The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-09-30
REVELATIONS
Wife
bY Hdeie GoyrjSou~

Dicky'S appearance as he protested
.ga.uSt his mothers proposal
Won d have brought a smile to my lips
He was So like a ruitlcd young turkey
cock when r.. heard her plan to have
me 50 rack y, teaching while She took
charge Of the home
But ! was IN no mood for laughter.
There must b" SOMETHING very print
tive under the veneer IN me. felt as
S~avagcly re, atiul OF the plan 10 force
me from my position As chatelainc OF
our lit'lc home as any cave woman
would nave ,clt ii her domain were
threatened.
This, then. was the meaning OF my
mother in laws smiling approval OF my
club work! She had had this in mind
ever since she knew she had to live
with us In her daughters home she
had always held the reinS OF the house
hold, because her daughter wished to
devote herself to her husband, a busy,
brilliant surgeon. and 10 her own pur
suits,
But il was one thing, ! told myself
iicrccly, to give up the management u'
ones home TO one, own mother, and
IA far different affair to hand over one,
cherished ~prcrogatiyc to a perfect
stranger. ! knew the arrogance ri the
woman who asked 1t also. Ii she ever
took command OF the household Affairs.
would have no more right e. alter the
position OF a char, OF to bring home a
guest 10 dinner without permits, yn Than
would it, did not belong in the th,Se
1t was intolerablc that she should ask
this thing | realized il as a danger
to- be faced, for | knew the persistence
OF DiCky'S mother orce she had set her
heart upon anything
A Diplomatic Reply.
All the kindly feelings which my
mother III laws illness and ,oitcucd
manner had wrought IN me vanished.
and my early prejudices against her
returned took a sudden resolve that
would be as cold, as crafty, as deter
mlrted as she was, but that to her ar
rogance J would oppose smiling dipio-
macy.
So | smiled lovingly at Dicky. who
looked as ii he were still 'iuwardly
suffering, and said lightly
AS Mother Graham is barely con-
valeScent, and | could not yet my posi-
,ion back before next fall, don't you
think we'd better postpone this discus
sion for a while Tell me iuStcd
when Katie will sound that tocSin OF
the soul, the dinner bell. I'm raven
ouSly hungry
That is because YOU didn't eat any
thing this noon" Dicky returned, pal.
pablc roI,et at the diversion ~ his
tones. Here comes Katie now
oh MisSiS Graham. dinner him ali
on the table, mean dot dinner, him
is served" Katie giggled in cortu-
sion, as she generally does when she
tries TO a meal property, and
vanished.
THAT girl needs an iron hand over
her my mother in-law commented
acidly Imagine one OF Harriet, maid,
announcing q meal in that way
"Oh, please cut II out, mother
Dicky returned irritably. Don, YOU
realize that we've all been So busy with
your illness that nobody has maid any
attention 10 anything SO trivial as the
way a maid announces dinner
lie had come around where ! was
standing, and he slipped his arm around
me as he spoke. i put my arm up
behind my back, clasped his and gave
It an c~cstatic little squeeze. 1t seemed
so blisNul to have Dicky defending me
that his mothers unpleaSantncSs faded
into nothingnesS,
Fortified by the remembrance oi 3
loving clasp, | was able to turn aside
with good humor all tho petty pin
pricks which his mother gave me iur.
ing the dinner She was in one OF her
most captions moods Everything which
came on the table, every movement oi
katie'S, even the arrangement oi tn,
flowers which | had bought TO celc.
lbratc her first meal in the dining room