Show The Evening Telegrams Telegram's Daily Short Story TOO MUCH MUSTARD By LOUISE OLIVER Copyright 1914 by the McClure Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate Mr and Mrs Bindley had ad spent twenty happy haW years of or life ura when some someone someone someone one persuaded the male maje mae member of or the partnership to Join tin the Mens Men's Rights club I Mr Bindle Bindley at first was shocked hocked at th the things he heard at the regular Friday night meetings where tho the members re related related related re- re Instances ot of- their eminence in the home Ono One session did not make him a convent convert convert con con- vert vent an any moro more than ono one swallow can cnn make a summer nor did two meetings do the work But b bY the time heard once a week elk for six months that Smiths Smith's wife brought In half halt of or tho the income that Browns Brown's wife and daughters never dared to sit down don at tho the table tabla before father and that that- Jones never allowed ed a lI light ht In tn his house after D 0 o'clock h hs he began to think of or all alJ the years cars he had been blindly coddling and pampering Mrs Bindley For weeks lately he had been making memoranda of ot pa pat past t concessions to the lady he ho had been accustomed accustom d to call his better half halt Since his hiA conversIon to mens men's rights ho he mentally menially dubbed her his worse wor tJ three three quarters calculating how much better belter off orr he would have been had he never never nev nev- er married at all What a Jolly life a bachelor can an lead How much mono money he can save rave a o To go 10 back to the memoranda Mr Bindley dh discovered ered co that his hla wife was as costing him a year car Four hundred dollars In twenty years he had given up for the privilege of ot being bound down with Iron chains to a humdrum unromantic existence with his wife Well what was as gono gone was gone But he would see soe to It that each roch fiscal year hereafter would find him with more moreon moreon moreon on the credit side of his hla bank book There were ere so BO man many thing h he h s wanted wanted- a a. 1 billiard table to begin with and some Iome One floe guns for which he had a a craze craze Then he could take an extra week In the fall tall and go hunting with some friends Indeed there was as no end ond of ot the tho good things which would come his wa way after he lie had instituted the much considered re reform re- re form He Ha planned his campaign It would be short and sharp There was sas no rio use beatIng beatIng beating beat- beat Ing about the bush Sunda Sunday morning at breakfast safely behind the funn funny supplement he ho announced boldly Della Delia Ive I've decided to make a change Inthe In tho the household accounts account Weve We've been spending too much mone money on the house Im I'm going to turn over a new leaf leat and blow blo in a n little tittle on m myself elf Mr Mrs Bindley making no no reply he went ent wenton enton on I 1 intend to bU buy a billiard table and I turn the chicken coop into a den Ill I'll fix It up with guns and things and make It tt cas easy casy Im I'm going to keep a a. buffet burret going also abo co so o when the the- theIne wine Ine Ive I've ordered comes tomorrow see that it is Js- safely stored Inthe in inthe inthe the cella cellar r Still no answer and he lie continued encouraged encouraged en en- b by lf her r silence No Xo one at th the club could call him a coward cOard now when he reported what he had done And I ml might ht as well tell you Ou I dont don't want ant m my socks darned any more When hen the they get gel holes in fn em just throw them away Ill I'll get new ones ones- And you can give ghe those t two o old suits to Jake Ive I've ordered ordered ordered or or- dered a R. couple I Z guess uess eB that's all just now Della Delia unless unies there I is is oh yes el Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- pose you you OU serve sene m my breakfast In m my mm- room after atter this will you ou The answer er he now seemed to expect not b being forthcoming he shifted uneasily In his chair Then Mrs Bindley started quietly to remove the dishes from the table and busy her herself elf In the tIme kitchen n All do day Sunday he watched her out of the corner cornel of or one e eye e e. e But there was nothing to indicate that she he resented Inthe Inthe in inthe the least anything that he had said Bald As usual she wont went to church prepared a splendid dinner read in the afternoon and went to church again at night The next morning ho he was served a delectable delectable delectable de de- de- de breakfast In bed What hat a fool roo I Ive I've been all these years ears he remarked Joyfully to his coffee coffeo cupIt cupIt cup It Just shows sho that when hen a man really asserts himself n a woman admires him all the tha more It oil all goes back to the Old did cave cac man theor theory Beat her and shell she'll follow you ou till death I must call callup call up Jones He lIe called up Jones Tones that da day and was duly congratulated on on his spunk But on Tuesday he did not call caU up Jones and ancI tell ten him that on Monday nl night ht when hen he went ent home he be had found Mrs Bindley gone bag and baggage with not a word as to her He ate a dinner of cold liver and onions he found In the refrigerator and drank some ginger Inger ale instead of ot coffee correo Mr Bindley Bindle had never been known to approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap the kitchen stove and know knew nothing noth noth- I in lug ing of cooking That night he contracted a cold in hl his chest Wednesday he stayed in bed after attempting to make a mustard plaster The whole box of pr mustard mixed without without with with- out flour or oi lard burned a 3 hole through several se la layers rs of his anatomy He managed to o telephone for the doctor to come and fix up the hole not realizing ho how sick he was But It took the doctor about a n minute and half to discover that Mr Ir Bindley was really on the verge of ot pneumonia although h he De said he didn't hurt inside at all Mr Ir Bindley declared that he ho could not dared not must not be sick as his wife VUe was as away But tho the doctor insisted that he was in for it It and had better let him call an ambulance to take him to th the hos hos' hospital hos' hos pital So the ho hospital it was although by tho the time he had gone through h a course courle of stretcher ambulance elevator ele and bed all ail of which was very ery skillfully and quickly quick quick- I ly done Mr Ir Bindley was as entirely unconscious cious of even the fact tact that he ho was wag as Mr lr Bindley Bindle or poss possessed ed an nn ego ceo at all Days Das passed and Mr Ir Bindley Bindle open opened his eyes oyes to the light of ot the eta tIny day He realIzed realized real real- that he had been very sick and was evidently e in a hospital bed Then he saw aw Mrs Bindley Bindle in a nurses nurse's uniform In Ina Ina ina a chair b by the bed quietly rolling band band- ages Big tears began to roll roil down his cheeks checks He was very weak He lie closed close his ee eyes again but tears continued to come Then h ho felt a soft handkerchief quietly wipe Ipe away the crops and In a afew afew few tew minutes a light hand gently gentl stroked his own that Ja lay outside the covers With an on effort he rol raised 11 the other othar and clasped the tho hand In both of his Honey ho lie whispered so low that she lied had to stoop to hear him Theres no fool tool like lIko an old fool Wont Won't you come com comeback comeback back home Im I'm mighty sorry for tor what I said Yes Yas dear Im I'm going back Just to keep you ou from going bankrupt Its It's a sin ln to waste mustard the wa way you ou do |