The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-01-30
MpTH|I7TEENTH
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the second time she went out walking
with her big beau.
IL was plain TO the anxious eyes of
Mrs. Kip and Daphne that Leila had
emerged from the quarrel with all the
loot and aggravated power.
She had taken advantage of her hus-
bands trust and abused his generosity
recklessly, with no more evil motive,
indeed, than the wish to beautlfy her
self in his honor, and yet with reck.
lessness.
1t was not altogether Leila's fault
If the lesson she learned, perhaps un-
consciously, from the combat was
something like this:
II ran my husband into debt with
out consulting him. His listless love
woke from its torpor and enchanted
me with first-class demonstration of
Its energy. He stormed. / wept thrill
ingly. He apologlzed, begged to be
permitted to bring me some more nice
things. Ergo, when home life grows
dull, can always stir up the fire by
buying something we can't afford.
When l want anything / must get It.
shall be scolded, then kissed and
treated with awe. If hadn't bought
IL j wouldn't have had 1t, nor the
bonus that goes with 1t. If we had not
quarreled we should have missed the
rapture Of making up"
This is one of the first lessons that
certain sorts of husbands teach to GER
tain sorts of wives.
When the man of the house had de-
parted for his Office, and the waiter
had carried off the breakfast relics,
the three women were left alone In a
completely feminine conclave. They
faced life like three NOrns: the old
mother, the new wife, and the deferred
wife, each from her coign of disadvan-
tage.
The two married women turned on
the maid, with common resentment.
They were married and dependent and
she had her independence. They were
Tories and she Wing. 1t was their
privilege to rail at things as they were,
but 1t was their religion to frown on
changing them. Mrs. Kip senior spoke
for Mrs. Kip junior.
new foolishness all about?"
Daphne answered, stoutly: tits not
foolishness. It's the first glimmer of
sense I've ever had. Pm. sick of the
idea of always living on the mercy of
some man, taking his charity or his
extravaganza. I've always been drag
on poor daddy, and / was getting ready
to shift my weight over to poor Clay's
back. But 1 don't think a woman
ought to be dependent on a man. /
think she ought to bear her share Of
the burden"
'As II she didn't" Mrs. Kip broke
out. "As II the home weren't just as
much labor as the Office"
Leila attacked her from another d.
rection.- 'For goodness sake, Daphne,
don't lose your head. Don't you i'm
agine for a moment that husband
viii be happier and love his wife bet
ter because she earns wages. The
harder you work for men, the better
they like somebody else. The harder
man works for you the better he
likes you. Best of all, he loves the
woman that tries to break him."
Daphne's answer was snappy: 81
don't believe It I'd desplse man
that felt that way"
The three women wrangled with
wise saws and modern instances, and
they We're In perilous state of dis
sension when the telephone rang. Leila
answered 1t and her outcrles of lndlg-
nation alarmed Mrs Kip and Daphne
till they learned the cause.
Bayard had called up to say that
the luncheon party must be postponed.
Outrageous business had made anoth-
er insidious attack on love.
Leila came from the telephone in
state Of desperation mitlgated by the
fact that Bayard had asked her to
take his mother and Daphne shopping
and buy them and herself something
worth while as an atonement for his
Abandonment.
SO they set forth again on another
onset against the ramparts. of beauty.
TO the silent horror of Daphne and
her mother, Leila was persuaded TO
buy new coat and new hat and to
pay for them by the convenience Of
opening two new accounts at the sug-
gestion Of two soapy salesmen Bay
ards surrender after his first battle
had already accomplished the expect
able result.
Everything was the very latest thing
and yet was marked doWh. But Daph-
ne priced things now with a new soul
She was thinking In the terms of
wages and toll
She was going TO earn fifty thousand
a year some day, but she supposed
that at first she would earn very little
TWENTY-FIVE dollars a week, perhaps.
For the FIRST time In her existence
she wildly understood how all these
fairy. tissues were The products of hui
man labor, paid for with wages and to
be sold for other wages. Pearls were