The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-22
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All day | have worried about
Dick, but I could say nothing be-
cause | did not want TO trouble
his mother, who was happier than
she had been since Dads death.
The rooms at the hotel are very
comfortable, and mother and Mol
lie can live there for $125 a
month. Mother told ME she was
going to pay the hundred she got
from the rent of her house and
let Mollie pay the other twenty
five.
Poor Mother, She means we'll.
She Is perfectly willing to give up
all her money 20 make them COM
Portable. and they will be very
oontented. am sure. in this
place. There Is only one thing
We will have to do, and that will
be to keep her busy.
| am going to ask Mrs. Selwin
TO invite her to help In the char
ity work she is interested in.
Mother Waverly will be flattered
at Mrs. Selwin's notice, and per-
haps everything will come out all
right with all the rest-but where
| am /?
Dick and. ! haXe quarreled and
| am to blame. We quarrel much
easier and oftener lately than we
used to. | wonder why?
Is Dick getting tired of me?
guess ! am too serious-minded. |
| am getting too self-centered. |
think too much of Margie Wav-
erly and her affairs.
am telling you this, little
book, and eonfessing my sins of
omission and commission to you
while waiting for Dick to come
home to dinner. When he comes
| am going to act as IL nothing
had happened. and even II he has
been drinking | am not going to
say anything about IL, for this
morning | was just horrid.
What prig a woman can be
who prides herself on doing the
right thing in the right place.
have always hated those peo-
Pile that Bobbie Burns designated
the "unca guild" and | can see,
little book, that | am fast becom-
ing one of those goody-goody peo-
pie myself.
| did not bother Dick about his
actions before married him
Just loved him. But you see, lit.
tie book, he didn't worry me with
his everyday actions-he JUS
loved me.
| did not. dream that Dick
would swear when his tie would
not pull through his collar. and
am sure he never thought I'd be
such a silly prig as to be sarcas.
tic and catfish when he gave vent
to his feelings.
Being married, little book, IL
very different from being sweet.
hearts. You cant be both. Con-
sequently there is tragedy as well
as wit in that old toast: ITO ouI
sweethearts and wives-may they
never meet.
If ever have a daughter,
shall try and make her under.
stand that a sweetheart is a very
different thing from wife. A
sweetheart has only need of five
senses--a wife must have com
mon sense and sense of humol
added. Sometimes l think | have
neither.
oh, | do wish Dick would come
so | could tell him all this. w,
married women are always telling
our husbands and ourselves abou
the man who always stands by t,
give us the flattery and attention
that they are too lazy or to,
thoughtless to proffer, but what 1
they should whisper to us of tn,
pretty women who are so ready t,
flatter and understand" them?
Little book, little book, some o
as is an angel, none of us is per
feet, and marriage is only on,
long give and take, one long com
promise.
/ have put on my pretties
gown, the one that Dick like
best, and | have beefsteak for din
ner, but am not sure he is com
ing home.
| am miserable, and it's all m.
fault. What are a torn tie, ;
split shirt and few swear words
beside love?