| Show I V M U ri j A rana II w P M 1 7 1 ii pt L 5 LI l v a BY RUTH DEWEY GROVES Mom l dear Well WeB the storm Is over and aUIs all aU allis allis is well on the tho Potomac At least temporarily Alan hasn't bought a revolver nor have nave I attempted sui sui- sui- sui cide It lt wasn't your our letter or It wasn't any conciliatory moves noves on Alan's part that brought about the tho recon recon- It was a friend of Shirleys Shir ShIr- leys leya I had bad luncheon with her the day after Alan and I had our little run run-in run In when We e were still giving each other silent treatment Janet that is her name Is a stenographer And I hope to tell teB you you she is js something to feast the eyes on on cute cute slim snappy with witha a fae face so young you cant can't believe bellevo it ever could sag or dro droop p. p Just how any man could have havo her around and not fall desperately In Inlove Inlove Inlove love with her is more than this poor brain could figure For no o reason whatever we got goton goton goton on the subject of employers and their wives Janet said she wondered wondered won won- dered why so many women were jealous of ot their husbands husband's raphers Or why they imagined that they had no thought in their heads but to vamp their employ employ- ers Then Janet told me about her boss It seems hes he's really an awfully awfully aw aw- aw- aw fully fuBy fine person and a promising Architect architect Janet said he is married married mar mar- ried nod to a woman about five years older r than ho Is and that she de deVotes devotes devotes de- de votes her life to being jealous of hubby Janet said the wife wiCe is always popping In out of breath apparently apparently hoping to find them in some compromising position po Janet says she can Just feel her vol voice e get got full of ot nails nans if she calls up after 5 and Janet answers the phone And she always treats her her like a servant when she talks to her And the ridiculous part of tho the whole thing Is that her husband is crazy about her her her- meaning the wife wICe Janet admitted she couldn't understand why Janet said that if most women really l Knew what stenographers thought of their bosses they would never bother to be Jealous As she talked I seemed to se see the light After all I do hate jealous Jealousy And I hate not to be a square shooter So when Alan came homo home I Just hit from the shoulder told shoulder told him everything and laughed at tho the ro romantic romantic ro- ro mantic evening T I had load planned Alan was 6 e brick Then Thea he said since I had confessed he would too too too- he ho had worked until late and then he had t taken Jen his stenographer out for a bite and they had sat and talked J and he oe was pretty surprised when he found how flow late It was He lie came home with apologies feeling really quite QuIto contrite and ran Int Into the little act described in our last issue The rhe honest confessions cleared the atmosphere and phere and wo we had quite a romantic evening Yours for truth MARYC MARYB Next About Florence |