The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-04-17
CHAPTER CXXX.
Copyright, 1914, by the News
paper Enterprise Association.)

~ WIZ ANS"o-
paper Enterprise Association.)
was fearfully excited when ]
arrived at my hotel after | had
made the visit with Eliene to the
twins she had adopted.
l was very glad that Aunt
Mary had left a note In my box
saying that she was going to stay
downtown to dinner with a
friend of hers who was passing
through the town.
Aunt Mary is a very shrewd
woman and she would have read
fly seen that something was the
matter with me.
Just as | was making up my
mind what to tell Dick about the
affair of Ellene and Harry's twin
babies, got telephone from
Dick. He said: rs that you,
Margie?"
YES" answered.
well, dear, | won't be home
to dinner tonight. Harry Symone
has gotten into devil of a scrape
and We are trying to keep it out
of the papers"
Eyes, l know about It," inter-
rupted.
mo, this is nothing you can
know about, Margie."
"Well, l do just the same"
"Who told your"
"Eliene."
what"
Eyes, we were out at the house
this afternoon and saw Harry
Symone's children, and you tell
him | saw his wife with those ba-
bies held close to her breast look
ing down at the cold, dead face
of the woman who had died in
giving them birth"
my God! Madge! You don't
mean to tell me that you and
Eliene were out there. IL the
papers get hold Of this We might
as well give up"
81 guess you might as we'll give
up anyway, and If 1t were not for
Eliene and the respectable family
of that poor girl, would be glad
to have it in the papers-but |
won't talk about it over the
phone; come home as soon as
you can"
"Is Eliene with you?"
"No, she Is at her own home"
Cali right, dear, I'll come as
soon as l can"
l could see by what Dick said
that neither Dick nor Harry really
understood the crime that Harry
had committed against his wife,
the girl, his children and society.
The whole energy of both was di-
rected to keeping the episode out
of the papers.
Isn't it a queer old world, little
book? Here is all this trouble
and grief made for Eliene just
because after marrying Harry she
tried to make herself over from
what she was before he married
her and from something he fell
In love with into something that
he thought O wife should be-not
HIS wife. but A wife.
Since I have been married to
Dick l have learned that a man
regards his wife in peculiar sort
of manner. He seems to have an
idea that no one woman can be
everything to a man. presume
this Is q mind bias heritage from
the old polygamous days.
Addison remarks: when a
man becomes familiar with his
goddess she quickly sinks into a
woman"
Then Mr.. Husband goes seek
ing another goddess. If by some
peculiar alchemy he could be
made to understand that his own
wife will give just as much joy
and happiness IL she be sweetly
wooed as the wife of any other
man, 1t would add much to the
Joy of living.
/ hate to look into the future,
little book, for I have already
come to know that there must be
real sense of companionship,
common tastes, a likeness of men,
tai attributes If one wishes a
successful married life. Dick and
are very much in accord now,
| but he Is living daily In very
different environment than /.