Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22

downstairs, and The downstairs hall, and th
elevator, when the men folks in our apartment
come home from their business in the evening
It's combination of peppermint and cloves
and roastel coffea and such nonsensical things
that those stupid rnen have taken with the idef
that they'll be able to disguise their breath,
| from their wives
| Now my husband and have a perfect un.
derstanding as to his drinking, and we never
have the least semblance OF quarrel about
IT, He knows perfectly well that 1 will not
tolerate drinking on his part. At FIRST for a
year or SO after we We're married. he would
come in from his business occasionally with
his breath smelling of things that 1t had no
right to smell of, although, of course, never
knew him to drink to excess. But 1 up and
told him that he'd simply have to quit drinking
altogether or stay away from me entirely
whenever he took so muhc as one drinix--it
would have to be one thing the other,
He agreed to my suggestion with the great
est good WILL and SO that is our little arrange
ment
If you go about it in the right way, as L
di, it's just as easy to train husband as 1t
Is to train kitten or canary bird. Now
you know how fond of Limburger cheese am
once in while-not often, you know. my dear
but Just occasionally, and when 1 want 1t 1
simply must have it. Now, my husband sim
ply cannot tolerate the smell of Limburger
cheese. It's affectation on his part of
course, like lot OF the airs these men put on
but he pretends that it's genuine.
Cheese Broker Now
When Il first ate Limburger cheese before
him he snorted and beloved around and de-
clared that he wasn't going to have it, and
all that sort of humbug; but i cooled him
down pretty quick by telling him that there
wouldn't be anv pork chops in our fiat until he
learned to tolerate the smell of Limburger-
and he is just crazy over pork chops. He had
the nerve to say that pork chops were decent.
human food, although I can't endure them
whereas, he said, Limburger was not fit for
savages.
without meaning it, and he went hungry for
pork chops for two months that winter, and
then. when he began to plead for them, of
course, 1 had him where wanted him, and 1
told him that there'd be pork chops on our
table just soo. he announced his will
lingness to have Limburger cheese in the fiat
whenever wanted it. Well, he came right
down then, of course, but we made new ar
rangement. 1t was that whenever / ate Linn
burger cheese he was to go out and stay out
till the smell died down in the house and he
said that 1t took al least seven hours for the
smell of Limburgez to work its way out of a
how dearly my husband loved to stay at home
with me- and IT pleased me 10 see him willing
to make such sscrifice- That arrangement,
too, has worked beautifully ever since
Whenever I have L5rn1urger my husband
goes out and stays out about seven or eight or
nine hours. no matter IL our arrangement
keeps him out until away in the morning
And he has taken II so kindly that now he
about million Wrappers or course, and he
always comes home in cab when he has it /
with him. Yes. lie actually fetches 1t TO me, /
after the way he used TO object to it, 1 sup /
pose that indicates that 1 don't know how to |,
handle mani
"Its just the easiest thing in the world, my |
lear. If you only go about it in the right way. H
You might know that when my husband puts \
himself to the misery Of staying away from me I
'or seven or eight or nine hours just to permit [
ne to- indulge my little fancy for Lmburger |,
,heese, why he certainly must be trained all
light, and when he-but sh there's the cur
ainl I'll tell you the rest of it, my dear, how
trained him when go to the dressing I
'oom during the intermission to powder our
losesl'