The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-01
CONFESSIONS
OF A WIFE
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Mrs Bill Tenney called on me
yesterday.
After admiring my house 10 an
extent that satisfied even me. she
remarked with sigh:
Mrs. Waverly. you should be a
very happy woman"
Il think ! am pretty happy"
answered. Il certainly enjoy my
little homo. although ! find keep
/ ing house more expensive than
thought. ] am Just about choosing
between a new fall suit and a maid
20 help me with tho work this win
ter"
a man would choose the maid
said Mrs. Tenney.
How do you know that
asked.
Well. in tho first place. a man
viii be comfortable whether his
clothes are the latest style or not
II most men kept house they would
have certain things done for them
selves Just ms most men have their
shoes BACKED or their faces
shaved.
Men care more for comfort than
beauty for themselves and more
for beauty than for comfort for the
women who must sit across the
breakfast table from them day aft.
er day.
mo matter how ragged a man
gets. II seldom enters his mind to
mend the rents: no matter how
dirty HIS shirt. he seldom thinks he
can wash II.
Whatever else woman does,
she usually does all these little per.
sonal things, not only for herself
but for others.
Men usually do one thing and do
II well without making life bur.
den. but we women try 20 do so
many things that we get the repu.
tatlon OF doing everything In slip
shod fashion"
We'll. what are you going to do.
Mrs. Tenney." I asked. ~ you are
left widow as was q friend OF
mineg Her husband died suddenly
and left her with three little chill
dren and about SO in money. She
had 10 earn money enough TO sup
port those little children-she had,
10 do the dead fathers work and
yet she was their mother and she
must give them all the care that
mother gives them.
This brave little woman did this
with no asking for sympathy or re-
lief She worked all day to earn
their bread and at night she moth
cred her children. put them 10 bed.
heard them say their prayers, made
and mended their clothes, bound up
their childish hurts and kissed the
spots TO make them well. She. my
dear Mrs. Tenney. had TO do many
things and she did her duty outside
her home In such fashion that her
employers valued her work and she
did her work inside her home so
well That her children did not miss
a mothers care.
mo one seemed TO think this wo-
man was doing anything out OF the
ordinary, but in some way her old
est child, boy OF 10, appreciated It.
for when he came down TO break.
fast he always greeted her gravely:
Good morning. Father and she as
gravely replied: Good morning.
SON Then he said; Good morn.
ing. Mother and she answered
with n kiss. Good morning, my
boy"
That is just the point want to
make" said Mrs. Tenney. "no one
thinks that wonderful woman is do
ing anything extraordinary They
are her children--she must care for
them. But II she died aud left the
children to the fathers care no one
would have thought for n moment
that he could be to them a mother
and father, too"
do you know. Margie, would
give anything II | had children"
she interrupted impulslvely. II be.
lieve that VIII and ! would still be
together. And even II we we're
parted, as we are now. | would have
the children to comfort me.
why don't you have children,