South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-10
REVELATIONS OLA WIFE
BY Adele Garrison

ment of my personal belongings
which / was planning in order 10
give up my room 10 Dicky's mother.
She had just bluntly uttered them,
and had prefaced them with the re-
mark that Dicky should have been
the one to give up his room for his
mothers comfort.
She had left the room before /
could reprove her. To tell the truth
I did not feel like criticising her l
was too busy asking myself the
question which she had answered in
the affirmative.
Was / too easy with Dicky?
During the few weeks of our mar
riage 1 had learned that life with
Dicky would have 10 be a series of
compromises. our ideas and ideals
were as far apart as the poles. We
had had many unpleasant clashes.
asked myself again as l had many
times before. why we could not get
along better together?
Was / too easy?" or, on the
other hand. had 1 not deferred
enough to Dickys whims?
1 could see plainly enough that
our separation would be the only
logical issue if we kept on in the
way We were going.
That thought terrified me. No
matter how Dicky and 1 differed, he
was my husband, my own man, and
1 loved him. I could not help re-
senting his selfish attitude in the
matter of the room, but he had
yielded 10 my wishes in some of the
things we had quarrelled over.
1t was a small thing TO do. I told
myself, to give up my room, for a
few months. WOmanlike. l began
TO regret the cutting words l had
used to Dicky when 1 told him 1
would resign my room to his mother.
After all, Dicky needed a place to
himself more than l. He was an
artist. tempOramental. high-strung.
His work made him intensely nerv-
Gus. He really ought 10 have a
nook all to himself from which he
could bar out everybody any time he
wished to do so.
He has his studio. You have no
place at all"
The little devil that 1 can always
depend upon to put some irritating
thought into my mind, whispered
these words into my ear. But l paid
no heed TO him. Instead 1 rose, and
going to the door, called Katie.
"Win you help me get this trunk
into the dining room ?" l asked when
she had hurried into the room at my
summons.
Sure" Going 10 the trunk, she
started to lift it herself
stop, Katie" l said, Mortified. for
the trunk was heavy. II asked you
10 help me, not to do it all yourself.
Watt will take the trays out and
lay them on the bed and then we
can get it in easily"
The trunk was one I had owned
i'm my teaching days a quilted
cushion pad covered its top held in
place by tiny tacks. over the whole
had thrown a cover Of gayly flow
cred chintz. Two or three pillows
covered with the same chintz trans
formed the trunk into an attractive
seat.
/ knew that with the advent of
Dicky's mother l should practically
have to live in my trunk So I de-
termined 10 put it in the dining
room under one Of the windows,
where il could masquerade as a win
dow seat.
Katie lifted the trays 20 the bed.
then we carried the trunk to the
place / had selected in the dining
room.
put the trays in place, closed the
trunk. then carelessly threw over the
top my chintz cover.
But l as quickly snatched IL off
again. The groundwork Of the
chintz was blue. of a blue that Jared
when contrasted with the green of
the dining room. / saw that l. must
buy material for another cover and
pillow tops.