The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-22
Revelations
of Wife
BY ADELE GARRISON.


"oh, for heavens sake, Madge,'
Dicky interrupted, please spare me
one of your lectures. 1 simply ask you
to consider my mothers wishes in en-
gaging a maid, and you Immediately
go up in the air over il. Gee! 1 can
see where I'm going to have a nice,
pleasant time, trying to be a buffer
between fussy mother and a cranky
wife"
And Dicky strobe from the room
with the air of a martyr, leaving me
shocked at his selfishness and with a
very lively dread of what the future
might hold for me.
Why the First Dinner Was a Failure.
AS Dicky led his mother to the chair
at the right of his own, my spirits
rose. The table was really very at
tractive, had inspected it earlier and
knew that Katie had correctly laid it,
and the spring blossoms in the centre
seemed to filled the room with fra
GRANGE and beauty.
knew the dishes that had planned
were a success, and that Katie, deft
and efficient, would wait on the table
properly.
AS 1 bent to slip the hassock before
my mother in laws chair l felt almost
content.
And then saw her stoop to the
chair and hold something up. some
thing shapeless and crumpled.
Whatever in the world is ths?" she
asked CONTEMPORARY, holding the OBJ
ject out at arms length.
knew what it was even before she
held it out to me, and my heart sank.
1t was Katie's kitchen apron.
After her early morning work was
done it was Katie's custom TO put on
over her working dress an immaculate
white apron. This she covered with a
darker one when doing the rest of her
work. If she were called to the door
or into the other rooms she removed
the kitchen apron.
But it was her habit, of which I had
tried in vain to break her, to deposit
the kitchen apron in all sorts OF places.
had rescued il from the telephone
stand, from TIE living room mantel and
from any number of chairs. And now
it appeared like a spectre at my lunch
con tablet
1 tried to put the best face possible
on the matter as I took the apron from
my mother lin laws hand.
" L dDOAOkELlcdltNs
TT is Katie's kitchen. apron. When
you sent for her this morning she
was slightly flustered by the prospect
of waiting on a stranger, and hur-
ried out of the kitchen. remember
now, without removing her apron. 1
suppose she dropped IL IN the first
chair she passed"
1t was a tactless speech. realized
it as 1 saw Mrs. Graham stifofened.
Il am very sorry" she said icily,
that I should have been the cause Of
upsetting your maid"
"Oh, I didn't mean it that way" I
cried awkwardly. Katie has done this
before. / have tried TO break her of
the habit, but have never succeeded"
Evidently not" The twos words
might have been volumes.
/ tapped the bell for Katie, and she
came so quickly with the tray bearing
the tomato bisque that I knew she
must have been listening. Her face
was flushed. and as she caught my
eye she gave me an angry glance. I
realized that she had heard my words
about tryin gto break her Of some
habit without understanding what I
meant.
At least / had the power TO reduce
Katie TO reason, however. When she
had served the bisque and was NOV
ing toward the door, I said quietly:
Katie. take this with you. please"
She took one glance at the apron
which / held out to her. then snatched
IL and fled from the roo m.
Guess that'lI hold Katie for awhile"
Dicky chuckIed.
There are the possibilities for the
Development Of a very good maid out