The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-20
THE EVENING Story
NE. Glynn,s separatlon.


(By Lawrence Alfred Clay.)
She thinks he's the only man on
earth.''
He worships the ground she walks
on"
"She says he hasn't fault
HE says she's perfection
They said this and more of Mr..
Frank Glynn and his bride as late as
six months after marriage and most
of it was true. 1t had been a mar
riage for love, and not flaw had
yet appeared. Husband and wife
couldn't see why they should not sail
on in this happy, loving way till the
coming of the silver threads among
the gold.
The bride-wife was her own house
keeper. That was not only quite a
saving out of a salary none too hber-
al, but there was no one about to Wit
ness the billing and cooling going on.
The grin on the face of a kitchen maid
has been known to act like douche
of ice water, and to bring about
family council as to the advisability OF
Draining her with a bludgeon.
Rain or shine, cold or hot, the
little wife had always been waiting at
the gate to give her husband a hug
and a kiss, and later on, as she bro1led
the chops and he spread the table, to
give him the gossip of the day. Thls
Homecoming was different-th1s one
Mr. Glynn had hardly reached the
store that morning and taken his seat
in his bookkeeperS- cage, when ms
right heel began to poster him. There
was a wrinkle in his sock, and Us
saving away at his epidermis 1rri-
tated and annoyed and hurt. MIR.
Glynn knew just what it was, but man
like, he put off removing his shoe and
sock and the wrinkle. A woman would
have yanked that wrinkle into the
middle of next week in a minute and
a half, but a man suffers long and
then goes home to claim that It is
one of his wife's hairpins instead of
q wrinkle. Had he married wife to
be a comfort to him, or to stand by
and see him suffer and never mana
out a sympathetic word?
No little wife to meet him at the
gate. No wife to meet him at the
door. No wife in hiding to jump out
and give him start of surprise.
. What does this mean?"
She was sitting up in bed, with her
hair down, tears in her eyes, ana her
Jaw tied up. Grand opportunity for
him to dash forward and press her
to his chest and declare his heartfelt
sympathies. But he didn't take adj
vantage of it. He stood back and
thought of his throbbing heel, and
grudgingly asked:
"Headache?"
Num-
'Earache?"
Num-"
Cat dead?"
Frank, don't be foo1l have suf-
fered all day with toothache, and have
been to the dentist twice."
ooh, see. Others have suffered, |
you ought to have known that I
was suffering, and came home to cheer |
me up. The dentist said you would
if you were a man."
1.-The dentist be hanged! Haven't ]
oil irwin oIl
dav to saw my heels Off I am home |
now, but am 1 getting any sympathy
The wife lay back on the pillows |
and wept, and the husband dined on |
a stale roll and a sliced cucumber |
and thought thoughts. A wrinkle and |
a Notwithstanding more Both had |
ceased to worry by next morning, but |
there was no laughing and making up. |
At the end of the third day the hus- |
band came home to say:
Dora, isn't it plain to you that we
made a great mistake in getting mar
ried?"
It being put that way to her, of /
course Dora replied in the affirmative. |
And can't you see the wretched-
ness of continuing the mistaken"
Yes, Dora could see it.
1--WE neither of us want the noto- /
riety of the divorce courts"
mo"
I'm fact, we don't want to admit |
even to our relatives that we nave
made a mistake"
mo-
therefore, we will go on in a way,
but it will be a separation. You will /
address me as Mr.. Glynn,' and 1 shall
give you the title of Mrs"
VERY well, Mister Glynni'
mo more kissing-no more holding
ing hands"
IF 1 wish to go out of an evening
I go, and you, of course, have the
same privilege
Yes, there are many places wish
10 go to in the evening by myself, |
Ind when you are in the house here
with me it will be very stupidi''
Mr.. Glynn perceptibly WINGED at
that, but bluffed it out by saying:
Eff at the end of five or six months,
we find that we are in perfect accord
we can
But we shan't find any such thing!"
was interrupted.
Very well, Mrs. Glynnl"
VERY well, Mr.. Glynni"
At breakfast next morning Mr. GIynn
found himself the star boar1er, and his
wife the landlady. He didn't ask for |
l second cup of coffee, as was his
wont, because he found it hard to get |
i'd of the first, and he wondered by /
what process the bacon had come to ],