Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-10-24
MY MARRIAGE
|N1 PROBLEMS
Adele Garrison'S
New Phase off,.
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
The Suggestion Bess Dean Made for
Fishing Trip

WITH warnings from both Dicky and
Lillian filed away in my mental refer
ence library, / could not help watching
Bess Dean furtively when. two days at
ter her unfortunate trip down Rip Van
Wrinkles mountain. she was in evidence
again in our mountain family circle.
AS we might have guessed from our
knowledge of her vanity. she did not
join us until she was able to walk with
out limp, and there had disappeared
all trace of the unfortunate conse-
quences of her insisting upon wearing
my sneakers. two sizes too small for
her.
But if she cherished any resentment
against me. as Dicky and Lillian had
predicted. and was planning any come
back" for the humiliation unwittingly
had been the means of giving her. she
showed no sign of it when she joined
us at breakfast after her two days
absence. She was as gay. as charm
ingly insouciant as ever, and when we
all had dutifully inquired after the
wrenched back which we all knew was
camouflage for her swollen feet, and
had been answered with the assurance
that all discomfort had disappeared, we
joined her in the tacit RELOCATION of the
unfortunate trip to the tomb of the fro
gotten things:
THAT Settles lt!'
'srhe bullheads are biting. Pa Fred
put his head in at the dining room door
He had breakfasted before the rest Of
US and gone up the road. Next to his
father, Fred is the most ardent de-
votee of old Izaak. Walton / ever have
seen, and his face mirrored his en-
thusiasm.
who says so?" Pa Cosgrove turned
in his chair at the. head of the table,
his deepset eyes sparkling at the lure.
Sam Patch. He caught 80 last night.
he said, just, as fast as he could pull
EN- out Of the water"
"Where?"
Lower DAM t
THAT settles tim going tonight!
How about it. Mother?'
He looked over at his wife with half
ludicrous, half shamefaced pleading /
long ago had observed that bustling.
thrifty Mrs. Cosgrove kept rather a
tight rein upon her easy-going. good
natured but somewhat INDECENT spouse,
and did not look with any too great
favor upon his frequent fishing and
hunting excursions. Indeed. his fond
ness for rambling with fishpole or gun
through his beloved Catskill forests
had, in our first acquaintance with him.
caused Dicky to dub him Rip Van Win
kle. although the big, jolly man has
none Of the unpleasant characteristics
of Irving's hero.
when my woodboxes are filled, and
my chickens caught, killed and cleaned
for tomorrow's dinner. I have no OBJ
Election to you making II kinds of an
ALFRED idiot of yourself" Mrs. Cos
grove replied pleasantly enough. though
there was a suspicion of ascerbity in
her tone. but / guess I'd better get
the liniment and the rheumatism med
icine ready for tomorrow. I suppose
you'll stay all night
The big man flushed trifle under
his tan.
Madge Agrees.
Now. mother" he said. ''be good.
haven't been fishing in a coon's age.
And Ill see to everything before 20.
and bring you back fine mess Of
bullheads for tomorrow morning =
breakfast. did you ever eat bullheads.
folks?" He turned to the rest of us.
patiently trying to escape from con-
jugal criticism.
IF ] have I've forgotten it," Dicky
said. But I'll try anything once"
IF you had, you'd never have for
gotten it," Mr.. Cosgrove declared di-
dactically. They're the sweetest eat
ing of amy parrish in the world. Of
course your. real fancy anglers look
down on fishing for 'em--they want
the trout or even the pickerel. But
it's past the season for trout, and the
nickerel don't bite at night, the time I
ike TO 70 fishing. And there hasn't
hem pickefel cauGAt this year any