The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-01-16
IsO's Marital Problem

into the house Ichiro fired questions
! at him
Daddy, Mommy says Jack wasn't
king and why did Jill fall down
the hill? Did she fall over a stone.
too?"
The rest of the evening was de
voted to answering Ichiro's ques-
tions
That night $50 sat up reading Mo-
ther Goose's Nursery Rhymes. He
enalyzed each little rhyme and
tried to find an answer to every pro-
bable question Ichiro might ask.
What are you doing, Iso?" asked
Sonoko.
Sonoko found $50 curled up in the
couch, absorber in Ichiros nursery
rhyme book Iso looked up,
THE trouble with these nursery
rhymes are that they don't explain
anything. They're too vague and
/ also very detrimental to any child
who reads them. expounded Iso.
What do you mean?" asked So
noko with a puzzled look on her face
Iso showed the book to Sonoko,
Read this. After all, we teach l.
chiro to be kind to animals. this
book tells the story of the farmers
wife who chops off the tails of three
blind mice. and this one who stole
pig what sort of teaching is that
to a young growing child?'
But you know that nursery rhy-
mes are merely to teach children
words. you know how much ca
sier it is to learn words set to rhy-
mes. -, Sonoko offered
why the numbskull bachelor.
and it must have been bachelor
who wrote it This sort of stuff
should be banned from newstands
| lust like a lot of those comic books
people are raising so much stink a.
bout Why 1 could write better
stuff than this trash" mumbled
Iso.
"You?" laughed Sonoko. You
write something so profound as nur-
sery rhymesl Why, even your let
tiers to me sounded like something
a ten-year old wrote. =" joked Sono-
ko
What do you mean? Do you rea-
lie that I spent hours composing
those letters I wrote to you so!
That's how you felt about my let
tiers, did you? Well, I'll just say your
letters weren't so hot!"
ESQ stormed around the room, like
an overheated engine and continued
his Tuning while Sonoko silently
slipped out Of the room When she
returned, she held in her hand a
bundle of letters carefully tied with
a blue ribbon
do you care to read your master
pieces?" murmured Sonoko. thrust
ing the bundle of letters into Iso''
hands Iso looked down sheepish-
ly. He held the bundle and turn
ed it over.
you. you mean you kept al
those letters I sent you. All thos'
hammy letters I wrote to your"
Sonoko nodded.
Gee, I. I...didnt know. " Iso bi
his lips and carefully took the rib
!. bon off the letters. He drew tn
first letter out and opened it.
My Dearest Darling. >" he start
ed to read Then silently he rea'
on. and on. and on.
do you mean wrote this mush?
= Sonoko smiled as she looked up a
her husbands surprised face.
Yes darling, you wrote thos
letters
. But this. this. I mean this let
= ter where I wrote this" ESQ show
ed Sonoko the letter and pointe
out one passage of the letter Sono
ko read it silently and burst OF
laughing. She read the passage c
:, yer again as she cuddled up int
Iso's arms
Darling, when you come OIL
East and we get married we wi
have at least six kids. 1t sure will
nice to hear the pitter patter OF Iii
tie feet around the house.
;, (Author's note: All characters dt
" picted in this short story are fict
cious Any similarity to any perso
. living or dead is purely the imag
nation of the reader)
Prom Continental Times.