Show MY HE ART AND MY HUSBAND Adele Garrisons Garrison's New Phase of Revelations of a a- Wife WHAT WHAT- MRS DURKEE EXPLAINED TO MADGE I spent nt an extremely extremelY bad Quarter quarter of oC an hour with little Mrs Durk Durkee e Ir In tho the Interval between en arriving at nt her home Iome In A frantic response o t to Alfreds Alfred's fr ds d's call calk and tho coming of ot Dr Gibson She evidently was In great pain and moaned continually I endeavored to to allay the pain by putting hot t fomentations fomen n n- n on her foot toot and ankle and ad resting them against the tho electric toot foot warmer one no of at the man many cony conven n which which Alfreds Alfred's thoughtfulness I had provided t for r his mother But al although though I 1 am nm sure mitigated rh her ill ill-I r suffering 80 somewhat the changing of ot I the hot wet cloths seemed to annoy her so BO much that I soon desisted contenting myself myself- with a a. final swathIng swath swath- v thIng th- th Ing of oC her hei toot foot In hot dry flanneL Curiously Curiously- enough nough h foot painful though It was appeared to have see sec secondary place in her mind Her first concern was vAs the routine of ot her household house house- h hold ld tasks which she ehe feared be Interrupted by her accident My tle tie n neighbor Is the tle mot mOM domestic of ot women women and she makes her housework ork orka a fetich in the thc manner manner- known only to the women women of ot the tho older generation genera genera- tion Oh Madge Whatever r shall I do doT eho fO exclaimed punctuating the words with moans as the throbs of t pain in her tier toot loot and ankle racked her Im I Just Jutt In the middle or putting up my tomatoes toes and arid pears and making Jelly Suppose lv Ive I've broken my leg or something some somo- thing thing everything everything will spoil Suppose you dont don't cross the tho bridge until you have to to I returned returned lightly lightly and banally You may may have only a a. painful gainful sprain which will yield readily to treatment t and In any case case you ou have Jellies and canned stuff enough in I your our fruit cellar now to feed tw two families TH THE DOCTOR ARRIVES No Xo such thing thIngs she slie retorted You haven't the slightest Idea of ot Alfa Alts caPacity capacity ca cn- ca- ca for tor hi his mothers mother's pr preserves and Jellies And I w wanted to p pdt t up up an extra 10 lot this year I suppose theres there's no wa way out but that AlfIl be married before another and I I. I dont don't want him to miss the things hos ho's used d fo Co Her tone tono was subtly full Cull of ot disparagement gem nt of ot Alfred's Alfreds gentle lo lovely loly ly han fian I n- n cee I felt a a. sudden hot desire to de do- do f fend nd Leila Lelia Indeed I think you'll find Leila Lena Js is a pretty capable little girl I said you OU remember that strawberry straw straw- berry berry Lem- Oh Oh she he can con do a a. few a-few few tew things Of she said loftily But as for tor buckling down and d doing a a whole falls fall's ing of or the things Alfred likes well Ikes-well well I youve you've got an another th r guess Oh Ob Will that doctor ever come Hos He's Just got to g give c me lne something t to quiet quiet- thi this pain And Ill I'll Just tell you OU right now nor I w wont won't nt have nave any trained nurse bossIng bossIng boss- boss Ing log me ar around und no matter If Jt I Y havo have both legs leg broken My little tittle neighbors neighbor's Idea of a physician clan cian has al always alays ays appeared to me to be bea a hazy mixture og og a respectful menial and a divinely Inspired prophet Sho expects miracles 8 of oC healing from tho the practitioners who minister to her She Sho also dem demands demands' the they hum humor r her wishes no matter how fantastic or how opposed to their proscribed prescribed course ourse I of ot treatment Those of or us who know and love her b best t l always alays a anticipate a hectic time when sh she is Is' Is ill Dr Gibson however Is Is isn n not t a 3 martinet mar mar- Unet In fn the sick room with an Idea of ot of hid own Importance but bUl a genial delightful man manh who h hu mors mors' his patients as much as possible ble reserving hI his hlll firmness for tor tho the tIne times when It Jt IR is necessary him to fx ex exercise it then no one can bel be bemore moro more adamant than he has haa has-always has always said that Dr Gibson understands his mothers mother's a vagaries arJes better bette than an Any oth other or er living being and it was with gen genuine gen cen relief that tha t we heard his car come come coma tearing Into th th driveway A FAINT PROTEST Well elI little lady What tt new mischief mischief mis mis- chief have you been up to now The physicians physician's greeting held ld a noto note of ot pr provocative c raillery which made nt my or and dimple m r It would be he a 0 greaver emergency rg nc than a possible fracture fracture- much greater pain than she was suffering suffering suf sut- t fering to banish the thc coquetry from tram lit little lit lit- U Lid tle Durkee's tit tit-I Mrs re Interview with any looking good-looking man Wh Why doctor she she- protested I r I didn't do a thing thinS but go down stairs to look at some some fruit I had canned I woke up in the nl night ht and got rot to wondering whether I had forgotten to turn them upside down doan and so I I- I Turner Turned a a somersault herself herselt on the stairs doctor Alfred Interrupted This Is the first Ive I've heard of ot the Hie reason for r her going oln do downstairs but ut here arc are two reasons for her falling He held heM out tho the offending hl high high- h- h heeled slippers at arms' arms len length th Dr Gibson glanced at them smilingly Treat them respectfully he urged The They are a A. struggling physicians physician's best st friend good for a healthy bill an any time Little Mrs Durkee giggled I lcd at the tho pleasantry a a. giggle which twisted In Involuntarily Involuntarily In- In voluntarily Into a moan of at pain Dr Gibson on look looked d at her keenly Now o o If you'll oun be le th the brave little tittle woman oman I know you U can be for tOr Just jUHt a n afew afew few tew seconds h he said ald well find out Just what's tho matter h hero here re |