The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-27
How the Marburys Came
to Change Then
Residence
By ESTHER VANDEVEER.

man is to feed him WE'LL
Mrs. Marbury had married for love
and when coming to middle age still
loved her husband But it is an un
disputed fact that persons who are
closely allied become careless of what
they say to each other and give way
to fretfulness at slight provocations.
while with others they put gGard oil
their tongues. Frank Marbury was a
man not to be easily ruff1ed and real
lied that he had a nervous wife. So
when she lost her self control he re-
tanned his own and soothed her as
best he could.
But persons who are unrestrained
and do not restrain themselves usually
grow worse instead OF better. Mrs.
Marbury was continually getting upset
over some trifie and at such times
would berate her husband unmerci-
fully, complaining that of all men he
was the hardest for a woman to live
with. Finally one day during one Of
her explosions she told him that she
could endure him no longer. Marbury
LAdL SUE De
and took his own way Of curbing her.
The day after the outburst he came
home and told her that he intended
TO set up housekeeping on LIS own
account. He had rented a furnished
house and would move in at once Mrs.
Marbury looked at him, surprised, but
made no objection.
ECvEill oh
ST don't know. l shall leave the
management to my housekeeper."
"Who will be your housekeeper?"
81 have not engaged one yet l shall
begin by cooking some of my meals
myself at home; for others shall go
out to restaurants"
Marbury had a fancy for cooking
and had often supplied the place of a
| cook at home when one was not to be
hired. Servants were becoming scarcer
every day, and he was becoming more
valuable on that account. Mrs. Mar
bury did not have the knack of cook
cry. She had tried to learn the art.
but was not made that way. The fact
that she was to lose cook as well as
husband angered her. She founced
out of the room without a word.
Marbury kept his word. He remov-
ed what he most needed to his'new res
idence, removing himself there at the
same time. Mrs. Marbury made no eff
fort to bring about reconciliation.
When her husband was about to leave
he called up from the lower hall.
"Goodby, .dear" But, though she heard
him distinctly and found it difficult to
refrain from going down, throwing her
arms about him and retaining him. she
gave him no reply.
One of the first things Mrs. Marbury
| did when she found herself alone was
to hunt for a servant who could cook.
| She finally found a woman to whom
she agreed to pay three times as much
/ as she had paid a cook when she was
| a bride, but. the first dinner that came
on to the table afforded quite enough
| of her helps handicraft, and the wo-
| man was discharged.
Mrs. Marbury hired three cooks
| within fortnight at fabulous prices
and sent them all away. She dined at
restaurants and tried occasionally at
! getting a meal herself. She loathed
restaurant cooking, and sitting down
| alone to a meal she had spoiled was
| intolerable Under the stress her stom-
| ach was giving out. and her condition
was pitiable. =
One morning the postman delivered a
note to her bearing her husbands well
known chirography on the envelope.
She was delighted. Hes given In
| she cried, tearing the note in her haste
to open it. 1t read:
! Mr.. Francis Marbury requests the pres
ence of Mrs. Marion Marbury to dinner
] this evening. No r. S. v. p. needed. The
dinner will be served promptly at o'clock.
Mrs Marbury was puzzled What
| did it mean? OF one thing she was
sure-she would get an excellent din,
ner. But that was the only thing of
which she was sure.
| At two minutes of Mrs. Marbury
| drove up in a taxicab to her husband S
residence She tried the front door
and, finding 1t unlocked, sheswalked In.
| A savory odor pervaded the premises
Passing to the rear, she entered the
kitchen. Mr.. Marbury, I'm a white lin.
en- jacket and a spider In his hand,
| turned from the range.
aha, my dear?' he said cheerily.
81 thought you might like one of my
| dinners I've quite a delicate menu
| little neck CLAIMS, mock turtle soup, a
bird, sweetbreads"-
"Stopr cried Mrs Marbury. "T'm
| starving, and you make me thousand
| times more ravenousp'
$50 and lay aside your traps while
I dish up"
| Mrs. Marbury flung aside her traps
and played scullion till the dinner was
| served, then sat down with her hus-
band and enjoyed the first good meal
she had eaten since her husband had
| left her. 1t seemed that every morsel
| that passed down her throat had been
! meant for a god When the meal was
! finished she told her husband that she
/ had reformed and II he would come
| back to her she would never again
complain of anything he did.
NO" he said. you are welcome to
/ come apd live with me, but I'll never