El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-12
Married Life the Third Year
Helen is Painfully Embarrassed by
wearing n Dress RedOIenf Of
Gasoline to n Dfnner.
- BY Mabel Herbert Urner


Ites Of five. Better meet
| right by the ticket window. Now
don't fool around and be late" and
! Warren hurried off.
/ They were going out to Trenton 10
ulne with the MeTwins and would re-
4 urn on the 1880 train. Helen
/ nastened through her morning house
! mold duties. and then began looking
/ over her clothes
To dress for dinner and al the
| same time to look properly gowned
! Tor the train. is always difficult
1t was much too cold for the chff-
I ron. The only thing that seemed
/ suitable was her manufactured vel
| Fet. Whlch needed cleaning badly. She
/ examined II critically and decided to
/ dip il in gasoline
With rubber gloves to protect her
hands, she SWiShed the dress about
/ finally shook II out. and hung it drip
I ping on the shower ring over the tub
I By II o'clock the dress had dried,
looking as though ii had come from
the cleaners.
But the Smell,
Didn't it clean welI?" she de-
manded Of Maggie, who was now
washing up the bathroom.
1t certainly did. maam-like new.
! But it smells right strong. You
I reckon. thatu set out before YOU
TN hang it in my room on the
chandelier and open the windows"
But the velvet was thick and held
the odOr- Every little while Helen
would go in and sniff over it anx-
iously. 4 gale OF cold air was blow
ing through. but the gasoline was
still distressingly strong.
BY : o'clock Helen was I'm desnaT-
The OdOr seemed almost as strong IS
ever yer there was nothing else she
could wear.
why. you're not going to wear this
dress. are YOU. ma am o. exclaimed
Maggie. when she called her TO hook
it up.
haven't another thing. But I'll keep
my coat off and maybe it'll evaporate
before get there"
Although II was cold Helen walked
TO the car, carrying her coat. When
she reached the station, Warren was
not yet there He had no faith in
her prOmptness and always told her
to come at least 10 minutes ahead OF
time.
At four minutes Of five she saw
him running down the steps. He
waved to her and hurried over to set
the tickets.
minutes What are you carrying that
coat for? Put it on. Don't YOU
Yes dear, but cleaned this in gas
oline," Helen explained breathIessly.
as he rushed her out the gate and
down the platform, and I want Il 70
evaporate. Can't you notice the
.'Phew, Should say I could. Smells
sits by the window.
let me sit by the window" she
suggested, when they got on the train.
Maybe I can have it open and blew
some Of this out"
Not on a day like this. You're not
going TO fereze everybody else. just
because you'd no more sense than to
wear a smelt-up dress"
In the warm close car the odor was
more noticeable than ever.
Dear, do you suppose il won't be
eutE Do you suppose they'll notice
it when 1 get thereg'
you down! Why the deuce did you
wear it?'
1T was the only thing I had that
was warm enough And IL was so
sOiled / just had to clean it
That's like you, Always having
to make over or clean gown the
/ last minute.
4 can't stand this-makes me sick.
I'm going in the smoker"
and Helen was lett alone 10 an
Euish over her dress and over how
she would explain it when she got
there.
When they left the train at Tren-
ton Warren mOtiOned 70 one Of the
hacks drawn up by the station
ooh. dear. won't we have time to
walk pleaded Helen. IF L walk there
without my coat surely some OF this
will blow away
Yes. and you'll get pneumonia"
Il don't care what get" reck-
iessly, IF only I can air this out"
They started off at a brick pace,
Helen carrying her coat on her arm,
holding it well out from her so as
not to Obstruct the air.
"Anybody'd think you're crazy
gr0Wled Warren walking without a
coat on a night like this"
Mrs Mervvfn AnoIogf-eu
But Helen trudged shiveringIy on,
unhappily conscious that her nose and
ears were crimson and that she would
look most "uubeautiful"
Here we are as he threw open
Helen's heart sank as they went up
the walk. The Merwins were such
formal peoplel
But almost as soon as they en-
tered, Mrs MerWin who was usually
so staidly self-contained, burst into
nervous, hurried apologies.
Isn't ii dreadful It's all through
the housed But we have a new maid
kitchen door closed"
Helen could have shrieked with
Joy s IT dawned on her that Mrs.
MerWin was apolOgiZing for the odOr
OF cooking. which she now realized
was Enthusiastically strong Mrs. Mer-
win went on TO explain that their old
girl had left yesterday
on know il always happens that
way she lamented. and we just had
10 put up with this one this evening
I'm sure 7 don't know what kind OF
a dinner wei nave-she won't let me Z
so near the kitchen
Helen could hardly restrain a hys-
terical laugh of relief. and later when
her eyes met Warreu's he crinued
UNDERSTANDINGS
In the dining room the oIor OF