South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-20
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x MARRIED LIFE THE
X FIRST YEAR AFTER
X THE HONEYMOON )
BY Mabel Herbert Urner.

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Well, they've put up my name for
the Carlton club.
"Oh, Warren."
Well" sharply. What's wrong
with that?"
"Nothing-only you belong to two
clubs already"
Well is there any law against my
belonging 10 three2"
"No-of course not-only il takes
you away so many evenings"
Well you don't expect me 10 be
tied down here every night and never
go anywhere. do you? A man has
some social obligations in a business
way You never seem TO understand
that. This club will be an excellent
business asset. I'll be thrown with
lot of men that might be very useful
to me later on. l should think you ID
be glad Of my opportunities-glad that
have a chance TO get On-instead of
always trying TO drag me back"
Il don't drag you back, Warren, and
| think it's most unjust of you TO say
that"
Well. you should have married
some mOllycoddle who would have
toasted his feet before the fire every
night and let you purr over him."
"Oh, Warren - don't say such
things You know how they hurt"
Then don't you make such a fuss
when 1 say I've been put up for one
of the best and most influential clubus
in town. Why there's waiting list
there of over two hundred-and Vance
thinks | will be put through at the
next board meeting"
But how-hoW can they do that
when there is so many waiting
"Oh. they have ways Of manipulate
ing those things. You wouldn't un-
derstand it if / explained. But 1t
simply goes to show how well l stand
with some of the members. Why, L
happen 10 know personally that Fred
Hutchins has been on the waiting list
for two years-and he's worth half
million"
why. 1 thought he was very nice
don't they want him."
"Oh. there's no objection to him
he'll go through when they reach his
name in the regular order. But he
don't happen to be near anybody who
knows the ropes
There was a pause and then Helen
asked hesitatingly:
rs it an expensive club-are the
dues very much?'
what makes you ask that?" sharp
". What if they are? l told you
this was a matter of business policy.
The connections | make there will be
worth five times the dues"
After a short silence, he said
abruptly:
VENTS and order a new Tuxedo. The
one 1 have is an old cut. I'd like to
try a cheaper tailor than WentZ this
tille-but I'm afraid to risk it..
Helen thought how fresh and new
his Tuxedo looked, but she said moth
ing.
haven't looked the mover lately
"Why YOU have one you've only
worn only twice, and two others nearly
new"
"Wen. that's all right. then. But
I must keep my clothes up. a man
can't afford 10 have his wardrobe
run down"
was Warren really more selfish than
most men? Helen asked herself when
she was alone. Or was 1T she VINO was
at fault? Did she expect more of his
time and of himself than any other
active. ambitious business man would
have given her?
He said she should have married
mollvcoddle who would have stayed IN
every night and let her purr over him.
A man with no ambition, no progress
that was what he meant by molly
I coddIe. Was that what she really
wanted? Would she have Warren less
active. less interested in his work, II
a
would not. And yet she felt that
without being a mollycoddle Warren
could have given her much more time
than he did. He had been out three
! evenings last week and now he was
preparing to join another club.
If in the next few months they
drifteG as far apart proportionally as
4 they had in the six months that had
passed-where would they then be-
And again her mind came BACK 10
Y the question she had asked herself so
often. was it some fault of hers? Could
another woman have held him better
have in some way given him more.
/ And then came a thought that sent
\ the soft color flooding to her race.
/ Would-a child? Would that make
any difference? Would that orlhg
them closer? Might that be the solu-
! ton of il all. But if there should
4 never be-if fate should never
| Life is at all times difficult enough
but to a young wife in her first year
of marriage it is pittiiessly complex
and battling.