Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-02-24
MY MARRIAGE
Adele Garrison's
New Phase off,.
REVELATIONS
OF a WIFE
THE UNEXPECTED COMPLICA-
TON THAT NET MADGE AND
LILLIAN IN THE KITCHEN.


ened call, made a dash to the kitchen
| from the veranda where we had ar
| ranged the code summons to my father
and Allen Drake.
Whatever is Mother doing in the
| kitchen? | thought / had every bit OF
the work done, and that she was lying
down.
"She was,' Lillian rejoined breath
Iessly, as she ran, but she probably
seized the chance Of our being gone
to do some extra bit of cleaning
The truth of her supposition was
brought forcibly home to US as we
burst into the kitchen door. An I'M
mense dish cupboard in the Kitchen
stood open, and on the floor beside 1t
| in the midst of a clatter Of broken
crockery, sat my mother-ln- law, her
head resting against Marion, her face
deathly pale beneath the blood that was
trucking from a cut in her forehead
and her left arm hanging limp fashlon
sickeningly suggestive OF fracture.
| slipped to my knees beside her. and
nut nv arm around her. releasing Mar
| ION. while Lillian, with quick survey
of the kitchen. took command OF the
situation in characteristic fashion.
marion get my first-aid kit. and call
I
| she said. and as the child sped obedlnet-
" from the room she poured some wa
| ter into a basin, and with soft cloth
began to lave my mother-ln-l 5 lace.
| Mother Graham opened her eyes and
spoke feebly:
| Lillian and looked at each other IN
exasperated amazement. This woman
of over 70 years had put box upon
kitchen chair, and had climbed upon
it in order to clean the upper shen OF
the cupboard. An upset pan with soapy
water flowing from i completed the
mute story of her foolish endeayor.
"What-what is it," What's hap
PANIED to Mother?" Dicky, white-hp
ped. GREATNESS from running, rushed
| into the room and to his mother slae.
Il should think you could LOOK al5eI
her better than this, Madge. How did
she fall? Are you badly hurt
IF you'll-saye-yo -breath-to-
cool your - broth-R c h ard his
mother said with difficulty, but, with
her old tartness, "you-may--tlno-
out-something. =
saw smile twitch the corners OF
Lillian's lips, but for myself ! teit no
amusement That part OF my oraih
which was not filled with alarm Tor my
mother-in-law was occupied WIN re-
sentiment against Dicky for his unjust
| blame of me. However, ! reflected, pit
terly. | ought to be used to it. for there
have been few adverse happenings. pig
and little. in our life together, Tor
which Dicky's first impulslve words
have not been those Of censure.
Please get doctor as soon as you
can. Dicky bird" Lillian SAID softly.
This cut on the forehead IS nothing
which | cannot attend to, put hef
arm
my - arm - is = broken. notheI
Graham said with decision. and as |
saw the beads of sweat standing out on
her forehead | knew that she was sur
| feripp great pain, but herolcally sup
| messing any reference to 1t, Nhen-
ever I see my motherin-law IN great
| nh,sical pain | realize of what stun
The old martyrs were made, Tor she
utters no word of complaint. All hef
fnssiness is expended upon the petty
things of life, the great momehts l'na
her poised and accompanying.
Lillian Takes Command
GERRY TIGER is at the barn, Lillian
went on. IF you'll call him. ! think
that with all of Us we can carry ner
to the bedroom off the living room.
we don't dare attempt the journey up
stairs WITH TINS a. -. 49,, - -.
Marion. Take out that httie po,.le ~
the right hand lower corner OF the XII.
| Hold # ready for me if | need It. NOW,
Mother Graham, don't nina II sllhs
You little ;u;,n bound
no the wound in the elder woman
forehead and directed Marion IN the
preparation of potion from the oottle'
which she compelled my mother-in-.aw
to drink by sheer force of VIII. ana
then Jerry TIGER, summoned by IDchs'
came into the kitchen, and with MIN
ito care we succeeded in transferring
Mother Graham from the kitchen fioor
To the bed Lillian had mentloned. a.,
What doctor do you want, Mother
Dicky asked when the journey was
II suppose that jackanapcs of Pet
tit will do as well as anybody, she
said in a stronger voice than she had
msad before. thanks, to the strength
of Lillian's potion, and we all inter-
nreted her words as an approval OIL .ne
physicion which she would have died
rather than put in specific form.
"Everything Is Cleared
an haye him here in jiffy, Dlcky
nromised. and hurried from the room
Then Lillian and ] bent over his
mother, trying to make her as com.
Portable as possible. l wondered II
Lillian was as dismayed as l over the
nrosnect of the next few weeks, with
Mother Graham a helpless invalid, and
Katie gone. :,
4 childishly triumph smile crossed