Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-16

"Oh, papa. can we go 70 the circus
parade after SCHOOL," asked little
Paul and Mary, as he was about to
leave the house.
"Why, ask your mother. dcars," he
replied, with long-accustomcd usage
shifting a responsibility from his own
shoulders.
rae did" pipcd Paul. "and mother
said ask you"
Tyrrell regarded his wife with a
marveling eye, but she sat sphinx-like.
"Oh, go, IL you want to-" he spoke
after pause, and left the house try
ing TO analyze the changed condition
of affairs.
But n greater shock greeted him that
evening. The children had gone to
| the parade and had come back in
tears. A rude boy had pushed Mary
of the curb and into the mud, and
Paul had narrowly escaped a runaway
horse. Tyrrell rubbed his cheek du-
| biously. Obviously he did not under
stand the care Of children. Then, the
children in bed, he sat astare as his
wife said:
"Robert, have changed my mind
about your taking two weeks vaca-
ton among your old friends In Spring
| field. At first / fancied we couldn't
afford it, but, come to calculate more
| closely, find we can easily spare one
hundred dollars and you certainly de-
/ serve a jaunt after the steady work of
years"
"Why, Edith" replied Tyrrell in
sheer establishment. II don't care two
pins for the junket, come to think it
over. 1 hardly think l would be con-
tent any place except home"
"You must go, Robert" she insisted,
but there was slight catch in her
voice as she realized what a willing,
| Eood-natured being he was.
Tyrrcll met John Lind on his way
to the train next morning and told him
! of his intended vacation.
"Poor crushed down soul" Lind re-
marked to his wife that noon. HE
was rushing for his liberty like a man
let out of Jail"
But if so, Tyrrell amazed his wife
by returning at the end Of two days.
"Why, Robert !" she exclaimed, how
is this?"
"Sick of 1t ALL" declared Tyrrell.
"All of my old friends had about for
| gotten me. Lots of changes. No, sir
I'll stick at home after this, where you
| people don't change"
He kissed her exuberantly and
Edith blushed like a schoolgirl.
"And the money you told me to
spend. Well, all but twelve dollars Of
1t put into new suit for you.
Better than wasting 1t on two weeks
loaf, isn't ltF'
"You dear man." murmured Edith,
suffused In happy tears.
She was more ipdulgent than ever
with him during succeeding days. he
could not understand II. because rest
less, dissatisfied and finally anxious.
Edith" he spoke very earnestly one
morning. after thinking 1t all over,
"Tm beginning to get worried"
what about?" she asked quite in
nocently.
"You. Are you sick? Are you hid
ing anything from meT
Why do you ask that?" she falt-
cred
Because you haven't been your
natural self for the last two weeks.
See here, things are going wrong
somehow. 1 can't manage the child
ren and I'm spelling them. You never
tell me to do this or that as you
used to, and things amt up to date
as you used to make me keep them.
What's wrong"
She would not confess all. she
compromised as to the real fact in
the case.
Robert" she spoke feelingly, II got
thinking. / was afraid l was driving
| you too hard. / was afraid that l
might make mistakes in having my
own way in everything. may have
been harsh and scolding and shrew-
| ish-"
you! you" fairly shouted Tyrrell
-"oh, you've been dreaming. Why,
Edith, you're the spice of life, your
natural self. l wouldn't have you
change for worlds. Only keep 1t up.
| If you drop now I'll sink into the shift
less, unguided being i was when you
married me and gave to my life sys-
TEN and love, and oh, such happiness"
And Edith Tyrrell forgot all about
John Lind and returned to her old
stirring ways, for the shock of peace
was not what Robert Tyrrell wanted