The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-14
Revelations
Of a Wife
Being the Confessions OF an Aver
age Married Woman
BY Adele Garrison.
XVTHEN | could no longer see th'
w Saturn as she churned her way

| looked around wildly There were few
people walking along the sea wall, and
none OF them was the elder Mrs Ora.
ham
My anxiety was a good counter-irri-
tant tor the misery of a few moments
before when had watched the Saturn
starting on it's way across the ocean to
battleSwcpt France | knew the ship
held by brother-cousi Jack, and | had
forgotten everything else
Where had she gone She did not
know the city She would, therefore
hardly have gone into the subway en-
trance, or climbed the elevated stairs.
My common sense began to asser, IT.
/ self or course. she must have gone
into the Aquarium II was the only
logical solution of her absence
hurried on to the old Castle Garden,
ready to be quite abDect in my apollo
gies, ! realized that it had been most
objectionable thing IN me to keep my
husbands mother standing IN the cold
while ! gazed seward after ship hold
/ ing any man, even one as near and dea-
as my Cousin Jack had always been to
me
do not know what ! cxpected-re-
pioacheS, perhaps an angry demand 10
he taken home at once. Ru, the elder
! Mrs, Graham is paSt-mistreSs in the
art OF dominating situation.
She was standing near the door of the
! Aquarium as entered, and really made
a striking figure of well-bred dignit}
/ Utterly ohliyious Of the curious glanccs
OF the other visitors, she stood calmly
looking through her lorgnettc at the
walls OF the Aquarium, tho cases that,
lined them, and the people that walked
past her, bestowng the same imperSonal
gaze upon all.
A Cold Reproof
hurried up TO her, but he turned
away as | came, pretending not to have
seen nc smiled lnvoluntarily as she
did SO, recognizing the adroitucss with
which she compelled me 10 be the first
{, speak
% am so sorry, Mrs Graham" SAID
hrcathlesSly II did not hear YOU 90
away at all Why did YOU not speak 10
me ,"
She turned slowly and surveyed me
with her lorgnctte Il was not an angry
look not even a diSapproylng one, but
there was something in its cool disdaiH
that made me feel almost like an insect
Il did speak to YOU twice" she sail
at really did not seem worth while 10
4 try il again"
/ "Oh. Mrs Graham" cried in
shocked protest
"It really doesn't matter in the least
she said indiiierently, and her tones dis
patched me to oblivion I'VE will walk
on now"
Her words and tone were exactly
what she would have used to a servant
| flushed resentiully, but realized that
! deserved some sort OF punishment. so
! said nothing but turned and walked
by her side
Her QuckneSS OF thought and her
pride compelled my admiration. She
must have known something OF the
events OF the daybefore. she must have
realized thai it was the presence of
|. Jack on board the Saturn to which nv
utter torgctiulneSs OF her presence was
due But she would not acknowledge
by word or look the fact that there had
ever been any other man in my life hat
her son
Which would YOU like to see first" |
asked tmidly after a moment, "Thc
wall tanks with fresh and salt water
fishes or the flood tanks with the seals
and the sea lions ~
Some Happy Memories
here is no heStanCy about Mr GIa-
ham. trait which / like immensely
She never keeps YOU waiting, but de
cideS at once what she wishes to de-
The wall tanks first by all means,
she said I'VE will circle this room and
thcm come back to the seals
She did not linger over the immense
glass cases which contained the leaus
ing fish OF every country IN the world
but she stopped several minutes before
4 tank holding Speckled mountain trout
Her face Soitencd as she looked al
them
when was a small girl used to 90
with my father to fish for these she
said. 81 would follow down the bani,
while he whipped the stream for them
| have never forgotten the experience "
u think they make the most tooth
some dish in the world | returned
hoping ierventy that the innocent little
rcmark would meet with my mother in
laws approval
At least IT did not arouse her resent.
mcnt for she began to talk OF the build
ing This land was once All island 2N
feet from the shore" she said. "and
this circular building was originally a
iCtt which was built during the war oi
1872 So" '1- d"'"r'~ ni the city against
the bnuN
She might have been sightsecins
lecturer or a teacher inS,ruCting a his
tory class She must have known that
for years had made my living b,
teaching history but there was no ev,-
dcnce OF II in her manner ! might have
been the most ignorant little coun,r,
girl IN the world as far as my mother.
in law was concerned. | resolved tC
humor her
An Unexpected Interruption.
1T was named Castle Clinton before
il was called Castle Garden, was il
not2' asked deiercntially
"NcS, and the fort on the point oI
Governors Island opposite, was CaNl.
| Williams then as II is today" she re.
plied Congress ceded this property I,
] the city in 1892 1t was named Cast,
Garden, and saw all the great publ.
gatherings OF that time Lafayette an,
the Prince OF Wales. ai,erward king