Show fooce oo oce t 0 TWO MOTHERS IN IH LAW 0 0 ny by M J PORTER e when harry leo lee and nina bennett were wed both the lees and bennatts Ben notts were pleased the friends of the happy couple were pleased they will got along like two turtle doves was the general verdict they had bad been married just two years and their baby was ten months old when the following thinie happened pe A boll made its appearance on 1009 9 leg and began to ache some one stole etolo hla his els all leghorn chickens his conto collie dog was waa tool fool enough to chase a rabbit so BO tar far into tho the next nest c county that he lost A party to whom ho he had loaned wont went into bankruptcy mrs lee had toothache baby had collo colic up to this date data it had been fair weather with the loca nothing had occurred to provoke dissen dissension sim young mr leo lee carne came homo home fairly longing to kick the dog his wife had been wishing for or an hour past that she bhe could kick a cat lt it was tho the wife who touched the match they were at the table and had bad been rather shy of conversation when she observed i 1 see that we ero am to bavo a circus next week daml growled the husband will we go not by a darned sight bight we had i enough circus right hero at home tho the past week to last us for or the next five years and chos to blamo for or M asked tho me wire im not saying that mes means you yon think I 1 am and it Is mean of 0 youl you I 1 did I 1 cause your four boll 7 never mind but I 1 will mind I 1 am not n ot going to be blamed unjustly I 1 have had bad something to try my patience every hour for or days but I 1 snapped you up ten minutes later the husband put on his bat and without saying a word he walked off well see BOO who gets tho the best of that said the wife as aa she eho looked after him twenty minutes later without hav las ig cleared off the table she was en route for or her fathers house harry and I 1 have was the announcement sho bho made as aa her mother met her bar at tho the door harry lad son gone direct to his widowed mothers home and la in response oneo to her anxious inquiries as to why ho he looked so eo broken up ho he vaid caid 1 I tear fear that nina and I 1 must parti diat but chyr why r 1 she lias has no caro cam tor for my feelings ho he told his story etory but the mother said eald little when ho ha and departed she sent word to elcas mother to como come over and then than learned that the wife had left her house then tho the two mothers sat eat down to talk and plan they were law worth having ninas mother went home and said cald to tho the weeping bride wife my dear you have dono done just right 1 I 1 1 I thought you might blame mo me not a single bit nor does his mother she bhe says sho she wonders how bow you managed to llva live ith harry tor for a single month why harry has always been kind and good I 1 protested the surprised I 1 wife dont seek to excuse him it if any thing ans alls you ho be lis las L is no sympathy let him have a and he must play the booby why mother ho he Is never a booby if 11 ha be a thing la Is so BO ha be wont allow you to dispute him autho he has haa often given in to in me e you fou poor child how sacrificing you are am but it must fend end now father will go BO with you to a lawyer tn la the mord mom las why 7 see eee ti lawyer to ille file a bill for or divorce of course nina how bow molln soo n after marriage did to beat you matheri Mo Mot therl heri she eho gasped now how many times has haa he turned you yon outdoors at midnight mother I 1 cant sit bit hero and hr hear h r you talk about harry like that I 1 tell you ha be Is IB ft a good husband 1 I 1 bear how at it Is tal sighed tho the mother he has baa pounded and bulldozed you until you am afraid to call your soul saul your own you just wait until tt it becomes known how bow lie ha has baa used you and it may result la in a coat of tar and feathers tea tnora tor for hiral the excited wife got on her hat grabbed the baby and the letor and started for or her own home at a gallop on leaving his mothers be house the huffy husband had taken a long walk and then gone home when he found the house deserted be went back to his bis mother to announce annous tho the fact act does doea it look to you as it nina had lett for or good she ehe caked asked Y ob ea 1 I 1 am glad of it I 1 but mother harry dt dont seek k to palliate her faults and crimes now that you have found her out go to a lawyer pt ct P t once and file your bill the no son aon got up and left tho the house and waed wa ced td hla his own the table had been cl cleared ared and and things slaked up and nina eat bat waitt wat batting ting say harry alamy th ehe said as als ao 40 came lo in 1 I am anol 21 va and I 1 the other he replied cepl 14 ah aa he kissed her copyright 1914 althe by tho mcclure mcclura per syndicate nd leate |