Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-17
Confessions ofaWife
The Philosophy of Age and Ex-
pcrience.

The Philosophy of Age and Ex.
pcrience.
Copyright 1914, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
think Mrs. Selwin was as glad as
l when the maid entered and said
some one wanted me on the phone,
After a woman is 40, / think she
rather resents eXpending her emotions
needlessly.
It's rather strange, little book, TO
see how ashamed we become when we
let anyone look for moment into our
inmost hearts.
l could hardly believe that the
woman who was looking up to me
with the saddened introspectlve,
heart-hungry eyes was the coldly, ele-
CANT, intellectual Mrs. Selwn. For
only moment | caught that glance,
and then she became as impersonal
In manner as though she had been
really telling me- the story OF a friend
with whose fictional character she in
troduced her one great dramatic mo-
ment.
i've been looking for you every
where, Margle," said Eliene over the
phone. We've got number of the
old crowd over here and we're going
to dance a little and / want you to
come over and stay all night. Oh, |
know you can come. for Dicks away,
and l am sending a car for you, so be
ready and Eliene rang off before |
could make any excuses for not going
Go, my dear" said Mrs. Selwin,
and have a good time with your
friends. Remember, my child. there
are wonderful things about both a
good time and a bad time
After you have once had a good
time no one can take II away from
you. And. having once endured a bad
time, you can be sure that Il Will
never return. You can never suffer
again I'm quite the same way. You
may have other bad times but that
peculiar and particular bad time is
gone forever"
VERY pleasant sophistry. dear Mrs.
Selwin,' l said as | kissCd her, but
am AFRAID that to me sophistry
would prove rather cold comfort"
NOT When you have grown old and
philosophical, Margle." she said
IL Is only when we are full Of youth
and hope that we want to run the
world our way. Something must han
pen we say. II is only when 1t does
happen In a way that we have never
Planned that We settle down more or
or less cheerfully to do what we never
expected or even wanted To do.
I'm not unhappy now. dear. ~ 7
were | could not have told Won tho
story. Real women do not tell these
things until the years have softened
the pain. But here. my child. f. a hi,
or truth that ! have learned through
that episode. Those who have knoS,
great pain know that the SHARPNESS ~
the nrst hideous experience soon
blurs. gradually becomes wagner and
vaguer and as time passes it becomes
harder and harder to recreate the I
memory. '"'
This, Margie, Is rs true OF physical
pain as II Is Of mental hurt or bsa ~ F.
anguish. The woman who bears a .
enid forgets I'm a short time the agony
throush which she dragged her tor.
tured body. II she did not. this world
would be depOpuated very soon "
The car for Mrs. Waverlv Is a, Tho
door, answered the maid
To tell the truth. / was very 1lsd
vas going over to Eliene's. I had bad
about enough Of welded misery FOR
1ne day with Mrs. Tenney. Mary and
Mrs Selwin. I could not helm CON
the lives Of Eliene and Mrs
selwln with that OF Mrs Tennay
These two women have forgiven: thev
lave been big enough TO reconstruct
heir affairs on a different basis. and
me OF them (Ensns) says she 10 ths