The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-29

tured. "Why. my dear, I don't trouble
you about my business perpleXities, do
I? Really, / haven't time to think OF
sc much--with this campaign on my
shoulders. too. You must try to man
age better. Find stylish seamstresses
and don't trust even them. Study the
magazines and styles yourself. 1t is
quite a. study. but l am sure you have
time. And while 1 think about 1t,
dear. 1 wish you would see that the
roasts are not overdone.'
The smokers and little receptions
among the men became bores.
go many women now being in bust
ness. their husbands were compelled
to maintain the family position to So
ciety. Mr. Dawson submitted. Buc
he considered it an internal nuisance
to carry his wife's cards around with
him. Sometimes he could not remenl-
Der how many gentlemen there were
in family.
There was something worse than all
this He could not fail to perceive, in
spite of the usual masculine obtuseness
in such matters, that he was no longer
welcome at his wife's office. She re-
ceived him politely, but coldly. Then
she ignored his presence. If she
CHANGED to he busy, she at once be-
came very -aggressively so. in
something to engroSS her attention.
In anger. one day, he tainted her
with it. She renlied. without passion
but with cutting coldnesS that it was
not good for business to have ones
husband sitting around the office; that
women did not come in so readily,
feeling afraid that something might
be overheard and repeated.
You have a young gentleman type
writer" sneered Mr.. Dawson.
That is different" said his wife.
smiling good-naturedly.
So the two years had gone by. Some
things had improved; others had
grown worse. III health and the mar
row world he moved in seemed to have
affected Mr.. Dawson's mind He felt
that his wife neglected him. At times
he was proud of her brilliant success,
financially and politically; her popu-
larity, her beauty and grace. At others
he was violently jealous of-everything
and everybody, even the young man
who musically took down her thoughts
in the office.
1t was absurd, of course, but he
was such beastly looking young
TOOL! What business had he to put
fresh flowers in her vase every day.
He asked her once furiously if she
paid him for that. She looked at him
in cold displeasure. Then she left the
house, and scarcely spoke to him for
week. At the end of the week she
remembered his invalidism, and relent-
ed On the way home she bought
pretty trif1e, q jeWeled scarf pin, and
gave it to him with show of affection.
He was deeply touched. Then she re-
ally loved him, after all!
Thereafter she permitted herself to
become angry with him more readily.
The temporary enlargement furnished
a reasonable excuse to spend several
nights down town with the girls; and
when she was tired of it she had only
to carry home some pretty jewel-and
peace was restored. Mr.. Dawson S
life was becoming such a narrow, wall
ed-in existence that he was losing his
spirit
1t is not surprising that Mrs. Daw-
son looked at him angrily over the
breakfast table. However. she made
no answer to his unreasonable COM
plant
rs it necessary that you should
make so many trips to Salem?" he
asked, presently.
Yes, my DEAR she replied. coldly
UNLESS you wish to see me defeated ~
And is it necessary that you should
remain out until l or 2 o'clock every
night?"
1T is" Mrs. Dawson spoke firmly
to convince herself as we'll as her hus-
band. My dear, have had enough of
this. You were pleased-I repeat,
pleased-with the idea of my running
for senator, or I should not have &C
cepted the nomination. Now, already,
you annoy me with petty complaints
and jealousies prefer being at home
with you and the children, certainly;
but L cannot neglect my business or