Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-02
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Adele Garrison's
New Phase off,.
OF WIFE
THE DlSCONCERTING PROBLEM
TO WHICH MApGE AWAKENED

| Lillian and i arrived nome SdIely,
but | was almost exhausted when |
FINALLY reached the shelter of the house,
so terrific had been the strain of drIV-
ing in the fog, one of the worst we mad
ever experienced.
Lillian made me drink some hot milk,
and tucked me into bed with a per-
emptory admonition 10 sleep the CLOCK
around.
The next morning the sound of fem.
mime voices in unmistakable tones OF
acrid alteration outside my door
brought me to a sitting posture with a
Jerk, and a realization, as | saw the
sun streaming through my windows
that | had come disgracefully near to
fulfilling her injunction literally.
II tell you that is q cobweb up there
in the corner of the hall. I may be
getting old, but 7 am still able 10 dis
~tinguish a cobweb when | see one. It's
come to a pretty pass when | can find
a thing like that in the house. or
course, | realize you haven been aDle
to do much this last day or two, but
this thing must have been there q
week" ~.
/ recognized the peculiar timbre of
nv mother-in-law's voice. She was on
one of her housekeeping rampages,
land I groaned as | recognized the syInp-
toms.
Il might have known" | said to my
self. remembering Dicky's oft repeated
declaration that his mother let off
steam by i~naugurating a general clean
ing.
GLOW Dare You--"
"When she's aching for a row and
can't get one, she takes it out on the
broom and the s%crubbing pail" he had
said, and the memory of his words
Illuminated her present activity.
Lillian must have made her see the
limpossibility of her attitude toward the
welcoming Of poor wounded Tom Ches-
ter to our home. and she therefore
would not carry ont her threat to leave
the house. But she had not forgiven
me, and every nook and corner of the
house would realize the fact before she
finally exercised the little devil Of tenn
per which was driving her.
II clean me dis hall two days ago,
the girl protested sullenly. Noting
dere den. ] go me all over ceiling und
walls NIT q rag tied by broom"
How dare you have the face to stand
there and tell me that. There's the
cobwebi'
dot no cobweb. Dot spider-web."
The sullen note was deepening. and L
noigelessly crept out Of bed and began
to scramble into my clothing. If Katie's
temper did break. | knew that Twas
the only person who could control her.
"Spider-web? Spiders don't spin
webs over night"
why. Grandma Graham, one did"
broke in Marion's childish treble.
Don't you remember Robert Bruce
and the sn.der?"
An Unexpected Champion
marion. if you haven't anything bet
ter to do than to contradict your elders
with a musty, Worm-eaten, old story
like that, it's time you found some
thing"
With my gown half over my head I
stopped aghast. Mother Graham must
be on an unusual rampage to speak
thus to Lillian's young daughter, Of
whom she is extremely fond. | would
hardly have been more surprised had
she scoldcd Junior; And then ] heard
my small sons voice raised in a temper
which matched his grandmotber's own.
Naughty. naughty Danzie" he
stormed. MAKE my Marion ky, say
naughty sings to my Tatie. Go way
Tt is the last word of Juniors aver
sion to anyone, this phrase of Go
way" I 50 strenuously have tried to
break him of it that he does not use it
except when he is very much wrought
up over some fancied insult to his baby
dignity. With dismay ] mentally Wis
toned the scene outside my door, Katie
s~ulIenly defiant, Marion proudly trying
to hide the tears which she could not
keep back. Junior-I could see his
sturdy little legs planted wide apart,
his head thrown back, his eyes, so like
his fathers. blazing with his fathers
own temper-but | could not visualize
my doughty mother-in-law's probable
reaction to Juniors baby impertinence.
] was sure of one thing, however, as
| fastened the last snap to my morning
gown and gave a dissatisfied look at
the mirrored reflection of my hasty
eoiffure-I would not add to the gayety
Of nations by joining the group outside
unless it became absolutely necessary.
Next: The Way Mother Graham
"Let Go" With Katie and Junior.
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