| Show 0 THE LAST STRAW CORNER By Lulu W. Kellams THEIR EARLIER married IN years Flora and Ralph Wilson were an Ideal Both were handsome and with Identical tastes and as they grew Flo while Ralph tried to I say boyish and 3 fiction your she 1 often have such a comfortable home for middle aged Our department store Is dignified enough for older You don't have to keep up a Ralph would Jealous of your old are No I don't show the years a do not Flo recognizes middle age when he sees Anyone can recognizes a But she knew when to They mustn't quarrel over Of she didn't think this growing breach in their ages was a but Ralph Every day she felt more strongly that something must be done to preserve their and every day she could think of no possible One morning she I don't feel like going to the dear I'm sure Miss Gray can manage There is housecleaning and things to do Ralph agreed kissing her Fear stabbed Why did he agree so Why didn't he ask her what was She thing Ralph I took off my hat my toupee came had an Impulse to change her mind and But tears and self-pity were aching In her eyes and To conceal her she said this old I want to send that one to the it's so shabby and it doesn't fit Stubbornly Flo held out the old straw hat until he donned it leaving his soft gray felt on a She refused to him swagger whistling like their son Danny when he was a college Tears blurred her vision while she picked up things and cleaned and Wasn't there something that would save their something like taking or turning The Idea was She hud no heart to compete with their three young If if she had Just begun years ago trying to remain glamorous instead of turning into a maybe things would have worked out gY she felt less She even hummed while she whipped up Ralph's favorite cake and cooked If she had an especially appetizing and the children were in Jubilant maybe Ralph would see how well off he just he would forget his At the children called saying they had to stay for play Flo's spirits Would Ralph pretending that business detained leaving her in the silent She waited At sharp she the car then Ralph's on the he Dread gripped He'd called her mom instead of or dearl Just one day's staying home madu her seem old-fashioned to He strode Inte the you re looking at a successful I landed that fat Atkinson their new said 1 looked like a respectable business He chuckled at Flo's astonished thing Remember how tight that old straw hat the minute 1 took it off In front of that Miss Gray and the office they all started My toupee came off so I glared like I meant to look instead of It's a wonderful of What's for and your favorite As they marched in to arm in Jast knew that there never had been such a lovely bald bead as her husband |
