The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-19
Revelations
Of a Wife
Being the Confessions OF an Aver
age Married Woman.
BY Adele Garrison.

my mother flaws attention than the
luncheon at Fraunce's Tavern.
When she had announced her intcn
ton of abandoning our sightseeing trip
IN order that she might go home and
discuss with her son some mysterious
secret connecting with his past lite and
that OF Lillian Gale | had told her
that she would be unable to see him,
and suggested luncheon at the old rev
olutionary inn. was determined that
no one should talk to Dicky on the
subject before | did, but | had been
very doubtful as to the reception my
suggestion would receive
To my surprise the ruse succeeded
perfectly The elder Mrs Graham en-
thusiastically adopted my suggestion
and from the moment she made the de
cislon no one would have dreamed
from her appearance OF her actions
that she had just been swept by storm
OF emotions, or had undergone heart
attack
began to understand what DlckY
had mean, when he said that his moth,
er was like child in many thing. She
was the last person IN the world. | had
thought, to whom one could compare a
child. but there was something very
youthful in her whole hearted enjoy
ment OF the place, and her mercuriaI
iorgetiulneSs OF the emotional storm
through which we had both passed
There is only one word that de.
scrlbes this" she said when our car
drew up before the door OF the ol!
hostelry at is one OF the most abused
words in the language, but it surel,
tits this place"
u suppose YOU mean quaint '" | sa,C
smiling "lt always comes into my
mind when | see the building"
Exactly she returned good .natur
edly mo, we will no, go in for ;
little while | want to get a gooc
view OF the outside first"
This is a really wonderful door
way" | said
She examined IT critically
YES, It is good doorway" she as
sented at last The knockcr is fin,
example of colonial work also"
smiled to myself at the note OF alb
solu,e finality in her voice EVIDENT,
Richards mother was herself again
Have YOU seen the Sign?" ! asked
indicating the curlously inscribed met
al sheet which hung above our heat
announcing, as it had IN the days be
fore the revolution that Sam Fraunces
the hali-breed West Indian, was mini
host OF the inn"
! She looked at it with interest "Hov
queer 1t is, she commented. that thes
, lnanlma,c objects remain in the worl,
while the brains that planned them an,
/ the hands that executed them hav
been dust for a century"
Washington Took Farewell.
Q She had voiced my own thought $
a accurately that looked at her in won
derment ! was finding many point
OF view in common with my husband
, mother a tiny sprg OF hope began t
r sprout in my heart. belief that som
time ! might break down her prejudic
against me, and find in her The WON
anly companonship which so sorel
Z needed
We passed to the side and read IN
. tablet placed upon the building afte
y its restoration by the Sons OF the Re,
\ olutlon
+ Here Washington took farewell {
I his officers my mother ln-law rea
&c aloud
These are the things which alor
make those patriotic societies wort
$, while" | commented idly.
4, My mother -in.law Niffened II
r any one having the right to belong
?. them they are worth while in any case
o she said frigidly
| flushed ho,ly, both at the needle
rebuke, and my own ,actlessness.
had forgotten what Dicky had on,
!" told me of his mother
!, Mrs. Grahsm's Ancestor Bug"
e "She has the ancestor bug he ha
said laughingly III there's an ahce
trail society IN existence which 81
\ hasn't joined Id like to see it. for
y must be a curlo think she'd go o,
n and burn incense on the graves OF h,
II revolutionary ancestors, as the Chine,
II do. II she dared had felt a M,
III HVllNhlN lpo'lsH llltc panR tnal lot
II knew my great-great grandiath,
/ might have been hanged for stealr
sScep.
y Resolved to tread more carefully,
followed her through the old doorwa
Save for the modern dress OF Il
ID diners and the uniforms OF the waiter
J. We might well have been transport,
back to the days OF the revolution
y, y, A young man In plum -oolored co
w '. and knickerbockers OF pre-revolutio
W ary fashion bowed low before us
=! We entered and ushered US to the do
w OF the dining room. His long, outlil
'lII wig was powdered, his shoes had ir
~ nense buckles, and his whole appea
.. ance was most imposing
81 But my mother in-lsw's mood HI
N N'e suddenly veered from admiration
y cap,iousnesS
~ "rhst's a very silly thing" she cor
: nen,ed aoidly, and inaccurate as we
{" The laekeys Of that time did not we
!, powdered wigs"
w But | do not think this man Is su
w posed 10 represent a lacky," I said