Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-02

III pioNAhS Nndl morn IN ner lace.
''oh, well. other people manage to get
along with Carries children. 1 don't see
why you can't"
Because they are always annoying
Winifred. They're always doing some
thing to make her cry
"She cries entirely too easily anyway
You've coddled and fused over her until
nobody can look at her without making
her cry"
You know that isn't true, Warren.
You know Winifred is more delicate and
more nervous than Carries children. And
She's
That's just what was saying-and
it's your own fault. It's the way you've
raised her. Carrie brought up her chill
dren TO be hardy"
Would you want Winifred raised the
way Carrie has raised Roy? why I've
heard you say he's the worst boy for his
age you ever
"Oh, / suppose Carrie should make
him mind more than she does. But at
least she hasn't made a dollhouse plant
OF HIM"
'Winifred is not a dollhouse plant"
Indignantly. she's perfectly healthy
but her whole constitution Is more
delicate than Roy's And I've never
coddled her. I've always tried to-
"See here, I've no time to listen to your
method of raising Winifred. What
want to know NOW is-are you going
to that dinner or not?"
mo, Warren, l told you I COULDN'T
60"
You mean you WON'T go--that you're
stubbornly determined not to go. Why
taI he IL
Because that isn't the truth"
We'll, l tell you right now-Im not
going to have any stir up in my family
You're going TO that dinner and you're
going to act as though nothing had hap
pened. And you'll not pull off any more
high and mighty stunts either. It's about
time you're getting some common sense.
And right here's where you're going to
get itr'
Warren. l can't let you talk to me
like that"
I'm talk to you as l blame pleased"
Without a word Helen rose and quickly
left the room, closing the door after her,
She did not cry. Her indignation was
too great for tears. She had gone into
the bedroom and locked the door. And
now she stood with her hand still
clenched on the knob--her cheeks aflame
Would he try to follow her? She
listened tensely. For several moments
everything was very still Then came
the banging OF the hall door.
So he had gone out! Well, anything
rather than a continuation Of this! When
he returned he would probably not speak
TO her at all. But she felt even such a
silence would be better than 10 go on
saying things that were more and more
bitter-that perhaps they could never
forget
At 10 o'clock she YEARLY undressed and
went to bed. It would only irritate him
for her 90 wait up.
1t was after u when he came. Al
though Helen lay very quiet and did not
turn he knew she was not asleep. But
he went to bed without speaking to her.
The next morning he ate his breakfast
in stolid silence and left without kissing
her goOdby. For Helen II was a long,
unhappy day. Before evenins she had
worried herself almost sick. She knew
II she did not go to Carries dinner that
for weeks Warren would show his dis
pleasure by this seowling, sullen silence.
But how could she go? How COULD
she-after their treatment OF her Christ
mas day? And now to give them an
other opportunity to further slight her
to let Carries children annoy Winifred
while the rest OF the family looked com
plseently on! No, no, she would not go!
1t was not often that Helen took 90