The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-17
ELATTONS of 4 WIFE
Why Madge Felt That Msther Ora
hams Comfort Creed is Uneomfortable
ADELE GARRISON

Why Madge Felt That Msther Ora
hams Comfort Creed is Uncomfortable
made a sudden swift decision as i
heard my mother law wonder what
1 could have said to her cousin TO make
her weep so tempestuously I couldn't
/ tell her that I had ordered her kins-
woman to leave my house because Of
J her outrageously cruel quizzing Of my
little maid. l had told cousin Agatha
| that she need not reveal the real reas-
on for her going if she didn't wish TO
/ do so. And If she had not spoken OF
/ it, my lips were sealed. But there
was something could tell her mes.
sage I could send to her cousin.
Your cousin made me exceedingly
angry. mother" I began nervousIy,
land fear I said something very rude,
very cruel to her. She probably is in
no mood to see me or I would apollo
gize to her, but won't you ask her for
me to consider our converse ton as
having never taken place? I shall
never refer to it again, and I trust she
will not
My mother-in -law looked at me
! keenly.
I can't imagine you getting any the
better of it in any row with Agatha"
she said, and there was that in her
voice which made me realize anew
how spineless a creature my husband
and his relatives must consider me.
But, then, / suppose she said some
thing particularly atrocious about that
idiot of Katie, and so Of course YOU
lost your head completely. You ought
to get rid of that girl, Margaret. OF
course, it's very kind and sweet of you
to allow her to stay, but she will be
less and less help to you for months
to come, and then just see what you
will have on hand
She's A Poor Stick
ment.
That Katie is going to have a ba-
by" returned my motherin- law,
tartly. why, of course!"
But that's neither here nor there"
she went on briskly. It's none of
Agatha's business If Katie has six
children, all twins And I'll tell her so
when she gets over her crying spell"
Please, mother" I said, emboIdened
by her championship of me to call her
by that sacred name, don't say any
thing cross to her. Just tell her how
sorry I am"
Not much I WON'T" my mother-in-
law replied briskly. You'd have her
walking all over you. But I'll give her
your first message, to consider your
conversation as not having taken
place. You must have told her to
leave, for nothing less would q have
made such an impression on her.
/ My mother-in-law glanced at me
shrewdly, but didn't rise to the bait
she threw out.
She a poor stick, Agatha" she went
on. 'Disagreeable and catty and med
dlesome from her childhood, and she
had all those traits intensified. when
she had the opportunity, by reason of
her position as superintendent OF a
retormatory for girls, to indulge them.
She lost her position, and as she has
but the tiniest of incomes, about all
the pleasure she ever gets out of life
IS When L invite her to visit me"
Regrets That Worry
And then remorse, with a capital r.
seized me. Not alone because I had
been rude to a penniless old woman.
but because L couldn't keep out of nv
mind the ungracious reflection that if
1t were not for Dicky, his mother
could not be so munificent in enter
tanning her impecunious cousin.
had no time either for remorse or
for reflection. My mother-in- law with
her usual driving practically. looked
around my room.
All packed ready to move. soc &"
she said. Where are you going to put
Agatha to sleep? You know I cannot
have her in my room"
Il shall fix up this room apai,, - 7
replied, trying to make my tone heart
lily cordial. 1T won't take very Ione -
Don't fuss so much" she said. "Tf
you get the bed up and the dresso,. ar5
rug IN place the rest of the things
won't matter"
| could not repress a smile as she
went out. She would defend me
against unpleasantness from anv one
else but she was supremely indfffeT-
ent TO the inconvenience might suffer
IN getting my room ready for her cons
in. She had never suggested the nos
sibility Of Dicky's giving I'D his room,
to her cousin and bunking upon an
army cot as I was doing. I probabI,,
never had occurred to her, but 7 knew,
she would have resented it if I had
suggested it.
That she and her son must be COM
Portable, no matter who else was in
conYenlenced-this 1 had long ago