The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-06
HUSBAND FOOLED
BY AFFABLE WIFE
Conhding Spouse Never
Gets First Letter She
Writes Him.
THRILLING PASSAGE
IN TIMES SERIAL
Neglected Mate Comforted BY the
Unhappiness of Other Mar
ried Couples.

One OF the most distinctive and human
features OF 1.-The Journal Of a Neglected
Wife," the sensationalIy successful
story, which will begin in The Times
Saturday, April 10. are the two letters
found in story by the wife and re-
produced by her in her journal.
The letters are from another woman
to her own husband, and tell a thrilling
story in themselves. For years the wife
has lived with her husband, making
him believe she loved him devotediy.
The strain begins TO tell on her nerves.
and one day, in a fit of desperation,
she writes him a letter embodying her
feelings and disclosing her reaz nature
to him She writes second letter The
first is never, sent, but the second is,
and the letters themselves present their
own picture OF marital life Of the two
people.
The letters appeal to the neglected
wife because, as she says. they remind
her that some marriages are more IN
happy than her own. Here are the let
| ters-the one that was written, and
the one that was sent:
The One She Wrote.
1 am going TO write you the truth
| that for FIVE years ! have hid with
lies and deceit and trickery. 7 hate
you'll hate you'll IOathe you Oh.
what relief it is TO say it, to write
/ it, 70 put it into words. Sometimes
l have felt that I must shrek II out
70 you But 1 haven't-oh, no, In
stead l have smiled and said nice lit
tie things, loving little things How
have fooled youi That has been my
| one compensation, It has been TO me
a fendish 1Oy-the thought that I have
fooled you so cOmpleteiy-you, who
pride yourself on your discernmentt
/ your penetration. YOUR keen insight
and knowledge OF women How have
| gloated over this and longed for the
| time when 1 might huri Il at you, and
/ you would know how you have been
| fooled and duped and tricked by a
woman who IS your wife. Oh yes I
/ married you willingiy enough. / was
not eighteen and had seen ns other
| men, thesght you very great ard
strong and noble. and was proud and
/ happy that you should care for me-
/ And nOW-row. when / look into NJ
| heart, at the blackness and bitterness
! and think of the girl of i've years ago.
| No, I don't Shudder and weep, I did
/ at first, but 1 have passed that now.
| 1 remember Just before the wedding
| ceremony l ran up TO my own room,
the room whtre all the beautiful dream
| life Of my girlhOod had been spent, and
L knelt by the bed and thanked ODD
| that this great happiness had come 10
me, and vowed little VOW THAI all my
life 1 would strive to be worthy Of It.
/ Worthy ef it, Worthy OF 1t! 1t is only
/ lately that I have developed = sense OF
| kuTnor; for a long time failed to see
in II any humoFS But I Go now IL is
/ really very funny if you know how 10
| look at 1t. Sometimes i -eil an innate
] pity for that girl, that innocent, ignor-
| ant girl that was once myself. But
more often & is a boundleSs contempt
for the girl w, was such little, fool
1 have played my part weN. You
have never dreamed that I have hated
/ and IOathed sou with an intensity thai
few women could feel
When you read this. your first thought
VIII be THAI have loved some one else.
To you that viii seem the only explana-
ton possible, the only one that you
| could understand But I have loved no
/ one. I have been absolutely true -
| you. Not from any sense OF right orA
duty or loyalty-for 1 have had none;
but simply because my hatred Tor you
has so consumed me that 1 have had
| thought for nothing else
| They say that suffering SOftens and
] euuobIes that Il makes one more kind
~ and gentle and humane. That is a
lie. Instead il hardens and eu1bitreTs
and degrades.
| Last month when you telesraphed
from Detroit that the case was SeItAfd
and YOU we're returning at once, instead
of staying the ten days you planned.
tore that message into strips and l
/ sHore-sWore- I had been cheated oct
| OF ten days Of freedom, OF release from
/ you, and the strange words came with
| amazing ease. II was not until after
/ ward that ] realized what I had said.
| and then I felt no regret only a grim
sense Of huuior.
i Sometimes have stood before my
J MIRROR in wonder that the slight deli
| cately refined woman reflected there
/ should be- the woman I know her to be.
And nOw-I am going away l could
shrek aloud with joy when think that
your voice. the way you walk. each indi-
vtduaI thing about You which I hate
with an individual hate
! What shall / do? How shall I SUD
port myself: I do not knew. Ny ac-
compIisbmenJs are not of the breaC-
| winning kind, and yet shall manage
deceive with The greatest ease and pro-
number of useful if not admirable
traits, and I shall not hesitate to use
them. The girl of five years ago would
probably have starved: the woman l
am row will not starve.
! / shall leave this on the pin-cushiOns
That is the proper place. is II not2
And when YOU read IL YOU must turn
deathly white, clutch at chair and
cry, MY God!' with your ford com
in Turning white, but then you can
trv. IT would add much TO the effect
This One Was Sent.
Thursday Morning.
Dear joint am sending by ex-
tpress the heavy underwear and that
old shooting jacket you wrote for. I
am glad that game is so plentiful
there, hut am sorry your rheumatism
is verse. You had better get that
I Drescrfption filled that DR. Brown
gave you last winter; il helped vou al
I most at once
are pSing TO stay another week, for
YOU know 1 miss you dreadfully. But
then you really need the rest, and I
am sure it will do you good. So do
not hurry back.
teIephoned down To the Office this
morning and told them TO continue
forwarding your mail. viii write
YOU again tomorrow.
Your loving wife,
KATHERINE.