The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-22


looking and fraglle-and that hus-
band of hers certainly has a horrible
disposition even if he is so good look
ing. You can tell 1t by his facet
Strange to say, they were not
wrong. Slane did have a wretched
temper and moreover he had none of
those graces which are supposed to |
attract women. He was gruff and |
rough and cranky and lnconsiderate |
and selfish and several other undesir-
able qualities. In just what strange |
moment of mental alteration Mrs.
Stare had decided to wed him was a
popular question.
She must have had other
chances." Said the neighbors. TT
couldn't have been that! He must
make her perfectly miserable!"
She looks so resigned they said
when several years had passed. at is
| pitiful to see her meekly tagging
along after him as If she was afraid
to call her soul her own! What he
needs is some one to talk back to
| him!"
Unfortunately Slane ran his own
| business downtown. so the chasten-
ing effect of knuckling to a superior
there was not exercised on him. There
| did not seem to be any one with the
| power and the authority to beat some
courtesy and humanity into Slane
The way he talks TO her when they
play cards." said one of the neigh
bors after a whist game with the
Slanes. my dear, it is positively dis
| graceful If had been his wife I'd
have thrown chair at him! ] would,
Just as though she didn't have mite
of sense Of her own! So embarrassing
before outsiders, What on earth
could she ever have seen in him?"
Through Slane other women man
aged their husbands beautifully. He
would have been a remarkable man
who could have been otherwise than
amiable and liberal and attentive aft
or his wife had voiced sugared sen
tlment like this: Henry, thank
my stars every day of my life that
! am not Mrs Slane, You are so diff
ferent from him! | don't know what
I'd do If you forgot to kiss me good
by every morning the way he does
and am sure she is just as pretty
and sweet as possible!"
Or the sentiment was expressed
like this Tom. what do you think?
l ran in to see Mrs Sane this morn
ing and heard her asking him in
trembling tones for so cents and he
said she could have quarter, What
do you think of that? just can't com
| m 1,o
cause you've always been so generous
oh thank you can find good use
for this $40 today I'm so glad you're
not like Mr. Slane!"
Or the remark was like this: 81
really ought to give thanks publicly,
James, that you are so good natured
and kind after hearing the way that
Slane man goes on! He doesn't care
bit if all the windows on the court
are open! You are so different"
Nearly any man will be a model
husband if his wife thus sings his
praises to his face, insisting that he
is such a paragon. He'd be ashamed
not to be!
In time everybody got used to the
fact that Slane was a brutal sort of
person who ought by good rights to
be shut up in an iron cage and that
his wife was a suffering martyr over
whom the looker-on must drop a tear
, and sigh. If Mrs. Slane had taken
all the revenges on her husband that
I'm eight years all the other women in
the neighborhood had suggested in
, their conferences she would have had
to get her normal lease OF life extend
: ed and hire an assistant at that Her
, abnormally meek and lovely disposi
ton was a constant and never-failine
). topic when the weather and styles
failed.
/, She was a quiet, reserved little per
> son, was Mrs. Slane. So there was
not hint nor rumor of impending
revolution, until the deed was done
= She simply packed up her belongings
}, and left Slane for good and all with
II out saying a word or asking anybody's
advice.
After the first riotous excitement
had Gained down in the neighborhooc
g six of the women who had always
o most violently wondered how Mrs
+ Slane ever stood 1t and had yearnet
a for chance to plunge Slane into boil
ing OIL met in a fancy-work session
and talked long.
Well" said one of them at last
o call I've got to say is that I'm yer.
a much surprised. I'd always though
Mrs. Slane was such nice littl,
o thing. You never can tell! Leavinl
3 that poor lonely man like that You've
B. got to expect some little differences
l. when you're married. There mus
be a Eighty strain in her somewhere
81 never did like these awfully quie
people who never tell you anything
= said the woman In the next chair
a. I'm going to ask Mr.. Slane to din
or ner It's a shamel"