Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-12
My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations
of q Wife
The Way Dicky and Madge Got
Started.

The Way Dicky and Madge Got
Started.
/ think the intense nervousness
which | later developed during my
motor drive had it's inception in
Dicky's careless remark about the
surety OF my success in learning to
drive. My husband, though often
successfully concealing the knowl.
edge when he is angry, yet, | have
reason to suspect, is Unfortunately
proud of me, and attributes to ME
degree of cleverness which I dc
not possess, | knew that | would in
no way reach the idea of quickness
and adaptability which he evidently
had set UP, for me and the knowl-
edge made me quake inwardly
as Dicky, with smiling flourish
waved me to the drivers sent of the
big machine which he and Alfred
Durkee owned in common.
10 add to my confusion, little
Mrs. Durkee came running down
the steps of the house and huttered
to the side Of the car, all agog with
excitement.
ooh, Madgc, are you going tic
driver" she asked. l didn't know
you had learned"
81 haven't" | returned, trying to
smother my annoyance at her pres
ence. This is to be my first les
SON."
"Oh, how love1yP she carolled
DO you mind if / go along, too!
I'M just dying to learn how to run
the car, but Alf says I m too short
Dicky's Offer.
A smile almost escaped ME at the
vision | conjured of the little woman
in the drivers seat of the big ma.
chine. She is so short that her fee,
cannot touch the break or clutch
her hands are so like a child's If
size, and her whole physical and
mental makeup is as foreign to tina,
required by motor driver as could
be ina gined. But she clings to the
idea with a pretty persistence char
acteristc of her.
Dicky grinned at her impudently
"Pll dump Madge out and take
you, if you say So" he assured her
'or I'll take Madge now and you
some other time. But the two av
yez together? Nothing -do-ing!
She pouted prettily.
what | think of you, Dicky Ora
ham, wouldn't look pretty in the
paper" she said. But go ahead
Madge, start something"
! slipped out of the drivers seat
declslvely.
|. The Time Arrives.
Not here, Dicky." 7 said reso.
lutely " | should climb Mrs. Dur
KEGS steps with the machine if | ever
tried it here. You drive till we get
to some lonely road, ard I'll watch
everything you do, and you can ex-
plain things while we go along. I've
got to get some things about il
in my head before | put my hands
on the wheel
We'll, what do you know about
that" demanded Dicky GROSSLY
II learned to drive in a city street
You can't beat woman for crank
mess, anyway" But he climbed into
the seat I had left and with the wave
of the hand to little Mrs. Durkee
who sent voluble protests after us
the machine under Dicky's r hand
rolled smoothly down the driveway
and along the smooth road.
Dicky's sulkiness lasted only few
blocks however. Then. evidently
forgetting, as is his wont. that he
had any real or fancied cause fot
sullenness, he took up the converse,
ton where I had left it.
Now if you will listen carefully
he said didactically, I'll explain &C
you the theory of this thing. The
carburetor-"
He was off in maze of technica'
terms which bewildered me. and OF
which | understood nothing. l had
been watching him closely, had
hoped that he would let me ask him
questions as to the meaning OF the
different parts of the mechanism
I could see, but my heart sank as he
went on and on. stopping now and
then to say: do you see?" or dc
you understand" but fortunately
for my veracity, not waiting for al
| answer!
For I knew that Dicky had not
yet guessed, that the part of brain
i'll which any knowledge or under.
standing of machinery is supposed
to be is an absolute vacuum. If
learned to drive | would have to dc
so parrot-fashion, learning one thing
at time. l never could get any
benefit from this farrago of scientific
terms which Dicky was airing.
But there was nothing to do save
let him run down, so | bent my
trained memory to the task of mem
orizing as much of his talk as ]
could gather, the while l kept my
eyes fixed on his manipulations Of
brake and clutch. l had learned
those two words some time before
and / chung to them like rocks in
a weary land"
And Dicky deity turned the car
into long stretch of road which |
knew from previous drives was GEL
orally deserted. stopped the car and
stepped lightly to the running board
Cant put it off any longer,
fraidy cat" he Knocked. Take the
drivers seatV