The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-06
Large Mystery

TN HE lady who had been married
 some time surveyed the bride on A whom she had come to call with considerable interest. That young per son carried in her arms d, mans vest, two golf clubs, a package of tobacco, three magazines, several neckties, soiled collar, suit of pajamas, some socks and several other items.
 The bride looked defiant. They're George's," she explained. Maybe I've missed a few other things lying around I'm going to pile them right in front of the front door where he cant help but see them when he comes home to- night! There's simply no reason why I should spend my life trotting around like a valet picking up and putting away his things When he at least could reach out his hand and lay them on a table or chair! He drops every single thing he gets through with right on the floor and nothing I can say does any good! I'm just through"
 "Har, har!'' said the lady who had been married for some time "I'm sure I don't know what you think you're through with I'd have you know that you've taken on a job for life instead Don't you know that there are two things no real man ever can be taught to do? One is to find anything he is looking for in the house and the other is to hang up and put away his be- longings."
 Well do I remember how Johns mother in the days we were engaged told me over and over, especially in front of company, what fortunate girl II was because she had trained John with view toward the future happiness of his wife. She would relate how, when he was but six years old, he would lay his little ruffled shirts away neatly in the bureau drawer, pick up every toy and deposit it in the box where they were kept, see that his brush and comb were laid parallel on his little dresser and point out to his father that the paternal towels in the bathroom were not folded and hung at the correct an gle. John, she said complacently, was a perfect joy around the home and if every young wife could have the treas ure which was to be mine, would this not be a happy world
 T was considerably worried for fear l should not come up to Johns stand ards and the first time I found a suit
 
 stricken to the heart, that he had be- come so bitterly discouraged over my own carelessness and that he had just given up and thrown the habits of a lifetime into the discard. Weekly I picked up that suit, brushed it and tenderly hung 1t away and have been hanging up suits since then with pre- cision and rebellion. Also l have been hanging up and putting away all the other various things John uses.
 ''Oh, yes, tried reforming him Sitting upon the arm of his chair and running my fingers through his locks in the approved way, murmured, John, dear, won't you do something for me? and John said Yes, indeedy!' and then I asked him pathetically please not to throw things on the floor where l had to break my back stopping to pick them up-and, filled with contrition, John would hurl to the floor the paper he was then reading, crying, why, what a brute he was and of course he wouldn't make me all that work
 Putting his arm around me he would lead me to the sofa, leaving the paper where it lay, and as he promised sol ennnly that never again would he be guilty of such thoughtlessness nor make so much unnecessary work for his lit tie wife, he would successsively drop on the floor his cigar ash, the cigar stub, a magazine knocked from the ta- ble by his elbow and my knitting nee ales and wool, which were in the cor ner of the sofa.
 Totally unconscious of these deeds he would go whistling away to shave, n,,;to bapnv thinkiOO hnu Onod ha vpae going to be to me and what a shame that he had been so thoughtless, mean while absentmindedly littering the bath room floor with towels, shaving paper, his collar and tie and anything else with which he was finished. Then he would come out to dinner beAming hnA aAhAr 6iniaar. [ rrsn,ilA a.inl a,r