New Britain herald., 1919-09-24
MY HEART and MY HUSBAND ADELE GARRISON'S NEW PHASE OF
 Revelations 0f q Wife

and Hope.
 If had not known little Mrs. Dur kee so thoroughly I perhaps should hot have been so composed at the Thrust she had given me concerning Dicky visits to the Fairfax apart ment. But I have become very well Acquainted with my small friend bropensity for exaggeration, so at her remark I simply smiled at her teasing y, and held up an admonishlng fore- inger.
 Now 'fess up!" I said sternly. 'On your honor now! Did Alfred say spe- Officially that he had seen lot or Dicky over at the FairfaXes?
 She squirmed in her chair as an uh- easy kitten might have done.
 He said he'd seen a lot of Dicky, he declared defiantly. And if that soesn't mean over at the FairfaXes l aon't know what does, for from the hings Alfred lets drop I know Airs here more than half his time.
 laughed and blew her kiss.
 "You little fraud" I said good aturedly If the boys could hear you hey would declare your imagination working overtime again.
 She pouted resentfull y,even as her Pretty laugh bubbled from her lips. It a tense and tragic moment indeed or little Mrs. Durkee when she can ot greet everything with laugh. II don't understand you at all, hadge," she asserted. "If Dicky were nv husband and staying downtown for month or two, and gallivanting round with a pretty girl. Id-ld d hatch him bald-headed.'
 'No you wouldn't" I returned, cOm- osedly, shipping thread from a pair pink "creepers' I was making for v small son, who, Tn a Walklng hair"-a cleverly constructed frame ork on wheels, which allows baby to retch his limbs and go through the ovements of walking without bear 9 his whole weight upon his imma- ire muscles--was ambling all over e screened veranda. You'd be q ensible lady, as I am, and realize bat when there is an unusual stress work on hand a man has to stay in @ city, and you wouldn't object to s calling on his friends or even talk g them out to dinner or the thea r."
 A Brave Front.
 It cost me an effort to say this calm and pleasantly. First, because. lar friend as little Mrs. Durkee is, 1 wardly resented her strictures upon affairs And second, because I as by no means as complacent over e news she had brought me as l out Rrdly appeared. Not that I ever again could be real jealous of Edith Fairfax. That she II hopeleSsly loved Dicky l was sure, though her war work had given her her interests, and had broadened
 r1, lain be as unhappy over him as she q been. But during. the time fol- kHing Dickys airplane accident vii bn had been given me to see many ings and among them was the glorl- Is truth that despite all his volatile hstableness my husbands heart was premefy mine.
 Mrs. Durkec's Suggestion.
 I was not idiotic enough to believe lat I never would face the danger of sing him, but knew that his fancy build never be enmeshed by a girl of |iith Farfaxs gentle, rather colorless ture The rare beauty, the lmperi- S ways, the touch of diablerie of the lace Draper type of girl would al- hys spell danger, at least temporarl- for me But our marital love had eathered one such test and l reso- .ely shut my eyes to the possibility another. And as for idle, graceful tentions from Dicky to his studio ends, I had long since made up my nd that I would waste neither time r emotion in needless thought over lem.
 But it is one thing to resolve, an- her to carry out that resolve, not ly in the letter, but in the spirit. while I was able to keep my face imposed, my hands from trembling, any wife will understand that my hin did not exactly enjoy the pic res which little Mrs. Durkee's words d flashed upon it. Inconsistently, ishly also, I must admit 1 would ther have visualized my husband hking in his studio over our disa- cement than have pictured him liking a joous fourth in the outings Alfred Durkee and the Fairfax Ills.
 And despite my outward composure, 8le Mrs. Durkee was shreWd enough read my thoughts.
 You're a good talker, Madge,' she Id calmly, putting out a steadying lnd toward Junior, who was doing
 best to OVerturn the walking chair, ut you cant bluff me. You're no bre pleased to hear of Dicky rush a girl around to places than any her woman would be, but I suppose u'd be chewed up in little pieces be- re you'd admit it.
 How this youngster does grow, He lst be nearly a year old, isn't he?" Hell have his first birthday next nday," I said proudly.
 F'Bless my soul" my little friend ex- imed excitedly. II didn't know it S that near"
 She snatched Junior from his walk chair and began to coo over him in r delightful fashion.