South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-31
Revelations
Of a Wife
My Heart and My Husband
BY ADELE GARRISON
y Heart and My Husband
BY ADELE GARRISON

think the promises of Lillian ana
Allen Drake that harm should not
come TO me through Grace Draper
were all that kept me from a ner-
vous COLLAPSE in the days immedi-
ately following the girls release
from prison. could see nothing
else but her beautiful. hooking face,
set my mind 10 nothing save con-
lecture as to the manner in which
she would attempt to harm me-
1t was fortunate indeed for me
that the preparations for Leila Fair
faNs wedding were SO complicated
for all of US. We had definitely de-
cided TO take a cottage at Cedar
Crest. three miles from the home Of
Leila's aunt for a month. and what
with Leila's frantic effort TO COM
plete her rousseau Mother Ora
hams insistence upon having the
house cleaned from attic 10 cellar
before we left-although Katie al
ways keeps il in neat order
Wicky's fussinesS concerning the
things he wished to take with him.
and my own preparations for the
trip. | would have had no time to
think of my coming execution If l
had been sentenced TO death.
Ny mother-in-law had never sus-
pected that Katie's departure Sched-
uled for a day or two after ours, had
been intended only for a vacation.
She fancied that IL had been her
own tinese and Influenced which had
induced the girl TO stay with us, and
was much pleased with herself over
the feat. The lesson had had its eff
feet however She treated Katie
with far more consideration than
before. and although she still did
not wholly cease her structures to
me on my little maids real or fan
cied shortcomings yet she was much
less Virulent than she had been.
Even the house cleaning that old
time ceremonial in which she in
dulges herself and terrorizes the rest
of the family on every formal oc-
casion. was dwarfed in her mind by
the excitement OF the coming trip.
And though one could not call her
placid-my CaptiOus mother-in-law
can never be that-yet she was in
royal good humor. for her, though
her questions and exactions about
the coming trip drove me nearly
wild.
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coming into the sewing room. where
/ was frantically running the sewing
machine in an attempt to do a 1.-THE
necessary sewing for Junior and my
self before our departure. an at
TEMPT which seemed fOredOOmed To
failure on account of the influenza
seizure of the dressmaker who had
been engaged for Leila's more pre-
tentious things. 81 can't figure out
n trunk for the linens and bedding
anywhere.
1t was n question which I had
been expecting for some time, and I
mentally prepared for battle 1
have three trunks one. the ward
robe trunk. on which | spent an
Ixtravagant lot of money just be
fore my marriage. to house my mod
est trousseau. The second. a prac-
teal, small steamer, which is all l
have ever required since my mar
riage. And the third, a large. old
fashioned trunk belonging to my
mother. which always stands in my
room. and in which l keep all my
personal memehtOes and intimate
possessions.
1t Is an ideal trunk for packing
the table and bed linens and extra
blankets which the renting OF a
summer cottage entails. for il is
strongly made in n fashion unknown
10 modern craftsmanship. But I re-
solved long ago that it was too in
timately associated with nv little
mother ever 90 be used for anything
save the purpose for which
have II.
Many mementoes of my mother
are contained in it, my most treas
ured doll is tucked away In it's
depths. together with Juniors first
pair of baby shoes. DiCkys few
love letters. the violets ne gave me
the day We were engaged. my we'd
ding bouquet-why enumeratc2
Every woman with 4 spark OF cent?
ment in her has u similar chest
and could list its contents from
memory.
Next to the living members of my
household do I hold that trunk. ]
have privately instructed Katie and
Jim in case of fire TO save that first .
and look after the silver and china
and our few valuable pieces Of furn-
iture afterward. And 7 had already
gained permission of Alice Hol-
cOmbe 10 leave the trunk at her
house during our absence SO r
was with a feeling Eirding myself
for a fray that answered my
mother-in-law in sweetly modulated
terms:
That is too bad hut I am sure
De can arrange something"
"Of course we can, she retOrted .
There is Just one trunk I'm the
house which will do. and that is that
old. big one in your bedroom. I,
have ordered a Tacking box from
that little dry goods store on Mer-
rick road. II will be here i'm half
an hour, and then YOU can transfer .
the things you have in IL to that