Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-09-05
CANNOT RELY ON JOHN
WIFE FINDS "STRONG RIGHT
ARM" THEORY WRONG.
She Thought He Would Rid Her Path
of All Annoyances, Great and
Small, but She Knows
Better Now.

When l married my John, I firmly
expected TO lean upon his strong right
arm, having alV avs heard that that
was what a strong light arm was for.
And I firmly expected him to rid my
path of the small annoyances OF life,
as well as be haven Of refuge in
the yaster perplexities In a word, I
expected him TO combine the roles of
sOicitOus lover and provident hus-
band I say / expected this, says a
writer in the New York Evening Post.
John and l were married in the au-
tumn. When our honeymoon was
over we moved into an apartment.
Our landIady had an apartment under
US. AS she would not give US enough
heat, I went to my John about it.
John, of course, would see that I
had enough heat. But did I really
need more heat? The house seemed
comfortable to him. Gle was out OF
it all day. He sort Of hated to get
into an argument with a lady. We
liked the apartment, didn't we. and if
we insisted upon more heat, it might
strain our relations with the landlady,
which would be unpleasant, as we
were living in the same house,
wouldn't It?
After surviving several bad colds, I
gave John long, sneaking look, took
the matter into my own hands, made
the landIady give us a written re-
lease, and moved out of the apart
ment.
At first when I went out with John
to mingle with our best restaurant
classes I sat back like fat little para
site, lazily enjoying having a man look
after me, even to ordering my food.
But John always confused the order
got lobster Newburg when I wanted
lobster salad. John never noticed
which waiter was serving us-John
never could catch the head walters
eye-we We're always having to wait
for salt or for bread while the dinner
cooled. AS ordering meals was in my
daily housekeeping routine, soon
took over the ordering and John sat
back like the fat little parasite
Upon another occasion when I tried
to lean on Johns strong right arm we
barely escaped arrest. We were on a
Pullman car with an impertinent por-
ter. I mentioned his impertinence to
John, expecting John to issue a repri-
mand. But John knocked the porter
down. There was a dreadful commo-
ton. Ladies screamed and the con-
ductor came rushing up. John wanted
to knock the conductor down. The
conductor objected and threatened to
have US arrested at the next, station
After some pleading and arguing l
Gained John, pacifed the conductor,
tipped the porter and secured peace.
When we bought our home we de-
cided to have some of the trees cut
down. I showed the tree chopper the
trees that were to be sacrificed, but
he sent his son to do the job before
we had moved out, and the son lost
his instructions and cut down every
tree in the froit yard. In tears / went
to my John, but John said: Now,
dearie, you are the mistress of this
house. I don't want to butt in"
Gradually my own right arm has
grown a little stronger. don't re-
greet it. I don't even consider that it
would be fair to John to do too much
home leaning on his strong right arm.
He has a good deal to worry him
downtown. All that I regret or con-
slider is that, possibly, a good deal of
waste went into the forming of my 70,
~nantfc Illusions