Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-23
REV F CORDOVAS RESIDENCE

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| could do to climb the stairs or to pick
UP the babys playthings from the floor
after had my regular housework done.
When 1 was real we'll and strong I
didn't mind his chasing me about the
table until 1 couldn't run step fur
ther; l didn't mind playing tag with
him in the garden. But most of the
time 1 haven't been strong enough to
enjoy such things
A Teasing Tyrant
But Mr.. Cordova never seemed to
understand that and to please him I
usually tried to play as long as I could
with him, until sometimes 1 have sim
| ply fallen on the floor or on the ground
from exhaustion. But let me ever re-
monstrate with him, let me ever try to
stop the nonsense before he was good
and ready to stop himself, and right
away he went off in % milf, just like
little child, and maybe he wouldn't
speak to me again all day, or for sew
eral days. He didn't think he was sell
fish; indeed, he didn't mean to be sell
/ fish, but the result was all the same for
| us.
HE was a man who would have his
own way. He couldn't stand it to be
crossed, or contradicted however inno-
Gently one might do it. When he
wanted to have fun or recreation, he
thought everybody else in the house
ought to do the same thing, no matter
be, and no matter what urgent work
was waiting to be done. But when he
was working, when he was writing his
sermons, nobody in the house dared 20
STIR 1t was all / could do to get my
work done at all without disturbing
him. Sweeping annoyed him, and the
sound of scrubbing brush drove him
almost frantic when he was trying to
think, he said"
In answer to a question as to how
she proposed to provide for her children
she said:-
II don't believe there is anything but
housework that L could ever learn. 1
had never earned any money. 1 don't
know how to do anything but house
work. It's all 1 have ever done, the
housework in my own little house and
my own sewing. Neither of them
amounts to anything when it comes to
making a living, though, for four
people. If this had only happened five
or six years ago. or early in my married
life, it would have been quite different.
I was younger then, and 1 could have
learned quicker, and hadn't got used
to living comfortably. 1t was only in
the last few years that we had got our
selves really nicely fixed. We were just
beginning to build up our little home
as I had always dreamed of doing. Mr..
Cordova made $500 at South River, and
we had the rent of the parsonage
thrown in free of charge. That made
it amount to quite rich. The house
was the incest 1 ever lived in, and
South River was such pleasant place
liked the people so well. Rhea, my
little girl, and Edward, my little boy,
were doing so beautifully at school,
and they were growing up enough TO
pretty nearly take care of themselves.
Eyes, il it had happened long ago 1t
would have been so much easier, but
then-I wouldn't have had all my little
children, and my children are the only
comfort 1 have in this thing, now that
1t is all over and done with. L don't
know what I'd do without them. III
don't know how I'd feel without them.
1 mean that 1 don't know how I'd feel
morally if didn't have my little fam
lily. L didn't realize-in fact, 1 never
thought of the matter in this light
until L discovered that Julia Browne
was with my husband in Mexico. I
never dreamed that he had taken her
along with him, but l got his letters
every week, saying how he was longing
to see me and the children, and sending
us his love and kisses when all the
time Julia Browne was with him, and
leaning over his shoulder
while he was writing me those cruel
letters. / thought all last summer that
we would get II patched up. L made n
thousand excuses for him. defended |
him in the faces of my friends and
relatives. because 1 thought he was
sorry, because l thought that he stin
loved me in spite of what he had done
and what he had said. Then when 1
found that his life in Mexico was a lie.
and that Julia Browne was with him
after all-then l gave up all hope OF
sver becoming reeonciled. Now there Is
nothing for me to do but TO bear II, 1
suppose. for can't forgive it ana can't
forget it,"