El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-23

- cOct sure SelL-SaLlSfled manner
Of my sex, that Knew all about
women. I thought it was like looking
into a stream so limpid that nothing
was hidden by anything as vague as
{ a shadow, but know now that il is
more ike gazing into a mirror which
( throws back ones own reelection and
5 reveals nothing Of itself.
tor these many years I have been
gazing into the mirror Sally Spencer
helq before ME and thought I saw the
seuI OF the woman. 1 realize today
I mat saw only my own opinions OF
1T is fight, fight, fight all the
IInei light to retain my personal
Z cnarmsi fight to keep him Interested
3 a IlShI 10 forget myself In satisfying
every longing he may have, physical,
: mental or spiritual, q ught TO give
! MN Just so much OF myself he viii
/ never know safety and viii always
I want more fight to keep him from
! the clutches Of that other woman. all
/ ways standing like a threatening phan-
tom IN the background, and then. when
4 1 have his love, what do possess
I Something about as lasting as a soap
I bubble and never worth the price,"
That was the cry OF Sally Spencer,
: ana u seems to me to be the cry of
all the wives dragging in weary pro-
/ ceSslon before my mental vision
They are all fighting so hard to keep
the love some man once urged them
20 accept and We who should be
I the ones to fight to keep the love Of
woman, are cruel in the knowledge
( that having once won her love so
I Won for life.
I have seen a great deal of sally
since the morning a week ago when
she dropped the mirror she had al
( ways held before her and let me see
I into the depths of her soul. she
seems to find a greater JOY in the
presence Of the children, something
deeper than JOY, in fact, a comfort, q
promise. q IOrEarfulDeSS-
Il always wanted q baby,F she
said W1stfully one day but Jack
didn't"
On another occasion she remarked
that every wife made great mis-
take IN thinking that the love man
had for her would be the greater II
there were no children TO share It
1t grows less with sigh, and
wives
She says little about Jacks wander
ings into forbidden paths, but I gath
er from chance remarks that they have
not been numerous, but have been seri-
Gus while they lasted.
Every man." bending her head
over a rent in a doll dress which she
was repairing, stations his wife at
fixed post and Wanders away, know
ing he viii find her there with arms
outstreuched to welcome him when
ever II suits him TO return. If she
reprOaches, If she chides, if she
WeepS, ne VIII only wander off again.
with her arms Outstretched, grateful
that he returns to her; ignoring for
the sake of her happiness and the
security of her home the fact that
he comes back with another WOman's
kisses still warm on his lips"
And I, as one who also thought aloud.
And I, as one Woh also though aloud,
replied Yet, knowing this, you
once almost made a match between
Margaret Hill and me. I can't mag
inc she would stand on fixed post
gIYeness- She IS good; so good she
is removed above every understand
ing Of temptation; so good she could
never forgive"
She Knew Max.
But you would not wander away,
Max I know you better than you
know yourself"
Il am not a better man than Jack
NO. thoughtfuTy. "in many ways
you are not as good But YOU are
nearly SO, and you have spent life
time IN following your Impulses You ,
have found it doesn't satisfy. When
you sit alone and think Of the past. il
is with regret and humiliation for
what you have done. When Jack
Spencer is in meditatiye mood. he Is
regretUng what he didn't do
But why I began
Because I married him when he
was very young and have taken care
that he had no opportunities The
wild oats crop he might have sowed
IS always q pleasing retrospect TO g
man who has been kept good in spite
of himself"
Here" holding up a diminutive
garment of muslin and lace" is the
party dress Of the princess Aline,
just as good as new"
Manette climbed TO her lap to assist
in robing the princess Aline, and the
brown eyed pup barked so fiercely I
for the place occupied by her royal
highness on Manette's lap, and made
such frantic efforts to get there, that
I lifted him up, and then stood back, [
laughing at the picture they made.
It was not till we were escOrting
Mrs Spencer home an hour later that
found chance to ask the question I /
had been asking myself over and over /
again:
The Reason.
knowing Jacks weakness, why do |
you invite the widow to your hOuse?" |
When a mother is so prompt in
saving her child from the fire that il Z
Is never burned, il never learns not 1
to play with fire I intend to let 4
Jack Spencer get so badly burned this /
time that he viii never 90 near the /
flames again"
And had always thought, in the 1
cOck-sure, self-satisfied manner of my 4
sex, that I knew all about woman!
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