The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-17
Copyright, 1914, by Newspaper

tCOpyrtsht, IBl4, by Newspaper
Enterprise AssOciation)
We'll, l must say, Margie, that
I'd be sorry for any girl that mar
ried Jack. l don't think any
woman could be much unhappier
than he has made Mary" said
Dick to me last night.
''And you see, Dick, with the
kindest heart in the world you
have fixed it so that Mary can't
get rid OF him."
But she doesn't want to, does
she?" asked Dick in surprise.
."She has not said so, but l am
sure | would want to get rid Of
you and would do SO mighty quick
IL you were like Jack"
"Margie, do you mean that You
would divorce me?"
"nder some circumstances
yes
"Then you believe 1t is right to
separate from your husband?"
Il certainly believe 1t is better
to separate than for two people to
live as Jack and Mary have been
living.
Yes, he was untrue to her all
the time, Margie."
Sometimes, Dick, l think that
unfaithfulness Is not always the
only cause for leaving ones hus-
band. / almost think could
stand that better than neglect,
nagging or unkind speech and
acts. You see, dear, when a man
begins to be steadily unfaithful to
his wife he stops loving her and
he begins to be unkind to her in
other ways. That is what makes
the unfaithful man so hard to live
with. 1t is not his unfaithfulness,
but the results of his unfaithful-
ness"
ut never seems to enter your
mind, Margie, that woman
might be unfaithful to her hus-
band"
Eyes, 1t does, my dear, and in
this case / believe il / were the
husband would consider that
the end and leave her."
There you go! Just like a
woman. Harder on your own sex
than you are on the men,
mo, dear; l do not mean that
the wife who is unfaithful to her
husband Is any greater sinner
than the man who is unfaithful to
his wife, but / do think that un-
faithfulness on the part of wom-
an means only that she does lot
love her husband and she does
love the other man. On the con-
trary, have come to believe that
most men can love their wives
and be unfaithful to them every
day"
I'm other words, Margie," said
Dick, "you have learned what
every man knows-that a man
can love two women at one and
the same time"
"And l know, Dick, that no
woman can love two men at the
same time"
Evidently, my dear, you do
not believe in the old theory that
on this earth there is only one
man made for one woman and
these marriages are made In
heaven?"
II certainly do not. When pet.
pie are young it is usually a ques-
ton of mating-not marrying"
where did you learn all this.
Margie? You did not talk this
way before I married YOU"
81 did not know it then, my
dear husband. l did not think
about marriage except in the
vaguest sense. But, being in the
habit of always thinking much
about the work or business in
which l am concerned, l suppose
/ think more about marriage and
the domestic and social relations
of husband and wife than do most
women"
"Do you write all your concli-
sions down in that little red book
of yours that you keep so jeal-
ously under lock and key? I'll
have to look into it some day."
81 am afraid you never will.
Why, Dick, the confessions and
opinions that l write in that book
are so secret and sacred that |
have hardly dared to read the old
ones over to myself"
"But you have no secrets from
me, dear, have your"
Just as many as you have
from me. The little red book is
the only place that l go in open
confession and find it good for
my soul"
"You make me curious, Margie.
/ must see some time what you
think of me or, rather, what you
write of me in that little red
book"
II am not any more compliment
tary to you than I am to myself.
The little red book is the only
place where / tell the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the
truth"
Continued Tomorrow
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