The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-08-14
LIFE's MACHINERY NEEDS AT
TIMES THE OIL OF FlATTERv
tcopyrleht. 1915. BY the Newspaper
Enterprise Assoeiasior)

tSopyrtGns. 1919. BY the Newspaper
Enterprise Assoeiatior)
This morning when I went 10 the
hospital. | found dear Aunt Mary
In splendid spirits and apparently
In very comfortable condition.
They are not going TO operate
until the last OF the week." she
said. Dick went with me, and
while we were with her we both
tried TO make her think We were
perfectly happy again.
She would not let either OF us
stay with her long. You know.
my dears." she said. when any
one Is ms I'll as | am they grow
very selfish and insistent on hav.
Ing their material wants fulfilled.
| have my splendid nurse and she
viii be fussing with me all the
time that am not asleep. so you
two dear people will be IN the way.
Make me little call at least once
4 day. but the remainder Of the
time 20 about your daily business
with the feeling that am doing
az well as can under the circum.
stances"
While I was there I asked abou,
Eleanor Fairlow and found that
she was not feeling well At all.
Had been off duty for nearly a
week and In care OF a nurse part
of the time.
When We left the hospital Dick
said to me:
"Margie. why don't you send
Eleanor some fruit and flowers p
'1ll do It on my way back home. .
I promised.
Her favorite flowers arc vio-
let's" he remarked and then closed
his lips tightly as tho he wished
he had not volunteered that infor.
nation.
hate myself when 7 am suspi-
cious OF Eleanor Fairiow and Dick.
but you see. little book. know
they were engaged before Dick
met me. and feel that she at
least has not forgotten.
IL he beginning to remember
That remark he made last night
about marriage being quite differ
ent from anything he expected
hurt me. altho to you. little book.
can tell the truth. and say IL is
also very different from anything
expected.
I am heartbroken about that
money. II will take mo a long
time to save up another thousand
dollars. I still have about that
much In the bank. but I cling TO
that old idea OF mine that ! must
have some money TO fall back on
and so I have let Dick believe that
the money gave him was all I
had.
And, little book, the fact that he
does not consider what save as
mine makes me feel rather queer.
He still thinks ! and all ] have
belong" to him. body and soul.
but | know that ideal lies shat.
tered In pieces that can never be
put together again. I do not be-
lieve that any woman worth the
name wants to belong" after the
first few weeks OF the honeymoon
and she begins to realize that this
world contains something more
than Just romantic love. or rather
when she begins to realize that ro-
mantle love cannot last.
| wonder II that Mr.. Stuart told
the truth when he said he had
never found woman he could be
interested In for long?
| suppose man as rich and
charming as he Is worried 20 death
by women who fling themselves at
his head.
Jim called. me up the next
morning to say that he was send
ing a taxi to take Kitty TO the
train. and incidentally remarked
that he had never heard Stuart so
enthusiastic about women as he
was about those he met at Elienc's.
And, Margie," he said, Mrs. Wav-
erly is the loveliest OF them all. +"
Jim. you are an awful nat
terer."
NO. I am not. 7 didn't want old
Malcolm 10 say that even II II were
what I have always thought myself,
and would not have told you II he
had not gone away this morning"
| wonder, little book, why ! was
disappointed. I'm glad you are not
able TO answer back: Because
you like to be flattered, you silly,
egotistical thing
But. little book. you should know
that flattery is something which
oils the wheels OF life's machinery
lit is only when people are mar
ried that they forget that machln-
cry cannot be run without oil.
IT. az Hnnfinusd Mandsyl