The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-17
Married Life
the Second Year
BY MABEL HERBERT URhER.

Quarterstown, Mo, March IS, 1911.
My Dear Daughter:
FTER all this time it seems as
"A though ! am going to have the
N long desired chance to visit
you Old Mr.. Bradley has just paid us
that 5000 note he has been owing your
father so long. We never thought we
would get it and now your father
wants me to take the money for two
weeks visit TO you.
Your fathers practice has been fair
ly good this year, although a younger
doctor from the East, Boston, | think,
has settled here and is trying to get
many of his patients.
| somehow feel that ! shouldn't
spend the money in this way but your
father insists that the change would
be good for ms And as | have never
visited you since You were married, he
thinks | should do so now. And, of
course you know how anxious ] am to
see you and the baby and your hus-
band.
| have just had Mrs. Maker make
me a black cloth suit, threeHarter
coat and pleated skirt. Everyone says
it looks very nice on me. Then | have
had her make over my black silk, and
| have that grey cloth got when you
married which if | change the sleeves,
will be just as COOS as ever. | thought
with these, and, say, three new shirt
waists, ] could get along very we'll.
What do you think? Father wants me
TO get one new dress while | am in
New York, so ] don't want to get any
thing more here. Write me what you
think about it.
am going to bring some blackberry
and apple jelly and some of your fa-
vorite green tomato katchup. | think
III have room for some preserves, too.
] put up both watermelon and peach
last Fall, Which do you like best?
Now, your father wants me to start
the first of the month. He says if | put
it off something will happen and
won't so at all. Now will that be con-
venient for you? Write me as soon as
you get this and tell me what you
think about it all.
Lovingly, your mother,
ELIZABETH ALLEN.
P. S.-You have always wanted one
of your grandmothers quils. Aunt
Laura has the old log cabin pattern,
but | have the Star of Bethlehem. and
the double ct" Which would you rath-
er have? | can put it in the bottom of
my trunk and it won't take up much
room.
Helen held this letter in her hand
a long time after she had read it. Her
mother coming to see her! The thing
she had wanted so much when she
was first married, but nowhere was
so many reasons why she dreaded for
her mother to visit her now.
In all her letters she had implied
she was very happy, and that Warren
was kind and considerate in every
way. 1t was both her pride that
prompted this and desire to keep
from her mother the pain which the
knowledge of her daughters unhappi-
ness would bring. SO she had written
home joyful glowing letters.
And now for her mother to come
and find that she was far from happy
that Warren was irritable and selfish,
and that they were growing farther
and farther apart. If it were a few
days, she might dissemble, make her
mother believe that she was happy as
her letters implied. But two weeks!
She knew it would be impossible to
deceive her mother for two weeks.
And Warren-What would be his at
titude? None Of her people had ever
visited her. She had nothing to judge
by as to how he would receive her