The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-27
The Euer,i,,e Story

(By Lola Avis kernochan.)

When her husband had gone to
business. Allison Hunt slipped out on
the cool veranda and dropped into a
chair behind the honeysuckle vine. In
the kitchen the maid was washing the
breakfast dishes. Upstairs the nurse
maid was. dressing Tommy, Jr.
And here 1 am-free to go ahead!"
realized Allison.
chance Ever since the little bride
lacross the street had come to nestle
| in her bower of June roses, Allison
had had a wonderful plan in her
head. It was a plan whose execution
would require a full day.
Yet. now that the time is here
thought Allison. I'm almost afraid
to begin!"
ON the other hand. however, she
was almost afraid not to begin. Tom
had seemed SO changed OF late. Some
times it seemed as II she were losing
his love altogether. 1t was impera-
tive that she take some step to re-
kindle it.
end than to take leaf from the little
brides book. Day after day she had
watched the slight gfrl-wife flying
about making her nest attractive to
her young husband. 1t seemed as If
she worked some little change in the
house or the garden every day. The
entire neighborhood had formed the
habit Of being about in the evenings
when the young husband returned
from work; smilingly 1t watched the
oblivious young couple az they how
cred over the newest change.
| But Allison had watched them only
sadly. The JOY with which the young
-. - <~%~ ~<.A 1S&a l. &aA
ed her Of the eagerness that used to
glow in Toms face-but three years
ago, when she was q bride.
How he loved even my little ex-
!travagances!" she recalled wistfully.
Sometimes 1t almost seems to me that
his Joy in our home left him when
learned to ec0nomixe."
This thought had given her the
great plan. She would turn spend
thrift again! She would no longer
quench the wild impulse to spend
which swept over her every now and
then; she would no longer be a model
wife. She had always observed that
in novels men rarely chose the women
best suited for domesticity-indeed
seemed to love the inefficient type the
most. Now she would have an op-
portunity of seeing II this was true of
flesh and blood men.
"r1l just spend-for all the time
W
as she sprang to her feet and started
into the house
Up to her room she flew. She
snatched up the pOcketbook contain
ing the months money.
Ninety dollars" she counted out.
That ought to work few changes
about the place"
Oh! how glorious it was to sit at
the telephone and say calmly to the
florist:
Suppose you send around two pot
ted palms, and enough roses to cover
the roots Of the veranda vines-all
the way round the veranda; and
enough pansies to I'LL a three-foot
bed. want the flowers blooming
all Of them"
She chuckled like naughty child
} a. she hung up the receiver.
u ''Now for q boy to dig the pansy
bed" she hurried on.
1t was not hard to hnd boy.
Within five minutes she had one hard
at work on the front lawn.
A vivid color had flown to her
cheeks when she returned to the tel
. ephone and gave the number of q
more like q girl than she had for
months as she made her second or
4 der:
ssWm you please send around to
lGrs. Thomas Hunt one Of those rus
tito verandA swings with the heavy
,, brass chains. the kind you have in
your window? You might send .
too. II like them. tn take them .
i She positively trembled now - she
; hung up the receiver
"Tm almost afra1d to have Tom
tcomna hnnos'' aha half WhinDoenn
let - vent xocklog1y -. II had