The Lambertville record., 1923-08-03
mantle words! 'Toreador,' Rea,tor,'

| 'Humldor'-"
Here, here" her husband said.
Calm down You seem. to have got
| yourself worked up into a mighty sar-
castle mood. for some reason. Those
people only want to be nice to us and
/ they're all right"
/ Mrs. Sperry looked at him coldly.
did you hear Mr.. Sullender saying
that his company had sold seven
homes this month";" she inquired.
"Oh, you can't expect everybody to
know all the purist niceties of the
English language" he said. "Sullen-
der's all right and his wife struck me
as one of the incest, kindest women
ever"
Kind" Mrs. Sperry echoed loudly
"She dosen't stop at being kind She's
so caresslngly tender, so angellcally
loving that she can't possibly pro-
nounce one-syllable word without
making two syllables of I'll Did you
notice that she said 'yay-yus' for yes
and 'no-oh,' for mo-? do hate the
turtle-dove style of talking. and never
met a worse case of 1t. Mrs. Sullen-
der's the sweetest sweet-woman | ever
saw in my life, and I'm positive she
leads her husband dogs lifel"
"What nonsense I"
ut serves him right for his realtor-
ing, though" Mrs. Sperry added
thoughtfully. He ought to have that
kind of wifer'
"But you just said she was the
sweetest"
"Yes, the sweetest sweet-woman
sweet-women."
The young husband looked per-
picked 81 don't know what you're
talking about" he admitted 81 alway
thought"
I'm talking about the sweet-wom-
an type that Mrs. Sullender belongs
to. They use intended sweetness. They
speak to total strangers with sweet
ness. They wear expressions Of saint
ly sweetness. Everybody speaks of a
sweet woman with loving reverence,
and it's generally felt that 1t would be
practically immoral to contradict one
of 'em. To be actually sassy to
sweet-woman would be cardinal sin !
They let their voices llnger beauti-
fully on the air and they listen, them
selves, TO the lovely sounds they make.
They always have the most exquisite
ly self-sacrlficlng reasons for every ac-
tion OF their lives but they do Just
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everybody else has TO do what sweet
woman wants him to. That's why I'm
sure Mr.. Sulender, in spite of all his
pomposIty. leads a dogs life at home"
"Of all the foolish talk - young
Sperry exclaimed. "Why, everybody
says they're the most ideally married
couple and that they lead the happiest
life together that"
Everybody saysr" she mocked
h4m, interrupting. "How often have
you known what everybody says turn
out to be the truth about anything
And besides, we don't know thing
about any of these people, and we
don't know anybody else that does
Who Is this everybody that's told you
how happy the Sullenders are?n
"Well, It's just general impression
l got" he admitted. 81 think heard
some one downtown alludng to Sui
lenders domestic relations being very
fortunate and pleasant"
"oh, you think sol Is that ain
You don't really know anything about
II, them"
mo matter. You're wrong this time,
Bella. The Sullenders-r
But Bella shook her pretty, young
head interruptlng him again. you'll
see I do hope there won't have to he
too much intimacy. but you can't live
across the street from people very long,
I'm n nelghborhood Ike this. without
getting to know the real truth about
EN-. You wait and see what we get to
know about the Sullenders,"
"Yes. III wait" he laughed. "But
how long?"
"oh, don't know: maybe a year.
maybe month"
Lets make II month, Bella" he
said, and put his arm about her. "If
we don't find out in month that the
Sullenders are miserable together. will
YOU admit you're wrong7"
"No, won'tl But You'll probably
have to admit that I'm right before
that long have sense for those
things. VIII, and l never 20 wrong
when ! trust It. Women know lntul-
lively things that men never suspect.
I know I'm right about Mrs. Sullon-
der"
Her husband permitted the discus.
sion to end with this. wisely fearing
that if he sought further to defend hls
position Bella might plausibly accuse
him of always insisting upon the last
word And 50, for that night, at least,
the matter was dropped from their
conversation. though not from the
thoughts of Mrs Sperry. Truth TO
tell, she was what is sometimes called
an obstinate little body" and, also,
she appreciated the advIsahility Of n
young wife's building for future and
lifelong use the foundations Of In
falllbiliiy. That is to say she was
young and therefore inexperienced. hut
she had foresight Moreover, she had
attentively observed the matrimonial
condition Of her parents and aUnts and
uncles. Many and many time had
she heard mlddle-aged husband
speak to his wife Of like years some
what in this manner: "No. Fannie,
yon're wrong again. You're mistaken
about this now, just as You were about
James Thompson's adding machine in
1897 and you were wrong about paint
Ing the house, the year after that, too.
Don't you remember how you insisted
dark green was the right color. and
finally had to admit, yourself, that
dark green was awful. and light yellow
would have been just right. as all
along said IL wouldf'
Thus, young Mrs. Sperry. looking TO
lines far ahead, had determined TO be
wrong about nothing whatever dur
Ing these early years Of her matri-