New Britain herald., 1921-11-01
MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
 Adele Garrsons Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE

business is to get your goat in any way she can. Whats the great idea? She hasn't any grievance against you, 1ns she? l thought you'd always treated her pretty nift!ly"
 \ Canny Question.
 Without revealing the time -honored 'P.gsy so to Cork" method which every wife of any mentality well knows and keeps a cherished secret in her own breast. l could not en- Tighten Dicky as to the reason lying underneath Bess Deans patent at llempts to make the uncomfortable.
 But l well remembered the time when by exercising this method l offectualy prevlnted Dicniy from giving her the chance to pose for some magazine Illustrations, q chance which she sorely coveted, That she never had forgiven me for my inter- ference l was as sure as was that she was trying her best to invelgle Dicky into some act of marked atten- ton to her which should humiliate ne and give her vanity the sop it craved. But l could not tell my hus- band this, definitely.
 T have neither the time nor the inclination to attempt to solve the yagaries of Bess Deans mind" said evasiyely. I'm ponderng, in- stead, how we're going to stow six persons-one of them as heavy as Mir. Cosgrove-and all this junk in your car.
 11 iar- ol mtted, "but well-''
 Our approach to the car, to which MT. Cosgrove was attaching the long fishing poles, interrupted his sentence. Boss Dean. an undeniably attractive picture in her inioker euitr came running lightly toward us.
 Are you going to drive, Madge? And if you are, may I sit in the front seat with youG I bounce around so in the back, and I do love to be close to the wheel. It's the next thing to being able to drive"
 Why Madge Gasped.
 Dicky's question was answered, l said to myself with amused exaspera- ton. This was the "particular stunt she meant to pull" She knew very well that in all probability Dicky would drive the car and she knew also that after her plaintive appeal there would be nothing else for us to do but to give her the seat for| which she asked, That would rele- gate me to the crowded back seat with MT. Cosgrove and the twins.
 I guessed that Dickys natural ob- stinacy was having a hard battle with his courtesy. I wondered how he would solve the problem and wished that she had not addressed her ques- ton to me, even as opened my mouth to say the obvious thing, that I was not going to drive, but that of course she could have the front seat.
 But Dicky spoke first and his words were so surprising that for a second I stared at him uncomprc- hendingly.
 Sure, Madge's going to drive! But you must promise if you sit in the front seat that you'll restrain that chatter of yours and not distract the driver We lowbrow masculines in the back seat will do all the talking that's necessary"
 I do not think Bess Dean was ever more surprised and discomfited in her life. She knew, as we all did that Dicky loves to drive better than to do almost anything else in the world. ] had driven his car enough, proftng by the instructions Hugh Grantland had given me on that me morable day in North Carolina, to he able to guide it along the curving mountain roads whenever I needed to do so. But I only had driven it once at night, and while I did not feel the least nervousness over the projected trip, I guessed that Diclty would he on nettles until we were afely back home again. He had tlrnod the driving over to me only because of his irascible disinclination to lAt Fess Dean succeed with tho plan" she had made to sit beside him and monopolize his attention during the drive to the fishing place