New Britain herald., 1916-06-27
Vews for Theafe7 G0e1s and Women Readers
REVELATIONSOF A WIFE
By ADELE GARRUsON


 nothing to start With here. The outside of the house is all right, but the inside. Look at that woodwork, the very cheapest kind of stuff! Look at that wall paper! It's atrocous!'
 That wall paper is so bad It's good,' returned Dicky, good humor- edly. It's almost futuristic that stuff'
 Tt could be safely worshipped ac- cording to the Bible rule," she said grlmly, for it certainly sembles nothing above, on, or under the earth CT the waters of the deep"
 Dicky threw back his head and laughed spontaneously
 Have it your own way, mother," lie said easily. Come on and see the rest of the shack
 He escorted her to the dining room, a long room which had matched boards painted green instead of the usual plaster sides and ceiling. Built in at the side of the red brick fire place was a cupboard with glass doors, in which I had arranged my little store of china and glass The big fall-leaf mahogany table of Mother raham's was covered with a white cloth and spread for dinner The square piano, Mr. Brennan full filling Mrs. Burchell's prediction. had neglected to take away. had in desperation moved it into the dining room, where it comfortably filled an immense vacant space at one side of the big room. Over it I had spread a runner of creamy Japanese cloth with a green vine wandering over it. which set off the polished copper sur faces of the chaf1ng dish and coffee machine. Sprays of yellow forsythia in green vases and bottles were upon the dining table, and the old piano and the draperies at the windows were also of the thin green-vined Japanese cloth. Dicky drew a long breath as he looked around the room "You Darling Brick, T didn't think you had it in you, Madge,' he said, batting my shoulder. II wouldn't have known this old room.'
 Tt is a hideous roona," his mother announced, with the air of finality , that makes her so irritating some times. Ugh. That awful green. Tc think of taking ones meals to : that color accom- paniment!'' Perhaps we can eat many of our meals on the veranda opening from the dining room,'' I suggested hope fully.
 Anywhere, except here,'' my mother-in-l Jaw returned, and then to Dicky: "Take me to my room, Richard. If it is like the rest of these horrors I know I shall be ill' I followed them up the stairs. genuinely sorry for Dicky He had felt so much boyish enthusiasm for the house I knew his mothers dis approval hurt him.
 While her room did not call forth the condemnation she had given the library and dining room-and in deed, it was the prettiest room in the house, with a pretty outlook upon the tennis court and lawn-yet she did not cease here criticisms upon every thing she saw The bathroom with its o1d-style tub and fixtures, the hall with it's paper of a hideous blue, which I admitted to myself was ap- palling the doors, the windows with their lack of screening-all shared her censure.
 "You haven't sense enough to rent a coop for chickens, let alone a house," she said to Dicky as she sank into a chair out of breath. Then she turned on me.
 T thought you had little common sense," she said in a tone that inn piled that what judgment I did have was necessarily very limited. What possessed you to consent to this barn %
 Why! I agree with Dicl1y that it is decidedly worth whi1e," re- turned spiritedly.
 T wash my hands of both of you,' said my mother-in Please leave 1 me alone for a few minutes. The shock of seeing this place has upset me so I shall have to lie down before I eat anything
 | Dicky and I scurried out of the room like two frightened children, and went swiftly down the stairs to our discredited living room. There l Dicky caught me in his arms. You darling brick!" he said, kiss 1 ing me. "I'm awfully obliged to you l for bracing the matter like that AS I returned his kiss, I felt as if | the vague shadows I had felt hover | ing over the new home had vanished 1 at least temporarily. I did not know what the new home might bring to 1 me; the thought of Grace Draper was l always in the back of my mind, but | for a little while at least I was genuinely happy