Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-16
HIS OLD FRIEND, MARRIED

x1A9 O111H hAGIN41, NlkAhhAG1O.
I'm sure you must hate me" said
little Mrs. Fodder
I had made up my mind to hate YOU"
| confessed.
"That was unkind," she murmured.
"But now that / know you II
"That was inevitable" said Fodder.
"You have known Joseph many years,
Mr.. Wroughtnight, have you not?" asked
Mrs Fodder, lingering the cloth.
Il used to think so,'' / said.
She tried to look as if she understood
me.
"But my idea of him was all wrong,'
/ went on. ''He is different altogether
from the man l thought he was
Better or worse?" said she.
hesitated.
please don't consider me" said Pod
der. His face was haggard with appre-
PENSION.
Put that is just what we are DOING,
said Mrs. Fodder, laughing Come, Mr..
Wroughtnight, better or worse?.
Neither better nor worse" / replied
Merely more ordinary"
Ordinary" gasped Mrs. Fodder.
"Oh, don't know that / object to
that, my dear" said Fodder, sourly.
1--WE are what we are" I said, sol
EMMY
1--WE are not necessarily what our
friends think we are, though" he re-
joined.
NO" said "You are not the man
| thought YOU were"
Il am quite sure you are wrong in
thinking that Joseph is ordinary said
Mrs. Fodder, gravely. mo one is more
keenly alive to his failings than / am.
He has many, many faults, unfortunate
" But-he is emphaticallya not ordi-
nary"
word" | yentured.
"But doesn't that imply something
sleepy and slow?" she asked, doubtfulIy
1T means something that isn't any
thing much" explained, lucidly.
Don't you think we had better talk
about something else?" said Fodder un-
easily.
Nothing else could be so interesting
as this is,' his wife declared.
Its jolly awkward for me-" he pro-
tested.
1--WE can pretend you are not here"
she said
II can't, though" he retorted
81 know just what you think about Jo-
seph," said Mrs. Fodder, squeezing his
hand under the table. "You fancy that
because he makes jokes he never thinks
II did not even know that he made
| Jokes" ] said "And know he thinks
he does"
Joseph has very fine sense of hui
NOR she exclaimed, Indignantly. THAT
was the first thing that struck me about
him.
Il thought you always said, my dear
-" began Fodder.
There were other things, of course
she interposed. "But that was the first.
Shall tell Mr.. Wroughtnight what you
said that night wheh~-?"
Perhaps it might not interest him, .
Fodder objected feebly.
"Oh, yes. it will" l said, but fhout
any enthusiasm.
Gle said" began Mrs. Podt- 1ut
first must tell You what led :"
~ really don't think Wrough -.r,he is
the least interested, my dear" said Pod
der.
Here. of course. played suppliaDt, and
the story was duly related Ar. hour
passed in the telling. 1t is sufficient to
remark that if my time is to he wasted
i usually prefer to waste it myself and
in my own way,
"very droll,s said, when the story
Tended.
"Ah.s cried Mrs. Fodder, flushed with
triumph "You viii never say again
that Joseph has no sense of humorl"
/ had said no such thing, but | an
swexed meekly; Il win never again be
SO feolish.h
"Why, it would make story, written
down. she said.
"a book s most" said /.
you write things yourself" she hint
cd.
sc;nly my own things. Mrs. Fodder"
Il don't suppose Joseph would object
to-"
'NIy dear Connie" said Fodder, ''what
earthly use would that rubbish be to
Wroughtnight3"
You are so modest, dear" she
sighed
4 THAT isn't your fault, Mrs. Fodder
said, to console her.
"No. do what l can" she admitted.
!aughingly.
lN1h1uiN9uie WtANueE we We bteh nav
ing lately said Fodder. wont you try
one OF these old chaps | wonder who
win get in for Romleighss
His speech was feverisk and detected
Talking seems to have J. iued letter
writing in the limbo of lost arts OBJ
served
That is what you always say. dear
said Mrs Fodder.
/ Conversation nowadays consists main
~ Of iepetiti0rs and personalities" 1
continued TT is Just as wrong to mo.
nopolize the conversation as to contrib
ute nothing to il. We should strive to he