New Britain herald., 1926-11-20

 Lou" She shook her head in won der. Well in a way, it aint any funnier than for me to be married and having baby, is it? Honey Lou, Joe's leaving me-"
 Leaving you?"
 Ann nodded her head fin its last years hat. Yep. He said he was as soon as the baby came and I got on my feet, and he's keepin' his promise" she said with a sniff. He says he'll support me and the baby. but he won't live with me any more. D'you suppose you could do anything about it?"
 T don't know" Honey Lou was beginning when she spoke again.
 Couldn't you ask your husband to do something about 1t? Joe's got no call to quit me cold like this. I've been a good wife to him. Couldn't your husband do some thing about it if you spoke to him and asked him to?'
 "If I spoke to him." Honey Lou repeated to herself .... She won- dered what Ann would say if she knew that she hadn't spoken Q hun dred words to her husband in the last hundred days-and that he was like a stranger to her here under this roof.
 "Ill do what I can, Ann" she promised, and watched the small slender figure go down the sunny street, Juggling the baby in her arms.
 She made up her mind to speak to Jack about Ann and Joe Mead ows on their own wedding anniver- sary-the fifteenth of September
 She had pinned all her hopes on that first anniversary. Surely Jack would remember that day. and all that it stood for. Surely then he would let all the miserable bygones be bygones and take her back to be his wife again!
 "Today's our first wedding an- niversary, Mary" she said to the faithful creature on the morning of the fifteenth, "and I thought we'd have a special dinner, with some of the things that we had for my wedding supper-baked chicken and frozen fruit salad and French peas in patty-shells, and candied sweet potatoes"
 She went on, trying not to mo- tice the blank look in Mary's eyes. Of course, she must wonder at all this, when she knew that Jack and herself had not had dinner together for months.
 But she went ahead with her or ders: And please call up the florist and tell him to send a dozen brides roses for the table. I'll be back carly"
 She went out to lunch with su- zanne and Angela with a happier look in her face than had been there for many weeks.
 At five she hurried home, and at six she was all dressed and wait ing for the sound of Jacks step on tIlb SldllS. INllt " tlS Sti V llt Noui' come-sure of it.
 The clock on the mantel chimed out the hour of seven, and still he was not there.
 "The dinners spelling, maam." Mary came in to tell her at half past seven.
 "rake it off the fire and put 1t away" Honey Lou told her, with out looking up from the magazine she had been pretending to read for the last hour.
 Ten minutes later she heard l someone coming up the steps. She ran to the door and threw 1t open. There stood Angela!
 She was in a white dinner dress, ! and in her arms she carried a huge paper parcel.
 "I'll bet you thought everyone in the world had forgotten that 1t was your wedding anniversary, didn't you?" she asked with that sweetness that she could always c-mmand. But I didn't you see"
 She followed Honey Lou into the room. "Where's Jack?" she asked
 Honey Lou waved her hands around the empty room. If you know. you know more than l do,' she said. trying to sound light and careless.
 Well. now. that's what ] call mean-you'd have thought he'd come home on his wedding anni- versary, no matter what he did all the other days in the year." An- gela said sympathetically. And 1t wouldn't be so bad it if weren't your very first anniversary, would il? ?"