The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-27
ARE you ON THE SQUARE?
By Helen La Refine Baker.

- Question 4 ask you is this,
w bear : reputation for fair
G1ing-are you ION the square,"
10 thine own self be true" Do
.Duu know the span Of q single life
SOW compasses q thousand reforms
that Il took the world centuries
10 bring about? Why be an old
fossil--why put the big berries on
the top of the basket, or large.
Juicy, red apples on the first and
second layers in the box-first fill
ing up the bottom with an inferior
grade? You are not deceiving your
self nor the person who buys them.
Who ever bought a crate OF straw
berries with the big berries in the
bottom-ask any housewife.
Now. what / mean to say is this
do you think this sort of hypocrisy
and make-believe worth while?
When John Sawyer happens to
meet Annabell Lee Jones down
town, why does he suggest that
they lunch at Davenport's, or the
Silver Grill-why not invite Anna
bell out to the home to lunch and
meet Katherine and the baby? You
say Katherine would not like it.,
would not be courteous to Annabell
well, John, l will admit women
as rule have little, narrow, petty
ideas--but they have been kept in
submission so long you cannot ex-
pect them to be real individuals.
Ask Annabell home with you. and
If your wife Is discourteous. sulky,
jealous-just make the best of it,
and when you are alone that even
ing-you and Kate, after the baby
has been tucked snugly in bed
you ask her" to sit on your knee,
and then-"talk it over" tell her
IF she has not already heard) that
our best is brought out of us by
those better than we are, and that
God gives us helpers and inspirers
that we cannot be at our best all
by ourselves-that the mental and
spiritual rules the world, and last,
but not least, there is no love but
free love.
Love in bondage is not love. Now,
John, may l speak with you min
ute-someone just stepped into
your office, you say, and tells you,
on the quiet, that he just saw your
wife going into the matinee with
Ralph .Jones-you are twisting your
fingers, walking the floor, thinking,
thinking, wondering how in thunder
1t happened that Katherine did not
say anything to you about it. BY
and by you put on your hat and
overcoat, go to the door with the
thought in mind, Il will go and
sae for, myself''-then you think
al in,' 30 back and sit down at the
desk---yery miserable, indeed.
Strange is it not, how a husband
sometimes so ~criminally loves his
WIFE that he would kill another man
for doing the thing. These
husbands are only outdone by the
w4fe who would kill herself rather
than have her husband loved by
other women. 1t would seem that
they are both so interested in each
others happiness that the one is
perfectly willing to allow the other
t0Hbe' in the company of the oppQ-
SIZE sex sif they can only be sure
TIT IT is not pleasant to be there
bH the greater the pleasure the
less it will be tolerated.
Jealousy is the destruction OF
love. Love, to be true and noble,
must be capable of welcoming hap
piness Detailing it's object, no mat
ter what or through whom it is be-
slowed. Lust is not love. Jealousy
Is not love, nor has it any part or
place connected with love.
MY readers, have you a home
or is it house-four walls where
you sleep and eat2 Wife, do you
make things comfortable for YOUR
self? Are you an individual? Does
1t please you to shut Johns friends