The Detroit times., 1914-12-18
The Confessions of a Wife
Retrospection and Introspection

My dear little green book, how
good It seems to get back TO you
againl Not since my dear mother
I put one like you in my hands has so
long q time passed without me open
ing you. and l tell you things have
been happening.
l am thinking, tonight, OF what
mother said: Some day I'll not be
with you and you may have no one
near In whom to conhde. Take this
little book. my child. and IL you get
In the habit OF putting your thoughts
and experiences here know you VIII
have not only safety valve but
safeguard.
mo girl can go very wrong If she
honestly keeps diary and puts into
II her inclinations and impulses as
well as her ideas and ideals.
It's an old-fashioned notion, my
dear. but I think shall sleep better
when I close my eyes forever II my
last thought is that you will rigor.
ously and with absolute honesty write
your journal after and from your own
heart"
Dearest mother! II you only knew
what comfort the succeeding little
green books have been TO me from
W4r 70 year. Sometimes | read them
otSf Ind laugh, and sometimes | pour
over them and cry. find in them
many times egotisical opinions that
time and experience have changed. |
find silly actions OF which am asham-
ed. / find in them joys that ! love to
remember and griefs that time has
softened---but most of all through all
the sorrow and all the happiness, all
the laughter and all the tears | find
growth.
AS yet I have had no real tempta-
lions, but hope | am gaining In the
strength to resist them IL they should
come. Most of all / wish to be toll
Grant of those who are weak. | know
my own weakness--I want love.
want someone near who takes pride
a me; having these, as | think
have II Is very easy to be good. But
not having them would | have come
through as triumphantly as Kitty
Malram did-or even glide past with
the youthful freedom and assurance
Of Mollie7
j don't know. little book-only time.
the tempter (should there be one),
and you. little book. will be able to
ten.
What would ] do II thought Dick
WA untrue to me? Again | cannot
tell. I have such faith in him that
cannot imagine him making love tC
any other woman. Not for one mo
ment did suspect him OF wrongdoint
with Mrs. Utter. Dick Is fond OF the
association of women: he is more OF
loes fIattered by their attentions, but
I have q feeling that he has never
and win never love any other woman
than me.
And then think am surer OF Dick
than most wives because he is more
candid with me than are most hus-
bands with their wives.
He tells me many things that men
do not tell their wives and which
wives do not care 10 hear. But | can
find no fault with him for admiring a
pretty girl or a clever woman. Be
cause he loves me Is no reason why
HIN appreciation OF the good qualities
q other women should be less than
mo sense Of the admirable qualifica-
tbs Of other men.
- would mudh rather dance with
IN Edie than Dick. not because |
lQye Dick less. but because lin dances
bo<fsr. dance for the love OF danc-
Eleanor Fsiriow seems 20 IKE 10
onnce With Dick better than any 9TH
- man. but ! am quite sure II n not
hG1ause she likes his dancing. Tor
81 y not one Of the things Dick
1oeG best
prssuns Il / we're not married &c
Ulck I vonid rather dance Win Mn
han with Jim. because then I would