The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-27


PAPER Enterprise Associntior.)
II does seem to me. dear Dick.
that the Waverly family have got
ten their affairs into a most awful
snarl and | do hope you can come
home very soon.
! called up Mr. Selwin this
morning and he said that when
he left you we're expecting to be
home before this. | suppose some
other complications have arisen
and that you will be with me as
soon as possible.
want you. dear. all myself,
but | also want you to straighten
out things over at your mothers.
] know how you hate a fuss and
a turmoil doesn't any man run
rather than to get into family
row2) but IL seems to me that
only you can straighten things
out at home. While think, dear,
that you did the very best possi-
BILE thing In putting Mary in the
bookshop II Is going to make lot
of trouble before you can con-
vince your mother and Jack that
Ii is right.
Your mother is chatting because
she thought she could have money
whenever she asked for II, and
Jack Is furious because Mary will
not let him rob the cash drawer
after every sale.
i feel very sorry for your
mother, Dick, but unless some
thing Is done to straighten things
out she is going to make us all
miserable, and | am sure 1t is not
right for all of Us to be at swords
points just because we cannot al
low one bigoted old woman to run
our entire affairs. You know
am not saying this In anger or In
anything but the kindest feelings
towards your mother, but she has
already made all of us very un-
happy.
] am afraid for Mollie. Dick,
Mollie has her life to live. Her
happiness Is before her. Your
mother has lived hers. We must
protect your sister from constant
aud uncalled-for fault-finding.
do not think anyone but you, her
Oldest son, can set matters
Ystraight. Try and come home as
soon as you can.
Without Dads restraining hand
the expenses in the old house will
be SO large that the profits of the
bookshop cannot take care of
them.
Already your mother has spent
the hundred and fifty dollars APP
portioned her monthly for new
mourning gowns. Aunt Mary says.
You see, she has no idea of the
value of money. ! think IL she
and Mollie could rent the home,
furnished, and board somewhere,
perhaps modestly furnishing their
own rooms, you could get at a
better basis of expenses.
Your mother Is very much in
censed at Mary, and I think, Dick,
|you will have to tell her that 1t
was at your instigation that Mary
was made co-trustee with you.
Mary is doing wonderfully well.
! think the shop was never 80
prosperous. She is very anxious
to add to the "old book" section.
IL seems that she knows some
thing of the value of first editions,
etc., and she says that IL where
the money is made. You can talk
this over when you get home, but
/ think, my dear, 1t Is hardly fair
to make Mary work as hard as she
does for people who do not ap-
preciate her In any particular.
Jack Is positively unkind to her.
cannot understand how two
brothers can be SO different from
each other.
And here you have been gone
from me six weeks and l have not
had one letter from you. All the
news that | have had Is when /
have called up the office. / have
not done this very often, Dick,
dear, for it has hurt my pride to
let your stenographer know that II
have not heard from you.
Aren't you sometimes q little
afraid that I'll get used to your
absence. Wives have been known
to forget as well as husbands, you
know.
There, dear, / did not mean to
write that, but, having written it,
/ am going to let it stay. Aunt
Mary said to me the other, day that
II one only forgot one did not
need to forgive. Perhaps some
day | will forget you and then II
won't have to forgive you for not
writing to your WIFE.
CONTINUED Tomorrow.