Show I II R RL REVEL REVELATIONS V A ATI I T TL OF A WIFE JI EThe I L L L The Story of a H Honeymoon I. I By Adele Garrison Ilo ii 1 GHAHAM 1 n III IU JI 1 vr i P 1 n nIt It was as Just after breakfast that I 1 turned tn a away from tom the telephone realizing realizing real real- izing what hat the old saying h heart art In ones one's boots meant 2 Mine Une was certainly certainly clear at the tips of oC m my toes My at dismay must have ha been reflected In m my fa face c. c for I SR salt the thc faces of my 01 ram family 11 express concern and Dicky Dick eXclaimed ex exclaimed exclaimed eX- eX claimed The movers men cant can't come Ill I'll bet a cooky that's that It You win the cooky cook I 1 returned with witha II IIa a feeble attempt nt at merriment al although although al- al thou though h I felt more like Ike weeping than joking 1 had hall been too stunned b by the gruff announcement ot of th the man at th the theother theother other end of or the wire to make an any comment and wd h he hd had hung up the telephone telephone tele tele- phone before I had hall r recovered my mr Ho Ile evidently e was afraid o of the tine protests to which ho might have havo to listen Is s is this Mrs Grat Graham u r h he had ask asked l nin n. and In nn nn u. u r t to tr In mv uty 11 v yes s had I I b blurted blurted out t Terrible r sorry o Mrs r Graham h butI but I tho the roads road are aro PO so bid bad w we cant can't possibly get et up tin there to lo your place e with the truck and we c cant can't get et hold of or an any horl horses hordes s for love lo or mono money Weve We've 0 tried everywhere ht so o well we'll Just have hw to throw I up time the job If Tf you cant can't find anybody any any- bod body else and can watt wail until the roads trot get better well we'll he bo glad to do clo the lie Job but just now Its It's Impossible Margaret far M My I mother laws voice olce was waR as af F grim AS s her fare face which looked as a's s If it It were t carved car out of granite Do 0 you mean to tell in w that thal you ou ou let lei that man tell you jou hi h couldn't conic come 0 nt o. o and nO never nOr r opened yam yoi head to him he hI Ind imad o 0 come fi mattes matter what hat the the- excuse Mother I 1 h Irritated I didn't have chance mother 1 I returned lie He tall talked d very and hung hunK up the receiver er before I hl bin arty an to In o I 1 s 8 suppose pose ho gave s the tho roads as an excuse Dicky said ald and anel his airily nonchalant air irritated me more mora than his mothers mother's militant disapproval al of m my Till easygoing easy ways was lie He had such a n. n air ns as If Ir the moving mo were Wr some seine other family's problem than his hits I own Well ell they arc are awful but that probably I Isn't nt t the real reul reason renson HOM no doubt got ol an nn easier asler Job somewhere I and has hus thrown UH us over Oh Ohm I dont don't think so Picky Dicky I pro pro- pro pro-I t tested ted Dont you OU remember seeing those thusn moving trucks stalled In iii tho the mud mood last week And nd Its It's been p n thawing and freezing alternately ever tr wince since It must t bo ho beor or worse o than c ever r no now non Margaret 1 arft I could shako shake you OIl my mv mother law Ia exclaimed Irritably flore fore you jou expect ct the movers ers tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row morning 11 th they disappoint I you ou and andal andall al III all you OU can cnn do I Is to lo st stand nd around offering offer offer- I hl lug ing excuses es for them tham And youre you're our c about us mss jail had ns as n ml Ih she went on turning on her son Why h Vest vou at nt that hat telephone the fellow falto understand that If he has hl taken th the contract to move vou hI he's hes got ot to todo do l lIf tt it If Ie he hr carries your our stuff on top his shoulders I ers It wouldn't bo ho th the slightest t use nl Dick Dicky I replied laIt lazily You lou don't dont know teno these particular l' natives mother r. r They're re th the most 1 Independent cusses cusses' I on arth Jle They have an Idea Irl that Itt It if t they hc consent t to do an any work for ro you you vou to lo go o down on your knees cs I In tn gratitude for their cond condescension And the they do It In their own good time I and wa or not at all alt all Just a as it suits them hick shift the Burden I T always tJ Knew you ou were r a fool tool Ichard chard his nis mother returned d tartly hut but this p exhibition of oC Idiocy la Is bats What's that thin mans man's tJ telephone number Tie The ma may Y not do as ns ashe I I he has n agreed r but hut hp hrs hen certainly going hOIn Ro hO In Ing t to hoar heir a It piece of nr m my mind And ho he certainly did a as w we who sat mt I I amused d during the spit spirited spirit lt- lt ed od telephone conversation r that followed followed fol fol- 0 lowed could testify Mother Graham I has bins mi an p c and ind vigorous vocabulary vocabulary lary Ian and when s site ho hc Is Rn angry n she IH doesn t mince her words limit But I knew knee so 10 well we-It the absolutely r indifference tn- tn In Indifference difference hl which h she hr must t be meeting from the at nt the tilt other of or time the wire wll the phlegmatic ot 1 assent to her diatribe the unalterable decision which no words could affect that I wan nt not surprised fd to see sec hep hr slam the telephone telephone tele tele- phone down clow on the receiver r evidently In the tho lie middle of ot a sentence from Croll her opponent Theres no use URO trying tr to talk to a n aman aman man who ought ht to be he P In the aN for e time tilt r feeble bh sh she snapped I told you so 80 Dicky dral drawled wl cl and his him mother r ao o exhausted that she didn't didn t reprove 0 him him And now may I 1 ask what In S Sam m lull Hill were we're you OU going going go go- 1 In ing to do dof He lie look looked d at atme t me and I J s saw w that in ina ina ina a breath ho had shifted the entire re responsibility responsibility re- re re-I re upon nt my shoulders I 1 had engaged the movers nto because he said I he too busy to do 10 It and he evidently evidently evi l dently meant to leave cave the heartbreaking heartbreaking heart heart- heart I breaking problem f entirely In my hands Continued Q Tomorrow |