The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-28
Married Life the Third Year
Helen Chaperones Alice Brooks at Bachelor
Apartment Dinner.
By Mabel Herbert Urner
Apartment Dinner.

phone rlnss-it doesn't mean it's
Just listen! Is that the way he'd
talk 10 a MANI
Why. I'm sorI-y." came his voice
from the hall. | sent the car
- four. thought OF courae.
he'd get there in time"
Some woman borrowing his car
whispered Alice.
Why. surely they don't do that"
asked Helen in a shocked voice.
,.mgI They ~ poN,T?' With cynical
Yes: IN see that 1t gets there in
now III talk that over when
sec you. Good bye
When he came back 10 the table,
Alice kept her eyes on the plate IN
strained silence. Helen tried 10
keep UP tho conversation But IL WIS
not a very happy dinner. AS the
salad was served the phone rang
again.
let II ring" he said lnpaticntly.
''Oh, would YOU disappoint one OF
your Ialy friends" asked Alice sar
cssticaliy.
lie laid down his knife and fork
turning TO iclen. shes absolutely
obsesscd on the subject. She's nag
Ging me To desperation about II. N
YOU could only make her see the un-
reasonableness OF this Jealousy"
"Unrcas asked Alice
bitterly. rs IL unreasonable 20 be
Jealous when four or five women call
you up every evening""
The telephone was keeping UP a
shrili; persistent ringing.
III have that phone cut Off" an
grlly. as ne threw down his napkin
and left the table.
II know you couldn't resist an
swering It." Alice called after him.
"Oh. Alice. don't--don,t you see YOU
are only aggravating him this way?
II you won't give him up-you'n
have TO take him as he is You can
nevor mako him over
"Oh. 7 ltnop--but 7 can't help H.
You don't know what It IL to be con-
eaten a thing. I can never eat when
I'm with him. There, listenn as
again came his voice from the hall
Alice, you MUSTN'T listen. It
nave asked him who It was that
phoncd. You mustn't let your teai-
ousy drive you 60 such ,hinEsi What
will he think Of you?"
HEP with a coricmptuous shrus.
'oh. he'd listen any time He hasn't
any scruples about those things. But
~ was useless 20 ask who II vas-hs
wouldn't have told me the Truth. Ho
never does
We'll. Alice, as he again took his
an old chauffeur OF mine who wanted
his place back. You don't believe
me? AZ Alice made a disoelicVing
motion with her hands.
How can when YOU lie 10 ne
so often"
Fairchild turned to Helen: There.
you sce-shc's hopelessi There's
nothing can 90 thatn satisfy her
We'll. Tn afraid we're not maxi
ing this "A very pleasant dinner for
Hplen-' AiiCn r,nEh.I L. L..
with bitter laugh, III ne IN
tended 10 quarrel nil the time. we
might as we'll have gone 10 a res
taurart"
and tho rest of the evening was as
strained and unsatisfactory as had
boon the dinner.
IT'S ALWAYS like this" rnurrnured
Ancs ns thcy put on their wraps
while FajrchllI ordered the car. "Vy.
have not had q happy evening TO-
Ecthcr for months"
.lu hour later Helen vas standing
before the mirror TN her own room.
slowly brushing her hair for the
night. she was living over every in
cldent OF the evrniug-the dinner and
the drive home.
In a way she could understand
Alicc's love FOR this man. His charm
and mesnetism were undenisble.
Mud vet his outrageous rir,ations
with other women, Were ALI So
Cl.ty men liko that7 she wondered.
Were none ~ them content with IN.
one woman
She finished plating her hair.
Sipped into warm dressing gown
and then sat down 10 write Warren
his nightly letter
She told him every incident OF tha
dinnsT. and or how IL had all made
her realize more than ever bow much
his loyalty meant
"Oh, dear. I am so glad tina.
have never known iealousv What
ever inisurdorStsndinrs or cstrange-
mcnis ne have had-that has meyer
neen the cause. iou have always
been true AND lovaI 10 mo snJ
tonight | feel that after all THAT
Is The greatest thing. love you.
deaT--ob. So ruuch'
Good might HELEN"