New Britain herald., 1919-11-13
MY HEART and MY HUSBAND
 Revelations of Q Wife

tcr-can't you understand what I'm telling Nou?''
 His tone expressed keen disappoint- ment I took my courage in both hands and touched his arm plettu- inglN.
 "Promise to listen without inter- ruption?" I asked.
 He looked at me ShreWdN'
 Sure thing" he said.
 McmoIy's Aid.
 1T hardly know how to say It, I began. but if you'd just go on 'Has assumption that l haven a "'' '' mentality where machinery IS con- cerned, think I'd get along oe'I',; And-and-ff you'd attend 10 "'i those bevldering foot things at I''St and inst let me learn to guide the ctF, think I'd get along much better.
 .\o YOU wouldn't" Diclly returned obstinatelv. That isn't the way 10 learn at aIl You have to begin at the foundation. I know what's the trouble. You haven't remembered that stuff l was telling you on the way up.'
 had a sudden inspiration.
 If I repeat most of it for you, Will you let me have my way of learning:
 Sure thmg."~ Dicky said confident ly, and T. repressed a mischleVoHs smile, for my husband has never hap pened to be present when 1 have eN- ercised the memory which my fflendS tell me is remarkable and which | owe to my mothers odd but efficient system of training.
 ",That's bargain now,' I repeated insistently Now listen and correct me where I am wrong.
 It was a mere parrotlike repetition of Dicky's monologue which I gave back to him, but I tried my best to make it appear something more. Wherever l had the faintest glimmer of what it was all about, I broke off and asked some simple question. Dickv listened, amazement growing in his face. and when I had finished he snatched his cap off and bowed pro- foundly.
 ''What Rot"
 We'll I've got to slip it to you" he said. "I'd have sworn you didn't remem ber a thing the way you took that car up the bank. And I'll stick to my word. You can start on the steering, but I warn you I sha let you stick atvit long. You've got it all down too pat for that. It would be a shame not to make you do the other things right away"
 He kept his promise, however, for d glorious mile or two during which l, for the first time, felt what it was -otf11 II 10 hi obeying the slightest touch of ones fingers. Naturally the car wobbled all over the road at first, Dicly de- claring that our tracks would look like a ''soused- to the guards -fivver''; but before long I managed to keep respectfully to the side of the road. than Dicky insisted that l learn how to start and stop the car.
 But I soon saw that I would never be able to learn anything about motor driving from my husband. He has not the faculty of imparting knoWl- edge, and his cocksureness kept him from granting one request l repeated ly made 10 let me learn by asking him questions.
 '*What rot.' he finally stormed J uSL DcCa uSe SOu l S st IlloIOlN Sllttt h you think you have the only patented system for teaching anything. You're just obstinate, that's all. Now, once for all take that wheel and start the car"
 With every faculty fixed upon the instructions he had given me, I man- aged to get the car started and ran along the road for some rods smooth ly. Then from around bush screened corner just ahead of us rolled a magnificent big touring car. To my frightened eyes it seemed headed straight for me. I gave the wheel a sudden twist, and to my hor- TOT shot almost directly toward the car instead of away from it. And in that moment of terror l saw in the drivers seat of the other car the man whom last I had seen blind and help leSs-Major Hugh Grantland.