The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-02-24
IT | he Wife Who
Was Il as All 4 II Heart ! IeaI t

Onc5 upon time Young Mn
: met a Nice Girl She was a school
: ma'am and could talk as glibly as al
auetioneer OF write as readily as
press agent, bnt he forgaye her al
, that because she was as wen built a.
house in a new suburb and her eyes
were as brown and as liquid as disE
gravy
She always took her seat on the
sofa when he caine; consequently he
concluded that she could be had on
easy terms-$100 down for a soil
taire," $40 monthly for shows and sup
pers, the balance to be paid within
a year to the Parson.
Gradually he got into the habit OF
seeing the Old Year out and the New
Year in every evening in her parlor
The days slipped by like moving pic
lures and they were both very happy.
Finally his PAL said to HIM
Hear you're going to invest in an
Encyclopedia?
What do you mean? I've got an
Almanac and a Telephone Book what
more do want %
Well you're trailing Miss High.
brow, amt you? She's written
poem about the new Bridge for this
weeks Lookout, and they say she's
a member of the 'Woman's League for
the Study Of Social Science, so | was
wondering
That set him to wondering-won
dering whether it mightn't be hard for
a clever woman to realize how much
cleverer her husband was
Like all other men, he felt that he
knew enough for two.
He began to be detained at the
Office"
Just at this time he fell in with q
girl with ardent hair-masses of pure
gold that could have paid off the ma
tional debt. with interest. Her skin
was of that exquisite creamy tint that
comes only from repeated apI<.ca
tions; her snowy bosom rose and fell
like Wall street stocks, and her Alb
foot in its dainty "a slipper peeped
bewitchingly from beneath the folds
of ravishing Partisan gown
Every little While she would look up
at him with her big, innocent eyes and |
ask some dear little fool question in
such an artless way that he could see
she was all heart.
When matters had developed into
the letter writing stage he noticed, (
with sigh OF relief, that her spelling
and punctuation were as unreliable
as the Weather Bureau
"Ah,' he cried joyfully, this is the
maid for me- She'd never be out of
an evening attending clubs and lee
lures. A fellow could be sure of
devoted wife waiting for him and run
ming downstairs for a kiss when she
heard his key in the latch!"
So he wed the lovely thing in the
lovely lovely spring, when the lovely
birds do sing.
Before long he missed money from
his pocketbook. He examined it care
fully and couldn't find the leak" yet
he knew it must be there, so he trans
ferred the roll of bills to his coat
pocket
But the Teak" proved contagious
and the coat pocket caught it.
Then the house bills began to como
n
They were much too large a fit for
/ family of ten
He tried to talk them over with
lis bride, but she begged to be ex- |
used; she said that she never could
Understand figures"
He told her to desist from going a
o market via the telephone and gave
Ter much vague advice as a minister a
IN Sundays. v
She promised to be good with such
winning smile that it won a FLYER" v
rom him on the spot b
Dear little wife, he murmured, n
lasping her to his heart. Now ev- o
rything will be all right S
Nevertheless the bills ran on like
Marathon racer and money took el
light like a pigeon on the home. II
retch. W
He decided to have a serious con b
ersation with her.
This was about as easy as tracking re
Black Hand criminal, for she was IL
out six or seven evenings-and st
ights-per week, not at clubs and
but at balls and theaters.
he always kindly invited him to ac-
ompany her, but as he did not care hi
undertake night work in addition ha
his daily duties he declined with
anks' as
At last he hit on an evening when
e was at home giving a card party be
fifty Of her most intimate friends.
He sat around, half asleep, waiting
7 the crowd to go He had re-
lived to put her through the third
gree" however late-or early-the tn
ur,
AS she was speeding the departing
ests' at two A. M. he heard her
Yves; | lost SOS last week and AS
0 the week before, but I've won ma
80 tonight, and | hope yo'
lie sneaked away unnoticed to his yo'
en-, where for an hour he smoked
furiously as an unregulated CHM Oh