy, did the poor yap--
He has everyone's sympathy now!

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

SHE KEPT HER WORD.

Maud hung onto straps in the Subway and "L,"
No man ever said "Take my seat!"
She swore that she'd marry the first one who did--
The next day her husband did meet!

[Illustration: Skiddoo]

[Illustration]

SKIDDOO!

When your wife jams her hat on and packs up her bag
And says "I shall go back to mother!"
If you sniff she will say, "Just for that I will stay!"
One excuse is as good as another.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

SHE LOOKED SO DOCILE!

John Quincy tho' kindly and gentle, declared:
"The man must be master, by gum!"
But his outlook on life, is just what his dear wife
Lets him peer