The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-15
Why Madge Felt That for Once She
Hadn't Been "Too Easy"

/ Hadn't Been II 90 Easy,
/ can imagine that a disinterested
! observer would have obtained a great
deal of amusement from the interview
| Cousin Agatha and I were having be-
| hind the closed doors of my room.
/ A stranger to me. although a cousin
| of my mother-in laws, she had sought
me out within half an hour of her IN
| expected arrival al our home to pour
complaints of Katie's behavior into
my ears. Fortunately 1 had heard Ka-
/ ties side OF the story first. Ny faithful
/ little maid had come to me in a par
| oxysm of tears and sobs on account OF
| the objectionable behavior OF the wo-
man. Becaues of her long tenure Of a
| position which gave her unlimited au-
| thority over certain girls. Cousin
Agatha evidently felt it her duty and
! privilege to tax Katie in her condi-
| ton, under the belief that she was un-
married. Katie had called her "vun
old liar had flown to me, and was
now preparing dinner behind the lock
ed doors of the kitchen, while 1 faced
the wrath of Cousin Agatha.
That wrath was rising now and
threatened to wreck its possessor's
professional calm of manner. Goaded
by my inner conviction that everyone
around me, including my husband.
thought me TO easy" as Katie had
expressed it, and treated me with
careless disregard of my feelings
which they wouldn't have dared to
employ toward a woman Of sterner
fibre, I had met Cousin Agatha's
structures upon Katie with a manner
that I knew was unpardonabIy inso-
lent, manner 1 had never dreamed I
could ever employ to any one.
You're unpardonably insulting!"
Cousin Agatha gasped after my last
retort to her. I saw with hidden saw
age delight that the veneer was strip
ped from her She was so angry she
could mask her feeling no longer.
Perhaps you will feel differently
about this when you know that your
precious maid whom you are defend
ing so stoutly, has been deceiving,
you"
Her voice was a venomous snarl. She
evidently thought that her information
would completely crush me. I couldn't
help giving her the benefit of a cool.
tantalizing smile before 1 answered:
''Since when has it been a crime for
asked CoOlly.
Cousin Agatha looked at me with
such absolute chagrined amazement|
that / had hard work to keep from
laughing In her anxiety to make
mischief she had lost all sense of pro-
portion and perspective and the posi-
biIity of Katie's being married had
never dawned upon her. 1t isn't a
pleasant thing to realize that you have
just made an absolute idiot of yourself
and Cousin Agatha evidently found
the pill a bitter one to swallow But
she made an attempt to stand her
ground.
ooh I see!" she said. 1.-The girl has
been to You with her side of the story.
She's a quick one, I'll admit. But when
you have been as long in the business
If taking care of these animals as I
lave, you1l know better than to trust
their stories.'
After the vulgarity and cruelty of
that speech 1 had no further compunc-
ton about dealing with Cousin Agatha
as I ached to do. I caught her eyes
and held them with the cool, scornful
look I used simetimes TO employ effec-
lively with her type of embryo wo-
man in my school days.
TT may interest you to know that I
prepared Katie's wedding dress it'll
my own hands, that she was married
from our home and tina her husband is
our man Of all work." I said Jelly. at
may also interest you to know that II
don't care to have you as a guest in
my home. You may stay until it is con-
venient for you to go somewhere else.
but no longer. And you are at per
feet liberty to tell my mother in law
or my husband what I have said.
However, if you choose to keep 81 Il