The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-02
Married Life
the Second Year
BY MABEL HERBERT URNER.

HEAR Warren
1t is quite ten, but the whole
house is quiet. They all go to
bed here so early. But | cannot sleep
And somehow | want to write to you
Dear, if only | could have taken this
visit, feeling that everything was
right" between us, | would have en-
joyed it. But as it Is, / have been here
only day, already | a mnervous and
restless and thinking constantly of
you. ! am wondering if things will be
any better when | return.
"Oh, Warren, why can't we get
along? when / love you SO much; when
] am willing to do almost anything to
make you happy, why do you make it
SO hard?
At times it seems that l can do
nothing to please you, that everything
! say and do only irritates you.
Do you realize that for months my
attitude has been a strained effort to
concilliate you, to avoid your displeas-
ure, to keep you in good humor?
Surely that is not the province of
wife
HAD SHE BEEN ASsERTiVE.
Sometimes | feel it would have been
much better if I had been more asser-
tive and not tried too hard to please
you, If | had made you understand in
the very beginning that my happiness
must be considered as well as yours.
| think my very servility my very
eagerness to appease you, has, IN IL
self become to you source OF lrrlta-
ton. And yet, how can / change now
In the few times | have tried, you have
only crushed me down and l have not
had the courage, or the strength, to
stand out against you.
Oh, Warren-Warren I am afraid
of the fut~re-afraid of what it holds
for us. I did not tell you that mother
said if we did not have this temporary
separation now, we would have a much
longer one later on.
Don't you realize what that means?
If mother, even in her short visit
with us, felt we could not go on much
longer, that we were fast approaching
time when-Oh, | cannot put it into
words.
And yet believe that, in your heart,
you love me. At least l know you love
no one else Whatever else l have had
to bear in these two years OF married
life, it has not been that.
Somehow, now that | am away from
you, realize it all even more. clearly
than | did, and that is what l am
hoping my absence will do for you
THE MEETlN GWlTH WILL.
And Warren, something happened
on the trip out here that brought to
me an even stronger realization or
What your attitude to me has become
IL was the meeting of Will Farrell
on the train.
In the hurried note I wrote on our
arrived last night | did not tell you
Wi a
the way to Indianapolis. We met him
in the dining car and he Insisted on
mother and having dinner with him.
And, until he left us at Indianapolis
he was so kind so thoughtful, and did
SO many little things to contribute to
oar comfort, | hardly know how to
tell you---how to explain what effect
all this had upon me. 1t has been so
long since | have received any atten-
tons of that kind.
With the exception of the few
months before Winifred's birth, do you
know how little consideration | have
had from you? Oh, Warren, you can't
imagine how must feel when just the
ordinary courtesy of a friend should
mean so much to me.
am writing this because there
are some things easier to write than
saw. When we are together our
thoughts are usually on the point of
dissention that is uppermost at the
time. But now that we are separated
/ see things more as whole.
And l am hoping that you--
Unfinished and not sent)
(The Letter she sent)
Wednesday, May 3rd.
Dear Warren--It it not quite 10 but
the whole house is quiet They all go
to bed so early here. suppose you
will have received by this time the
hurried note | wrote on our arrival
yesterday.
Today is full of interest. The morn
ing I spent going over the house and
renewing old acquaintances, as it were,
with the things that surrounded all my
eirlhood. In the afternoon Aunt Laura
and Cousin Irene and several others
called.
AL LOVE WITH BABY.
Have all fallen in love with Wini-
fred. And l must tell you how good
she was on the trip. She was hardly
any trouble.
And who do you think was on the
train and with us all the way to lndi-
annapolis? Will Farrell. We met him in
the dining car and he insisted on moth
err and | having dinner with him. He
was very kind and thoughtful and did
much to make our trip comfortable.
Both Winifred and | stood the jour
ney better than mother. who was
slightly car sick, and | was glad she
was not alone.
Write me a long letter, dear. Tell
me how you are getting along. Is De-
liza looking after you as she should?
I forgot to tell her about your laun-
dry. Will write her tomorrow.
Well, l must say goodnight, as Win
fired is tossing restlessly. as she can
not sleep with a light
Lovingly your wife,
HELEN.