Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-12

Dorothea looked. Dorothea opened
her bag. With maddening slowneSs she
extracted her reading glasses, adjusted
them on her high-bridged old nose
and stared at the methodical flight of
the bees from their dingy old hive.
Her gently tinkling old laughter rang
out.
"Alfie? Do you recall how piqued I
WASP"
You chucked it the length of the
room at mel" he boosted.
Did you hit him?" asked Druse.
Never hit anything in her life," he
bridled. Imagine the impertinence of
the man! Tschk! Tschk! All because I
/ threw some dull old chopping knives
that had belonged to his grandmother
into the trash can and purchased a
meat grinder! 1t put me temporarily
out of funds and when I asked for a
few dollars more he brought home this
absurd book! Tschk! Tschk! AS though
any book in this world can forsee the
eXigencies of housekeeping!
You're asking me?" Druse demand
ed She was sitting as erect as Doro-
thea. Her words were pouring in angry
feminine TRADE against mans eternal
lnhumanlty to woman. How did
know that the very first weekend after
we were married his mother would
come around wailing that she couldn't
take the cruise even if she had sold
her house because she had Just re-
membered an unrecorded mortgage she
put on 1t two years ago that she
hadn't told Thad about! And she had
a CHASTITY dentist bill And she'd had
her BRACELETS reset! was simply sick
about all that filthy mess because Thad
had been wildly happy thinking that
for once in his life he wasn't smothered
with her darned old debts!
And if she didn't go on the cruise
she thought maybe we'd have to find
a wee corner for her and we've only
four rooms and she leaves such heaps
| basins! So loaned her the furniture
money and signed for it on the install
ment plan! And every time one of those
flendlsh payments comes along I can't
pay Ella or the butcher or the milk
man or the telephone so I always owe
some of them for two months
But you see I knew it would be per-
fectly OK as soon as was 81 because
I am to have almost $1,000 from Uncle
LENS estate and I kept staving them
off and putting things all paid in the
housekeeping book so Thad wouldn t
get hecked and just yesterday when I
am 81 and go down to Uncle LENS
!d"St! D OlllCe W CoIlecl he says l nave
| TO walt few weeks more but it's pos
, itively mine so go haywire at the
very idea of getting the albatrosS off
my neck and buy the wine and cheese
and when I get home there is Thad
raving like a hyena about little old
bill or two and how smart that Miss
Corey is: And when he shook me I
himt"
Again there came that flood of IN
comfortable tears. this time with
Druse's face buried in DottieS sables.
Il admire you for doing it," Doro-
thea assured her, her thin old arm
slipping about the girls shaking Shout
ders;; Quite the proper spirit for You
to show!"
But I shouldn't. Oh. am so afraid
that it will-that it might"
1T won't Dorothea comforted her
Il was the same way that night when
I threw the book at Alfie. and it
didn't hurt either of us one mite.
you?"
'N-North s-s-side of Gramercy park"
Druse sobbed. That old pinky build
ing with the beds not made"
Even before they reached her cor
ner they could all see Thad barging
reluctant Ella, with his right wrist sag
ging from the weight of her bullying
suitcase. but under his arm a florists
box. from which dripped silver and
purple ribbons.
Forbes pulled the car to the curb,
but he had no time to open the door
properly, for Drusilla was tumbling out
entirely forgetful of her heelless shoe.
Thad caught her in his arms They
both began talking at once, but not
about the budget. They Just stood en-