Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-04-07
Just Married

They had returned from their honey
moon tour and were adjusting their
new household belongings in the fiat
they had engaged.
Its good fun, isn't it, dearie?" she
said as she stood in a corner of
their 10 by IL parlor and looked at
picture she had hung on wall near
the door.
mo end of it, darling" he replied.
"One thing that makes it so delight
full is that we harmonic so entirely
in our ideas of where things should
be. do think that our tastes are
wonderfully similar.
Isn't it nice to have it that way?
l don't see how we can possibly quar-
rel when we think just alike
Quarrel! The idea of us quarrel
ing. I'd as soon think of the posi-
bility of the sun and moon humping
together as you and l quarreling.
Whatever put that foolish idea into
your head, sweetheart"
"Oh, just because, you know, mar
ried people do quarrel now and then,
and often about the merest trifles.
But it takes two to make a quarrel,
and l know that never will-where
are you going to put that chippen-
dale chair that dear Aunt Ellen gave
us, darling?'
II was going to put it right in this
corner, sweetheart"
do you think that is the best place
for it, Harold, dear? You know that
it is the handsomest thing we have,
and-seems to me it would look bet
ter near the center of the room"
'"Think so? I'll try it there
Il like it better there, darling
"You do? Well, now, l can't say
that do. Sometimes it looks as if we
were trying to show it off and call at
tention to It,"
Il don't think it does And / want
folks to see it so long as it is really
the handsomest thing we have. l don't
think that am any more disposed to
make vulgar display of what we
have than"
my dear, l. didn't say that you
wanted to make vulgar display of
the chair, but"
Il know that you didn't exactly say
that, Harold, but your tone of voice,
and
my tone of voice? My dear, spoke
as l always speak when"
mo, you didn't, Harold There was
a certain little note of Irritation in
your voice, and-but about the chair
don't like it there in the corner. For
one thing, l think dear Aunt Ellen
would not like it tucked away out of
sight in that out-of-the-way corner,
and she might feel hurt, and
Tucked away out of sight in cor
| ner! AS if anything could be tucked
away our of sight in a 2x4 room like
this! Really, child, ="
Harold, | am not child, and |
would thank you not to treat me as If
l were one. And don't like that GER
tain sheer in your voice, and
"a sheer in my voice? What in
time"
Harold! Remember that-anyhow,
SO long as it was my aunt and not
yours who gave me the chair, | think
! that l might have the privilege of say
ing where it shall stand | owe
great deal to Aunt Ellen and l don't
| want her to get the idea that her pres
ent has been sighted. It's really the
incest thing we have, and none of
your relatives gave us
Il guess that what my relatives gave
us will size up very favorably with
anything your relatives gave us,
and to be absolutely frank, my dear. |
think that chippendale chair is all
out of harmony with everything else
we have. It's sort OF false and
screaming note in
Harold Newlywed, that chair is
not false and screaming note and it
couldn't be that in any environment
You gushed enough over it to dear
| Aunt Ellen, and I'd like to know what
she'd say if"
1T wouldn't make much difference
to me what she said And as for ar
ranging my furniture to suit your
Aunt Ellen or"
i My furniture!r I'd like to know
who gave us more than half of the
il furniture we have! Yes, and more
II than half of all our wedding presents.
1t comes with poor grace from you to
but about that chair. mean to
have it almost in the center of the
room
yes. and have it screeching out to
every one who comes into the room
| and"
You'd better say have it letting
folks know that we have at least one
really nice thing. Now that you have
gone. so far l will tell you fatty that
l think that that willow chair your
Aunt Hannah gave us is enough to set
ones teeth on edge! If you want any
!: chair tucked in a corner out of sight
you'd better put that monstrosity
there for"
Its more sensible-looking chair
this minute than that sprawling-leggcd
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