The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-08-21
copyright. 1914. by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)


II f. rather strange how ones
real interest In people narrows
down--or rather. should say.
never expands. We mako many ac-
quaintances, but most OF us can
count the friends who interest us
and whose interest we have at
heart on our fingers.
Out OF all the people ] met NJ the
hotel there was none TO whom |
could give moro than a passing
thought without being bored. /
was invited over there yesterday.
and I looked over these women and
wondered II any one OF them
thott.ht she was really living. Per.
haps II I only could look into their
inner lives would find quite as
much OF interest there as ! think
there Is In my own.
But most women. when they get
together in numbers. are so insin-
| cerc. Nearly every woman there
yesterday was over 35. You sol
dom see girls at an afternoon card
/ party where there are no men.
/ They are having more fun hunting
/ prizes I'm the matrimonial market
That sounds catfish. doesn't II.
\ little book. but II is mott II only
saying 20 you one OF those things
which all women know. but don't
talk about even among them
selves.
II il woman's business 20 be a
wife and mother" every one agrees.
without carrying the idea out TO its
logical conclusion. But down In
every woman's heart Ia the longing
for a home, for husband---conse-
auently either consciously or sub
i consciously every girl from the
time she Ia putting her hair up on
the top OF her head IL In reality
hunting a husband. don't think
men ever consciously hunt for a
wife, although writers and poets
are always talking about men be
ing the hunter and woman the
hunted. Man hunts distraction.
pleasure. forRetfulness OF business.
Il but woman is always thinking:
Would this man make a good hus-
| band?" II seemed To me that /
had a good illustration OF this at
I the card party yesterday. The
\ conversation was mostly about jim
Edle-just now he Is the most eiigi-
bic bachelor In town--and from the
current running under the CONVEX
sation you could see that all the
widows-grass and under the grass
were thinking OF him as posi-.
bile chance, and the women who
were married had some unattached
girl In their families for whom they
were planning campaigns against
the others.
TITS a good thing Harriet Aus
tey was married the other day be-
fore Mr.. Edie came home" said one
woman with laugh. by which she
tried TO turn her remark into
joke.
do you know" said another wo-
man, II never thought she would
really get him"
We'll, she did. and In doing SO
married n man worth half a million
dollars
DO you know how much he gave
HIS first wife 20 get n divorceY
asked some one else.
Some ono told me s250,00o.'
Some ono told mo he fell In love
with her when she was visiting at
an adjoining cottage mt tho sea
shore. You know he and his wife
had not been living very happily
for some years. and Harriet seemed
TO be Just the one woman he had
missed"
Yes" chimed IN one OF Har-
riet's friends. II saw Harriet after
the wedding. and hhe remarked:
IN think. Adele. this was coming to
me. have worked so hard and
tried ~ get along all these years
that I am sure this Ia the reward
Of all my sad days and troubles.
Mr.. Austey says ne fell In love
with me almost as soon as he saw
me. but. OF course, We never