The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-29
Decertion

o,,ioi,,,. 'eu NE to learn how
Hu,chiy mat trait can deyelon inv
iull-hedged deception p INTO
lts all sort of funny and oo,,.
cross with Richard tomorrow, L ',l oo
its his birthday, but lust now 'II too,
Ina. a DIT OF dignity on my part is the
only foundation upon which to br,,d
d greater confidence between 10
This will mean, mother dear tbo.
%neh you come home everything will
De as 1t should be and the old conn
Try place will look more beautiful thna
ever because you consented to LEI nc
Keep it for you. No
nlcnard declares that my generos.
lty Is to blame for our misunderston5
ing. He says it has reached tremon
dous proportions since we came bora
and he says that not only am ox,
'raVagant, but--what is worse in his
eyes-easy! That remark was What
brought up my dignity.
DO you blame me for feeling hurt
when he has asked for any number of
my choicest roses TO be sent IN bio
aunts hotel and for even greot
bunch of your lavender orchids for
some of the wives of the convention
men who were here? | never refused
MN flower, You had told me that
cutting was good for them and SO |
made him feel welcome-too welcome.
Besides, his old chickens got out
once and ate up all the sweet.pea
buds they could reach before Henry
could catch them. haven't forgot.
ten that.
Il say his chicken fad is responsible
for everything. Talk about 'tremen.
dous proportions.' He is simply crazy
about those chickens.
why in the world father told him
to go into chicken raising on large
scale If he wanted to cannot see!
The influence of those chickens upon
him is simply dreadful. Richard never
was in the least stingy before and
never did he call me easy in all his
ille I'LL yesterday.
when the first incubator Matched
| he was wild about il. That night he
began to talk about the chicken feasts
| we should have when the Kentucky
cousins came. His conversation was
all about fried chicken or broiled
| chicken until ! ached to think of the
weeks that must pass before the little
fluff balls were big enough to eat.
after that he was with them early
and late, watching for gaps and pip,
till l begged him to stop reading those
chicken books that told about such
horrid things.
Dreams began to come true when
the Kentucky cousins came. Sarah
did her best and we had all the chick
en- we could want-broiled, fried and
a la Maryland And still there seemed
so many of them left that got alarm
ed and one day asked II Henry
! shouldn't dress one and send 1t over
to Mrs. Martin, who has been sick all
summer. Richard said, OF course;
I'll attend to It, SO sincerely that
thought he approved.
az began to think up others to helT
us out by accepting chickens. i made
out a list that Richard passed on fav
orably, but he began to be sour anc
stingy when | started to duplicate II
And yesterday, when Mrs. Martin
daughter Katherine called up to ash
for a broiler. as | had told her to DC
whenever she wanted one, he flew lntl
q temper and called me easy. Thlni
Of that, And only the evening before
he had telephoned for some cholc'
roses to be sent to his brother
sweetheart in his brothers name!
'J WAS so stunned for time that
wouldn't listen to thing he said' pu
locked myself in my room. After
while heard him telephoning 'ne
Martins that the chicken would d
over soon. Then what do you thihi
he did? He called up Haywards cnicA
on farm and ordered 1t from there!
Haven't you any more" l hear'
him ask Where can get some! A
penper's? I'll try there. on min'
aren't big enough. No we maven
tried any yet-we've been depehuih'
~ vou Raised em myself, you know
and have a sort of sentimental ieeiih'
about them. A finer lot you he'e
saw ,..,-
.orbat is how he has been deceiVih'
III srmmerl Those scores
nhtorens that we have dispensed u
orr friends he has bought from Wv
ohicken farms around here because lit
wouldn't use his
81 threw open the door Oh my No. ~ -
ord demanded an explanation All Il
aiS IN the way of apology was 10 Sd!
81 mini we're in the same boat Joan
l l", w. thrust bunch of florists Dill
into nv hands! They had oeeh sen -,
70 him by mistake-a-- liist ,,,, g.
~ forglye-and were the oilis 10
III nose dowers for the wives Oh ~
al ,n men and the orchids Una
couldn't bear to cut TO give """'
thew we're too lovely ,,,. N,
"11e didn't wait for an answer DS s
nc ia out Of the house in nun
CO tomorrow I'm going to decorate I. oo,n -,
chicken yard in the tra'erh''s s,. aida
clli cur ont the orchids for his Dlrl"I i,
and cut lns yeI he happy again, II
| sure ..h. oat HON