El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-02
Helen Is Firm In Her Re
fusal to Dine at His Sisters
On New Years.
Warren. how can you
w expect me TO go2"
..NEhr MOI -


After the way your people treated
I me Chrlstmas-and Carrie particularly
I And now you think I'll go to her house
/ for dinner"
1T was all your own fault. You'd nc
I business 10 leave the room like that
stalking out with high and mighty
air. Creating scene before every
bOdyw
warren, YOU know I didn't create a
scene! I simply had to take Winifred
out Of the room because Roy persisted
in blowing that horn in her face"
oh, wei, other people manage to get
along with Carries children. I don't
see why YOU can't"
Because they're 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 un-
til 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 chill.
dren. And she's
That's just what I 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 ROy2 Why
I've heard you say he's the worst boy
for his age you ever
"Oh, I suppose Carrie should make
him mind more than she does But At
least she hasn't made hOt-house plant
Of him"
'.Winifred is not a hot-house plant
Indignantly. She's perfectly healthy.
out her whole constitution is more
delicate than Roy's- And I've never
coddled her I've always tried to-
see mere, I've no time to listen TO
your method of raising Winifred.
What / want 70 know now is-are Won
going to that dinner or nOt?" i
No Warren, / told you 1 couldn't
You mean you won't go-that you're
stu6bornly determined not to go. Why
don't you tell the truth about it?"
Because that isn't the truth"
Well ] tell you right noW-Im not
gong 10 have any stir up in my fam
lily. You're going TO that dinner. and
you re going TO act al though nothing
had happened. And youth not pull of
any more high and mighty stunts eith-
er. It's about time you're getting some
sense And right here's where
you're going to get it,"
like that"
TN talk to you as blame pIeaser'
WlJnout word Helen rose and
quickly left the room, closing the door 1
after her.
Helen Is Angry.
she did not cry. Her indignation was /
100 great for tears She had gone into
the bedroom and locked the door And /
now she stood with her hand STIR
clenched on the knOb-her cheeks I
aflame
Would he try to follow her? She lis
tened tenSely. For several moments /
every thing was very still Then came I
the banging Of the hall door.
20 ne mad gone Quit Wen, anything
rather than a continuation OF thisi
w nen he returned he would probably
not speak 10 her at all. But she felt
even such silence would be better
nan 10 go on saying things that were
more ana more bitter-that perhaDs I
-hey could never forget
At 10 o'clock she YEARLY addressed
ma went to bed. It would only irrftata /
nm Tor her to wait up.
IL was after u when he came. AL
cough Helen lay very quiet and ala
lot turn, he knew she was not asIeeD.
o her.
Inc next morning he ate his breakfast
y sIoud silence and left without kiss
ng her good-by. FOl Helen it was a
ong, unhappy day. Before evening 'sb.
-ad worried herself almost sick She
new II she did not so 10 Carries din
er that for weeks Warren would show
rs rs dlspleasure by thLs Sowing, sullen
But how could she go2 How coyra
al ter Inelr treatment of her |