The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-09
The Husband
Explains


and looked over at her husband
That's just like woman" she said
Anybody would suppose that ! had
been trying to do her mean trick
from the tone OF her letter and !
thought was doing her a favor"
He went right on reading the news
paper. devoting the rest Of his atten,
tion to his coffee
Don't take enough interest in my
AFFAIRS to read the letter. | suppose.
she went on. getting dangerously near
the teary stage We'll. you needn't.
then"
You Just tell me what's in II, dear.
he said That will be sufficient"
r. She seemed Modified and picked up
the rejected letter
Il can tell you what's in It," she
went on. IT'S Just In answer to what
! wrote her about the fiat You know
Jenny Smith told me that she would
always like to take this fat OF our
hands II we we're tired of Il; that she
had never seen fiat anywhere so
good: that she would regard II as a
great favor II we did let her know and
that she wanted Just such an apart
ment
Il did that and now she writes back
that she is very appreciative of my
offer. but that under the circumstances
she thinks she will not be able to take
II of our hands. much as she would
like to be Of service to us. She writes
as II had implored her to rent 1t
as a great favor to me.
That's Just the way with people
when you ask them to do what they
have said they are very anxious to dc
once they get the idea that they are
doing you favor. It's just the same
thing that happened when asked the
Joneses II they wanted my cook
Every time they came to the house
last winter they used to rave over
Emily They would be so happy II
only they could get such cook. they
said Yet when ! wrote to them that
we we're giving up keeping house and
that they could have her II they want
ed her they seemed to be actually
embarrassed about the matter. as Il
they were having a servant forced
on them willy nilly.
He had not indicated any great in
terest at the beginning. but listened
more attentively as his wife's nara
tive proceeded. Then he put down tn,
paper and began to talk himself
Don't you remember the time 20,
bought that old side table at auction
and Mary asked you to let her have 1
II you ever wanted to sell IT."
She nodded.
Don't you recall also how patron
zing she was when you told her yo
thought you might let her have II bt
cause you didn't want to crowd you
} dining room? Surely you have not fol
, gotten how she tried to wriggle out G
taking II Just as II you we're deter
mined to hold her to bargain"
She admitted that she had not fol
gotten a detail of this transaction
Then she also admitted how provoke
she had been when her cousin Hele
had asked her TO give her the refuss
of her old horse Sally II she decide
to sell her when they went to town 4
the autumn
= Then how can you," he asked
, with these things fresh in your mine
put yourself In the way of being pa
ronized again in such fashion? 70
5 ought to learn that what they do nc
: possess often seems very attractive I
a persons so long as 1t remains tn
property of others. 1t is quite a di
ferent thing when It becomes attain
able to them
ut almost invariably happens tbs
: they have ceased to care for 1t an
V II is only human nature for them I
9 give themselves the satisfaction I
showing the owners that they are no
. In possession of the situation.
: remember that trait the next time yo
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