The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-31
COLISEUM
Roller Skating tonight and
all day tomorrow.
Married Life
the Third Year
BY MABEL HERBERT URNER.

coming back from the door. Helen
4 took the two letters and the postcard.
One was from Warren-a thicker en-
a&xalope than usual. 1t was the first let
she had received from him since
curt telegram saying he was re-
ting the check--and that it was
time for heroics."
1ickly she tore it open and the
tks f1uttered to the floor. Dear Hell
For heavens sake try to have
b common sense. Why can't man
his wife that expenses must be
Town, and ask her to make the
he is sending go as far as she
What was there about that to
n YOU get up on your hind legs
raw the air?
III prate a lot about having tried
Rrd to be economical Well, what
The wife of man in my posi-
Is supposed to be economical
isn't she? And ! didn't say you hadn't
been. What / did say--and what I say
right here again Is that we've got to
cut down somewhere. But what's in
that to make you historical?
And your letter about earning mon
ey' yourself, and paying your share
of the expenses" was a lot of rot! I
didn't say anything about wanting you
L.
right there attending the house and
Winifred. What you need is more
common sense and less hysteria
That's what you've always needed
You're constantly going off at some
wild tangent about some blooming
thing or other.
And this last idea of yours about
working" You, couldn't make enough
to earn your salt Now get~ all such
nonsense out of your head. AS | wired
youths is no time for heroics.
BY George! If / was marrying
again I'd be mighty darn certain that
the woman had one thing-Common
Sense. But it's a quality that women
have precious little of-and you've
none at all.
Now I've got about all can handle
out here without being bothered with
any more hysterical melodramatic let
tiers from you. Didn't even read all the
last one. Got far enough to know that
you'd sent back the check because
you went up in the air at what | said
about cutting down expenses, and
about my not being able to take up
an offer out here because of you and
Winifred
Now / never said anything about
YOU being an ''unwelcome burden"
2Hpu're always putting words in my
Ulouth, I'll wager you got that phrase
Il &(f of some fool novel What | did
~ was that couldn't take any chan
Few married men can. Ii | was
re I'd go into this Bennington deal
muck it'd make your head swim.
what of it? Just because | made a
REement of facts was no reason for
TO fly off the handle.
Nfpw I'm returning the check, and
MI again. Make it go as far as you
And I'll say. too, just what | said
IRE, that I've got a devilish lot of
&tnses out here and we've got to
EsL aown somewhere.
zz2S%Mhw null this over.
&{ for coming home. I told you all
&iokg couldn't tell when I'd come.
I've got to put this thing through, and
Tn going to stay till | do In the
meantime you keep things going there
as well and as economically as you
can. That's your job. And to do it we'll
is a darn sight better than a lot of
hot air about being independent"
Yours, etc. WARREN.
Just as Helen finished reading this
Della came to the door.
Does you want me to Iron that
dress of Winifred's now, or will clean
tho silver first?"
Helen looked at her vacantly. "Oh.
yes. yes. you'd better do that" she
answered mechanically, not knowing
what Della had said.
And Della went back to her work
wondering what was in the letter to
bring that look to Helen's face.
Left alone Helen crushed the let
ter in her hand. Sometime in the most
intense moments an absurd thought
will flash through the mind and so
now the thought came to Helen that
Warren would call that .'melodramat-
ic. In novels and on the stage they