Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01

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a remarkable inventor and by
reason of his gifts held fine position in an
immense manufacturing combine which was
trying to destroy the British reputation for
muddle, he was little, If anything, above the
average, considered as q husband. And Luce
Reels was little, if anything, above the average
Of wives
The twin had their difficulties from time to
time. They had also q child. Rosie had
reached the age Of g. Some of the marital
difficulties originated In Rosie. Luce contended
that Rosie was no ordinary child. Anthony,
partly to tease his wife, contended that Rosie
was just an ordinary child This divergence of
view was apt to produce general domestic
atmosphere not entirely favorable to peace and
tranquility
The season was White, the weather bleak.
Influenza ragged. Theaters were full Of coughs.
Sixty per cent of invitations were refused on
account Of illness. The ReelseS had decided to
go South. Anthony had done a great work,
likely to lead to vast profits for his firm, and
he needed change. Excellent But Luce had
said that the child, complete with nurse and
all impedimenta, must accompany them.
Anthony had protested against the preposter-
Gus notion of taking an infant on a 3O-hour
journey by sea and land into an alien cline.
What Anthony wanted was q change. There.
could be no change for him II he was to be
charged with the responsibility of family. A
wife, yes! A family, no! Moreover, the infant
would be better and safer at home, in its fixed
daily routine, with q nurse faithful and compe-
tent Change was bad for infants, who were
all Tories and objected to any disturbance OF
routine.
7 UCE won An arrangements were accom-
plished for shutting up the fiat; tickets
taken; rooms engaged. But Anthony. q won
derful comedian, carried his dark grievance
beneath a hghtsome exterior. Anthony was
secretly resentful not because he felt himself
TO be in the right but because he felt himself
to be in the wrong. 0uce had handsomely
defeated him in argrment) We others, Of
course, are only rendered gloomy and resentful
when, being beaten, we know ourselves to be
in the right. Anthony was different. We are
Anthonys moral superiors.
Anthony said to himself: IF she thinks I'm
going for very necessary holiday with this
child, this nurse, this peTambulator, this spe-
contraptions, she Is mistaken. win be H.
will be too III to travel" SO on the morning
before the planned departure he began to be
I'LL. His acting was brilliant. He stayed in bed,
but he said: TITS nothing. I'm only tired.
I'll get Up for lunch"
He managed to give his optimistic assurance
. tone Of unreality, the tone Of brave man
resisting adversely for the sake Of beloved crea-
lures. He did not get up for lunch. He would
get up for dinner. But he did not get up for
dinner He laughed at the suggestion of q
doctor.
It was an odiC.1s spectacle this spectacle OF
q clever and successful man Of SO, q genius
perhaps, fully grown, entirely adult, naughty
feigning to be i'll when he was not i'll
Left alone for q few minutes by his attend.
ant loving wife, he smiled TO himself:
"Iu teach herp he thought.
Then he was startled by the unexpected
arrival of the doctor.
"There win be trouble now" thought he.
'~ThiS fiend of q medico will see through my
sham"
But mol There was not the least trouble.
Dr. Balm accepted seriously AnthOny's account
of his symptoms He took the false patients
temperature and shaking the thermometer,
pronounced it to be a fraction under a hundred.