The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-09
Revelations
of a Wife
BY ADELE GARRISON.
Dieky Doesn't Understand.

/ SdA Dear TO ask me Tor money
What nonsense is that" Dicky's
voice held much Indignation. Aren't
you my wife, and isn't everything
have just as much yours as it is mine ?"
THAT is what thought when paid
the cleaners BILL" I interrupted de-
murely. "but you didn't agree with me-"
| That's an altogether different prop
osition. You shouldn't take things
i out Of my hands," returned Dicky
| shortly; 'sbut you ought to know shat
I'm only too anxious to lavish every
thing I can on you, and then you
talk about hating to ask me for money
That makes a fellow feel fine, to hear
his wife of three weeks handing out a
line of talk like that. You must love
me a lot if you feel that way
Dicky. can't you really understand
my feelings, or are you wilfully blind
ing yourself to what I am saying" I
demanded. Suppose it were you who
were managing the living, would you
like to come to me for everything?"
You are supposing the most arrant
nonsense. 1t has nothing to do with
the case, Dicky replied, arrogantly.
Look here, Madge, do you realize
where you are drifting? You'll be the
most rampant feminist going if you
don't look out. Two or three DAYS
ago you ,spranga that nonsense about
earning the equivalent of a servant,
or something like that; I'm glad you
seem to have forgotten it, and now
you come with this rot about not
wanting to ask me for money. Do you
think I'm going to be niggardly and
dole you out a quarter at a time?
That isn't the proposition at all; but
this allowance business looks to me
just as if your wife was some kind
OF hired housekeeper. How can you
tell how much you'll need each week?
Lots of unexpected expenses come
up. If you had an allowance you'd
deny yourfelf everything so las to
keep within it!''
Evidently Dicky stopped talking only
because he was out of breath I seized
the opportunity to try to catch my ar
gument.
"Dicky, you must listen to me-" I
said firmly. Il am in deadly earnest
both about an allowance and about
earning some money to pay the maid.
1 have not forgotten that at all. L
simply have waited until could talk
to you about it. I want to know
whether you object to my taking that
each week because you feel it would
interfere with some Of our pleasure
trips together, or because you object
to my earning money in any way. If
| 1t be simply the interference, I will
try to find some other way OF earning
the money"
1.-THE devil you will" Dicky sprang
to his feet.
s'Dickym I exclaimed.
Never mind the French. If you
can't stand a mild word like that
you'd better go UP and take your seat
at the right hand of Babriel or Abra-
ham, or whoever runs the ranch, right
away. But let me tell you one thing;
you will earn no money outside.
will not have it. Do you hear me?"
I closed my eyes for an instant to
gather strength for the answer I knew
I must give Dicky. Then I stood up
and faced him.
Let me understand you fully. You
will not plan for a regular lnousekeep-
ing allowance, nor will you give your
consent to my earning money!"
You are 1eminently correct in both
lsupposition."
Then, do you hear me?" I said
Jelly. This money" picking up the
bills which I had laid upon the table,
Il shall use. When it is used up I
shall arrange to have the tradesmen's
bills sent to you for payment. Katie's
wages and any incidental expenses, in
GLIDING my clothing, I shall pay out
of the money I personally earn"
/ faced him steadily, waiting for the
outburst 1 knew would come. Dicky
never was taught to control his
temper when he was a child. AS a
result, when he does give way to it
he is positively terrifying.
He stood glazing at me, his face
lreddening, his hands. clinching and
Iunclenching Then with a sudden
oath, he snatched the nearest thing
to his hand, cut glass vase OF mine,
one Of my treasures, and dashed it
against the hearth of the gas CRATE,
shattering it. The sound of the
breaking glass seemed to bring him to
himself. could almost see the words
of apology trembling on his lips. But
he did not utter them. Instead, he
set his lips, and went into his room,
wherein heard him rushing around
like mad. l sat motionless gazing at
the shattered vase, waiting. In a few