The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1902-07-12


The Capitol Hin young woman
those steeI-jaWed mother had 80
often told her that the only way %
,lsnk a husband was 20 nail him %
hoard and simmer him before q slow
Are right from the jump. got after her
husband on the cigarette smoking
ouestion about q month ago. They'd
then been married about two months.
you promised me that you'd dive
m the horrid things-that you'd dive
NO smoking altogether. IN fact, after
the excitement Of getting married was
over"
Did II" he inquired. yaWning cav
srnously and lighting q fresh one.
We'll, I must have been smoking
when I said that"
But that was one Of the conditions
Of my marrying you" she said, look.
ing so much like her steel-jawed
mother as she said Il that her hus-
hand suffered . slight chill and pulled
down the open windows.
"Um-msybe %" he responded,
pufing away comfortably. But
we're married now, you know, and
er-whats the use Of chasing = street
car after you've caught It, 20 to
speak,"
Then y0U don't intend to stop
smoking those awful cigarettes?'' she
interrupted IN q hard tone.
Maybe III think Il over after they
stop making EN-" vas his reply.
VARY wen, then-Tairy wen" said
she, suddenly closing up like a patent
trousers streteher.
. Her mother had also Taught her
that q married woman has a heaven
born right to do any old thing that her
husband does and she was foolish
enough 70 believe the same.
once more. VARY well" she mused,
Sullenly. I'm lust eBes how he win
like q No. 2 cigarette smoker IN his
family. Poor. dear, abused mammals
teachings shall not 90 in vain. III
Just turn the tables on him and get
him where TsWant him BY smoking
cigarettes myself, 90 I WiIl.P
Wherefore, when her husband had
departed for the once on the-n next
day, she Jared forth and purchased q
little package Of the paDer-SWaddlSd
Turkish smokettes.
Nov, when he rings the ben" she
said 10 hersslf-Ae- had 10 ring 70 set
IN for the reason that she didn't allow
him latchkey, fearing that he might
90 out alone some evening and remain
until a quarter past eighf-"Tn Just
90 70 the door Puming one Of these
things. and IN Be Just e. bold and
bEszen a. can be, and blow the
smoke in his face. and thatn be such
lesson 20 him that hen never smoke
another one Of them as long as he"
"Whangls Rent. the front doOFbeIl.
and she hastily touched . match 10
her second cigarette.
There he Is howl" she said 10 her.
self, and, with the cigarette stuck
jGuntily between her teeth and q
q ba-ad, I-dare-you-tO-slapmeoa-the-
wrist expression in her eyes, she
yanked the Festibule door wide open.
Then the four spinster members Of
St. Cynthia's Guild, WhO had called
around to confer with her about lee
machines and hannelette nighties for
the Zulus, took one long, frozen look
1t their felIoR-member e. She para
lyEedly,. automatically and helplessly
pulled cigarette smoke in their faces.
Then, with four individual sniRs and
q quartet Of outraged tossings Of the
head, they marcaed down the front
steps without . word.
d. The young WOman's husband enter
Cd the front gate Just as they were
coming out and they never noticed
him He didn't understand until he
entered the stii open VeStibuled door.
and found his wife sitting, horror.
struck, on the edge Of hail tabOu-
rette, with the SIN burning cigarette
In her hand.
Then the brute sat right down On
The floor and hOWied.
He had q howl coming, at that; hut |
she couldn't see Il. and she blamed
the whole thing on him. She doesn't |
belong TO st. Cynthia's Guild any
more now, and he's sti1 smoking EN-