Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-04
H, good morning, 6octor, I'm so
glad you're here. I can't for the

lie Oh me imagine WndL ans me-
/ am just a bundle of nerves and feel
as though should shrek or jump out
OF the window. What do you suppose
st is? I can't account for it in any
may. No, not a solitary thing. Have
la the quietest sort of life this winter;
hoi Use has taken care of itself, and I've
seal rcely seen my husband and the chill
dren I, so there was not even that to
both er me.
Yea :; Very we'll both as to eating and
sleept 'ng"
IT .eally is the most curious thing
and Il he smallest thing irritates me be-
yond measure. The sound of my hus-
band eating soup. for example. Oh, 1
could scream! I'm going to scream!
Oh, ah ah! There you see how it is.
/ am IF my nerve completely and a
COLLAPSE always follows these crying
spells. Look at my hand shake. Isn't
1t awful Y? No, I assure you, no mental
strain a all; perfectly quiet, normal
winter.
Excitea nent? No, of course not.
Digesti on? Why, it hasn't been in
the least impaired until just as this
nervous .ttack came on. Now it is all
gone wroa ng, like the rest of it.
Oh, if 1 could explain to you! Such a
depression When L woke up this
morning t he world looked a dark blue,
and the irst thing 1 turned to in the
papers was the suicides. Please don't
bangle yotr watch chain, doctor; it
gets on my nerves: or rock, either; that
drives me into Mysteries.
No; positively, never. You know 1
abhor the stuff (Stiff1y). Certainly
not! You should know I've never been
oil od m 6rI1oc M in W
life.
But you must cure me- doctor, and at
once I simply cannot be laid up. l
have my bridge every day this week
Bridge? why, of course, just as
every one else does. But that has
nothing to do with it.
How often? Oh, only a few times a
week. Afternoons at friends houses
and in the evening after dinners; then,
my morning practice games twice a
week-oh. newer more than seventeen
hours a day, 1 assure you!
For money? Um-well, you know,
YOU can't very well refuse to play for
money when all your friends are doing
it-now, can you? We were playing
at Mrs. Van Gildlersleeve's yesterday,
and the women at my table said they
knew the kind of prizes Mrs. Van al
ways gives, and they didn't think
them worth playing for, so they sug-
vate purses on the gaIne-only little,
you understand. and that. of course.
made the game worth while. Mrs. De
Livingston at her bridge gave an au-
tomobile, so, naturally, the little silver
dishes and things that Mrs. Van gives
don't cut any figure. Lose? Well nat
urally. sometimes. No one can expect
to win always, especially as Mrs. Ber-
tie Bronson frequently holds four aces
and has the most unheard of luck.
But, you know, I never play for more
than l can afford-on, never by any
possible chance! II was only hun
dred and fifty at Mrs. Vans and it can
come out of the chldren's dancing les
sons-they don't need to take them this
winter, anyway. Beatrice is entirely
too fond of ii, and dancing, as you
know, is one of the seven deadly sins.
] should never want "A child of mine
10 grow up with a fondness for any of
the deadly sins, you understand.
But l won at Mrs. Billings--I must
tell you about ii! Grand slam twice
and hearts four times running and
doubled at thati We simply walked
away from the others, and when we
pivoted ] was on the winning side
again. Two hundred to the good
that day and again in the evening-at
least, it would have been if Bob hadn't
spoiled by making ii without time
after time when he was weak in the
player and puts his partner all off by
discarding from weakness instead OF
strength, and then by taking frightful
chances when he is ahead. / tell him
he is born gambler and that is one
thing that irritates me so. / can't
bear to see any one playing with gilt
tering eyes and a feverish expression
which is precisely the way Bob plays
Really. / shouldn't be at all surprised
IL this awful nervous state of mine
came from my husbands card playingl
j daresay he plays all day at the club
too, though he VOWS he doesn't Blu
I'm sure ! never see anything of hin
never glimpse-day after day.
Isn't ii awful the habits men form
And Bob such model husband when /
first married himl
hope you didn't notice the staii
carpet as you came up. doctor2 The
expressmen tore those holes carrying
up the trunks last summer and I've
been intending each day to so out and
replace IT. but l never seem to have