| Show question I 1 of method j dear me exclaimed mrs bovea crossly as she turned from the telephone I 1 som times think that I 1 have not taken the right course with my husband I 1 m sure every one says he Is devoted exposto her caller oh devoted yea but my dear are all men BC bard fio please in every little detail 1 l the bouse and the family I 1 can tell you they are not look at mrs seda wicks husband mrs sedgwick 13 so sweet mur aured the caller sweet burst out mrs bovee with a vl suggestive of a snort of bourst it suited her to ghe Is sweet ab be languid nas nothing else under the blue canopy of heaven to be but sweet that woman to my knowl edge does not work three hours a day she has a husband who Is simply wickedly indulgent oh murmured the caller deprecate ecat angly I 1 like to see him with her he Is always so and considerate mary belle sedgwick pursued her hostess relentlessly la no more in need of rest and attention than I 1 am or than any other perfectly healthy woman is she simply found out very early in life that it suited her to be languid and helpless and frail and she has played up to that role ever since she Is far from being artless with all her girlish simplicity girlish at 37 she dries seem younger than that agreed the caller well are vou surprised she has never taken a particle of responsibility or worry or any of the cares that age women who are not everlastingly thinking about themselves I 1 don say she Is selfish she really does not seem to be though of course that Is what it amounts to finished mrs bovee completing the circle but can you imagine her any dlf terent asked the caller 1 I have never seen her anything but graceful and leisurely and charming I 1 don t believe she would be so lovable any other way nobody says she would retorted her hostess that is just what I 1 started out by remarking and that is why I 1 say I 1 think I 1 ought to have been different from the very start with henry it mrs sedgwick can keep her bus band a perfect slave to her every whim by the simple expedient of never doing a useful thing never serving a hot dinner when a cold lunch is more convenient for her never sparing him any of the worries of marketing and keeping the household accounts never knowing tor the life of her what he needs in the way of wardrobe or what he can afford for her pleasures it mrs sedgwick can do all these things I 1 repeat and still get along beautifully I 1 cannot see why we don t all try it I 1 for one get very tired of keeping every single thing about the house up to the last notch all the time vet henry Is used to it and ho makes me feel like a criminal when I 1 slight anything I 1 would no more think of let ting the housego jor B club meeting or of picking up my trunks and going on a pleasure trip whenever the spirit moved me than I 1 would think of of slapping henrys face and he would be quite as surprised at one as the other I 1 think it depends a good deal upon the man suggested the caher li never would work with my husband I 1 know that is just where you are mis taken it depends altogether upon the woman I 1 ve seen every sort of man serious and dignified and frivolous and bored fall into line and fetch and carry tor mary helle and I 1 can tell you that she is just as effect alve with ono kind as another she has what you might call a universal method both women were silent tor a moment the caller seemed unable to think of a for her hostess heretical views finally however she found one and when she spoke it was with unexpected decision well she announced the way I 1 look at it Is this A family has just so much to do and it the wife shirks her duly the husband simply has a double load to carry I 1 wouldn t want to add to my husbands worries it I 1 could and when you stop to think mrs bovee you that mr sedgwick after all has a rather tired look chicago dally news |
