El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-13
MARRIED LIE LIE THIRD YEAR
By MABEL
HERBERT URNER

me. I haven't spoken TO her about It
yet but I'm going to.
What I would like most and think
7 could do best would be-shopptng-
You know there are women VINO MAKE
a very comfortable income buying for
out-Of-toWn people on commission.
But I suppose IT would be very hard
to get myself established-tO get
enough customers to make this pay
Then / thought Of a tea room on,
I'm sure I could run a dainty little
tea room and give people better
things to eat and at a more reasonable
price than most Of them DO. But, Of
course. for this ] would have to have
capital The only possible way i could
start would be to rent a tea room al
ready equipped. But I doubt II one
could be found.
And then 7 have thought of a mend
ing shop I have seen advertisements
IN theater programs and papers OF
places where they do fine mending at
a moderate fee. I know / could do
this work. and would love TO do It
But again comes the question OF get
ting customers. 1 would have to adj
vertise-and that would be expensir E.
Mother what do other women do2
Think OF Oh the women who are left
widowed, or whose husbands desert
them, women who are no better trained
for bread winning than II How
DO they get along2 Surely there
Ii that Sally Hewitt did2 You remem-
Der her husband was killed in that
accident and left her with two little
children She moved to Chicago and
went into some kind OF business. What
was it, Write me If you know
Irene Thompson took an agency for
some chlurens books, didn't she. But
on mother, I couldn't sell anythingi
/ would rather go out and scrub than
TO be a book agent-or any other kind
where canvassing is required.
On j suppose 1 am getting morbid,
but / am thinking of these things all
the time. Last night 1 couldn't sleep
for picturing myself seeking one pO-
sition after another. And then pic
tured the hall rooms OF the dingy
boarding houses that I would probably
nave to live in. Of course everything
seems worse at night-yet the horror
or It has been with me all day.
haven't answered Warren's letter
yel-out 1 am going to now. / thought
would have more courage II I wrote
10 you first I shall make Ii very
9rler- merely say that until he returns
nave decided to let Mrs. Morrison
keep the loom
don't know what he will say or
90 have rever disObeyed or defied
ann in any way before, but he has
simply goadcd me on 10 this. II
nave shred of self-respect left I
Mother. 7 know what you are going
70 Nrlte-for NE to come home. that
can always have a home with you
-ll Adtner- But / can never do that
az least not for more than a visit.
know now little father has, and how
YOU have to struggle to get along as
IL is 50 1 could never inflict myself
ana Winifred on you in that way
s s, me book agency would be better
on VIII say I am morbid to think
OF such things-and perhaps I am
sui tonight the whole world seems
DIack-and / have never felt so much
alone somehow I feel that I stand
alone IN a way I never did before.
And it frightens me
r orglVe me for writing this letter,
Il IS selfish 1 know-but 1 had to
mere is no one else in whom I eau
lovingly your daughter.
Helen folded and enclosed this letter
IN us envelope and then took a fresh
sheet or paper She did not hesitate.
she wrote rapidly for each word IN the
letter was clearly fixed In her nina
In the sleepless hours OF the night be-
fore she had gone over it again and
again.
Dear Warren.
I have decided to let Mrs. Morrison
keep the room I see no reason why
I should send her away until you ne
turn She is very quiet and no trOu-