Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-27

N car. Elsie is Just turned 10 and
Is very good friend of mine.
she Is always full of news, and as 1t
was month since we had met she had
several items of great Importance; last
and best was: Have you heard that
Janet is to be married to Mr.. ------ in
september? Isn't that heavenly? O
don't you think it's just the incest thing
In all the world to be married?' Then
INV little dear became conscious that
her, enthusiasm had led her to say a
rood deal more than she had intended
ana she blushed most charmingly.
Had Bob been there and seen that
biusb snow ii would have been all up
With him. Bob calls on Elsie fairly
often but he is only q or p and Is
nlain. honest lad who does not fashion
pretty sentimental words meaning
nothing Some day / fancy there will
he an explosion and ISobs deep feeling
viii be revealed to himself as well as ts
nnother: in the meantime Elsie's blush
disclosed the fact that she was dream
ing.
Elsies question in regard to the
incest thing in all the world (still un-
answered. recalls somewhat different
conversation | had recently with a Salt
Lake woman, 10 years Elsies senior,
Mrs. b. has been married two years:
She was not my most ardent friend
before marriage, but during the last
year | have been drawn more to her.
for she has seemed to me not altogeth-
er happy and in need of sympathy.
Lately she startled me by remarking.
Married life isn't all it's cracked up to
be-"
Why" l demonstrated. Il should
think you had all a woman could pos
sibly wish to make her happy-a home
in which everything is new'and pretty,
healthy baby boy, and a husband
who is a good provider, who never dis
spates, and who is all devotion. What
more do you want?"
Yes, my husband is good to me- but
do you know ] get tired of 1t all Some
times L almost wish he were not so
attentive; L shouldn't be troubled If he
went away for two weeks, a month.
half year. Perhaps | am selfish and
unreasonable, but l can't help it. How
ever, L ought not to burden you with
my woes. which are very. very uninter-
esting, My sister Mabel, whom haven't
seen for 10 years, Is coming the latter
part of this week for II visit. You'll
come to see her, won't you? Her hus-
hand is Commander ------- in the navy
now in the Philippines. She could tell
you what hard life married life is:
Ntf -
what coarse, somewhat too fond of
whisky. / have heard from others.
however, she knows pretty we'll how to
manage him and she'll never say
word against him."
Perhaps she appeals to his better
nature and thus sees a nobler man than
do the others" l suggested
Yes; that may be,' she admitted.
Certainly she is devoted TO him and
ne appears TO think something Of her
Still Il woman who has five children
ment Of everything herself. cannot have
very easy time OF it, now, can she?"
Mrs. James Smith (this of course Is
not her real name) arrived and / called
During the conversation i expressed
my sympathy for anyone whose hus-
band had work that kept him at such a
distance. She thanked me and respond
ed with a smile. perhaps little sad but
full of sweetness, 20 we in the navy get
accustomed to that and try to make
the best of it,"
But don't you feel dreadfully when
he goes away for two or three months?"
/ asked.
Two or three months? His cruises
have been more often two or three
years. But If there are the sorrows of
parting there are also the joys of meet
ing, and 1 always try 10 think of the
latter even when he is about TO leave.
II is now three years and one month
since | have seen him. He Is now on
his way home and l expect to meet
him here in about two weeks. Isn't
that beautiful?" and though Mrs. Smith
is past 40, her eyes glistened with a ra-
dance that would have been charming
even in Elsie dreaming OF Bob or some
one else.