The Detroit times., 1914-03-30
The Confessions of a Wife

Dick on paper every day while he II
away. IA.
have almost come to believe that
Q wife II not only the housekeepel
! and homekeeper, but the lovekeepel
also of the family.
Probably Dick Ii thinking that
have nothing else to do but to write
letters and II angry with me for not
writing him. l really wanted to do
go, but some willful feeling made me
say to myself: Don't you do It un.
less he does"
feel as though I had been cheated
"a little because have never had q
really truly love letter from Dick. Be-
fore we were married he was never
out of the city and he contrived to
see me every day and he has always
used the telegraph when he has been
away since. ~
The last time he was away wrote
him long letter every day, and.
while he never referred to any OF
them. except little poem that l sent
to him. found al Of them the other
day tied up with bit Of ribbon that
I had given him to keep for me one
night when It came on OF my dress
and did not have pin to hx It.
This discovery made me 30 happy
flor q while, but II also made me q
| little afraid, for Il showed me that
Dick does not let me into his inmost
heart. even when he knows I should
only find myself enshrined there
was thinking about this ~ / was un-
dressing for bed and kept getting
more and more lonely. l finally got
rather hysterical and said to my
self: Il think / will Just die II don't
hear DickyS voice."
| ImpuIsively called to the ONCE.
although II was after midnight. and
asked the clerk II he could get Mr..
I Waverly ON the wire. gave HIM
Dicks address and waited. Minutes
seemed hours. One minute I was
afraid he would be angry for waking
him up, and the next would tremble
a. the thought Of hearing his dear
voice. It would be the next best
thing to touching him. Again my
heart beat - quickly a. that night
before my marriage when waited
for his FIRST call after he had prop0s.
ed to me.
It was the primitive woman awake
In every nerve waiting for the call
Of her man from across the distance
II was with q delicious. distracting
almost Departing feeling that an
swcred the ring of the telephone and
heard Dicks voice asking In q dis
turbed tone: Hello, Margie. Any
thing the matter"
Nothing the matter, dear, except
II simply had to hear you speak "a
me or die"
"YOu absurd child" came the words
over the wire. but the tones told me
that Dick was a. happy to hear my
voice a. was to hear his. (Men like
sentiment In their. wivesJ
Don't you know, madame, Il IL bad
luck to wake your poor tired husband
cut Of Z sound sleep Just to ten him
lyon were lonely? What are you do
ing up 30 late?"
IL was at the tbeaterN with the
ISymones and just want to tell you
THAT II our lives sink into the Kind Of
Imonotony that engulfs them after VI
have been married seven years II
either commit suicide or get . di
voice"
Here. Msrsis. do you know yos
lare paying dollar . minute 70 tel
Inc this? Am coming homo tomor
lrow, darling, and then you'll forge
Ithere are such words e Loneliness
Tor mcnoenny IN the dict1ohary.r
A Goodnight, Dicky, and ! am ela<
lTm alive. for you love me- I said q
Il hung 40 the phone.
= Dick = quite 61tlDfhct0vy has
hand sven e hs don't write love Iet
tsrs. n.