The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-21

who prided herself on having a home
free from useless ornamentation,
flushed resentfully.
Il see you've moved your desk as
Helen put back the scent bottle.
Yes. II was too near the heat-the
veneering was getting warped"
You ought to keep a saucer OF
water under your radiators. us NOT
the heat as much as the dryness that
cracks veneer" instructed Carrie. DO
yea use good furniture polish?''
Il suppose it's good" stiffly. Il get
II at Warmers"
We'll, II you'd get a little lemon oil
1T would take of all these smeary-
looking places. It's better than any
thing else for mahogany"
With an effort Helen forced a muir
INJURED comment about trying it."
Carries critical. instructive attitude
had never seemed more intolerable
and she had never felt for her a
stronger antagonism. II was a diff
cult evening. and Helen could hardly
keep from showing the resentment
that was smoldering within her.
II was relief when Ed finally
glanced at the clock and announced
that it was after 10. But II was an
other half hour before they really got
started.
1T doesn't seem possible that Fri
days Christmas" observed Carrie as
she pinned on her hat But we're not
giving single present this year. What
we ordinarily spend for presents we
decided to give 10 the Belgians. Mrs.
Elliott and got off big box on their
Christmas ship"
That was very fine Of you" muir
INJURED Helen. thinking OF the expen-
sive centerpiece she had already
bought for Carrie.
"Oh, isn't that something new" Car.
rie paused at the dining room door as
they passed by. I've never seen that
decanter"
Yes, got that In London. love
that old Bohemian glass so. and YOU
don't often see one with the old silver
stopper"
What do you use for your silver?"
Carrie had taken up a berry dish from
the sideboard. "GOrdon's silver soap?
Oh. they make a cream that's much
better. You try II and your silver
won't look so cloudy" holding the dish
up to the light
! Carrie. its late" called Ed from
the door.
With a forced. set smile. Helen FOL.
lowed them out to the elevator. Even
after they rang for the car. Carrie KEPT
II waiting while she still extolled the
merits Of the silver cream
Mighty nice to have them this
evening" declared Warren az he
closed tho door. Carrie looked well
didn't she7 Gave you some good tips
too. You must try that stunt about
water under tho radiator"
Helen gulped then all her fmolder.
Ing resentment blazed out " was the
primitive. tigerish resentment that is
aroused In even the mildest. Eentiost
woman by the criticism and Interior.
once Of her husbands family.
You think she's such paragon Of
housekeeper. don't YOU" passnn-
ately That's what an your family
Think Well. ! want 10 tell you some.
thing ] saw myself You remember
that nlght We we're over when I'd was
Eickf Well. ! went out 10 nI the hot.
water bag-and found fGe maid
brushing her teeth On the kitchen
sink Now ! may have smeary furni
ture and cloudy silver-but I'm at
least clean about the kitchen, And
III tell her %. too"
"Whatre you trying 10 start. any.
way" scrowied Warren. Il think ia
mighty hne Of Carrie 10 want 20 help
you
Help me- She only wanted an 81.
cuse 90 air her own PROJECTIONS Z
tried 20 b. civil Co her tonirht-but
The next time" excltediy. "TIi let her
know I ran run my house without her
assistancei And I'm going 20 tell her
nat my maid doesn't wash her teeth
in ihe Kitchen sinkf"
rUoN DO you know what she does
whom you're not out there Iove. va.