The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-27
PETRINITE
Revelations
of Wife
What Dicley Said When His Mother
Suggested That Madqe Take Up

BY ADELE GARRISON.

'dO9e axe Up
Teaching Again.
AS Mrs. Helen Brainerd Smith, Sec
rotary of the Lotus Study club. faced
me In the assembly room of the club
ana held out check for SO 1 stared
at her in angry amazement.
Because of the careIessness or the
stupidity of the president of the club.
the women had taken UP so much time
with their business meeting that I had
been given but few minutes to de-
liver the lecture for which I had been
engaged. Mrs. Smith had thereupon
Informed me that of course would
expect only part of the $50 that she
had promised me.
did not extend my hand for the
check' and l suppose my face must
nave told the tale of my anger. for I
saw the few women who remained look
curlously at me. AS I debated with
myself what had better do, saw one
OF the newspaper women come back
into the room as if in search Of some
thing she had left. had an inspiration
as saw her.
Mrs. SMITH" My voice was all
rupt, its tones as cold and determined
AASA O"AAb anu raised 1TSlgntIY
that the press woman might hear
gu engaged me to talk to this club
at $40 lecture. I accepted your terms
Tor this year only, for my price is
higher because you said the club could
not afford any more. was here to-
day ready to fill my part of the con-
tract. 1t is nothing to me that your
club business took so much time as
to compel me to cut my talk. If vol,
wish to discontinue further Iectures
that is your privilege, but / must insist
on being paid for this afternoons
time"
/ noticed the other women look at
each other as I spoke of her plea that
the club was too poor to pay more
than $40 lecture. From a remark I
had heard before Mrs. Smith came IN
had learned that the club had author
lied her to offer me S25 lecture. and
that her own parsimony was respon-
sible for the lowered price.
The Joy of Earning.
She looked at the understanding
faces of the other club women, saw the
newspaper women's adroit slipping to-
ward the group as she scented
STORY" and changed front in an in
slant.
"Tt really is not worth talking about"
she said foftily. eff your time is so val
TABLE, with covert sneer, "of course
we shall give you the full amount
agreed upon. If you will be here next
Wednesday at 2 we will try to find
some way of giving you plenty of time |
for your talk"
She stepped to her desk sat down |
and drew another check had a whim- |
steal notion that she would be better /
pleased if she could have signed my |
death warrant. Blotting it, she rose
and held 1t out toward me with an air
of bored indifference which could not |
help but admire, angry as 1 was
For | knew that she hated me most |
Even through the glow of /
righteous triumph that was mine as
took the check and walked away, |
realized this. She was a proud woman
to rebuffs or rebukes
I had caused her humiliation in her
own stronghold. knew that she would |
never forget it.
But my feet fairly danced with ioy
as l hurried homeward. The unpleasant |
incidents Of the afternoon were wiped |
from my mind as If they had never
been, banished by the check for S25,
clutched tightly in my hand 1t was The
first money I had earned since NY /
Only woman who has once
been dependent upon anyone else, even
her best beloved. can understand my
feeling of delight at being once more
in the ranks of the wage earners.
Dicky's Mothers Plan.
True. L had been married and de-
pendent but short time. and Dicky
had been most generous with me- even
turning over his tangled financial af
fairs to my guidance. But II was gem
erosity-there was the sting. I knew
that Dicky down deep in his heart
as the children say. had no conception
Of marriage as a glorified partnership
such as I had dreamed OF when 1 mar
ried him.
Dicl1y wished to be the giver of sv-
arything material to make me the re-
cipient. I knew that it CALLED him to
feel that I was doing anything to earn
money. If I could 1 would have yield
I'd to his wishes. But something deeper.
stronger than even my love for him
forbade me.
The knowledge % his dispieasure.
however. dampened my enthusiasm Us