The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-05
"A WIFE'S.
Confessions
/ CAN'T NAG AL THE TIME


Altho Mollic did not speak OF her
mother to me and neither has Dick.
know they are both worrying
about getting her settled after Mol
lie Is married.
Dick does not dare breach the
subject TO me for fear ! will abso.
iutely refuse 10 have his mother
with me-whieh will.
Perhaps that Is a sign that do
not love Dick enough. but | simply
cannot he made utterly miserable
by having some one always with
me who gets on my nerves as dcea
Mother Wayerly.
Moillc. dear girl. will help out in
any way she possibly can. but how
10 reconcile her mother TO the best
plan Is the problem.
Mother Waverly's first incilna-
ton IL to say no" always. no mat
ter what you suggest
II IL sad commentary. little
book. on the desires and hopes OF
fomininity when an old woman
must make herself undesirable and
hopeless.
SO many people pity an old man
when the wife. who has lived with
him 80 many years. dies. They
say. Isn't II too bad that he II left ,
He was so dependent upon his wife.
he will be so lonely" and yet |
have never seen an old man who
has seemed 30 miserable and who
made those about him 30 unhappy
as have many OF the old women !
have known.
Al old woman does not seem TO
have anywhere TO turn for comfort
She does not even have the solace
OF tobacco. she does not enjoy the
newspapers and can seldom find
any interest In reading. II she Is
not greatly engrossed In her church
she usually turns to solitaire.
or course. am talking OF the old
women like Mother Wayeriy. Dear.
dear Aunt Mary was never like
that. She enjoyed life and we en-.
Joyed her up 20 the very end Mrs
Selwin also is more interesting 20
me than any young woman ! know
But both these women, think
and. thinking. they do not make the
whole world and all the inhabitants
thereof revolve around their little
conferred selves.
Mother Waverly Is always un
happy. because she il always ask
ing for love which. no matter how
much her son and daughter try "a
deceive her into thinking they give
her. she knows she does not get.
She thinks they ought 10 love her
because she Ia their mother. and
she will never understand that We
cannot love people for the good
they have done. We may respect
and remember kindnesses. but love
real loye-must have something
10 feed upon. and very gluttonous
Individual IL that little god.
I wonder II a husband ever
thinks OF this?
You see. little book. that where
ever start ! always get back "a
husbands. and by husbands. OF
course. | mean Dick.
I expect Dick is the average sort
OF man who. having married. goes
about his other business or amuse
ment with the idea back In his
brain that his wife at home will al
ways love him for the way he made
love In the long ago.
I am quite sure that II Dick
thinks about II all. and II should
dawn on him that ! am the least
unhappy. he puts II down either "a
my health. my nerves or To the
general foollshness Of women.
Sometimes think, little book
that will take you and give you
into his hands and for once let one
husband % see Just what one Wit
thinks and then begin TO trem
BILE. for n I should do this and h'
was bored By the reading II he
ala not understand that II was rea
- think my heart would break
You must not think. little book
because I tell all these things q
YOU. that am forever naRglnP
Dick We seldom quarrel conl
not live with man and quafrc
with him all the time Mollle told
me the other day was too easy
"fd bring Master Dick mp pretty
short n had him. she said. but
some way cant make the time
thst he is with me = time OF hatred
and grief. ! have found that Will
Dick it does no good 10 sc0ld and
when he is with me he ls almost
always sweet TO me. especially II
I let him have his own way and dc
not call him To- account.
Little book. ! want 10 be happ,
and have not the courage to stil
things M u Ia bad enough ~ dc
this when am alone with YOU.
ITO Be Contlnusd.)