The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-04-17
SISTER ann BUTTS IN
BY LOUISE OLIVER.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,


how much a pound of sirloin stea
COSTS" Tad confded to Sister Anr
"And I said that I didn't know JUS
how much a pound it was, though
did know that the steak we had TO
dinner cost just one dollar and tire
cents. He didn't in the least mind on
having expensive steak. In fact, hav
1t because he likes it. But he wanted
me to know just how much poun
it was. And then he asked me how
much lamb was, and I said I didn'
know, though I know just how mucf
the joint we had on Sunday cost. Ant
then" but here Tad's tears got the
better of her and she leaned on Sister
AIMS broad young shoulders anc
shook with sobs. "And then and
then he said that-he said that If most
men ran their businesses as carelessly
as women run their homes they would
all be ruined. Oh, how could he, Ann?'
Ann had gone to her brothers little
bungalow after a frantic appeal from
her sister-in-law, Tad. 'I'm in such
| trouble" she said, land I know you
can help me out"
"But I don't like to butt ill.," pro-
tested Ann, who, in spite Of the fact
that she was four years younger than
Tad, was looked upon-perhaps be-
cause she was tall and broad-shoulder-
ed and level headed-as the natural
arbiter Of all Tad's marital difficulties.
70 h,1t% IN, door
knows I don't know anything about
managing husbands"
But what am going to do?" walled
Tad. "Bert has been your brother
longer than he has been my husband.
You must know how to manage him."
Sister Ann paused for moment.
Nerves." she said at length with
the decision of a specialist arriving at
a difficult diagnosis. "Both got nerves.
What you need is change. Get your
mother to ask you to visit her for
while. Change would do you both
good"
'But suppose when come back
Bert is just as stubborn as ever. Sup
pose he still thinks that about the way
women run their houses?"
leave that to me-" easily promised
Ann. "I'm not afraid of Bert-because
we aren't in love with each other, I
suppose Tell him tonight you are go
ing, and if he says anything more
about housekeeping just smile and pre-
tend to be preoccupied with your going
away plans"
So Tad went away. Sister Ann found
her brother Bert at the office the day
after Tad's departure. "What are you |
looking so mopie about?" she greeted |
him, in spite of his cheerful smile.
'Mopie, mopie," wondered Bert "Oh,
maybe it's cause 'Tad's gone, though,
as a matter of fact, I wasn't sorry to
see her go-needs change, I guess"
"Oh, has Tad gone to the shore?
Where you going to live?"
Martha, the cook, is staying" ex-
blamed Bert. II guess we can man
lge."
Goodness, can you afford that sort
# thing?" asked Ann. "Cooks are al
ways wasteful when you leave them to
heir own Devices"
"Oh, are they" queried Bert, mildly
'Well, Well see."
"But what came in for is this:
want job-want to earn some money
II my own. Can't you squeeze me in
ere somewhere? I'll do anything for '
fteen dollars a week, and I'll bet in
lde of week I could be worth three
mes that amount to you right here"
Bert smiled, but he was used to TAX
lg his sister at her word.
How'd you know how to run a
rOker's Officer"
I'D just apply little good house
eeping, I'd keep my eyes open for one
ling. was just looking in the waste
askets as was waiting in the outer
flee to see you. Why, there was :
lough paper thrown away there by
to last a stenographer a :
eek. It's just that men don't notice
ose things, suppose. And the way I
e stenographers waste pencils!
as watching them sharpen some.
hey didn't look what they were doing,
I'd Of course they didn't care. But :
per is up and so are pencils, and F
LII the waste goes on. Do you know,
ert, l sometimes think If most women
n their houses as extravagantly as :
0st men run their businesses they'd f
nd their husbands in the poorhouse."
Of course, Bert, whose ambition to
in money by saving it as well as by
liking it was well developed, accept
his clever young sisters PROPOSE ~
N, and within few weeks he agreed ia
tn her that she had saved three
nes her salary.
Long head you've got, Ann" said
TT, and Ann simply smiled and said: =
lst little good housekeeping. Any Fl
man would think of those things if
: was given free rein. By the way,
en- is Tad coming back?"
Heaven knows" Bert was decided
detected. "I've asked her to come -
ne this week. Let alone being lone
ne as Robinson Crusoe, I'm spend
a fortune keeping house without =
;. Wonder if you'll take a regular III
here as economy expert at, say,