The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-12-09
"A Wife's Effort
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This story goes TO show that when
an unprincipled woman makes I'D her
mind she will stop at nothing to ac.
eomplish her object.
Holmes, Barry and Conant were fast
friends. They were unlike in every re-
spect, even in age, being respectively
forty, thirty-six and twenty eight. We
near often Of two bosom friends, but
cases of three such are very rare.
When they first came together all
were bachelors, but soon after Holmes
married, then Barry, then Conant.
When Holmes was about to launch In
to matrimony the friends had a dinner
together, and Holmes made a special
request that his marriage should make
no difference in their intimacy. This
led to a similar request at the times of
the marriage of the other two, and
there was an iron bound pledge be-
tween them that their wives should
never separate them.
OF course, as each man married, his
friends saw less Of him, but periodical
meetings were kept up, and there was
no falling off in friendship. Their
wives seemed content with their at
tachment for one another, and when
the last marriage among them took
place, that of Conant, his wife pro-
posed that the wives make up q trio of
friends similar to that of their hus-
bands.
There Is always weak link In O
chain, else chains would never break.
Mrs. Conant on the first occasion after
her marriage that her husband dined
with his two friends took 1t into her
head to invite their wives to dine with
her. They accepted the invitation, but
were insufferably bored. Mrs. Holmes
was a reserved woman, Intellectually
inclined; Mrs. Barry's chief interest
was dress, while Mrs. Conant was CIV
en- to discussing erotic novels. The
consequence was that at 10 o'clock the
women were all at home and in bed,
while the husbands turned In at 1 In
the morning.
Mrs. Conant's scheme to bring the
women together having failed, she con-
cluded that the triangular masculine
friendship must end. She began by
ridiculing the wives of her husbands
friends. This did not serve, and she
ridiculed her husbands friends them
selves This annoyed Conant, but
made no difference In his feelings to-
ward Holmes and Barry or his treat
ment of them. Mrs. Conant's next
move was to cease calling on their
uninteresting women and she had no
use for them. They saw plainly what
Mrs. Conant was aiming at and stood
by the friends nobly, not because they
approved Of their friendship, but be-
cause they disapproved of Mrs. Co
nant's efforts to break it up. Conant,
though, after every meeting with bis
friends, suffering from his wife's
sneers, remembered the agreement he
had with them and kept on meeting
them, but as his wife glared at them
when they came to the house he fell
to meeting them at their own houses
or at such places as men frequent.
Mip. toHdHl hoW iounu hciScA oos
In the cold. Mrs. Holmes and Mrs.
Barry to spite her became intimate
with and encouraged the trio TO meet
at their houses The women succeeded
In making themselves so popular that
the men were glad to admit them as
cronies. This was a condition not to
be endured by Mrs. Conant, and she
found breaking up Of the intimacy
essential to her health and happiness.
She pretended to relent and induced
her husband to bring Holmes and Bar
ry frequently to his home. Then she