The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-06
Dolly Hears Mrs. Caudle, IT,, Deliver Some Very Pointed Curtain Lectures
 (Mr and Mrs Caude return from little trip)
8817T1HERE now, what did I tell you.


 Mir. Caudle? I knew things would be like this If I left
 home for a single solitary day!
 Am I not glad to get back to my own bed again and will not please go to sleep? Of course I'm glad to get back
 to my own bed. but as for going to sleep until I've spoken my nind-certainly not
 Its just like you sneering at me this way. know what you mean, sir; that you can't even try to give me a. little pleasure once in d while by taking me away on a trip that don't fuss and fume | like something mad when l get back. l know you, MT. Caudle Those are the very words you've used hundreds of times to me, sir; you've thrown it into my teeth time and time again that l haven't soul above buttons or pork chops. But have just the same, MT. Caudle. What do say is this; it does seem to me as | if ] could trust somebody to look after the house and the children when we go off for little honeymoon excursion to- gether for few days. But no. Nobody ever does anything for me; I'm a slave nothing but slave, and unless l stay at home year in and year out and look after things, the whole place goes to | rack and ruin.
 Whats the matter now? How can you ask such a thing, MT. Caudle. Didn't I Ileave Miss Maria Anastasia Jones, the sewing woman, here and pay her we'll to look after things while I was foolish enough to go with you on that little au- tomobile trip? And what do I find when 1 get back? That beautiful hearth rug. that once was a large. influential, splen- did looking tiger, is now 8 mere wreck of its former self. Miss Jones says that she came in one day and the children in hn 6rn md a she could do to rescue it at all Oh, it's all very well for you to lie there and swear at the tiger, but that doesn't bring him back again, sir.
 -Four of the biggest windows in the house are broken. Mss Jones says John nie took his slingshot one day and defied her to say word, while he went around shooting out the windows. He takes that from you, MT. Caudle; that spirit of de- structiveness and waste comes of a woman marrying a man with such ideas and habits, and such a disposition as yours. If I'd gone on and married Harry Blackstone I'd probably have had a set of decent, respectable, law-abiding chill dren; but as it is, they are Indians, just like you.
 Talking about the little trip being one of pleasure and good for my health and nerves to get away for a few days from household cares, all my health and nerves went today when I walked into the kitchen. I could have sat down and cried, MT .Caudle; cried, sir, when I saw my beautiful, big. old-fashioned bowl with the blue flowers on it, smashed into smithereens. I remember that bowl when I was child my mother prized it above everything she owned, and gave it to me as a gracious gift when you and I were married. I should have locked it up? Yes; that's just about the amount of feeling I thought you'd have for anything of mine. I only wish it had been your old punch bowl. But, thank heavens, I believe that's cracked"
 You can't help it if the windows are smashed and the children all take their death of cold and the bowl is broken? Well, sir, I'd like to know why you can't help it? And where's the money coming from to mend the windows and who's going to buy me another blue bowl? know what you are thinking, MT. Caudle; you are thinking and hoping that this will keep me at home forever after this; that I'll never stir again; ohi you selfish, mean, ungrateful brutei You are glad it all happened? I suppose you think I'll stay at home now and old Tattletales niece can go along on the next trip per haps then you'd be happy. But you'll never remember having that experience, sir What are you doing, MT. Caudle? If you knock the pillow with your fist that way again, I shall get right up out of bed and sit up in the cold all night
 
 Mrs. Mccormack and a. brilliant throng of fashonables, among whom the fa- miliar name of Mrs. Warren Shook is Inoted.-Tuscaloosa News and Times-Ga- zette
 Miss Dorothy Kettig entertained at most delightful and informal party yes- terday at the handsome home of her par ents, MT. and Mrs. w. H. Kettig, in honor of her tenth birthday.
 The table was quite effectively deco rated in white, narcssi and ferns being used. The birthday cake was very pretty and quite elaborate, being embossed with pink roses. Each guest was presented with unique favors filled with bonbons. The afternoon was spent dancing in the lovely ballroom. Among the guests were Jane Barrett Susan Shook, Julia Mae Drennen, Adelaide Fox, Marjorie Fox, , Margaret Hundley. Austin Kelly, Dale Oliver Una Webster, Ann Woodward and Martha Woodward.