South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-07
Winifred Black Writes About:
A Modern Rip Van While


Here's the modern Rip Van Wink
lie, and do you know he isn't half
so romantic in real life as he is on
the stage. Read about him, and see
if you don't think so.
DEAR WINIFRED BLACK:
I have been married about a year,
during which time / have been GO
ing TO business and at the same time
doing all the housework and cook
ing at home Naturally, / am often
very tired, for l am really filling
two jobs. am not lazy and like
work, but L have a very lazy hus-
band.
Saturday afternoons I usually
clean the house. He generally lies
down on the sofa and sleeps. II he
were a very hard working young
man it would only be fair that he
rest. but in reality he has an easy
position. Every night when he
comes from business he takes nap
Of an hour or two, and Sunday
mornings he sleeps till sometimes
u o'clock This sleepiness is gett-
I ing so on my nerves that every time
he lies down on the sofa 1 feel dis
gusted.
Sundays and holidays, which in
reality should be the best days for
me, are the worst I have. IL doesn't
seem to me unreasonable TO ask him
to get up at $50, so we could have
breakfast around 10, and leave me
some time TO get the house straight
ened up before dinner. However,
he never gets up until almost dinner
time. which means that we have
late dinner. and by the time / get
through fixing up the bedroom and
dressing. il is generally 4 o'clock.
Now that the days are getting
warmer. we should 20 out for a
walk on Sundays; go TO church once
in a while and pay a visit 10 friends.
But. Sunday afternoons he wants
TO sleep some more, or doesn't want
TO go out parading and be critics.
ed" or ito show off ones clothes
Whenever we are asked somewhere
we are always late, for he will
either not get up in the morning. or
he sleeps or maps" on the sofa.
and doesn't go until the very last
moment.
l have asked him and begged
him not to sleep so much, telling
him it is running both our happiness
and our future. He generally gives
a very grouchy answer and tells me
TO leave him alone and not bother
him. Generally I get angry and we
have a scrap. | am hot-tempered
End at times say more than l prob
ably should. but he gets my nerves
DIT such edges THAI In, almost crazy
at times
He Tried Everything.
The last episode happened recent
". He as usual did not get up when
I asked him to- / called him three
times. saying the last time / was
going 10 make breakfast. I waited
for a while to sec il he would get
Up. but he slept on. So l prepared |
breakfast for myself. fixed potatoes
and vegetables for dinner. and got
ready 10 go 10 church. Just as 1
was leaving. ne woke up and want !
ed his breakfast. / told him Il was
too late then. as / was going TO
church. This angered him, and ne
insisted that I make breakfast for
him. But I refused 10 do so and
told him how 10 make his favorite
breakfast and that the material was
all in the kitchen. He told me I
was very mean and that he didn't
care whether / went or not. and
that before I go l should leave him
the key 10 the apartment. as he no
longer had any need for me and
that I would not be permitted 10
come back This was. OF course
very foolish and very childish way
OF proceeding.
II was too late for me 10 pre-
pare breakfast IL / wished 10 get 10
church on time SO l refused 20
give him my key. telling him the
apartment was as much mine as
his. as I was paying half the ex-
penses, and he had no authority TO
chase me out With this / left
When / returned the door was lock
ed on the inside and I couldn't get
in. I rang the bell twice. then went
To my sisters house and stayed un
til late in the evening L got in that