The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-10-09
REVELATIONS
on Wife
How Madge's Happy Retrospect Ended
IN an Amazing Surprise.
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Vaitcs and Miss Nouno,
Ny mother m law missed her daugh
ter. Mrs. ~Rra,thwajte, Sorely | believe
II II had not been 10, her pride in her
brilliant daughter and her famous son
iu-law. she would have become actu
ally III with irctt,ng | found my
hands iull IN deyiSing ways TO divert
her mind and planning dishes 10 tempt
her delJCattc appetite.
Because OF her frallty and conSe-
Quent inability to do much sightseeing
OF. indeed, to 60 TAR from the house
Dlcky and ! spent a very quiet win
ter
Our evenings away from home to
gcthcr did not average one a week
And Dlcky very rarely went anywhere
without me.
What a Darby and loan We are get
ting TO be- he remarked one night as
VIC sat ono on each side OF the library
table, reading III, mother. a, Nls her
custom. had gone to bed carl, lu the
evening
YES, Isn't 1t nice returned. ,mil-
ing at him
Ripping Ul,A, agreed. en,huSr
aStically. Then, rcjlcctNcll Fun
NEST thing about II is the way ! cotton
told me before met YOU that should
ever stand for thus misunderstanding to-
knitting wife sort OF thing | should
have bought him a ticket to Mattca
wan. pronto.'
He stopped and trowncd heavily at
me. IN mimic d,>approyal
Picture all spoiled he declared,
signing You are not knitting Why.
oh. why are YOU not knitting
Because never shall knit ! Re
turned. laughing AT least not in the
evening while YOU are reading That
sort OF thing never did appeal to me
Either the witc who has to knit or sew
or darn in thc evening Is too lucitI
Gent to get all her work done in day
light, or she has too much work To do
In the first case, her husband ought
to teach her efficiency; in the second
place, he ought to- help do the sewing or
the darning Then they could both
read"
Listen To the feminist" carollcd
Dicky then, with mock severity "Of
course, | am to inter, madam. that m,
stockings are All properly darucd
"\ our Inference is cmlnently cor
rect dcmurcly Your mother darned
them today
Mice and Comfy"
&hat told him was true. His
mother had seen INC looking over the
stockings after they were waShed1 and
had insisted on darnuip Dicky'S, | saw
that she louged to do some little per
Sonal service for her boy and Willingly
handed them over
Dicky threw back his head and
laughed heartily Then his face Sohercd
and he came round to my side OF the
table and sat down on the arm OF my
chair.
Speaking OF mother" he ,aid. rump.
ling my hair ~careSSngly, Il van to
tell YOU. sweetheart that you've made
an awful Int with me- the way you've
taken care OF her Nobody knows bet
ter than ] how irving she can be, and
you're lust as sweet and kind To- her
A. # she were the most tracrablc per
son Oh earth"
He put his arms around me and bent
his face to mine
Pretty nice and comfy. this being
married to each other. isn't it''
VERY nice, indeed" ! agreed, nest
Ing closer to him
My heart echoed the words. In fact,
It seemed almost too good to be true,
this Quic, domestic cove into which our
marital bark had driitcd. The storms
We had wcathcred seemed far past
Dicky'S Jealous, OF my brother cousin
Jack Beckett, my ~unhappIne>S over LII,
Ian Underwood those tempest uou'
> days surely were wears ago instead OF
months.
Now lack wa, somewhere If
France and | had a queer little pre-
motion that somewhere. somehow. hi'
, path would cross that oi Miss Sounot
. the little nurse, who had gone with DR.
. Braithwaite'S expedition. and who ior
. years had cherished a romantic idea
! OF my brother cousin, although she haC
" never met him
: Lillian Underwood was my sNorr
y friend With characteristic directncS,
she had cut the Gotdiau knot OF on
MISUNDERSTANDING by telling me
against D,cky'S protests. all about In,
: old secret which her past and that O
my husband had shared. Niter he
story. with all that u revealed Of he
sacrifice and her fidelity to her owl
. high ideals, there never would he
, doubt OF her IN my mind. wa prou,
oi her friendship, although. because q
my mother lu-law'S prejudice aga,n'
them, Dicky and | could not have III
CnderwoodS at our home.
L Our meetings, therefore, were lew
But ! had an odd feeling OF safety an,
security whenever thought Of her
II knew n any terrible trouble eve
i came 90 me ! should ily 10 her as II sh
were my sister
NJ, work at the Lotus Study rlu
was gong along smoothly. AZ HON
Katie was So much more SatiSiactor
than the maids had seen in othc
establishments that | shut my eyes /
the many little things abou, which
knew my mother in-law would hav
been most CaptiouS.
miss Dtsper-"
But my mother. IN. laws acethity wa
Sottcned hy her weakness. We gre,
quite companioNable IN the win,e
DAYS when Dicky'S absence nj the studi
lett rs together Altogether, | felt thu