The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-09
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TORTuRING A woMAN's SOUL


woman who conceas her identity has Just published in
the American Magazine ortuug account OF her unhappy
married life She insists that her experience is common that
the happest she knows widows left in comfortable
circumstances that afraid OF then husbands
that many are compelled lie and that divorce may be good
thing Her article has ring OF sincerity TO It, She evidently
has looked deep into her heart and she is doubtless
OF superior mentality artistic temperament and IS
highly emotional
While what She has written will be mainly interesting To
women /, is the men who should know about it,
She writes bissuly OF her engagement and honeymoon
During the Inst years the loved loved m giving
love and loved in taking love The couple lived economically
'Fank" was putting his money into his business
The only incidents TO mat the couples happiness were
Sudden aud neSplieablc aare.ups Occasionally to our
amasement tde would make glare at each other like
animals aud speak bitterly Five minutes later would eN
press ou eefc and shame The wife realized that with her
these Qnafres were due and trials Of life adjustment
She discovered something abou, her husband however
after particularly violent quarrel night He went to bed
and she tried to read book Finally dropped her
page and she thought How silly all this isl am making my
self suffer and making Frank suffer too She stole to his
bed to kiss away the andhe sleeping peacefully
The years dragged by. Frank pospered and took fine
home lie took his wife less into his confidence whereas he
used tell her everything He put the home on business
basis lie expected everything 10 be right matter OF course
When things wrong he amazed and indignant lie
used to praise her cooking he only criticised The wife
writes q used go up my and have nice little cry
sometimes hardly knowing the cause OF griei.
In spite Of prosperity the wife still had to eeonomze and
because OF the husbands larger home plans the monthly bills
became larger and he would irown them The wife says
Sometimes told uniruhs avoid resentment criticism
She asked allowance but her husband gave her dark
look
child came boy The mother to deaths door
"For six months" she says Il was Honorand And yet
believe that could have recovered quickly had once felt
that Frank bearing the trial eheeruy gladly for my sake
The husband took new attitude after this She the
mother OF his boy His suggested greater authority
sure possession and the right 10 make stern exaeons
Babyhood has passed and boy school The hus
band still insists upon running his domestic establishment
business basis with sentmen; left and he IS planning
make his sou like himse"physicaly mentally and morally
tough The wife says she will not have it, 1T going TO lead
the struggle Of existence together the only real struggle
shall be readyr she says.
She means that she viii let her be like his father
will not have him mentally morally tough Above all things
she him be considerable Of other people She wants him
be gentle Even She says this boy has learned his
fathers trick Of looking erny her She will break him Of
this she says She his life to hold Of the swec,e
better things than money and money getting
generalizing says her experience Is like that
Of many She says divorce solution while and
conditions remain wha, they Divorce is the evilhe
evil back Of divorce She feoees that there increasing
divorces because they call attention to the defects Of marriage
What's the matter with this coupled Why, the husband
has sentiment fine feelings and the is ul Of
them. They mismached lie does understand her
They talk different languages An amazing number Of married
couples nisuached An amazing number Of people get
married and only think they in love Some get
red knowing that they do love What then be expected
but and regret
The point the wife who thus exposes her soul brings ont
about the boy interesting She right for the she
hopes her be will be happier man than the man
her husband hopes for But the husband will probably win
the boy has already learned the trick of whitening the mother
with seofnni glance. i.