The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-05-04
SITS IN JUDGMENT
By DOROTHY HANDLEY

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co, 1929, by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
CIT HAVE my opinion of man who
L will go out evenings and leave MS
wife alone" The rattlety clang of
passing trolley car In the noisy city
street shut off all further sounds.
When 1t had passed, John Farwell,
divesting himself of his coat in the
clearinghouse hall, heard another
girlish voice take up the refrain.
"And he should be contented to stay
quietly at home with his wife after his
day of seeing and meeting people"
Eyes, it's only fair. / should GER
tainly not stand it. Why, Pauline, I'll
bet 1 could divorce a man for that"
To John, smoothing his hair before
the glass Of the golden oak hatrack,
this announcement was little short OF
calamitous, in view Of the fact that
the owner Of the last voice was his
fiancee. He had never dreamed that
his Molly would be that kind OF wife.
Pauline, Molly's chum, was In
the room the greater part of the eve
ming, and during the rest of the time
Molly's charms drove all other
thoughts from his mind.
He thought of 1t on the way home.
"Jove" he said; ~ must straighten
that matter out. I can't give up my
club and good times with the boys. It's
only once week, and it seems to
me" And so his thoughts ran on,
with about fifty Implications, during
the time which elapsed before he next
saw Molly.
But nothing was said on the subject
at his next visit, when Johns mind
alternated between "speak of 1t now
and "guess I'll wait few minutes"
By this time 1t must be quite clear
who was MORALLY afraid Of starting
anything" and perhaps would be will
ing to put up with anything rather
than hurt one he loved. A fine trait,
this, but, like most virtues, it can be
carried to extremes. John was in a
fair way to carrying 1t to an extreme.
During the interval before his next
visit he whipped himself up to the at
tack, and kept himself so for few
hours. Then the reaction would set
in and he would tell himself he was
fool to upset the smoothness Of their
relations for thing like that.
eff Molly feels like that about it,
I'm not the one to make her miser-
able. She's sure one dandy little girl,
and any man should be glad to be
able to spend every minute with her
{ that he could"
Finally the verdict passed by him.
self on himself was that he must give
up his club and waive all opportuni-
| ties and invitations to Ego out with
the boys"
They'll laugh at me for an idiot,
but none of them've got girls like
Molly" he told himself.
And so they were married. Both
were wearied of clearinghouse life,
and for while the cozy little fiat pre-
sided over by a jolly little wife filled
Johns needs. The evenings were taken
up with trips to the theater, cards with
friends or in their fiat alone.
When John signified his intention of
resigning from his club, the boys made
gleeful fun of him.
whats the matter-henpecked? p
they wanted to know.
"Wait till you get little wife like
mine," was his answer.
As time passed and news was
brought to him of the good times the
boys were having, Johns heart began
to ache little. For, perhaps due to
an instructive delicacy and tact in his
relations with his fellow men, John
was q great faverite with the boys
and had thoroughly enjoyed his little
club.
There came to be hours when he
told himself what fool he had beer
not to straighten the thing out with
Molly at the beginning-if she begaI
leading him around by the nose like
this, even though unaware that she
was doing so, how would it end7 He
would be henpecked
Thinking these thoughts one eve
ming, Molly sitting by his side, the pic
ture Of domesticity, he fumbled rest
lessly with the newspaper. Suddenly
Molly looked up from her darning ant
their eyes met. She laid down hel
work. woman's intuition was a.
work.
"What is it, dear?" she asked, soft
ly.
Something in her voice loosed the
bonds.
"Oh, Molly, it's the club miss i
So"
1.-THE club? What club?"
"Why, don't you remember the clul
I used to belong to? I resigned with
out telling you-you never seemed t.
notice, anyway"
"Why, so you did belong-well, TO
goodness sake, what did you resigI
for?" with great indignation
"What for? Why, Molly. heart
you tell Pauline you never would stant
mans being out evenings and leav
ing you alone. I hated to give up tn,
club like sin, but hated worse to hur
YOU"
Molly sprang up and nearly strangle'
him on the spot.
"Why, bless your old heart" sh
cried. II can remember the discussion
Pauline and / had-but that wasn't |
at all-you've got me altogethe
wrong. I guess you just didn't hea
all said"
Johns eyes popped open.
That's exactly what you said abou
it-you even said you would divorce
husband"
"Wbo went out evenings and left
wife alone who was an invalid" fin