The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-16

/ (tepyrfsht. 1874, ~ Newspnper
4 Enterpriss Aasectetionl
| l have been awfully III for tn,
last week and am much afrait
that / am not normal woman
Annie has not had a bit of trouble
has done her work and beer
very happy ever since she haa
known her baby Is coming. Ever
Eliene. as frail as she looks. came
In yesterday the picture of health
and here am /, who has never
been sick I'm my life. lying prone
and physically SO Ill that car
only think of my own poor body
and not as l would like to do
I, of my coming child.
Mother Waverly is scandalizet
and l think that gentle Aunt Mar,
Is a little sensitive about the way
Eliene and ! talk about our com
ing babies. have never thought
there was anything vulgar OIL
ribald about the birth of a child
Consequently. I do not have thai
self-consciousness that some
people deem modesty.
My baby Is too sacred a subject
to be talked of with acquaint.
ances, but II get well enough te
go among my friends shall have
no false modesty in doing so. UI
to date, however, have only beer
conscious of the utmost physical
discomfort am sick. and, little
book, don't think Dick appre
ciates how i'll l am.
He sees Eliene going about
serene and happy and Is hailed
by Tim on the street corner who
tells him how well "the wife is
God be praised" and when ht
comes home and finds me too IL
even to talk to him about hi
affairs, somehow he feels al
though | was making a great fusi
about nothing.
DR.. Atwater comes over ant
comforts me every day by sayinf
that very many women in my con
dition suffer in the same way tina
| am suffering.
! guess l am childish. wan
to be petted and babied a LITTLE
myself. 1t seems to me, littl,
book, that just at present l an
doing the most important worl
that has ever been done In thu
Richard Waverly family. Blu
Dick, after that first rapturouI
caress when he heard the news
takes 1t quite as a matter o.
course. This last week he hat
been out four evenings until II
O'Clock. OF course, i know tha'
he is working tooth and nail Il
help Mr.. Hatton Gust the schoo
board gang and put honest mer
In their places and that he goes
down to the newspaper office al
most every night and holds con
sultation with Mr.. Sullivan an(
Harry Symone, whom they are
trying to put on the board. But
I can't help wanting him home
Il find 1t hard to reach that al
truistic plane of thought where
the future welfare of the othel
woman's child in the publ,
school interests me quite as much
as the present welfare of myself
and my child.
Dick even laughs at me wher
talk of my baby as though
were holding 1t already in my
arms. He says | have gone dippy
on the subject of prenatal in
fluence and l really believe HI
would rather l would keep out o.
sight when his men friends cal
although l do not look a particle
different than | ever did as yet.
l am going to try and keel
happy, for above all l want m!
child to have a sunny disposition
and | remember Eliene's telling
me that she believes her yer,
sensitive disposition came from
her mothers unhappiness ant
constituencies all through he
period of CESSATION.
AS soon as l am able an
going out among my friends.
am going to read some books
that have never felt / had tn,
time for before. / am going I,
hear good music and try to realize
more than ever that happiness i
state of mind.
Above all / am going to lear
to laugh easily. Dick says | tax,
my condition as l do everything
else, too seriously. I don't be
lieve | do, for IL l did / woult
make a big fuss over his being
away from me so much. Truly
husbands don't like to be both
cred with ailing wives--eveI
when it means the coming of {
much-wished-for child.