Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-28
Married Life the Third Year
Which Shows that Most Women Love the Man Who Rides
e .... Over Them Roughshod

/ for you. I'll manage to find some
place next week-probabiy a hotel
for you know the firms sending me to
Europe in May
Then she rose suddenly and opened
the trunk. Wait a moment-there Is
something l want to show YOU"
The box she lifted out was full OF
letters. She looked through them hur-
riedly, took out a photograph and
handed 1t to Hele.
This is a man whom I know very
well-and ! think in some ways he must
be much like your husband H.
The face was an exceptionally strong
one-one of determination and force.
But there were hard. almost cruel lines
around the mouth. and the eyes under
the heavy brows were stern ana pierre
ing.
1T is a very strong face" murmured
Helen. awkwardly, hardly knowing what
to say. -.... -...-
Yes. and he's a very strong man
but in many ways a very hard one. All
his life he has dominated every one with
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he is trying to dominate me. He rides
roughshod over everything, And yet !
think it's partly his very harshness. his
brutal indifference that makes me care
Every other man seems weak In com.
parison. Somehow his very neglect and
discourtesy make the ordinary atten-
tions and courtesies Of other men seem
far1fpfz.a sanl. mil, al. To he
voice. why does the mere brute force
In a man appeal to a woman? Some
times ! think all women are primitive
savages-that they want a cave man to
knock them over the head and drag
them by the hair
Helen was gazing at Mrs. Morrison
with breathless silence. Then was her
own experience a common one? Did
other women love the men who roughly
dominated them? And who was this man
whose picture she still held in her
handT She looked down at It now with
keener interest.
There is nothing that draws two
women more closely together than. some
similar and unhappy experience in love.
-~e-@ nv" hAtAEt idu " crush GOWN a
dozen eager questions. 1t was her
mere curiosity that made her long to
know more about this man-it was some
thing far deeper than that
Perhaps Mrs. Morrison OWNED her SYM
pathy and the masked questions, for
she went on musingly:
Il told you about leaving Mr.. Morrison
bRCQuER N WI
and he had so little ambition. That was
mistake. He was a good man, and he
loved me. and I should have stayed with
him. But l was more capable than he,
and Tor a woman 10 be more capable
than her husband Is always an unfor-
tunate thing-unless shesis tactful enough
to hide 1t. Anyway. I started out for
myself And / have succeeded-at least
| make go week. which suppose for
woman means a fair amount OF success.
But. oh, I've been so lonely"
She hesitated over a moment, and then
went on.
.Of course l have met men-many Of
them. But no one for whom have ever
cared-no one who has ever dominated
sa4o - hAhs man doeS. mes away now,
He has interests in Toronto; he's there
most of the time And IL simply 1--we
for the few days month he is here. He
only comes on business, he never comes
purposeiy to see me- or IL he dId-he
wouldn't give me the satisfaction of
knowing It. He has never really said
that he loved me-and yet know that
he does. ] know he would rather be
with me than with anyone else. But oh.
he's so selfish and SO self-centered."
II wonder" asked Helen gently. ~
all men who are strong are not self
centered?"
Yes, / have thought OF that" she
said quickly. Its the man who Is for
chile. who is unyIeldIng and full of ego
isra-that Is the man who dominates US
and whom we love. While the man with
less strength, less personal force, is apt
to DO more gentle and more unselfish-
and yet that man rarely gets a woman's
Intense. AFFECT devotion. Her instincts
are primitive. and she loves most the
man who rides over her rouEhshod.',