Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-03
WHEN DAISY DARNED
BY JANE OSBORN.

hour before his usual evening arrival
He went straight to his own room
Daisy, his wife, was not in and 1t was
Thursday. Jenny's day out.
He went straight to his own room
his room and Daisy's, and. with fur
tive glances, to see that Daisy was
not in hiding, opened the chiffonier
drawer.
There they were. the shaDeless
piles of minated, undarned socks. just
where they had been for the last
month. Harvey seized the afternoon
paper he had bought on his way home,
bundled the socks into it and then
rolled it into a parcel. He cast about
for string to tie it. His eyes caught
sight of piece of Daisy's pink lin
gerie ribbon lying in her bodkin holder
ON her dressing table. He seized this
and in minute his bundle was firmly
fastened.
Then, with guilty side glances, he
hurried out of the apartment, closed
the door noiselessly and. avoiding the
apartment elevator, passed down the
narrow, winding stairs. Once out in
the open, he turned the corner sharp
ly, Jumped on the nearest street car
going downtown and breathed sigh
of relief. Daisy couldn't possibly see
him now.
On his way down town Harvey
opened his card case to find a clipping
torn out of his morning paper.
For Busy Women and Bachelors
Darning and mending of all sorts done.
Anything from a pair of socks to a
lace gown mended and renovated by
experts. The Mendery, rs Bristol
street"
When the car reached Bristol street
Harvey slipped off with his bundle,
and in a few minutes reached the de-
sired number 1t was such very
little shop that Harvey would not
have seen it but for the brightly paint
ed sign which dubbed it the Mend
cry"
1t was a charming. silken-voiced
young matron wearing an osprey
trimmed hat, with veil drawn back,
who received Harvey's package and,
giving him a numbered ticket, prom
ised to have the work done within
three days.
Harvey traced his way back to his
Office. For the first time within the
year he had been Daisy's husband he
felt as If he had deceived her. He sat
staring into the inkwell on his deck
and fumbled with the pens. He had
broken into his own house when they
were away, and still, he unused, they
were his socks and any man had a
right to dispose of his own socks to
suit himself Still Daisy had given
him some of the socks-the bright
colored socks that he wore only with
high shoes were all her gifts. Per
haps he ought to have left those. Still
a man couldn't go with holes as big
as eggs in his heels. He had bought
new socks, but he couldn't go on do
ing that always. And then there was
the sort of the socks-that alone was
enough to vex the heart of mere mar
accustomed to having a mother OF
wife attend to such details.
But what had come over Daisy
Daisy, who had up to two months be
fore regarded the slightest detail o.
her wifely duty as joy and delight
Daisy, who mad sat at his side in the
evening as he read, putting the TIMES
stitches into those socks of his anC
telling him every five minutes wha
Joy it was to do it? Daisy hat
changed. Daisy had met some ole
school friends who had filled her minC
with new interests. Now in the morn
ing, when Harvey went to search il
his chiffonier drawer for socks, Dais.
was already in the dining room
dressed half an hour before he was
and was calling him impatiently t.
come, as Jenny had breakfast all wait
ing Daisy always seemed to be cage
now to have Harvey leave the apart
ment in the morning, and only few
months ago she had begged him 81
tenderly to stay lust minute
longer.
Harvey pondered over the chang
that had come in Daisy's attitud
toward him She seemed happ,
enough, but clearly something o
someone was coming between them.
Harvey half expected that Dais,
might notice the absence of the socks
but when, after a week of the ney
arrangement, she said nothing, h
realized that she didn't even put tn
socks in the drawer. Jenny, the faitt
full maid of all work probably did tina
after she had laundered them.
Harvey sent his Office boy to tn
Mendery the first time, but the mex
Thursday afternoon he went himsel
with the weeks installment of worl
This time he took more than socks
Buttons were missing and rents neeC
ed staying in an increasing number c
other garments. And Harvey too
them all To be sure, the price fo
mending the socks seemed rattle
high. Harvey meant to mention thi
to the charming young woman benin
the counter, but this time there wa