The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-23
The Confessions of a Wife
The Man Who Understands.

woman who keeps wedding rings Sc
creted about her person TO produce
on emergency, that the absent-minded
bridegroom and the neglectfuI best
man may not be made ridiculous and
the bride fearful"
was angry at myself for not say
ing outright that | had met and talk.
ed with Mr. Sanders on the train com
ing over, but I had talked to Kitty so
many times like a Dutch uncle for
her slight indiscretions that could
not tell her with any degree Of assur-
ance that | had been guilty OF what
she would probably cali regular Air.
tation with a strange man
Isn't IL dreadful that sex must.
more or less, enter into every con
versation, every interest. every favor
that passes between man and wo-
MANI
wonder what Dick would say II
should tell him OF my little escapade
and read him what / have written
about il?
But OF course | never will This,
| little book is one OF the secrets which
only you and must share together.
/ presume | am making mountains
out OF molehills. but TO you. dear
diary. | may as we'll confess what n
foolish woman / am. I am a splendid
preacher and as an advice. giver | am
perhaps uneXcelled, but as a practi
toner expect | am just like all 9TH
er human beings. OF one thing, how
ever | am sure. and that is, no wo-
man Is Obliged 10 make love her
whole existence even II she Is mar
ried There Is a friendly companion.
ship OF wits and understanding that
Is mighty pleasant and il makes no
claim on the heart or the emotion
even II the companionshtp be between
the sexes This man Sanders has in
terested me more than any one have
ever met with the exception OF Dick
My interest In him bears ont one
Of the theories that Dick offered the
other night when Miss Fairlow was
with US, and also my, own idea that
what is sauce for the goose is sauce
for tho gander II is only 10 you lit
| tie book, do ! make one OF these old
| sayings. Dick says NO one woman
can be everything 70 a man" At the
time he said n ! thought he was
crazy. but perhaps ne NAV be right
/ and perhaps mo one man can hold
all the interests" Of any woman
! My! that's a radical idea
! am afraid Aunt Mary would think
7 had gone crazy II were TO tell r.
70 her Dear Old Mrs Selwin would
/ understand and say "Margie tha
/ Is Just as trne OF women as OF men
| but I'M all the long years that have
flung themselves behind. even wo.
mans thoughts have not been free
She has had 10 think along the lines
that man has prescribed for her. and
she would not dare even think sucn
traitorous thoughts as Won have just
| spoken That she could be az all in
terested in any man bat tho one who
singled her ou' for his favor would
seem like branding her with the scar
let letter We have learned different
lly now"
went 20 sleep on the train think
ing Of Dick and wondering why h'
did not m least wire, me- | have no
? heard from him In four days.
Dear Dick n you only knew how
4 much I appreciated the small atten
tons and how foolish I regard SOME
I Of the big things you do.
2 ! want 20 know Won think Of m,
j daily as 7 think of vou--f want voi
5 10 love me so much that Won vii
!. make me forget everything and every
] body but YOU
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