El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-22
4 Naratioe Of Everyday Affairs
Their Married Life
Helen Finds Much Pleasure in Sympathizng with Another
Woman
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: seats opposite, and then woman quiet
! ly took the chair next to Helen's.
When she was half through the meal
Helen happened to glance at the chair
next to her and saw that it contained
the woman in black. She had stopped
her crying and was eating her lunch
quietly, as though she felt the need Of
food. Helen glanced at her OCCASION
ally through the meal, which was sur
prisingly good, and although she tried
I her best to eat slowly the little woman
at her left was still eating her salad
when she was finished with her meal
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid III have
to ask you to let me pass" said Helen
finally.
The little woman lifted a pair of
sad eyes, and hastily arose, flushing
slightly.
81 beg your pardon, I had not no
ticed," she murmured as Helen passed
through. Helen resolved to speak to
her when she returned to the car. As
she settled herself in her seat, the train
stopped at New Haven; they were just
about half way there, she reflected.
Helen had never been in Springfield
although she had passed through there
several times on her way to Boston.
She decided that the woman next to her
was not getting off at that station and
then promptly became engrossed in q
story.
They were well on their way again
before she looked up and saw the lit
tie woman in her chair She was not
crying, but was looking out of the
window sadly. Helen wondered if she
ought to speak to her, and then sud-
denly deciding, leaned forward and
touched her on the arm. A tear had
forced its way down her cheek as she
turned, a look of surprise crossing her
face.
Il thought we might talk a little to
each other" said Helen sweetly. These
trips are often very tedious, don't you
think SOP
Yes. are you going far?" the woman
said cOnventionally enough, hastily
Wlping away the tear.
only as far as Springfield, but even
that seems like 4 long trip when one is
travelling alone"
Il am going up to Canada" the wom-
an volunteered, and then as Helen said
nothing, ION a very sad mission; my
father has just died.
I'm so sorry. perhaps if you told
me about it, you see I'm stranger,
it often helps to tell another person
about a trouble"
The woman smiled at Helen CRATE
fully. You are kind, but there isn't
much to tell am a writer. I do
special articles for magazines, and I
haven't been able to get home very
often. You see we live so very far
up. My father hasn't been well sor
some time, but we had no idea his
trouble was serious. And then he went
so suddenly If I could have known
in time. Why he is a young man, and
we shall miss him So" Again her eyes
filed with tears and she turned away
from Helen to look out of the window.
Helen felt a little helpless in the
presence of a trouble like this. But
she felt intuitively that telling the
trouble to another had already helped
the woman's grief
Helen Tries to Comfort Stranger.
You know how sorry I am" she
said softly, leaning forward to put her
hand on the wOman's arm, "buu perhaps
if we talked about something else. Shall !
1 tell you about my little girl?"
Have you a child2' said the woman, /
curiously and with interest You look |
so very young"
Helen laughed merrily She had
caught glimpse of herself in the 1
glass. The brown suit, with its rich |
fur against her pink cheeks, was rather l
pleasant
why, how nice Of you to say such
/ thingl I have a little girl five years
I'D, or very nearly: but it was nice Of
-ou to tell me that"
The woman was actually smiling and |
/ faint color had come into her cheeks.
Il love little children" she said soft
Y. Tell me about your little girl"
Helen talked gayly about Winifred. |
ihe told about the tableaux and Win |
fred's success in the Age of limo
ence."
'I read about the tableaux in the
'aper. And so your little girl posed
gith the others?"
Helen smilingly assented, and then
Degan to talk about Joan Ricahrds. |
The TWO women were deep in CONVEX
alton when the conductor called Hart
ord and Helen looked up with start
only Hartford" said the woman
boxing out of the window, you have
n hour still"
Helen caught a glimpse Of the cap
-ol as she glanced out. Her trip was |
rowing tC be a real adventure. She !
if she ought to tell War
en- Of course, he would be sure to
isapprOve
"Did you say that you were to meet
our husband in Springfield?' the wom-
n was saying.
YES, we are going back to the city
This is just a pleasure trip
or me-"
HOY fortunate you are" said the
roman. leaning her head back against
he chair and looking at Helen en-
iously. Why, you have everything
husband, a baby. and you are Just
he kind Of a woman to have all those
hings," she finished decisively. 81
oppose you don't really know how
Icky you are"
Helen could not help thinking of
Ow often she wasn't happy. After all.
o the face of anOther's trouble, how
significant her little worries seemed.
he had thought to cheer the woman
p, and It was she herself who had
1nny world it was, after all