| Show IK ISABEL RETURNS TO EARTH Q 1937 1027 by D J wal SABEL hoph INS was a discontented ISABEL Is woman her husband did aid not earn enough to suit her she had married Luar ried a crawler when what she wanted was a flyer she was waa always prodding nomer homer and pitying herself and wishing wishing wishing that they had bad more money here wo we are middle need aged people she bhe would say and weve got nowhere yet youve worked hard and been steady and ive economized and contrived all weve got Is your job and our house almost everybody who was married at the same time we were has got more just look at the Tarbox esl just bought their tard automobile and the other day stella tarbox went downtown and bought that expensive library suite in cables window slie site paid for it we think weve got to live six months on in wo we have homer would reply gloomily loom lly 1 I dont see how dick tarbox gets eels hold of the coln coin I 1 wish I 1 could I 1 wish I 1 could satisfy you for once Is and gl gle ghe e you just such a home as you want give me lie no iio pence till I 1 do the Hop kinses were not very happy together because at it morning when homer started to work isabel sent bilm away sighing and nt at ril night when lie be canie came back ehe blie sighed again be chinse they hall had to lime have salmon lout loaf instead of roast chicken worst of ill all she got on hard terms with tier her neighbors bec became aue she klie was ilot biot on good terms with herself ant anil the she grew to hate the I 1 and the small neat house anil and everything thin in it 1 I could be just its as much as stella tarbox it if ahad I 1 had a chance she said to herself homer ought to give we me the chance any man can make inake money if 1 he be tries hard enough to homer try ile he just sticks slicks to that old job and takes what Is handed out to him without complaining hes too easy that Is all the trouble isabel cried a good deal and her emot emotions lons made her sallow people remarked that she look well and the ole how could she look welt well or feel well for that matter when discontent was seething within her like liquid brimstone then one night something happened homer came home to supper with a new look a new air theres what youve been looking for lie he said 1111 in that letter lie ile flung it to tier her when isibel isabel had read the lie letter she tc reamed she lad tier her wish indeed some rel ithe atle of homers had died find left him now well live as we ought she taid ill show stella tarbox ox homer I 1 want you to buy me the norris place tile the norris place why we dont want that the house Is too big for us its Is sad what would we do with all that yard aud and that carala carriage e house besides 1 oil oh you dont mean you want that 1 I do its going tor for a song and we can call fix up the yard and put a car in the carriage house but learn to run the car 1 I will it you cant snapped isabel homer gave tn in As soon as he rot got the money he bought the place tor for Ms bis wife this meant it a lot of new furniture the yard lad to be redressed repairs bad to be made everywhere and the now new car selected isabel had a delightful time site she let people think what they pleased about the size of homers Ilo inheritance the roost most triumphant moment of her life was when stella tarbox sourly congratulated gratti her on her good fortune they had met at the dressmakers where isabel was having bating some new gowns owns made people were saying that homer had received anywhere from a hundred thousand to a million isabel made him film keep his bis mouth shut but the he could not make him give up his job lie ile kept to that with quiet determination that ruffled tier lier in time site she got things to suit her and they gave a housewarming everybody was invited and eNery everybody body went itaas a great affair for humble little Summit summitville ville in time also the new car was purchased homer called it the yc yellow ilow peril and after une one or two attempts refused to learn to drive it isabel in spite of tier her resolve gave up trying to understand der stand clutches and service brake end and hired a man to drive for her li ij a purple hat she made mad quite a sensation flashing about the summitville Summit ville streets in the yellow car for a couple of years she had a delightful time the more money she spent tile more ways slie site found of spending ending Ep it in the beginning had teemed a limitless sum and anyway she had to live up to what was expected of her meanwhile homer kept on working ile he had never ghen ijen up the little house on gleadow street nor rented it ile he always had an excuse ready when isabel begged him to sell rn im sort bort of sentimental about it he be sighed it was our first homo home and isabel let him have his own way for lie he was very generous with tier lier und lenient in all else nut but candit last forever when it la Is be being ing constantly drown drawn upon there came a day though when isabel received a polite note from the I 1 bank that E the fie had overdrawn her ber balance site sha was stunned what shall we do now she de landed of 0 homer it cant be weve touched bottom but it if we hac baie have hav e to sell tile the old house for oti once e hoiller a firmness that astonished her ber not no lie fie said ill keep the old louse house a right I 1 reserve but you can get more money to splurge ge on by placing a mortgage on this unfortunately isabel never neer dreamed dren meil of that day of 0 reckon reckoning ing w when lien the interest must be paid she have the money and homer had none tor for her isabel flo floundered for a while nearly a year then she put a second mortgage on the house all this time it was getting harder and harder to keep up with he elie tar boxes vilio were nere making a great deal of money just then her collapse from malaria and the departure ot of the Tar Tarbox boxes ea occurred almost simultaneously oy the Tar boxes had gone to other fields where they could get more for their money the doctor advised a n sanita ilum for isabel but homer took things into ills hla own ba bands ads by removing her to tile old house bouse which was dry and warm the old norris place had bad reeked with clasma but isabel was done with it feer because the mott mortgage gage wits was tt crealo forthwith tori li with in the old house isabel grew rapidly biell ell but bill she rho was wag subdued forever homer went vent calmly back and forth to III ills ns as if nothing had happened an ali auction took most of the norris house furniture the car was sold at hall ariee and the wreck of high fortune was nearly complete ababel linb rl however blamed blaniey homer for it all until one day he fie brought her bome it ii little hi tic book and asked her to read ro tile the story it contained it was it 11 fairy tale of grimm and told of another isabl isabil whose discontent lad led tier her to tile hie top of the world from whence she had fallen with a great anin sli the picture of the distracted fl flierman herman standing beside the sea aud and calling up ill the enchanted fish might have stood for homers self for my M u ife dame Isali cl wishes what I 1 scarce lare ilare tet tell R i she was in very truth daine isabel and like the fis hermans discontented wife she found herself in tle elie very place altice she had started frow from isabel pondered the story a lorig long time slie she never mentioned it to nomer but thereafter she was it a much more reasonable gentle and uncomplaining pla ining woman |
