The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-01-09
REFORMING OF A MAN
BY GADsDEN kILLIAN.

Mrs. Lawrence came back from the
woman's club with a firm determine
ton that her husband should reform.
This feeling had beer aroused by a
very remarkable paper by Sarah Jane
Hutchinson OF Boston, who had map
ped out all elaborate system whereby
husbands could be reduced to their
proper subservient and helpful state
in the household.
Mrs. L~awrence's husbands reform
was to begin on Wednesday. Mrs.
Lawrence wisely refrained from men
tioning the fact to him. Sarah Jane
Hutchinson had said that the more
subtly one acted in the matter the
better would be the results. Mrs.
Lawrence was thankful that the pre-
s~cription didn't call for an opening
conversation with the patient. Her
husband had an awful temper and he
might not understand at first just
how good the treatment was going to
be for him.
The plan was going to be a very
easy one to work. According to
Sarah Jane Hutchinson, if the arti-
cles of wearing apparel which the
husband filings about in the morning
are left u~ndisturbed until his return
in the evening his chagrin and the eff
feet upon his clothes will be so great
that he will be a model Of neatness
from that time IN.
Wednesday morning Lawrence
strewed around the fiat the usua
number of collars, neckties and shirts.
He got out his macintosh and I'M
brella and then, having decided hat
the day would be clear, took down his
new fall topcoat. On discovering that
the temperature was too high for this
garment he dumped it into the Nor
ris chair and made a hurried exit
from the house. tossing a couple OF
soiled handkerchiefs on the divan as
he went u of the door.
For the first time Mrs. Lawrence
surveyed this scene with satisfac-
ton. Nothing could be a better OBJ
ject lesson for her husband than the
fiat in it's present condition. She de
cided to do the breakfast dishes n
the leaving for her sisters house.
She preferred that her husband
should face the confusion alone on
his return.
In the course of an hour she set
about dressing for her visit. She had
to put away some of the necktles IN
order to find her toilet articles. She
was obliged to put the collars in the
drawer SO that she could make the
bed. The clean shirts which had
been rejected in favor of the one
which Lawrence wore that morning
could never be left on the window
seat for a shower might come up and
soak them. The laundry was paid for
out of the house po~cketbook, and it
wouldn't be good policy to be so ex-
%travagant in this reforming business.
Before she realized it, the bedroom
was quite neat and free from the orig
inal appearance of disorder. She up
herself and then reflected
that the parlor and dining room would
be bad enough to teach the desired
lesson. She had to take the hat and
~raincoat off the sewing machine in
order to sew up a rip in her skirt and
really the easiest thing to do vas to
hang them up to get them out of the
way.
When she left the house there were
Just three of her husbands belong
ings still misplaced-the two hand
kerchiefs and the new topcoat. This
asst would be an awful example to
aim, for it was in a nice little heap in
he seat of the chair and would wrin-
xle beautifully.
Mrs. Lawrence made a long days
yisit and returned home at $50 in
he evening. Lawrence. was due home
5 and his wife thought how touch
ng the scene would be wnen James :
should take her in his arms and say, ,
Dearest. | see the error of my ways. r
Never again will I be so careless :
She didn't know whether to say, .
Darling. | forgive you" as her heart :
would prompt her to do, or to re- :
mark coldly, 81 hope you will remem-
this lesson as Sarah Jane Hutch r
nson had suggested. r
She walked into their apartment L
nd looked about a%nxiously. There q
wasn't a soul in sight Inc coat was h
till in it's reformatory heap. The {
nail was untouched. Evidently James O
ad not returned After all, it would s
e rather fun to see just how he s
ook it.
At 7 o'clock she heard the familiar Il
ound of the latch key in the door. n
hen in walked James with two mem h
ers of the firm whom he had brought O
ONE to dinner. a
Mrs. Lawrence was excited. She b
made the Morris chair c
eady for the corpulent senior mem ii
err and flung the new fall o%vercoat CO
n the bed. James followed her out o,
!, the kitchen and demanded a hurry W
D dinner. He had to go that eve d.
ing with the two men to put through
II important business deal.
He rushed out after dinner with
lie men, and Mrs. Lawrence had the
vening to herself. The coat wor- al
ed her. Really, men have so much ",
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