Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-07
WHEN DAISY DARNED
Nv LANE OSBORN.


let himself into his own apartment al
hour before his usual evening arrival
Herwent straight to his own room
Daisy, his wife, was not in and it wal
Thursday, Jenny's day out.
He went straight to his own room
his room and Daisys, and, with fur
tive glances, to see that Daisy was
not in hiding, opened the chiffoniel
drawer.
There they were, the shapeless
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 a piece of Daisy's pink lin.
gerie ribbon lying in her bodkin holder
on her dressing table. He seized this
and in a 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
~, 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 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. It 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
Used 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 IL 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 we're 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 man
accustomed to having a mother or
wife attend to such details.
But what had come over Daisy
Daisy, who had up to two months be-
fore regarded the slightest detail of
her wifely duty as a JOY and delight;
: Daisy. who mad sat at his side in the
evening as he read, putting the tiniest
stitches into those socks of his and
telling him every five minutes what
a Joy 1t was to do It? Daisy had
changed. Daisy had met some old
school friends who had filed her mind
with new interests. Now in the morn
ing, when Harvey went to search in
his chiffonier drawer for socks, Daisy
was already in the dining room,
dressed half an hour before he was,
and was calling him impatiently to
come. as Jenny had breakfast all wait
ing. Daisy always seemed to be eager
now to have Harvey leave the apart
ment in the morning, and only few
months ago she had begged him SO
. tenderly to stay lust a minute"
longer.
l1dIfcy pOHdcIcQ OfcE tuG GHdu6c
that had come in Daisy's attitude
toward him. She seemed happy
enough, but clearly something or
someone was coming between them.
Harvey half expected that Daisy
might notice the. absence of the socks,
but when, after a week Of the new
arrangement, she said nothing. he
realized that she didn't even put the
socks in the drawer. Jenny, the faith
ful maid of all work, probably did that
after she had Numbered them
Harvey sent. his Office boy to the
Mendery the first time. but the next
Thursday afternoon he went himself
with the weeks installment of work
This time he took more than socks
+. Buttons were missing and rents need
cd staying in an increasing number of
other garments. And Harvey TOOK
them all. To be sure, the price for
mending the socks seemed rather
high. Harvey meant to mention this
to the charming young woman behind