Show KATHLEEN NORRIS mother stilt still gets her way IF EVERY MAN were a mind reader what a fix we wives and mothers would be ba in most of tho the time how little they know as we nod and agree and concede and fix things generally of what is going on inside of us how little they know of the opinions and adjustments that even the simplest do arrangements involve by the way says the man of the house 1 I asked the fosters to come in thursday night since youre having a waitress I 1 dont suppose 10 is any more than eight to handle what the wife says Is oh nice dear what she thinks Is great heavens ten guests for dinner minnie can barely got get around to four only nine of the tulip doilies dailies and napkins IU ill have hava to use the horrible old yellow ones almost all the yellow glasses are broken I 1 suppose the leg of lamb willbe will be enough everything seemed right for just joo joe and ellen and nd the whites and the greens and ourselves but with that horrible nancy Fost foster erand and herbig her big diamond oh dear and then the tha bridge game im io so tired I 1 wanted just to sit restfully playing cards tomorrow night ten you cant do anything with ten if afi I 1 just use our garden marigolds jim may not think its smarts enough for the fosters oh arent husbands stupid stupid stupid 11 unexpected excursions all that Is behind her pleasant oh nice dear or perhaps her husband comes in on a saturday morning to say great break moule mollie dawsons lawsons Daw sons old grandmother died this morning and the office Is closed for the day hows howa about a picnic hey kids adds ill get the car ready and you throw some lunch together 11 hows abdus a tunic s kids kidsy in which case mothers mother oh won derfall der full covers an interior monologue something like this oh for sake last saturday when hen we were all ready to go to the beach you thought a thunder storm was coming on and cancelled the tha whole thing at 11 now when ive got annie hero here and was going to take taka down those dining room curtains and rny my one bowl cake Is in the oven and shirleye shirleys Shir leys shorts are in m the wash and I 1 promised sea to sit for two 0 hours this afternoon with aunt mattle and bob has just asked to go oft off with billy smith for the day and mrs holden is coming at three to help sally with her french oh what are men made of anyway now there he is out there thera whistling while he pretends tends to do something to the car and annie and I 1 have to hustle some sandwiches together and scare up some cake somewhere and get rid of that eternal little hanging about miller girl 0 an obtuse class cas yes its a good I 1 thing that most men arent mind readers but on the contrary are ara hingul singularly arly obtuse as 63 a class Mar marriage martlage ilage get very far without these gracious and temporizing concessions f from r 0 m mother later on ol oi course as all good mothers and wives krow know she may get her own way after all just a delicate hint regarding the fun dad and bob could have at the ball game gam o and take billy too and t then hen shirley could keep her date with catherine and mother could see poor aunt mattle and as dad suddenly sees the glorious possibilities out a at t the ball park with two shouting boys dropping peanut through the hard open seats feats why everything changes back the no cake caka gets decently baked the curtains come down shirley presses her linen dress and Is off with catherine and sally Is consoled bf by a promise of the disney picture it if she really works on her french oh yes yen mother gets her way nine tenths of the time but she gets it by seeming to lose it she falls in with dads plans so readily lind and pleasantly that he begins to question them himself perhaps he has been a little hasty perhaps he really want it that way so when then mother says perhaps youre right dear we were going to have a little more formal party tor for the manager remember but if you want to bring him home tonight to just what we have bave our selves well take good care of him ill turn the stew into a meat pie weve strawberries no I 1 cant have shortcake and ill see your mothers here so we may have to be pretty prompt you know how she hates that delay for appetizers rs and mother continues with a few more innocent but well placed objections after a few sweet considerations like this bob s senior en for Is very apt to break dilwith in fil with 1 I think youre right dear dead well do it later and make it more fort formal nal ive not asked him yet bojus ojust fe forget the whole thing so father arrives at this kindly conviction without ever realizing exactly how he got there hes happy mother Is happier these are the very commonplaces of a good marriage may they always be tha day ell married men become mind readers beadet S will be a dark day in the holy state of matrimony |