The Springdale news., 1914-07-10
!: WHAT THEY DON'T HEAR i;
By GRACE GOWDY,
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 The girl who likes to talk dropped the slice of lemon into her tea, medi tatively. It's perfectly wonderful, she unused, how deaf man grows after he's married.
 When he's just engaged" she went on, he can hear his adered ones faint est whisper in a boiler factory going full blast, but afterward-honest, I've seen women who had to ehloroforn their husbands and tie them hand and | foot before they could get the wretches to listen to something that it was ab | solutely necessary to tell themi
 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 urally I think a great deal of him. never saw anything like the devotion he bestowed upon Mae while they were engaged. It was what you might call oppressive to the innocent by Stander.
 "If Mae was at one end of a ball. room TO feet long and Edgar at the other surrounded by a cordon 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 though he were the locomotive draw ing the 1S-hour special to New York And before Macs partner had time to stoop Edgar had recovered the hand iously 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 of!
 T 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 did you say, dear?' Afraid he might miss something, you see. We'll. they've ' just as much in love with her as ever but I'll tell you what happens when it Is necessary for Mae 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 sound like H II" !" Says Mae, Edgar, the queerest thing happened today. The man who was to bring your new suit of clothes deffv- cred pound of prunes instead' Thrilling silence from behind the pa. per Mae takes a deep breath. Ed gar she says, the tailor's man left a pound of prunes today instead of your new suit.'
 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 a pound of prunes instead he raves and wants to know why on earth Mae couldn't take enough interest in his affairs to tell him!
 Why. there's a deep ocean rumble all over this broad land of wives tell ing things to their husbands who aren't listening. It's d substratum on which are built all the conversations and all the daily deeds that are done, Hus- bands are being told that the gas bin is overdue and that it looks as though Willie was coming down with the measles, that mother 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 best bindings on the library shelves, or the Whites dinner party is postponed, or that Uncle Hiram had a stroke of paralysis yesterday do they hear2 They do not
 They go blissfully on in their calm, peaceful. unlistening mental attitude. and let the dear creatures babble fran tically, imploringly. beseechingly.
 The only time they came out Of their trance Is when they find the gas man has turned off the gas or discover mothers trunk in the guest room and then they demand to be told why. Tho wise wife does not burst into tears and insist that she has already told her husband 16 times-she says meek ly Yes, dear, 1t is my fault, and should have informed you'-and then goes downtown and charges something perfectly awful on that months dry goods bill in revenge. He doesn't know it's revenge-he calls It extravagance, but that gives him something to talk about and keeps him amused, so it's for his own good.
 Do you know what I'm going to do when l get husband?" asked the girl who likes to talk When I have some thing to tell him I'm going to send him telegrams, collect, to his offlce."
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