New Britain herald., 1916-10-21
Why Dicky's Mother Said "How ,a, sft~.t NJ Richard Has Changed Since His
 Marriage!''

 What are you going to do with 1 the house while Katie and Jim are 1 gone on their wedding trip?' Dicky asked the question abruptly one morning but a few days before the date set for Katie's wedding.
 "Why nothing,' I returned, a little 1 bewildered at his tone. I've have a cclored woman coming in for the heavy work, and Mother Graham and I can manage the rest easily.'
 What's the use of bothering with it at all?" Dicky asked. Why not shut it up and come away with me for a holiday?'
 "Oh, that would be lovely, Dicly,' 1 returned enthusiastically. "Where are you going?"
 What do you say to a run up into the mountains? I should like to have some trout fishing, and there are some bully places up in the Catskills where I used to go.''
 ecstatically. i've always wanted to see them"
 "Why, do you mean to tell me and never been up into the noun
 
 why! I always took my mother with me on my vacations and excur- sions,' I explained, gently, land her heart would not stand any altitude"
 Richard does not seem to be so considerate of his mother" my mother-in-law put in caustically "He does not consider that my heart would not stand the altitude, either or per haps he did consider it when he was making his plans."
 Her eyes and tone pointed the malevolence of her last words. I felt sorry, indeed for Dicky, and indignant at his mother, as I saw him vince and turn pale under the thrust.
 Dicl1y's Farm IdyI
 l opened my lips to rush indignant ly to his defense, but Dicky fore- stalled my speech.
 1T am sorry, mother" he said, with dignity, that you should imagine me capable of counting on your inability to go with us. I simply did not think anything about your heart attacks in connection with the mountains when I thought of the trip. At that, I be- lieve you will find that you could go with safety if you consulted medical authority. From all I've learned, Madges mother had a very serious condition of the heart, much worse than yours''
 "Oh, of course," my mother-in-law interjected, tossing her head, while I mentally scored Dicky's foolishness He ought to have known better than to compare one old womans ailments with those of another.
 We won't go up very far," Dicky went on, happily oblivious of his mothers gathering frown. Well take the day boat up the Hudson, which is simply wonderful now, with the trees all in their autumn coloring, and go up to Kingston. There we can take a train to the mountains, and only few miles up there is some of the prettiest scenery and one of the bulliest trout streams that you could want. I'll bet you anything that if you get Dr. Pettit's opinion he'll say it. will be perfectly safe for you to go.'
 NO, thank you," snapped my mother-in-l Jaw, "I don't need either a jackanapes of a doctor or an ir- responsible lad like you to tell me the condition of my heart. I know all about it, know just what I can stand, andmountain trips are not one of them; besides, the accomm o odations up in those places are frightful unless you go to one of the expensive hotels, and there you have to dress so much that it's no vacation"
 "No hotels for me-" Dicky declared '1'm going to a farmhouse that I know of on the bank of this stream; best eats to be had anywhere in the world You can wear a flannel shirt ard trousers tucked in your boots all day long,"