The Washington times., 1914-12-08
ter'SAdventureS
in Mdtrin1Ony
BY LEONA DALRYMPLE.
NO. l43.

MARRIAGE AND EMOTION.
= WAS to learn much of feminine en-
durance in the days to come. For
il day or so only Mary lay quiet in
her room, her face and throat band
aged. her mother in complete authority
OF my house. Always when / asked her
how the burns felt she smiled and said
better" though I knew she lied
Given a bandaged man in similar
straits and he would have made the at
mosphere uncomfortable with his growls
and grumbles and descriptions OF his
agony. Not so my wife. Mary's in
tensely feminine and intensely sympa-
thetic desire to shield others from
worry drove her to endless subterfugeS
to conceal her pain. She fibbed 20 her
mother and she fbbed TO me. and-as
my wife's Willingness to gossip with the
laundress had shocked and irritated me
terrIbly-so now her thoroughbred
craftsmanship compelled my utter re-
spect.
The doctor. to whom l had 'phoned
when the gas oven exploded so dis
! astrously to Mary, was dads assistant
| spoke to him of Mary's fortitude.
Most women are like that. Peter, he
what the frailest little woman will bear
with a smile, where a great hulking
brute Of a man will go all to pieces
Il wonder Why
| nature lnpidnttu lHdl illsNAANt "a
| fOrtitude in women he said. Srlmly,
for the good of tine race. II men had
\ tn bear the children OF the world the
race would die out. A capacity Tor sur
fering is the heaven-bOrn gift OF the
woman. and Nature intended every
wonan for a mother once in a while
YOU ind a woman not quite so brave as
7 Sh. might be, but for the most part l
! think women smile their way through
I illness where men growl.
mo.
days. After that she grew rebellious.
! Her hands had not been burned IN the
/ least, and on the fourth day she was IN
/ the kitchen at her work as usuaI. but
! the little accident had somehow drawn
| us closer to each other. as such things
, will. . .,
wondered at first if the agitation !
had felt was "a return rush OF that oIG
love that / had felt for my wife when
married her. l realized after IlAe,
Will. a sort of pity for myself, that II
was only the emotional tenderness mat
suffering Of any kind arOuSes. was
Eertlcr. / CUrbrd NV moments OF lril-
tation. and Mary. sensible of the
haTce. was gentler. too. But / had a
sickeniug feeling that ii was only toI
:; time, that impercePtbly we would
drift back into irritable pickering and H.
difference We lacked that big com
munity OF interest that Keeps marriase
from drifting on the shoals.
Yes. | was awake AT last. mad
missed that big love which comes &c
some m,E-the big love that has for us
base friendship. Mary and l had beeI
Iovers-we had never been friendS-ioi
. friends hip presuppOseS some basic con
LeuisI ity outside of the electric affinity
Of sex How MANY mon. | wondered
found that great love in marriaSe-on,
in ten? No. One in fifty-no-maybe one
a. "a hundred.
Ninety per cent of marriages prob
ably. depend upon the occasional onIUsi
of 1rtifIcial tenderness inspired by some
thing abnormal 10 keep them cemented
! For humanity is ahsurdly sentimental
and. given a moment of acute sentiment
a man fancies that he has at last foun,
his real sell, when in reality he i in In,
clutch Of strained ard unreal minute
that coIOIs backward and forward Will
IuteI Sc and binding glare.
To love my wife strongly ] must re
Spect not only her beautiful body.
must respect her mind and her intellr
genoe. her viewpoint and her opinion
nId Mary was as Upcttily CulOriesS I,
all RESPECTS save sex as Il woman MAJ
ne. She was frankly Natures Invits
ton to the male. hut Nature had no
zone lar enough in building her braii
tor better things Or maybe Mature
md started right and foolish ,trainin:
had warped the germs she planted.
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