Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-02-27

mad been married a whole
fore Arthur Brooks detected
EiIigIwife in her piIferings. The
IRE which he read her was mag
heent Of its kind. In way. how
Ter. the force of il rolled off Theo-
yKe water off ducks back.
as not thrifty by nature; she
money, and helping herself TO
~ NJ by far an easier and surer way
of getting it than begging it of
Arthur.
land why" he continued. ponder
ously should you need any extra
money? Aren't Won fed? Haven't
you enough of everything"
Plenty" said Theodore placidly.
"of everything but money
But what did you need money for?"
he persisted.
Theodore flushed Then she threw
back her head defantly.
"Since YOU must know" she burst
forth Indignantly, Il stole from you in
order to buy baby clothes !"
In this manner was Arthur Brooks
made cognizant of his impending
fatherhood
The revelation came to him in the
nature of distinct shock. He had
reckoned upon marriage had fully
counted the cost of taking a wife, but
he had left baby clothes and all that
pertains thereto out of his calcula-
lions.
Indeed. it had been part Of his in
born thriftiness which tempted him in
the first place to get married. He had
heard many times how a wife helped
fellow to get on" The wife. it
seemed, always scriinped and saved
baked, brewed, sewed, washed. and
ironed for her board and keep. Per-
haps in the interim, even, she took
in a little dressmaking from the more
eXtravagant of her neighbors.
That was the wife Of Arthur Brooks
bachelor dreams. Somehow the dream
was mixed up with a disconcerting
reality. 1t was a case Of not looking
before he leaped; of loving. perhaps
not wisely, but too well.
Physically. Theodore was lovely
enough to tempt any man into mar
riage. Possibly young Arthur lost his
head. and forgot 10 question her ante
cedents. For TheodOra's upbringing
had been quite different from his. In
her fathers household dime banks and
papier-mache oranges were things
unknown. So was bank account.
Her family had lived luxuriously
from hand to mouth. and there was
always huge pile of bills waiting to
no wise lessened the number of gowns
that Theodore and her mother bought,
nor forced the family TO dine on corn
ed beef in preference TO chicken.
There were theater trips in Theodoras
antenuptial days. cabs, restaurant din
ners, and wildly extravagant times at
Christmas.
Theodoras welded life was quite
different. They lived well within her
husbands me-unnecessarily so,
il sometimes seemed-and to her cred
it be it said, that she did her best to
take kindly to the new regime. In
deed, considering all that had gone
before, Theodore did remarkably we'll.
She loved her thrifty husband and, In
a way, she was happy.
Arthur, too. was happy In a way.
He would have been happier, perhaps.
If matrimony had been less expensive,
but saving was with him constitu-
tional instinct, and his regrets did not
reflect measurably upon Theodore.
There were times when his love for
her swept him like tempest.
Her clear brown eyes; her hair,
satiny and smooth like the brown wing
of a bird; her slender figure, moving
so lithely to household tasks; her
pretty white hands, which no amount
of toll seemed to harden. were all
powerful lodestones to draw him to
her.
And yet it could not be denied,
Theodore, with all her physical at
fractions was a horribleArnTpense.
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