The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-31
Helen Hunters
Husband
BY JANE Phelps
HELEN IS ENVIOUS
CHAPTERS

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"You see how silly it is not to have
a maid" Helen said after Jack had
mopped up the kitchen floor. "You
are too tired to attend to things, and
II absolutely will not do work that
spoils my hands. 1 have Joined the
bridge club-Mrs. Layton got it up,
and she says the women are all very
exclusive and everyone of them live
nicely"
MRS. Layton's exclusive friends are
probably living beyond their means"
Jack replied, still annoyed because of
what the janitress had said. 'She
wouldn't live in this apartment if Lay
ton were SO wonderfully successful as
she would have you believe"
I'm glad you spoke of that! She
isn't going to long. She has been look
ing aboutSnd intends to move as soon
as she fin@s what she wants. I think
we may move into the same apart
ment when she finds one she likes"
''Oh, you dol" Jack, exasperated, re-
turned. You may as well get rid of
that idea at once, Helen. We stay
right where we are, no matter where
Mrs. Layton goes
Helen made no reply, but a stubborn
look-one Jack had learned to dread
settled upon her face. Jack saw,
and to divert her mind he began to
talk of the article he had read.
There are some mighty good ideas
in it. I believe 1 can turn them into
money. And"
It's time you turned something
into money! When I married you
was to have everything under the sun
wanted. We've been married year,
and I don't have as much as poor
mamma gave me-"
'If your mother hadn't worked so
hard to dress you, perhaps she might
do you dare say I killed my
mother" Helen cried Historically.
who said anything about killing,
dear! Do please wait until finish
before you flare up
You may as well understand first
as last, Jack, don't intend to go with
out things, and slave for any man.
Mother was so proud that she had
brought me up a lady. Why, she
L would hear things 1 shouldn't in the
markets, and you know I never had to
do housework. You promised me you
would soon have a big income, yet
when ask for a. maid, or want to live
! in a more fashionable locality, you
plead poverty. If you can't make
enough in the insurance business to
live decently. why not try something
else?"
''what would you do while was
| trying?"
sWhat do you mean"
"You spend every penny I earn
about 5000 a month. If started in
some new business L might work an
other year or two before I made as
much. That's what mean"
well, Howard Dunn makes more
| than you do ins commissions If he
can, you could-if you tried hard
enough
II do try. Helen, try very hard
But lately am too tired to hustle as
1 want to. You see. dear, I am on my
| feet all day. and then to work in the
house all the evening takes the pep
out of me-"
''Then hire. a. maid. We can get a
girl who will do everything but the
| heavy washing for IS a week-a few
months ago she wouldn't have come
under $12."
Cant you see that we are unable to
| pay a girl S35 a month, beside her
board and her waste? It would take
| would have precious little left for
clothes after rent, lights and the rest
were paid"
'Then boardl"
''Neverl No. Helen, Wen do the
| best we can, but will not board. It
| is no life for married people. Now
don't talk about it any more. It is
| bed time"
All this sounds in the telling as tho
Jack and Helen were quarreling. They
were not. Helen wanted a maid-but
! if Jack didn't get one, he would have
to do the work that roughened her
hands. so Why should she worry. Jack
wanted his time, felt Helen imposed
upon him, but blamed the dead mother
more than his pretty living wife. Yet
| he felt as he had said
He had gone the limit.
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