Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
You Can't Fool Some Husbands All
the Time,

| the 41m6.
n II RS. JOHN LINDSAY was do
| MI ing penanoe for her Sins.
| She loathed cleaning her
= wedding silver. But even
then she didn't feel it was adequate
penance.
The sinner looked contrite In yell
low pinafore, with her red curls
tucked high. her brown lashes trail
| ing toward tear-hushed checks ana
with her retSousse nose adorned with
smitch Of silver polish.
! She never wanted to see her Cou-
sin Cecily again. So, Of course. &C.
city walked in.
| Cecily was four years older than
Merriam Lindsay. Bobbed-haired and
blue-serged. She delighted In shock
ing her family-that is. she thought
she shocked them. They politely pro-
tended to be shocked
Cecily had. q few weeks previous,
presented F. Craig Downing to the
.What-for kind Of man Is THAR"
John had demanded.
Hes not any kind of man." Mer-
RAM had explained. Hes the in
| terror decorator who's doing her new
fiat"
! Craig's studio.
| You're getting plumb insipid from
too much bride stuff" sne scolded.
J you'll adore the Mauve Goat. It's
| the swankiest spot He has tho most
| stimulating Thursday partfes-cork-
ing tea and cigarettes and people,
Merriam had slipped the tea but de-
oained the cigarettes.
Won't John lot your inquired c.
So Of course Merriam was fumbling
with half q smoke when John strolled
into the shop. He wouldn't have
admitted he didn't want his wife to
train around such places. but he made
twinkle in his gray eyes. poking q
disreputable pipestem at various
"a objects Of art" asking an infantile,
What's that for, Mister Downing?"
Merry was SO embarrassed about
away as quickly as possible.
Tho next Thursday she didn't tall
John where they were going. It was
a much larger party. Merriam tried
to stink into a corner and showed
her dimpfed elbow spang against an
the proverbial thousand bits.
She meekly requested bill.
It came the morning Of the day she
cleaned silver.
| Eighty dollarsi
Six months previous the lack Of
over to Daddy" But Daddy" had
departed for India about q month
after her wedding. She was at the
edgiest edge Of Johns small income.
She knew Cecily WIS heavily in debt
~, Aok f,rnfshf~0e ChA hoAnsf
q soul to borrow from.
I So she polished silver viciously.
| Cecf1y ran into Richard Slocum an
hour later and conflded that she was
worried sick about Merry. Cecily
when she told him that kind Of rot.
she didn't like Richard and she knew
ha was in love with Merriam. Rich
ard dropped in to call just a. Mer.
Ram was finishing the Silver.
Merriam herself Didn't know that r
wrought ana iuncniess that She let
Richard drag out her miserable Sc
cret. OR that Il was because he was
/ cioyerer than she that she let him
tuck some money in the oreem jug
ths, he . himself ,d nsd fa.sn her :. -.
He departed feeling an to the Ls.A
Bountiful.
| He departed Q tribe too late John
saw him departing. Merry had Just
stuffed the money In her desk when
John came In.
So Of course she had escaped a
thrillingly dramatic moment.
| Yet she hadn't. For the minute she
tlooked Into Johns searching gray
eyes she knew she couldn't take
~ ~ eS Scs ss1e..e Aass,.~ taaE ,.
ICfai1 Downing had dubbed heE, she
6s1 70 the shelter Of Jeh1ts shoulder