South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-23
Revelations of a Wife
My Heart and My Husband
BY ADELE GARRISON

fore. What on earth do you think
you're doing?
My resentment at her rudeness
was banished oy the necessity 1
was under of controlling my risi-
bles at her grandiloquent reference
TO the service wing" which in our
modest esta blishment consists of two
rooms which Jims handy fingers
have constructed out of the upright
portion of our attic. Yet never
since they were completed has
Mother Graham referred TO them as
anything else but the service wing"
while the door leading from the
back stairs 10 the kitchen-in which
Katie was standing, wide eyed and
wrathful-is always termed by my
Srandeur-loving mother-in-law the
door 10 the service wing"
I took a strategic step toward my
cooking table before [ answered
My mother-in-law looked fully cap
able of swearing its contents into
the sink il she took the notion to
do so.
Why. I'm going TO make Juniors
birthday cake" / said cOolly.
How she managed 10 give the inn
preston of stamping her feet with
cut actually doing it. I don't know
but ] could almost have sworn
heard the rap of it on the floor alb
Surd as ! know the idea TO be.
What absolute nonsense. she
laid contemptuously. i've known
YOU TO make perhaps a half-dozen
cakes since YOU began housekeeping,
and goodness knows they weren't
anything TO brag Of. Richard SC
onds birthday cake ought 10 be
made by somebody with experience.
morning, in fact, 10 make il my
self"
Now there was NOT only rudeness.
but injustice in this speech. Ii was
true that | made cakes infrequently.
because of katie's efficiency in the
culinary line. but I had DiCkey's
word for it-and he had an espe-
Cially sweet tooth. as well as a fas-
tidious taste-that they were uni
formly excellent. Indeed. il was
only in answer TO his pleadings for
an especial kind which appealed TO
him that I ever attempted cake
making, for Katie. like all good
cooks is apt temp eramentally 20 re-
sent any one else's intrusion into
her particular province. Indeed. II
E NeiN III AAAAS ltdHoA LAAdA AAdA SAO4tll
down so early in the morning
thought grimly that I should have
set my alarm clock for midnight. for
even Katie was almost an hour
ahead of her usual schedule.
II was Katie who now took the
floor She advanced toward US. her
head held high. her eyes blazing.
We're YOU think I COON in here -
she demanded trnculently
My mother-in-law swept her with
a whitening glance. evidently pre-
pairing 10 crush her with one Of her
disciplinary lectures on rudeness.
What do YOU mean. Katie ," 7
asked kindly
Margaret my mother-in-law
I exclaimed sternil. Have the good
ness 70 let me deal with"
A torrent OF words from Katie in
terrupted her.
Years now. week in, week out %
Katie began tempestuously. Il make
lots cakes, pies. everything nice you
ali eat. say Katie. how nice" Katie.
do so good" her voice fairly
dripped scornfulness. And now dot
leetle babee. he COON 10 hees first
birthday cake. and Katie. she not
good enough TO make Get. Ven I tink
how / plan me all time for dot cake.
me jooSt same as eef ! feeX Tor my
own babee vot never see me. OH
oh. I could keel, I could keel"
She threw her arms above her
head in an emotional gesture. Their
flung her hands before her face. To
do Mother Graham justice. I don 3.
believe she understood half what
the girl said. and surely not the ref
erence 70 the little dead baby, for
nav mother-in -law, while stern. =
vet Just. and has besides a strong