The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

isn't she just the Iuckiest girl that
! ever happened?'' enthused Molly, the lit
! tie stenographer lady, as she turned away
| from the window where she had been
| flattening her nose against the pane TO
watch the visiting lady depart down the
| street.
The Iady-who- always knows-somehow
looked up quickly from her sewing.
''Lukier than Ruth?" she asked
why, how can you ask such a cues
ton, big sister," cried Molly. You
know Ruth's husband isn't half so nice
nor half so good to her, and that she has
had to work hard and do without things
and just think what she used to have at
home. And Gretchen-why, Gretchen mas
the incest, kindest, best husband that
ever was. He simply adores her and de-
MES himself everything to give her what
she wants. What do you mean by ask
ing If L think she's as lucky as Ruth? You
konw you said yourself just the other day
that you thought Gretchen's husband
positively spoiled her."
Il know L did, said the lady, land
didn't you say you thought so too?''
"Of course 1 did, acquiesced Molly
Anybody can see that with half an eye.
He waits on her by inches, and he makes
such fuss over every little ache and
pain that she has that she's getting to
be a perfect hypochondriac. She used 10
be SO sympathetic and interested in other
people, and now she isn't interested III
never half SO jolly or happy as she used
to be, either
Il wonder if it's being married that
makes people that Way2' unused the lady
who-always- knows-somehow. HAS Ruth
lost her interest in other people, too?'
Goodness, no. from Molly. why,
Ruth is as much changed as Gretchen.
only the other way. You know she was
the only girl in the family and her father
and mother and those four older brothers
simply spoiled her. 1t was really horrId
the way she let them all wait on her
But since she married George | can tell
you she waits on herself and him too
And she takes care OF the baby and does
almost all the work in that big house
and she gets along with his mother ard
sister splendidly, and they say they are
tartars- Perhaps if Gretchen had a baoy
she'd be different. And Ruth seems so
much happier than she used to- and so
muck less egotistical and more interested
in other people. It's really quite wonder
full the way she has changed
The lady-who- always-k nows-somehow
folded up her sewing with funny little
smile on her face.
Molly she said, you tell me that be-
cause Ruth doesn't have quite such an
easy life as she used to she has de-
veloped in character and grown sweete-
And you say that Gretchen has been
spoiled by a too-adoring husband AMI
has grown egotistical and self conferred
and that in spite of all he does for her,
she doesn't seem as happy as Ruth. And
yet you call Gretchen much luckier. 1
think Molly
"Oh, I see, big sister, interrupted Moi
ly. laughing. II think it isn't any fun to
argue with you when you make one colt
Wet himself right out of his own mouth.
nut / tell you what, big sister I'd rath-
er have Gretchen's husband, just the
same, and see if / wouldn't know enough
to be lucky"
And the lady-who- al ways knovs-some-
how laughed as we do at those we love.