The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-11
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KITTY rs DANGEROUSLY Ill
Copyright, 1915, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Assoc latlon)


Before Dick showed any signs OF
awakening. ! got telegram from
Herbcr, Spencer. telling me Kitty
was terribly 81. and asking me to
come down u could
Hastily scribbling a note TO Dick
and sticking Il IN the mirror OF Aunt
Mays room. ! caught the interur.
ban car for ---. All the way
over kept saying. AZ she did TO me
the last time | saw her. I'm afraid
-Margie, I'm afraid
Poor. poor Kitty she 20 out
into the dark and the silonce-she
who loved 30 much the light and the
laughter oh. can not think fate
would be 30 cruel TO her
As the train sped on I began to
sec how fond was OF Kitty. and IL
came over me. little book. that none
OF MS ever can really say for what he
likes person.
! heard a man declare. the other
day that love was given to you. bu,
you had to earn friendship. | don't
absolutely agree with him
One cannot always tell the rea-
sons why We stick TO our friends
Surely. the ones We stick by the
closest are not always those who
have earned our greatest admira-
ton and respect
! believe ! have always cared for
Kitty, altho she is somewhat cat.
tish aud has many other traits | do
not admire. because OF her absolute
and utterly unconscious honesty.
Kitty never lies to herself or her
friends, and as she regards me as
her friend. she never lies 10 me.
always distru# the man or
woman who boasts OF being honest.
for ] think We all lie more or less.
All We can ask OF ans one. II We
call her friend. Is that she will not
lie 10 herself or TO us. That makes
"a pretty good basis on which to
rear "A friendship. little book.
Sometimes | think I would rather
have my friend lie to me than 10
herself. for II is only the supreme
ny egotistical and self-centered
woman who lies to herself.
Kitty never did that: she never
pretended she was doing right by
letting Bill Tenney make love TO
her She only said. But | love him.
dear. and he loves me" Now, isn't
II strange. little book, that today /
am speeding over as fast as / can
10 see Kitty, who has perhaps Civ
on her life TO bear child whose
father is another man. while BIN
Tenney IS over In Egypt. floating
down the Nile with the wife he neg.
lected for Kitty? Was IL love-ar
is what each has now real love? |
give it up, little book
Poor Kitty. wonder what kind
OF a mother she will make, She Is
one OF those irresponsible women
who viii treat her children one min.
ute as a nuisance and the next as a
new and welcomed toy II will be
case of fun for the mother, but
death to the child
You see. little book. | do not be.
licve that motherhood is an instinct
To me IL has always seemed that
It was what Savarin called cooking
AN art. craft. business and a
profession and while some have
more aptitude for It than others. vet
everybody has to learn its tech
nique, which is the one thing art.
craft, business and professions have
Yin common.
! am telling you all these differ
ent things on the train to keep from
worrying about Ktty-and as | am
nearing the station where. probably
Herbert will meet me, will shut
YOU out of sight.
What an understanding friend
you are little book; always willinp
to come VIXEN You are wanted and
not hurt when YOU are put aside for
others.
Some day I'm going TO let the
world know what you have been Il
me. Some day-perhaps
ITO Be Continued)
Eyky GEGG