New Britain herald., 1915-10-20
REVELATI0NS0F A WIFE
By ADELE GARRT5ON

you think I'm going to be niggard1y ! and dole you out a quarter at a. time That isn't the proposition at all, but ! this allowance business looks to me ! just as if your wife was some kind of | a hired housekeeper. How can you | tell how much you'll need each week :? | Lots of unexpected expenses come up ! I know you. If you had an allow ance you'd deny yourself everything so as to keep within it!''
 Evidently Dicky stopped talking only because he was out of breath. I 1 seized the opportunity to try to clinch my argument
 "Dicky, you must listen to me-" said firmly. 'I am in deadly earnest both about an allowance, and about earning some money to pay the maid I have not forgotten that at all. l simply have waited until I could talk to you about it. I want to know whether you object to my taking that study clubs history class one day each week, because you fear it would inter- fere with some of our pleasure trips together, or because you object to my earning money in any way. If it be simply the interference, I will try to find some other way of earning the money"
 '"The devil you will" Dicly sprang to his feet
 "Dicky!" exclaimed.
 Never mind the French. If you can't stand a mild word like that you'd better go up and take your seat at the right hand of Gabriel or Abra- ham, or who ever runs the ranch, right away. But let me tell you one thing: you will earn no money outside.
 I will not have it. Do you hear me?" I closed my eyes for an instant to gather strength for the answer I ! knew I must give Dicky. Then I stood up and faced him.
 To LiI's, of Course. Let me understand you fully. You
 will not plan for a regular housekeep-
 ing allowance, nor will you give your | consent to my earning money" You are eminently correct in both | suppositions.''
 Then, do you hear me-" I said
 icily. This money" picking up the
 bills which I had laid upon the table,
 ''I shall use. When it is used up I Sudll arrange to nave the CTdQ0SIn6n tills sent to you for payment. Katie S wages and any incidental expenses including my clothing, I shall pay out of the money I personally earn" I faced him steadily, waiting for | the outburst I knew would come
 Dicky never was taught to control his temper when he was a child. As a l result, when he does give way to it he l is positively terrifying.
 He stood glaring at me, his face | reddening, his hands clinching and I unc1inching. Then with a sudden oath, he snatched the nearest thing to his hand, a cut glass vase of mine one of my treasures, and dashed ii
 against the hearth of the gas grate shattering it. The sound of the breaking glass seemed to bring him
 to himself. I could almost see the
 words of apology trembling on his lips. But he did not utter them. In l stead, he set his lips, and went into
 his room, where I heard him rushing
 around like mad. I sat motionless
 gazing at the shattered vase, waiting
 In few minutes he came out of the
 room In his evening clothes, with hi:
 high hat and stick. Without a word
 or a glance at me he went out of thu living room, closing the door ofte,
 him with a slam.
 Where had he gone? My prophetic
 soul gave me the answer.
 To Lillian Gales of course.