The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-04-13
Deception

motner, but 1t has taken me two
years of married life to learn how
quickly that trait can develop into
fullfedged deception.
Its all sort of funny, and cant be
cross with Richard tomorrow, because
it's his birthday, but Just now feel
that bit of dignity on my part is the
only foundation upon which to build
a greater confidence between us.
This VIII mean, mother dear, that
when you come home everything will
be as II should be and the old coun-
try place viii look more beautiful than
ever because you consented to let us
keep it for you
Richard declares that my generos.
ity is to blame for our misunderstood
ing. He says it has reached tremen-
dous proportions since we came here,
and he says that not only am | ex-
travagant, 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 to his
aunt's hotel and for even a great
bunch of your lavender orchids for
some of the wives of the convention
men who were here? never refused
him 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. l haven't forgot
ten that
Il say his chicken fad is responsible
for everything. Talk about 'tremen
dous proportionsr 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 I cannot seei I
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
life till yesterday
when the first incubator Matched
he was wild about it. 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 | 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 if Henry
shouldn't dress one and send it over
to Mrs. Martin, who has been sick all |
summer. Richard said, OF course;
III attend to it. so sincerely that
thought he approved.
Il began to think up others to help !;
US out by accepting chickens l made
out a list that Richard passed on fav-
orably but he began to be sour and
stingy when I started to duplicate it.
And yesterday, when Mrs. Martins
laughter Katherine called up to ask
'or a broiler, as l had told her to do
whenever she wanted one, he flew into
4 temper and called me easy Think
If that And only the evening before
le had telephoned for some choice
-oses to be sent to his brothers
sweetheart in his brothers namel
81 was so stunned for time that |
wouldn't listen to a thing he said, but
ocked myself in my room After a
While l heard him telephoning the
dartins that the chicken would be
'ver soon. Then what do you think
% did? He called up Hayward's chick
n farm and ordered it from therel II
Haven't you any more% | heard
i'm ask Where can I get some? At II
'eppers? I'll try there Oh, mine
rent big enough. No. we haven't
ried any yet-we've been depending
n you. Raised EN- myself, you know, |
nd have a sort of sentimental feeling
bout them finer lot you never
aw.'
THAT is how he has been deceiving
lie all summer Those scores OF
lickens that we have dispensed to II
lr friends he has bought from the | |
licken farms around here because he
ouldn't use hisl III
81 threw open the door of my room
I'd demanded an explanation All he | |
d in the way of apology was to say,
think we're in the same boat, Joan, | |
I'd he thrust bunch of florists bills
to my hands, They had been sent
him by mistake mistake I'll | |
ever forgive-and were the bills for
| those flowers for the wives of the
invention men and the orchids that
couldn't bear to cut to give away
ey were too lovely
He didn't wait for an answer, but
ahmed out of the house In a huff
tomorrow I'm going to decorate his
icken yard in the fraternity colors
d cut the orchids for his birthday