Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-26
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Mos Impoing Picture Serial md III w
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WI, W. No 2The Wife Who Told Husband
why VIC VudIICACu 80 Everything Tells
tCopyrisht, 1918, by star Company
Ky Virginia Tcrhune Van DE Water

copyright, 1915, by star Company
Hy Virginia Tcrhunc Van DE Water.
/ My husband and l quarrel because he
cannot sec that what Is Sauco for the
goose il sauce for the gander,
J In Other words he Is absolutely invon-
sistcnt with regard to the matter OF CON
! Cideuocs lie expects me TO tell him all
. that do. yet there arr times when he
snubs me for DOING this
! FOR example. when we were first mar
, ried he said that. as my husband, he
/ had q right to know OF all my worries
! and troubles but there have been many
occasions when | could see that he was
bored when | talked 20 him OF these.
/ l remember one nisht when he came
/ home from the office and asked me- ~
he always does. how things had gone
during the day | was tired and wor-
ried. for everything had gone wrong.
said as much.
/ Bridget has been a. cross as two
STICKS" I complained. Il have had a
| headache. the dress that had cleanscd
came home from the cleaners just about
ruined, and the pudding l made for din
ner Ia failure
I know my husband hates 10 see \
woman cry, so I did not allow my voice
even to quaver Yet no frowned.
! What nice lot Of grievances TO fire
/ at man rs soon as no gets I'm after n
hard day at the office" he remarked
sarca stically. 1T makes one feel Just
about as cheerful as rainy day in tho
country"
! well. declare" exclaimed.
haven't you told me often that you ex-
pectod me TO conflde everything to your
Everything that worth's confidins -
he returned. but surely Brldgets IN
humors and the cleaners delinquencies
nrc not OF such moment that you need
intiot them upon me. before you've even
asked me how I feel. have troubles Of
my own, please remember"
| His words cut me cruelty Am I not
trying to run his home to please him.
and is IL not In the discharge OF my du-
ties along these lines that most of my
trials come? If things went wrong at
his office, would not be glad TO have
him tell me Of them7 / said as much 20
him.
But 7 wouldn't tell you OF them" he
declared That's Just r. DO I ever re-
gale YOU with an account OF my office
boys latest stupidity, or my steno-
sraphers most recent negligence9 No,
indeed When | come home l leave all
that kind of thing behind me"
Because you can" ! rejoined. But n
woman cannot leave her trials behind
her They are right there before her
eyes day and night l do think you men
might understand that"
Later ! got TO thinking over what he
had said and the more I thought the
more indignant | got. I made up my
mind TO talk less Of my affairs since he
showed so plainly that he was bored by
them.
| When, a week later, a cousin OF mine
a nice fellow who had been my chun
when I was n girl-came 20 town an,
telephoned me TO lunch with him a
Sherrys. / went and said nothing about
It to my husband for some days. Their
mentioned casually that Reginald hac
been in the city
"Oh, has he?" Richard asked. How Dc
you know? Did you hear from him7"
Yes" I reioined. "He called me VI
one day"
But you didn't see him. chr He didn't
come up hereY
He didn't come up here, but saw hin
all the same"
''where2'
AT sherry's. I lunched with hin
there"
when was that?"