The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-09-26
Her Unappreciated
Efforts
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dSdul!
Wittance snapped at the bait like
terrier at rat There you co." ne
cried. with one of your offhand judg.
ments that have no sensible founda
ton! Rank nonsense! have just as
good an idea OF economy as you haye!"
You may have the idea" said Mrs.
Wittance, with the crushing sweet
ness that is the privilege of wives,
but you have 1t tied up ID pink rib
bons and laid away in your safe If you
have! That's all the good it does you!"
Wittance began TO turn purple and
olinch the chair arms. Just specifyi"
he insisted just name one example
you can't do it,"
Il can insisted Mrs Wittance.
ANY time you feel like hearing me
run of list of several dozen perfect
ly good examples. and have the time,
don't hesitate to ask me to oblige you,
because being agreeable is about the
best thing do.
For instance she went on, "a few
minutes ago You made the remark
that YOU must remember to buy your
self a new straw hat. You never stop,
ped to wonder whether or not you
had a straw hat left from last sum.
mer which would DO to start out the
season, did you?
Now, a woman's first instinct when
she needs anything is to wonder
whether or not she has something laid
away that would do and SO would
save her from making a fresh pur.
chase. What is past is past to a
man, whether it is his last summer's
clothes or presidential election.
Now, as it happens, you bought new
straw hat just few weeks before
the season closed last year. and it is
all right to wear 1t may be neces-
sary TO have it cleaned"
There you are!" cried Wittance
do you think I'm going to travel
downtown with hat in a paper bag
and waste good time hunting up
cleaners and meantime lose a Gus.
toner or SO? That's woman's idea
of economy all right"
IF you're SO fussy," said Mrs. Wit
lance, I'll clean 1t for you myself.
can do it perfectly well with some acid
l used to do it when wore sailor
hats myself"
Wittance groaned It'll look home
made" he complained, Something
on the order of knitted wristlets and
mitts! / don't like the ideal
you leave it to mel" said Mrs. Wit
lance sternly. IF you are so anxious
to get rid Of IS just hand it over to
mel" -,..-- 80 ~. 7rs1 saz-ac<
So Mrs. Wittance scrubbed last
summers hat with acid. She was
rather in hurry because she wanted
to get to club meeting. and so she
did not remove the band before she
scrubbed it. She left it to dry with
the consciousness of deed we'll done
but when she got home she found to
her horror that the black band was
all splotched with dull orange where
the acid had touched it. Wittance's
arrival was simultaneous with hers,
so he, too. saw the tragedy
II hope" he said severely, that you
now see the folly of trying to do the
work Of professional who knows
what he Is about! ! shall buy a new
hat. for ! wouldn't be caught dead
wearing this thing!"
You'll do nothing Of the sort!" de.
clared his wife. There Is my econ.
omy theory demonstrated again! ]
can buy new corded ribbon for SO
cents or less and sew 1t on just like
this one. Don't be so silly!"
Mrs Wittance was determined to
prove that she was sensible. So she
went downtown the next day to buy
the ribbon. When she got 1t sewed
on she found it was a shade narrow
er than the old one; but the black
was sufficient to display little line
of satin, black and orange, on the
straw.
Wittance refused to argue the mat.
ter. 81 will not wear that hat!" he
stormed. Il shall buy a new onen
Nobody can see that little mark,
persisted Mrs. Wittance. you are
extravagant, that's what you are!"
She laid the hat tenderly away in
its box and put it on the shelf in the
coat closet downstairs.
The next day Wittance paid So for
new hat and when he arrived home
that afternoon and saw the box he
jerked it down and grabbed out the
old straw hat in desperate fury.
Tenderly depositing the new one in
the box, for he is a neat man and
dislikes dust, Wittance damned the
old straw into the ash can and raked
ashes over ii to hide it.
The next day the temperature had
fallen 40 degrees and it was early
for straw hats, anyhow, so Wittance
wore his derby when he went down.
town
Mrs Wittance had resigned and |
injured expression at dinner that
night.
You made such a fuss over that |
straw hat ] cleaned and fixed up for |
you" she informed him, that / gave
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