Show OUR H-OUR OUR OUR FIRST BY DV A A BRIDE YEAR YEAR YEAR-J I 1 We kne knew we were acting absurdly but neither of us UI would give In We had reached our second Sunday since the situation developed and end I had re resolved resolved re- re solved d to capitulate before dinner After fter breakfast Jack Jacl went over to 55 see ne his hIli mother so 0 he said In an hour he ho came back smiling minus his mus mUs- tacho tache And then I felt terribly repentant for formy formy formy my part I cried In my husbands husband's arms and told him I was wal ashamed of my method of ot coercion and end Jack owned up that he was waa disgusted because he had held out so 10 long ong The more we talked about It the sil sit sit- lier iier th the subject looked And wo we were un both to happy for words to describe because we were In complete complete com corn plots harmony once more Not meaning meaning mean mean- ing to be contrary but Just because lse the Idea dea had been lurking In my subconscious sub sub- conscious mind I couldn't keep from saying Jack I was wae wrong to fuss so about your our mustache You ought not to have ha shaved It It Doubtless Mrs Ira Her Iler- sod rod approVes approve of ot It What Oh Oh Oh-I I dont don't know Well v 11 I do She told me she sho thought it made you look years II olden Oh ho Oh she told you I sect seel But nut Is It Important to us whAt us-whAt what loIr Mrs Herrod thinks hi n ka Not to me ma me I announced In ft II atone tone toneA A which distinctly implied that what M Mr M thought was probably very important lm im to Jack ii M MOh Oh darling r Dont Please dont don't spoil our nice day pleaded Jack JackAll All right I wont won't I agreed But Dut I t had a 11 good deal on my mind things Id I'd been collecting for da y andi and I wanted to got rid of the tho burden li x I wanted to talk tall over a lot of or our troubles Jack wanted to park them all In the tho past and and forget target them So of at course coura Id I'd have havo to keep lit still Ill mt Mrs lies has been to see it m m. m quite often I wanted to tell Jack to ask him why she sho came I had grown to like ee her and to lean lemn upon her Judgment In a II way Some SOntO times I X think We wo humans humane are a lot shallower than titan we appear We Ve good deal about our emotions about love lovo and hate but w WI we soon calm down and forgot forget Iii So It was WI with my jealousy of at Mrs airs Irs Herrod Jerrod I ought to have resented her her invitations the way she had of making ml me ma do things about my own house houle I dont don't see soe how she managed It ft Sh She never nover spoke polee of tho the dust on my table nor the fingerprints on my windows But Dut somehow as soon lIoon as Mrs airs Irs Herr 04 arrived I always saw every little bit bitof bitof bitor of or carelessness In my housekeeping 5 To bo be continued 1 Copyright 1023 1923 N. N E E. A A. Service |