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MUTT AND JEFF
I WAS A FOOL WHEN I MARRIED
You!
YES, BUT I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU AND DIDN'T NOTICE IT!
YOURE NOTHING BUT A LAZY, SHIFTLESS GOOD- FOR-NOTHING LOAFER! WHY DON'T YOU GO OUT AND MAKE SOMETHING
OF YOURSELF?
·BUT
OTHER MEN GIVE THEIR WIVES CARG, MANSIONS AND SERVANTS! YES, SERVANTE TO WAIT ON THEM HAND AND, FOOT! AND WHAT HAVE I GOT? NOTHING!
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER' 31, 1988.
JUST A TOUCH
OF CLASS, THABS ALL!
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CONTINUED HAPPINESS
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[ARGARET was upstairs cleaning contrite and agreed
the east room when she heard the right. front door slam.
"Hey, Marg! Come down,"quick!"
"Eustice Bradford! You didn't wipe your feet. You've tracked up my carpet!"e
that he was
That incident, not to mention se- of veral others, was the beginning
It was Eustice's voice, and she an awakening. in Eustice's unconsci- knew by the tone that something ous mind. Business wasn't so good He unusual. had happened. He was and his patience became short. waiting for her at the foot of the began to notice things like the unmade stairs. Her eyes travelled past him bed and the fact that dust lay heavy and a look of horror came into her on the furniture and that the win- face.
dows needed washing and that dishes most always were in the sink.
he "Why must it be like this?" asked her in a fit of anger. "You Eustice, who
keep the Margaret's have plenty of time to was brother and two years her senior, house neat. You're not over-worked. glanced over his shoulder, then back You're the only woman I know who at his sister. He was too excited to can't keep. her housework caught up, think of the carpet..
who's always late whenever we plan "Marg Mary's promised. We're to go someplace." going to get married!"
"I know it," Mary agreed. "I'll try to do better. I should."
Watching developments, Margaret smiled confidently.. Eustice would be He had lived back with her soon.
Slowly the look of horror left Mar- garet's face and was replaced by in- credulity. "You're not!" she declar- ed. Then: "Well, there! You won't be happy. You and Mary will never with order and routine and tidiness get along.
too long to forget them. He couldn't wet be happy living with Mary, not un-
"Sure. we will. Don't be a blanket.. Why won't we?" asked, thrusting out his chin.
"Because her ways aren't You're used to order and routine and
Eustice less Mary. mended her. ways, and Mar- garet was pretty sure she wouldn't. She knew the type.
yours.
But another year passed and then
By Barbara Ann Benedict
having things tidy, the way I keep another and a third, and still Eustice them. Mary doesn't care a rap how and Mary seemed happy her house looks."
together.
"She cares a rap about me, that's all that matters," Eustice his sister flatly.
and
told
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and Margaret couldn't understand, at last her curiosity got the better of her and she questioned Eustice about it, in a round-about way, of course.
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They were married. a month later. ter," he told her. They went to live in a new white- atenographer to do my typing, and painted bungalow at the edge of we have a girl come in to do town. They were happy because they housework. Oh, we're doing fine."
Margaret was only partly satisfied. were in love. Mary was dark-haired
of She knew there was more behind it, anil dark-eyed and had a Bense humour and nothing bothered her and Eustice knew she knew there was much. For the first time in his life more behind it. But he decided that Eustice relaxed. Mary never scolded to tell her would only puzzle and pro- him. She never reminded him to wipe bably hurt hor. Alone, he reflected his feet or to be careful of his on the night a year ago when he reach- cigarette ashes or to keep his clothes ed his decisión: to leave Mary. neatly hung in the closet, Married had come to the point where he stand living in a slovenly life, he thought, was swell. He wish- couldn't ed now he hadn't waited until he was mess any longer. And then he had thought of Margaret and her well- thirty-four to find himself a wife.
compared Eustice was in the insurance busi- ordered house. He had
it had ness and still struggling to become Margaret with Mary, and established. Mary had been a typist flashed across his mind. that you could before she married him, and now he hire things done like typing and house- asked her if she'd help him do some keeping, but you couldn't hire some- of his letters. She agreed eagerly. It one to be kind and sympathetic and understanding and nover cross. And would help save office expense. :
most of all you couldn't hire some one not to nag at you when you tracked mud on the carpet. And be- sides, down deep, he did love Mary and that counted for a lot.
So everything was serene. A year passed and Margaret out-wardly re- tracted her declaration that they would never be happy, but Eustice knew that wasn't what she thought.
It was the second: December of their · (Copyright, 1988; By The Associated union that Eustice came. home one Newspapers.) evening, tired, and cold, and found that Mary had gone out to dinner with her bridge club. She left a note and a sink full of dishes. Eustice washed.. the, dishes and got himself a cold supper. He went into the be- droom to get his dressing gown and found the bed, unmade, and he wonder- ed vaguely how Mary could go away and leave things in such a mess.
The next week Eustice had a lot of impotent letters to get out and ask- ed Mary to have them ready by Fri- day.
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weren't ready when. Friday came. Eustice got mad and told her she shouldn't be so lax, and Mary looked