The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-09-16
How They Felt About It


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gagged! No, she's a dear girl and like
her and perfectly approve of the
match and want Richard to be mar
ried, and I'm going to be an ideal
mother-in-law, so much SO that they
will put up monuments to me and get
out extras telling If my v.rtuesl
"What simply cannot endure is
Richards attitudel You'd think that
he is the only young man on this green
earth who ever got engaged, there new
er was another girl like Sue and no.
body ever was able to be as ideally
happy as they are going to bel"
"Oh, is that all?" commented the
woman knitting a trench cap. Wait
till he begins to tell you how to run
your house and wait until he begins
to quote his darling's words of wis
dom! Perhaps she has made fudge
three times in her life and taken abb
stracted notes at a cooking class, mix
ing them up with her shopping list
he'll tell you what she says in regard
to the proper method of balancing a
meal, with calories on one side and
proteids on the other, and all you can
do is to swim up from under and lis
ten!
"They didn't teach you calories, did
they, when you learned to cook? And
the family has always sworn by your
meals, hasn't it, and boasted of moth
er's doughnuts and unsurpassed pot
roast? Huh! Take back seat! New
er shall / forget when my son Henry
told me that mince pie was unbalan-
cling my menu for dinner after his
loved one had told him when you ate
mince pie you needed nothing else but
lettuce salad And then he ate two
pieces, besides a fair share of every
thing else had!"
"Tll not have it'll" declared the wom-
an knitting the sweater. Il don't care
II Richard is 24-he's got to behave
himself! Just now he is in that beat
ific foolish stage where the clouds arc
bright pink and he condescendingly
pities the rest of the world!
"'Oh, of course Richard says in eff
feet, I know that once you were my
age and engaged and all that, but no.
body as prosaic as you and my father
ever could have had this delightful eX-
perience! OF course you're my moth
er and there's nobody like you still
you never could have been as wonder
full when you were 20 as Sue is, and,
therefore, father couldn't have been
as crazy about you.
Certainly dad tells of riding TWEEN
ty miles to see you for fifteen minutes
when it was 30 below zero, but a
mans memory becomes treacherous as
he grows older. He probably took a
Pullman car and had business in that
direction, anyhow. If there wasn't a
railroad he no doubt built one. He's
always building them now.
"'Sue is much more brilliant men
tally, with all her beauty, than girls
were then. Why, she knows as much
about housekeeping now as you do af-
ter all these years. She knows exact
~ how many calories there are in a
beefsteak and why pie crust is inju-
rious. She says she knows she can get
through all her housekeeping in two
hours, thus having time to devote to
more broadening things, instead of
puttering around. Why don't you get
Sue to explain her system to you,
MOTHER"
well, no, he hasn't exactly dared to
come out and say all this in words of
one syllable, but he's limited around
rather too transparency. shall GER
tainly spank him if he ever dares to
voice his turbulent sentiments. At
that I'll warrant the beafsteak will be
like burned leather even If they have
a speaking acquaintance with its cal
cries!
"And every evening can see, when
he comes down from upstairs, all fixed
up to make his visit to Sue, that he is
mentally shaking his head at his faith
er and me, seated on either side of the
library table. Sad, he tells himself.
Separated by the width of table, yet
they are a thousand miles aparti They
don't even sit gazing at each other,
and dad will not speak for an hour and
half till he finishes that paper he's
reading. And mother sits knitting. not
even thinking about himi Well, why
should she think about him? He has
on turnover slippers and wretched tie
and he needs haircut and I'll bet he
skipped shaving tonight! Awful sight!
wonder why mother doesn't fix her
hair like Sues and have some class to
it? Discouraging all around
''Then Richard will smile dutifully,
say Good night in that sad, plying
way and depart-and his father and l
look briefly at each other and grin.
He's read Richards mind, too. That's
the only thing that makes life beara-
ble-John sees it just as / dol"
well" said the woman with the
trench cap. 4 suppose If we will wait
twenty-five years we'll have our re-
venge! Our sons and their wives will
be writing under the condescension
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