Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-07-23
WHAT THEY DON'T HEAR !:
BY GRACE eoWDv.
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~ AS oAA WIZ uhob 70 I6tk cropped
the slice of lemon Into her tea, medi.
tatiyely. It's perfectly wonderful
she mused, ''how deaf a man grows
after he's married.
When he's just engaged" she wen,
on, he can hear his adored ones faint
est whisper In boiler. factory going
full blast, but afterward- honest, I've
seen women who had to chloroform
their husbands and tie them hand and
loot before they could get the wretches
to listen to something that it was alb
solutely necessary to tell them!
There's my brother Edgar Now,
he's perfectly good brother and al
ways bought me exactly as fine candy
and flowers as he gave the girl he
happened to be- in love with, and nat
nrally think a great deal of him. i
never saw anything like the devotion
he bestowed upon Mae while they
were engaged. 1t was what you might
call oppressive to the innocent by
stander
IT Mae was at one end or a ball.
room 70 feet long and Edgar at the
other surrounded by Gordon of men
and Mae chanced to whisper to her
partner that she believed she had
dropped her handkerchief, give you
my word that Edgar would plunge
through that mass of men instantly as
j. though he were the locomotive draw.
Ing the 13-hour special to New York.
And before Macs partner had time to
stoop Edgar had recovered the hand.
kerchief, presented 1t to her and anx-
tously inquired whether there wasn't
something else he could do for her, all
before the dead and wounded that
marked the tumultuous progress
through the ballroom had had time to
pick themselves up and dust them.
selves OIL
Il began to believe that Edgar suf-
ferred from what is known as acute
hearing. He always was leaning anx.
iously forward and saying: 'Yes-what
ds sHou say, dear?' Afraid he might
miss something, you see. Well, they've
been married two years now, and he's
Just as much in love with her as ever,
but Ill tell you what happens when 1t
is necessary for Mao to communicate
something to Edgar. The scene is after
dinner and Edgar has the newspaper.
Says Mae:
"'Edgar!' Then she repeats the
name three times. Then from behind
the paper comes q sound like HIM?
Says Mae. Edgar. the queerest thing
happened today. The map who was to
bring your new suit OF clothes deliv-
cred a pound of prunes insteadn
Thrilling silence from behind the pa.
per. Mae takes deep breath. Ed.
lgar,' she says, the tailor's man left a
pound OF prunes today instead of your
new suitP
Jemima!' explodes Edgar at this
instant. listen to this Then he reads
something aloud from his newspaper.
Half an hour later when he goes to
put on his new suit and finds pound
of prunes instead he raves and wants
2 TO know why on earth Mae couldn't
take enough interest in his affairs to
tell him!
"Why, there's deep ocean rumble
all over this broad land OF wives tell
ing things'to their husbands who aren't
listening. It's substratum on which
are built all the conversations and all
the daily deeds that are done! Hus-
bands ares being told that the gas DiTi
is overdue and that it looks as though
Willie was coming down with the
measles; that msther is coming for
six months visit and that the new
velvet gown from Celeste is ruined
that the cook has left, or mice have
eaten the beet bindings on the library
shelves. or the Whites dinner party
Is postponed, or that Uncle Hiram had
stroke Of paralysis yesterday--and
do they hear? They do not. q
"They go blissfulIy on In their calm,
peaceful, unlisteninB mental attitude,
and let the dear creatures babble fran
4icslly, impiofingly, beseechingly.
cfhe only time they came out OF
their trance Is when they find-the gas
mon has turned of the gas or discover
.nt er's trunk In the guest room and
then they demand to be told why The
wise wife does not burst Into tears
and insist that she has already told
her husband 16 tImet--she says meek
1y Yes, dear, II Is my fault, md l
should have Informed you'---and then
goes downtown Ind charges something
perfectly awful on that months dry
goods bill in revenge lie doesn't know
it's revenge -he calls 1t extravaganza,
but that gives him something to talk
sbout and keeps him amused, 60 rs
for HE own good.
eDo you know whst I'm going to do
when get husband r" aeked the girl
who likes to talk. when ] hpvo some
thing 70 tell him I'm going TO send him
..elegTams. collect. tD his efDna,e
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