The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-12-05

w\M~> world - put any
|NEn one else in trou-
BILE or sorrow to save himself one
minutes annoyance.
He began to wish he did not
have me from the moment | told
him | was going to have baby.
He tried OF care for me when IL
meant giving up his old habits,
but il could not last. He was too
pleasure-lovine, too selfish.
For months now he has had
only one wish-that | was out OF
his life.
"Our perfect love has been
found lamentably imperfect.
I'VE have neither found happi-
ness with each other and we have
put 1t out of the power of either
to be happy with anyone else.
"Margie, why Is 1t that so
many men and women marry as
Jack and | did only to regret IL
forever afterward?
Don't tell me it is mere pas
sion, for we loved each other mad
ly. True, there is nothing in com
mon between us. We are as far
apart as the poles i'm thought. We
never could have held each others
imaginations for a moment, but
there was some sort of bond be-
tween us, something primary be-
yond explanation, and to me to-
day, when | am here without the
least feeling for Jack, | thrill at
the memory of what has been.
"Why could | not have met
some man whose ideas of life
were like my own? Who had
something of the same order OF
mind, and, not meeting him, why
should | have had my very heart
drawn out of me by someone
with whom 1t was impossible for
me to find real companionship?"
zone of the things most women
have to learn. Mary, is not to ask
'Why?' too often.
with us it is the eternal ques-
ton and one that makes us more
trouble than anything else. We
always ask 'Why?' and men ask
'What?' One is always trying to
find the reasons for things good
and bad, exclaiming, why is 1t
thus and so with thee and me?'
and the other is curiously peering
out, with that everlasting What
is ii like?' on his lips and the
feeling of a naughty child to tear
1t to pieces and see.
| GAN IF which ciCtpr daar
brings us back to the present
with a thud. You must not ask
why. You must go on doing this
splendid work that you are doing
and which you like so we'll. Mary,
don't you know that you have got
the chance to make man In your
life that same kind of an incident
that women are in the lives of
men?
You ought to be very proud
of yourself, my dear, and you
should be comparatively happy
you have been able to fill a place
in family that belittled your ex-
cellence-a place that one of
themselves failed to fill with even
mediocre success"
"Margie, dear, that is what is
worrying me. OF course, | know
that dear old Dad is getting stead
lily weaker and weaker and know
that very soon l will have no real
claim on any of your family, as
when Dads estate is settled it
will, of course, mean Dick, Jack,
Mollie and mother. l shall feel
like an interloper. For If Jack
had any say about running the
business he would put me out of it
tomorrow-even If he knew /
could run 1t better than he.
what will do then, Margie?"
81 don't think you need worry,
Mary. The bookshop owes money
to Dick and | am sure he will not
see a business In which he will
have an interest go to the dogs
just to flatter Master Jacks van
ity."
But" said Mary. with flaming
cheeks, suppose l should separ-
ate from Jack?"
as 1t so bad as that, Nary" l
asked alphabetically.
Isn't it," was her question.
ASK yourself, Margie: Would
you not act with decency and self
respect? You know that the most
contemplate thing In the world
is when two people live together
as a mere matter of convenience
or habit.
1.-The women of the streets who
have gone wrong know this, and
in their hearts they laugh at those
women who have taken up the
profession of reform because of
lunbearableness of their own love-
less unions"
Here is another woman who is
not only asking Why?' but Is try
ing to answer tho question:" l
said to myself.
CONTINUED Monday,)