Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-09-24
THE BUSINESS
! OF LIVING
ELEANOR PUTS AN IDEA INTO
THE FRIVOLOUS HEAD OF
MRS. WEEkA

Bring your mending basket over |
here this afternoon and l will help
you. l want to tell You more about
my summers experience" 1t was Mrs. |
Weeks voice that reached Eleanor
over the wire.
THE baby is asleep. cannot come
till he wakes up. Why don't you come
over here?" said Eleanor In a cordial
tone.
"All right will bring my thimble
and needle and be right over" Eleanor
heard the click of Mrs. Weeks receiv-
er. and hastily gathered up the baby's
playthings and made the room tidy.
She brought out the mending basket
and set the little sewing table between
two rocking chairs.
Now, Margaret, Elizabeth Is COM
ing over to play with you this after
noon and you can have a tea party
out under the tree in the back yard.
l will give you two apples for your
food" Margaret clapped her hands in
glee. Tea parties were the most ras-
cinating thing she knew about at this
time. She gathered her dishes together
and carried them out to the shady
lawn.
Come In" Eleanor smiled well
come as the mother and child came
up the steps. Margaret is waiting
for you out in the back yard"
When the little girl had gone, Mrs.
good visit. l got letter from Caro-
Ign this morning-the first / have
had since l came back from camp.
She asked If my mosquito bites were
all gone and said she was having no
trouble with her wasp stings-"
Wasp stings!"
"Oh, yes, Carolyn and Ralph went
blackberrying together, They were
always doing some erazy stunt like
that, and Carolyn got into a wasp's
nest some way and the wasps got
under her skirt and stunk her hor-
ribly. 1t might have been all right
IL she had come back to camp and
doctored them but she would not for
her pail was not full Of berries. When
she came back she was a sight One
had stung her on the lip, another in
the eye. She just laughed about 1t
hunters and fishermen who were in
camp seemed to think II was clever
stunt. simply do not like worms and
bugs crawling over me. and l do not
care who knows it." The tone was de-
fiant.
Did you have any cooking to do?"
asked Eleanor.
Not unless it rained so hard that
we could not get to the dining room.
You see there wre a number of houses
or shacks built around in sort of
village, though they were so hidden In
the trees that no one could be seen
from any other"
THAT sounds good to me-" inter-
rupted Eleanor smiling into the dis
contented face.
II suppose you would be like Caro-
Ign; put on a khaki skirt MILDLY. wear
sandles and think you were having the
time of your life. 1t is a pity Ralph
did not marry such woman"
MY DEAR" Eleanor reached for the
little hand that had been sewing so
industriously all the afternoon, would
1t not be better to try to cultivate
liking for your husbands interests?
The more points a married couple have
in common the better. and it would
give him great pleasure to feel that
you were enjoying his vacation with
him. Could you not at least hide your
own distaste for that kind of life for
one little month";"
Mrs. Weeks pouted. ct don't see
why he should not cultivate a liking
| for the kind of outing I would enjoy"
well, am not talking to him now,
but to you, and want you to see his
point of view. He has only this one
month to seek enjoyment. You know
he works very hard; you have said
so many times. II it is more of a rest
to go to the woods and hunt and fish
and see few people. no society people
in fact isn't it up to you to help make
that month real rest, and to con-
tribute to his pleasure In every way?
He does things all the time to max e
your life easy. Couldn't YOU devote
one month to doing just what he want
ed you to-"
Mrs. Weeks pecked at the threads
in her dress with her needle but she
made no reply.
you know you would not willing
ly do anything to push your husband
away from you; yet II you make it
| impossible for him to have the kind
of a vacation he wants with you he
will go off by himself and when a
man begins to seek his pleasures apart
from his wife 1t is the entering wedge.
pen"
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