The Fort Peck press., 1936-04-02
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Copyright: 1896: By Velma CARSON
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She recklessly got into her newest
frock of purple velvet. It was a bit
p~eriShable for a hostess who had to
make forageS into the kitchen. But why
should she save on clothes to buy that
white fur rug? Why spend her life
trying to find new ways to cook ham
burger? Why make special trips to town
for navy blue candles? When she was
a girl at home she had always wor the
best dress she had, if she felt like it.
You can be sur Gwen wasn't petting
her clothes into lasting beyond her
time.
Cornelia rave a last smoothing to
her straight purple-black hair as the
doorbell rang. What timing, she
thought triumphantly. Running a house
was like conducting a symphony. She
knew as she went downstairs that she
looked rather young and interesting.
She always looked rather good when
she was %fatigued to that bright cleo
trio intensity. Tomorrow the guests
would all remember that it was an ap-
peallng wife and a lovely home that
Don had lost.
This divorce should not be the usual
cut and dried to do over cruelty or
adultery. 1t would be a strike against
all those husbands she had watched
from childhood up. Her father had al
ways Sneaked home from his billiard
club just in time to laugh at her moth
er's salads because they were nodded
in fancy shapes. Uncle Georges con-
trlbution to dinner parties was to turn
on the blazing chandelier after Aunt
Roslna had lighted the candles. Broth
er's last minute gift had been two
lumpy towels and a ring around the
tub. And the women who couldn't stand
it any longer had been dubs enough
to encourage. these imperceptions by a
public avoWal that a wife has to be hit
or betrayed before she is displeased.
Cruelty and adultery. indeed
Well, Cornelia would make her chargel
dramatic. Gwen knew a lady columnist
who might take it up.
n would complain, simply, that
her husband was obtusei
Sure enough, it vas the BarroWs who
came early. Cornelia hoped Don would
up exactly as he was. Except that
Mr.. Barrows probably would think it
was because he had been kept Shaving
overtime, would think it was home
work that slowed him up at the office.
She led them into the living room
wondering if she dared to sit down. too.
without lapSing into Inconsistencies.
Gwen would not waste her entrance
on an early arrived married couple. For
that Cornelia "a grateful. It would
enable her to keep the conversation
enough to doze through until
other guests arrived.
Mrs. Barrows, how ever do you get
the children to eat their cereal?" she
asked the minute the amenities had
been disposed of. Don must be dress
ing now, MI. Barrows.
7 have just tried to give mine an
early supper she fibbed, because she
Sure enough! The plump Mrs.
BarroWs had firm ideas on the sub
lect which she was glad to pass along
to the younger and evidently more fIib-
oerty-gibbet mother. Mr.. Barrows
picked up a paper. Cornelia settled back
n the cushions, fixed her face with
an interested smile, lowered her eye
ids and began to count sandwiches
jumping over a fence.
Lets dance, Cornelia," Bill Went
worth was murmuring. st want to say
Kings without arousing your husbands
suspicious. 1 want to whisper that if
knew where 1 could find a wife like