Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-20

Leave your Olu MISUNDERSTANDING, anu
come along"
leave my hOuse-cleaning What
are you thinking of? Do you suppose
could go away with my house in this
condition and enjoy myself?"
II don't see why not 1t won't hurt
anybody or anything, and this is the
first outing of the Engineers Club
since our marriage, and you know
can't go without you
'sYou don't have to stay at home on
my account, I'm sure. What would
people say if 1 neglected my house as
you prOpOseT"
what do you suppose people would
say if l neglected my wife, as you
suggest l should at least appear to do?
Married six months, and already away
for a good time, and leaving her be
hind! You'd be proud to have such
husband-'brute,' people would call
him"
well, 1 suppose you'd be proud to
have a wife that everybody called a
sloven"
The voices were becoming gradually
more sharp, the words more unpleasant
TO the ear.
what do | care what people call
you? 1 think you might consider my
pleasure once in a while"
'sConsider your pleasure. Just as If
I wasn't Shaving here from morning to
night trying to keep this house clean
for you to live in, cooking your meals,
darning your stockings, doing every
thing woman can to make man
comfortable And this is all the
thanks 1 GET
Tears were coming by this time. and
Burton Stevens hated tears. With
great appearance of calmness he said;
Il certainly never would have mar
ried you if l had supposed it would
make you so miserable"
"Well, l wish you never had" was
the quick retort. 81 supposed l was
marrying q man of some feeling, who
would appreciate all l did for him,
but as it is, 1 wish I'd never seen you"
This was a little more than Stevens
could stand He rose abruptly from
the table, grabbed his hat and coat as
he rushed through the hall, and passed
on out of the house, slamming the door
behind him. Whereupon Genevleve
dried her eyes and sat back in her
chair, ito Think as she called 1t, but
in reality to give way to the tumul-
tuous feelings that surged over her in
recurrent waves.
This was what they had come to
after lust six months of married life
She had known that feelings changed
after marriage, but not like this-not
30 soon as this. Where was all the
love and devotion that had transformed
their lives a few months before? Once
she had thought that to serve Burton's
breakfast would raise her TO the sew
enth heaven Of delight. Well, she did
enjoy that still. But he was so unap-
preciative He seemed not TO under
stand how she slaved-yes, shaved was
the only proper wOrd-from the time
he left in the morning until he came
back at night to keep their little nest,
as he had once called 1t, spOtlessly
clean. He was always coming home
and wanting her to go of with him
ON some lark, and he never failed to
be put out when she could not go. He
ought to appreciate her self-sacrihce,
but he never did. He ought to be
thankful that his wife was good
hOusekeeper, but he was not.
Was 1t worth while, after all? Had
she not been wiser to refuse Burton,
as she had done all the others, and
remain single, free to live her own
life, loved and appreciated and admired
BY her own doting family?
Here the tears of self-pity came once
more. IF things continued as they were.
she and Burton would get to hate each
other In time Would they have to
90 on living together and hating each
other, or would Burton some day get
4 divorce? She shuddered at the
thought Divorces were getting more
and more common. but she had been
taught to shun the very thought of
them as she would a plague.
But $ must get her work done If
her heart broke. The woman would
soon Be there to go on with the clean
ing. and she must be ready for her.
Burton did not come home to dinner.
"A perfunctOry telephone message in
formed her that he would be detained
at the Office until late in the evening.
Genevleve nursed her grievance, and
was not her bright, CHEEKY self even by
the time they sat down to breakfast
the next morning. Oppressed by her
chilly politeness, Burton, in his turn,
began to wonder II 1.-The boys" were