The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-09-06
CANNOT RELY ON JOHN
WIFE FINDS "STRONc RIGHT
ARM" THEORY WRONG.
one thought He Would Rid Her Path
OF All Annoyances, Great and
Small, but She Knows
Better Now.

When | married my John. 7 firmly
oNpecteu 10 lean upon his strong right
arm, having always heard that that
was what a strong right arm was for
Anu l nrmly expected him to rid nv
pain OF the small annoyances of life.
DIS well as be haven of refuge in
the vaster perplexities. In a word. 7
expected him to combine the roles Of
soiicltous lover and provident hus-
Dald. L say | expected this. saws q
writer In the New York Evening Post
JOHN and | were married in the au-
'un'n' When our honeymoon was
over We moved into an apartment
our Iandiady had an apartment under
us. AS she would not give us enough
neat went to my John about il
Johh' OF course, would see that
mao enough heat. But did I really
need more heat? The house seemed
comfortable to him. (He was ont of
IL all day. He sort of hated to get
lhto an argument with a lady. We
iiheo the apartment, didn't we. and If
we insisted upon more heat. il might
strain our relations with the landladv
winch would be unpleasant as We
were living in the same bonse
wouldn't it?
Alter surviving several bad colds 7
gave John long, sneaking look took
the matter into my own hands. made
the Iandlady give us a written re-
iease' and moved out of the apart
ment.
AT first when I went out with John
70 mlngle with our best restaurant
classes sat back like fat little para
'ite' iazlly enjoying having man look
titer me, even to ordering nv food.
SUI John always confused the order
got lobster Newburg when 7 wanted
obster salad. John never noticed
Vhlcn waiter was serving us-John
lever could catch the head walters
we've We're always having to wait
or salt or for bread while the dinner
ooled AS ordering meals was in nv
any housekeeping routine, l soon
ook over the ordering and John sat
ack like the fat little parasite.
upon another occasion when 7 tried
lean on Johns strong right arm we
arely escaped arrest. We were on q
ullman car with an impertinent nor
II. L mentioned his impertinence to
onn, expecting John to issue a reDri-
and. But John knocked the porter
own. There was dreadful commo-
Oh Ladies screamed and the con-
lctor came rushing up. John wanted
knock the conductor down. The
objected and threatened to
we US arrested at the next station.
TER some pleading and arguing =
Iihed Jonn, pacifed the conductor.
Dped the porter and secured peace
when We bought our home we de-
led to have some of the trees cut
wn. l showed the tree chopper the
ees that were to be sacrificed brt
sent MS son to do the Job before
had moved out, and the son lost
instructions and cut down every
'e IN the froit yard. In tears went
my John, but John said: ''Now
arle, YOU are the mistress of this
use. l don't want to butt in"
my own right arm has
own little stronger 1 don't re-
It IT. | don't even consider that it
uld be fair to John to do too much
ne leaning on his strong right arm
has a good deal to worry him =
All that l regret or con-
er is that, possibly, a good deal of
ste went into the forming of my TO- in
ntic illusions. at
tic