San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-21
The Married Life of Helen and Warren
WARRENS SELFISH DEVOTION TO GOLF GOADS HELEN TO
REPREHENSIBLE
BY MABEL HERBERT HARPER

w aiIcH Wdtcu, Keys al Lon y
lay on the bedside table-ready to be
thrust into his golf suit.
With q guilty glance toward the
bathroom, Helen took up the watch.
TREMENDOUSLY she turned back the min
ute hand from half past to five minutes
after eight.
Still the vigorous, bellicose splashing
from the bathroom. The very air was
discordant-still charged with their
rancorous argument.
Replacing the watch by his wallet,
Helen hurried to the library.
The antique mantel clock was just
striking the half hour as she opened
the quaint glassdoor. War,.y she
pushed back the reluctant minute
hand to five minutes after eight.
Her deepening color proclaiming her
Il culpability, she made the same twenty:
five minute retrenchment in the hall
clock and the clock in her room.
Back in the bedroom. with for
tifying effort at cOmposure. she started
to make up the bed-always her task
on Nora's Sunday off.
THE blooming showers CT OF or
der again." Warren emerged from the
bathroom.
luChiuS III lut lONCl hNA AeNS
avertgd. she did not answer. -.
Il said that showers out of ORDER"
louder, exasperated by her silence.
YES. 1 heard you. I'll tell the
superintendent tomorrow
"Still sulking. Ell? You have to
throw a fit every time ] play golf.
Warren. that's not true. You've
| played golf every clear Sunday for
weeks You might stay home TODAY
when Aunt Cora's coming and l have
this toothache."
you've always got some kind of an
ache" brutally, jerking kno'tei lace
in his golf shoe.
"If you've no consideration for me
you might have for Aunt Cora.
shaking the inoffensive pillow. she
never been here before"
well, I'll not stay home today for
anybody. plug damn hard all w2eI-
COT "a get some exercise! We've
thrashed that out--now drop II
but nv family never comes. I'm
ALWAYS entertaining yours, and =,
Get me another shoe lace. And tel
Nora to hustle along breakfast Al,
most missed that train last Sunday
"You've plenty of time steadylns
her voice. Its only little after
eight now"
Her conscience assuaged by his bru'
tality, Helen felt no compunctions al
her ruse to make him miss his tram.
She vas grimly. desperately deter
mined that Aunt Cora should not re-
turn to Iowa with the Illuminating re-
port Of his fragrant neglect.
At the breakfast table. Warren
scowlingly dug into his cantaloupe.
"Gretn as a gourd! You let EN-
nut anything off on you. Never gel
q melon fit to eat.'
II try to get the rough rinds-6u'
they're not very good this season.
The gay geraniumed windowboxes
the fragrant air. and the sun glintlni
the silver and china should have made
for a happy Sunday morning breakfast
But Warren bolted his food in surlN
silence, and Helen. TREMENDOUSLY wretch
cd. sipped her coffee but did not toucl
her waffles.
Early that morning, when he hat
Weakened to find the sun stripping M
pillow. Warren had announced his in
tention to play golf.
Nervous and unstrung from an al
most sleepleSs night with Neuralgia
toothache, Helen had begged him no
TO go. Her Aunt Cora, who had CONT
from the East for brief visit. was {
spend the day with them-it woult
seem a deliberate discourtesy for hin
to be away. -.
Warren's curt refusal to give up hi
golf had goaded her to a fearful agita
fion Of that ever quarrel-provoklng sub
iect-the frequent visits of his people
and his lack of consideration for hers
who 50 rarely came.
"Only quarter OF nine" Warrei
glanced at his watch. THAT can't b,
right, Must be later than that. Lool
at the hall clock"
Outwarlly calm. but inwardly tur
bulent. Helen dropped her napkin an'
went out TO the verifying hall clock
Quarter of nine," was her confirm
ing report.
That's funny. Thought it wa