The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-10
Helen Hunters
Husband
A QUARREL.
BY JANE PHELPS

OAAoPNNA L.
eve won't discuss it tonight Helen,
but we must have a good long talk
about our expenses. I bought this suit
! t" please you, knowing l could not af-
ford it, but SuppGsing you had paid for
all you bought for yourself. Now you
have AIDED another big debt in your
dress, and on top of that invited all
those people here" Jack kept his
voice even knowing that if he did not
they would quarrel.
Helen begun to cry, not loudly, but
with short sobbing cries, which she APP
parently tried to smother with her
handkerchief hed' over her mouth.
Jack felt brutal yet he knew he was
not, but this could not go on.
Don't cry, Helen,'' he said, attempt
ing to take her hand away from her
mouth. Well plan it all out in the
, morning"
you have your business, your men
friends, and I have nothing. not even
your society," l sit alone all day, and
al the evening too while you fuss
over those cli figures. then when l
want to do n. share OIL entertaining
so that I can keep my friends in spite
of your sestishress, yo'. object" sne
walled.
$50 you think I am selfish. do you,
dear? You think I sit over long rows
of figures instead of going about with
Helen, do be reasonable! You know
I am overWorking all the time, and
doing it so you can have the things
you crave"
"You can't deny you never take me
anywhere. like you used to before we
were married. You used to rush to
mothers so you could be with me;
take me for a walk or to play, but
new you come home just in time for
diuner. and I don't have any good
times"
But, dear, How can 1 go out and
still earn extra money for you? And,
Helen, do you realize that even did !
come home early you are seldom
here?" -.
Helen sobbed anew.
That's right. find fault with me.
If didn't love you so I wouldn't
care, but when a woman loves a man
it hurts so when he is cross and sell
fish, self-pity bringing added sobbing.
Damn it all Helen!' Jack eX-
pioded, 81 see there's<no use trying to
reason with you. Forgive me. dear, L
didn't mean to say that. Come, get to
bed. We'll manage somehow.
But Helen would not be appeased,
and as a result they had their first
serious quarrel.
In The morning came the making
up. 1t is an old saying that the MAX
ing up of a first real quarrel is de-
nSntIuls that II draws peOpiS GlOSSA
together. This may be true with some,
but it left a bad taste in the mouth
with Jack Hunter. Not that he al
lowed Helen to see this far from it,
His grumbling was all done to him
SCI. But before he left he once more
brought up the subject sof dehLAand
the party.
Give them simple refreshments,
dear. They will have just as good a
time and it will be far better for all
concerned"
Meaning youe"
land you, dear. Aren't we one?"
Helen smiled sweetly. She had
gained her point; was to have her
party. She would do what she
thought best, and Jack would have to
pay for it.
One of Helen's favorite maxims
was that a woman can make man
do anything she wants to providing he
loves her. and she goes about it in the
right way.
Often she would say:
You are so clever, Jack" Wheed-
ling him, you have brains. You must
learn to. make people pay for them
If she noticed he looked gaunt and
tired she said nothing. If someone
mentioned it in her presence she
would invariably reply:
"Oh, Jack is all right. But he will
not go to bed. He sits up reading or
fussing half the night" That he was
fussing to make more money for her
to spend she never acknowledged even
to him. He did it because he liked to-
In this way she quoted her con-
science-if at that time she possessed
such a thing.
(Tomorrow-Helen entertains)