The San Francisco call., 1913-11-13
a Bachelor S
: Diary :,
He Reads the Letter From Sally
and Then Asks Himself
Leading Question
By MAX

By MAX
ACTOBER Ill will paste the letter
III from Sally on your pages. diary.
Perhaps, II you ever grow brain,
II Will furnish it with food for deveI-
oping purpose. I am sure IL you also
had heart somewhere in your dried
paper makeup the letter would put a
little impetus into its circulation.
My Dear Maxi am glad to learn
In the cablegram received from Rich
ards today that you are safely back
In your own home. 1t means so much
to the tired and sick to get home. 1
have fancy that those who arc per-
manently homeless never have the
chance for recovery that those who
have home to go to have. for in no
abiding place in this big world is
there found the promise. the security,
the rest, that is found in ones home,
! wish ! could end all this senseless
travel and return to mine.
You will say. Why can't your
That. dear Max, depends on you.
Il am going to put the whole re-
sponsibility of what happens to us in
the future on your shoulders. Your
sex boasts OF its superior strength.
Let US see If you are strong enough to
protect me from you, to guard me
from myself.
HIS LOVE
r
loved YOU Can you imagine how that
love has grown during ali these long
months we have been apart, till now
1t dominates me till ] fear one mo-
ment it win end in my destruction.
and fear the next moment that 1t
won't, for security without you has
become he'll compared with the heaven
of insecurity with you?
Il ana sick and tired OF the struggle
of trying to save my husband from
the results of his own folly After
escapades with the widow that have
diminished his income more than even
he likes to think, and that have san
dalized even Paris. he is hack or his
knees to me, declaring that he loves
me more than ever, that my patience
with him has been his salvation If
you were like other women he said.
you would have chucked me over
board to my eternal destruction long
ago
Max, why cant be l'fye the 'os'se-
women he talks about Why should
respect the marriage tie wnen he
repeatedly tramples II in the mud ?
Why can't /. loving you. take my
little journeys down the primrose
path with you? why should he sat
isfy every craving of his nature and
hunger always be my portion?
Since I can't get divorce with
out stirring UP nasty scandal and
attaching to my name a word that /
am old fashioned enough to find dis
reputable. why may i not return to
my home, and there under cover Of
the old time friendship. which my
husband sanctions and the world APP
proves, give to you that which our
love gives you the right to demand?
do | fall from the pedestal on
which you have put me by writing
this? Then let me climb back with
this suggestion:
Il am homesick for my home. May
/ come home to it and see you occa-
sionally. and both of us remain
strong enough to forget our love in
my duty to the man who treats me
as only selfish brute knows how to
treat a woman?
Take the measure Of your strength.
Is 1t great enough for this test? Then
take the measure OF my weakness. and
know now that you will have to be
strong for two7 Can you do It?
GOOD GIRL
Richards writes that your nurse
is a very good girl and very pretty
and lovable. She suggests roman
tic situation for you which made me
smile There was time when I tried
to marry you to Elizabeth's COVER
ness, believing that IL you were an
other woman's husband 1 could over
come my love for you. / know now
that 1t was miserable mistake. If
you married the nurse she would not
be bar in our path. You would go
on lowing me and wanting me. We
would only complicate our troubles
and sacrifice her.
Don't marry her. Max. Don't make
things harder for me than they are
now.
Think it over for both of u.s. Are
you so strong in your sense of NOR
ality that 1t will be safe for me to
come home?
"Or will you condemn me to another
years exile from you and tempta-
tion? SALLY"
Now what, Diary, should any man
who has been decent all his life, and
wants to go on being decent, reply to
a letter like that?''