The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1925-05-07
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Succeeds

This is by way of humbly attempt
ing to illustrate the difference between
the tactful and tactless wife. It is to
be presumed that the tactless wife is
informing her husband that her mo
Their is soon to make them visit.
Something like the following dialogue
ensues;
She-eI had letter from mamma
this morning"
He-"Did, hey? Highly unimport-
ant, if true"
she-"she's starting for the east
soon"
He-"Say, she's not going to-"
She-"She viii spend a few days
with relatives In Virginia, and then
she will come and visit us in Wash
ington for a few weeks probably for
not more than month. Poor, dear
mamma, shall be so glad to see
her%
mot more than a month with
us. Ell? Fine! But it's kind of one
sided arrangement, isn't it? Who in
vited herr"
She-'Well, l hope things haven't
come to such a pass. John Gitbizzy,
that my own poor, dear mother has
to receive formal invitation to visit
nae"
He-"Oh, we'll tin the talk about
the come-to-such-a-pass thing. Did
you invite her to swoop down upon
me for a month?
she-"No. did not. didn't con-
slider such thing necessary. I'd
like to know if"
He-"Well, there are few things
that I'd like to know, myself. Where
/ do L figure in this game, anyhow? It's
my plant here, isn't it? l suppose I've
got Just little teenchy bit to say
about what comes off under this roof,
haven't II"
She "Oh, if you are going to throw
it up to me again that you pay the
rent and that you settle the grocer's
bill, and"
He I'm not throwing up any
thing. But | want to tell you one
thing, and it goes as it lays, and
that is that I'm to be consulted when
this inviting business is the order of
the day. I'm not going to have q
bunch of drifters and kickers career
ing down upon this plant and trying
to run things to suit themselves, and
bulIdozing everybody around and set
ting to work to start something every
twenty minutes or so and"
She-"Oh, that's it, is it? Well,
suppose you consulted me when you
invited your sister and her two brats
to drift in here, as you call it, last
winter, and stay nearly six weeks,
with the pair of ill-bred young ones
bowling all over the place day ard
night, and your sister sticking her
nose into everything and trying to
direct folks about their own bust
ness, and"
He-"So my sisters visit sticks in
your craw, does i..2 That's the first
time you've lot that crack out Of your
system Well, web! And you pre-
tending to like her so much, and to
be so dead mashed on her children,
and here you're calling EN- brats
and
She Well just stick to the point
at issue, if you please. didn't in
vite her, did /? You didn't consult
with me when you invited her, did
you yes or nor"
He-"Oh, you're going to try to
herd me up in a corner and pin me
to the wall on that point, are you?
Well, you're not all the same, see?
/ decline to be pinned. But I'm telling
you this; don't have to consult you
about having my own people come
here to my own dump to see me. You
can stick that on the end of your
hat pin and toast it over slow fire
If you want to-"
She "Oh, indeed? And yet you
have the nerve to sit there and say
that you expect me to come to you
and consult with you when invite
my own mother to-"
He "Ohol Then you did invite
her. hey?''
She-'It doesn't make particle of
difference whether ! did or not you
Say LnaL you uOu nave 10 ask lIe
about having your people come here.
and yet you have the assurance to
tell me that"
He-"Just hold on a minute Who's
paying the freight here. anyhow"
She--"Oh, if you're going to get
off that mean, cheap remark again
about paying the household expenses
las If it wasn't your business to do
that"
He-"Well flag that stuff about
what's my business, if you please.
The thing for you to do is to get it
out Of your head that you're going to
do everything that / do, understand?
There's just little shade on the
situation coming to me. guess, as
the proprietor Of this shanty, and the
sooner you see it the better it's going
to be for you. You can't get by. you
know, with that demand Of yours for
all Of the prerogatives of woman in
addition to all the privileges Of