The Detroit times., 1914-12-19

my dear little green book. how
good It seems to get back to you
again! Not since my dear mother
put one like you in my hands has SO
long q time passed without me OPEN
idk you. and / tell you things have
been happening.
II am thinking, tonight, or what
mother said: Some day I'll not be
With you and you may have no one
MAR In whom to confide. Take this
little book, my child, and IL you get
{, "a the habit OF putting your thoughts
and experiences here know you will
have not only q safety valve but
4 e4feguard.
mo girl can go very wrong II she
honestly keeps diary and puts into
I'll her inclinations and impulses as
WPll as her ideas and ideals.
y. TITS an old-fashioned notion, my
dear, but I think l shall sleep better
xhen I close my eyes forever IL my
list thought Is that you will rigor-
otsly and with absolute honesty write
(. your journal after and from your own
hart"
b dearest mother! II you only knew
+ What q comfort the succeeding little
Gteen books have been to me from
y4ar to year. Sometimes j read them
over and laugh, and sometimes l pour
over them and cry. l find In them
many times egotistical opinions that
Z time and experience have changed.
md silly actions OF which am asham-
cd. find In them joys that love 10
remember and griefs that time has
sdftened--but most OF all through all
the sorrow and all the happiness, all
the laughter and all the tears find
eiowth.
Las yet have had no real tempta.
tfbns, but hope am gaining In the
strength to resist them II they should
cdme. Most of all wish to be tol
efant OF those who are weak. l know
my own weakness-I want love. 1
want someone near who takes pride
n IN me; having these, as l think L
have, II Is very easy to be good. But
{ not having them would I have come
. Through as triumphantly as Kitty
Malram did-or even glide past with
( tho youthful freedom and assurance
Of MollieH
don't know, little book-only time.
the tempter SHOULD there be one).
x and you. little book. will be able TO
What would do II I thought Dick
WAS untrue to meH Again cannot
tall I have such faith In him that
.connot imagine him making love TO
f my other woman. Not for one mo-
lent did suspect him OF wrongdoing
WITH Mrs. Utter. Dick is fond Of the
|nrsociation Of women; he is more or
oto l1attered by their attentions. but
N have q feeling that he has never
and win never love any other woman
thnn me.
And then think I am surer OF Dick
Tim most wives because he is more
odndid with me than are most hus-
bdnds with their wives.
He tells me many things that men
"a not tell their wives and which
wives DO not care 10 hear. But can
md no fault with him for admiring
pretty girl or q clever woman. Be
cause he loves me Is no reason why |
his appreciation OF the good qualities
~. other women should be less than |
nv sense OF the admirable Qualifca-
lens OF other men.
would mudh rather dance with |
I'D Eide than Dick, not because |
oxo Dick less, but because Jim dances
Hter. dance for the love OF dane
Eleanor Fairlow seems to like 20
1nce with Dick better than any 9TH
man. but am quite sure Il 10 not
ause she likes his dancing, for
~ not one Of the things Dick |
80 best
presume n were not married to
- would rather dance with him
- with Jim. because then would
- sure that he was really mine