Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-21
MADAME WAS AWAY.

Trials and Tribulatfons of a Mar
ried Mantle Thought There
Would Be Little Trouble in Cook
ing His McaHs-When He Tried 1t,
However,, He Found 1t Wash d. as
Easy rs 1t looked.
Two men sat behind the vines of a
secluded veranda to smoke thier after
dinner cigars the other evening. AS
they smoked, they grew confidential,
and told each other some secrets that
were burdensome to their comfort.
A woman sat within the house, near a
window that opened on the veranda.
1t was a warm night, and the window
was open. But the woman was sup
posed to be reading and the men forgot
her existence.
Snatches of the conversation f1oatel
in to her, and as the theme wal par
ticularly interesting to femininity, the
woman listened. 1t couldn't be wrong,
she argued, because one man was her
husband and the other was her dearest
friends husband. Their talk amused
and interested her so much she told it
to a friend, and that person repeated it
in a newspaper Office, and SO it was a
secret no longer.
The theme of the mems conversation
is not an unusual one in Buffalo this
month. Dozens of other men could take
part in it il they chose. The dearest
friends husband was trying to keep
house while his wife and the children
were in the country for a few weeks.
You know, clifford, I can make a
cup of coffee and broil a steak as well
as the next person, but when it comes
to washing dishes, l funk, that's all.
How the women keep the dishes in
shape is more than I know. Then it
beats all how untidy the bedroom gets.
l can't understand it, for l never had
any difficulty IN keeping my shoes, ties,
collars and those kind of things In their
place before. l suppose I forget to put
them away now that i have the break
fast to cook"
The oma listening, laughed, for
she knew all about certain bags and
boxes which her dearest friend had in
which she stored away her husbands
soiled linen and handkerchiefs and
kept his neckties straight. She re-
membered, too, her friend telling her
she had left everything is-applepie or
der for Herbert. Hell get along
nicely" the little woman said, '.for
the flat is in perfect order, there Is not
a soiled article anywhere, and I've left
a supply Of cooked things and have
told the milkman and baker to call
every morning in time for breakfast
1t wasn't so bad until l made my
first breakfast" the voice on the We
randa went on. that was not a src-
cess, for after I had made the coffee
n put on the eggs, I sat down to read
the paper a minute. What's a minute
when you want to find out about the
situation in China and If the demo-
Gratis have agreed on their PLATFORM
But it was long enough for the coffee
to boil all over the range and the eggs
to get as hard as bricks.
What coffee was left tasted queer and
L hadn't time to wash the dishes. | was
sure l had used only one plate and a cum
and saucer, but there was enough for half
a dozen persons. After | tidied up the
Kitchen L thought | would look over the
evening paper, when 1 remembered l
hadn't made my bed yet.
Il could have sworn burglars had been
IN the room. for there were more shoes
and neckties and things lying around than
L could wear in a week. l couldn't begin
to put them away Marion had one of
those long. narrow boxes for my neckties.
and trid to straighten the things out and