The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-07-02
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Virtues Acclaimed


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Mr.. and. Mrs. Roderick Claypool
dropped in at the Partridges to pass
an hour. The air was little too cool
for comfort on the veranda, sv the
four gathered in the living-roUm.
George Partridge brought out the CT
gars, and while he and Claypool smok.
ed the women visited" Mrs. Clap
pool did most of the talking.
Il see you've had your floors done
over" remarked Mrs. Claypool after
the weather had been disposed of. Il
declare, they're perfectly lovelyi I've
been wanting to have ours fixed up,
but everything is so high now that
Roderick is going to do the work him
self, Roderick is good about things
like that around the house, if do say
it before him. Don't shake your head,
Roderick," she added, looking at her
husband. you know you are. l often
say, Mrs. Partridge, that have the
best husband in all the world. The
only disagreements we ever have are
because he doesn't want me to work
so hard"
THAT'S mighty fine cigar. George"
remarked. Claypool, in the hope that
he could stem the tide. But he failed
miserably.
Eyes, indeed" continued Mrs. Clay
pool, ''if Roderick has a fault 1t is that
he is too good to me- He called me up
Wednesday afternoon and asked me
to come to the city and take lunch
with him. Then we went to the mat
inee and saw perfectly wonderful
show"
"That's a great show-'Up Hill and
Down Dale'," here INTERCEPTED Clay
pool, grasping at another slim chance
to switch the subject. Before the 9TH
ers could help out, Mrs. Claypool had
again taken up the thread of CONVEX
sstiQn.
Last week a man came to the door
and said he had present for me, and
he brought in-what do you think "a
washing machine! Just what I've
been wishing for, ever SO long! And
had not even mentioned it to Roder-
lex! That's what / call thoughtful
ness, and really sometimes | feel as If
/ were not worth all the attention he
gives me. He's always thinking up
some new way to make things easier
for me-"
Mrs. Claypool was running on high
gear now, and the others had given up
any thought of diverting her from her
theme.
but the greatest surprise of all
came yesterday. / had abandoned the
idea of going away this year. on ac-
count of everything being SO unset
tied, you know. Roderick came home
with a pocketful of vacation folders,
and he's figured out the incest trip
for me; three weeks at Crestville-
it's perfectly wonderful place, you
know; then two weeks on the lakes;
and then finishing with two weeks
more at mothers up in Wisconsin!
I'm going to take the children, and
Roderick insists that go over town
tomorrow and buy complete outfit
for the children and myself. 1t just
seems too good to be true. / suppose
when I get back he'll have the house
fixed up so lovely I'll hardly know it."
After the Claypools had left.
George Partridge made the customary
rounds of the house silently He lock.
ed doors and windows and made ev-
erything snug for the night. Finally
he turned to Mrs. Partridge and said:
well. my dear, every time we
spend an evening with the Claypools
feel like two-spot 1t seems to me
that there's no use of my trying to
butt into Claypool's class at all. He's
just naturally a human angel, with
copyright on all the virtues. He is a
fine fellow at that, but somehow the
way she raves about him makes me
feel like wife-beater." 9
Mrs. Partridge smiled, put her arms
around the homely man, and pulled
his head down so that she could kiss
him on the bald spot just above his
forehead.
'Don't worry about it." she said.
'I'm pretty well satisfied. Aren't
your"