Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
Things of Interest Thar
Women Are Doing.
Co11fess1
Of a
Wife
The oueerest secret Have Ever Tol,

The Queerest Secret I Have Ever Told.
| Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper
Enterprise AssociationD
IL am to go home from the hospital
Monday, dear Margie, and | wonder
II you and Dick will not come over
and see me little on Sunday after
noon.
Il am feeling fine, but miss my
friends, although they have been very
prOfuse in notes OF inquiry and how-
ers, yet being in a hospital Is almost
like being in a mausoleum
81 wrote both Dick and Mrs. Wav-
erly note OF coincidence when |
heard OF the death OF MIR. Waverly.
Wish | could have given nay sympathy
in person. Please tell Dick, for me,
that, for an old friend, I think he has
treated men very unkindly and that
he can only make peace with me by
coming with you to visit me on sun
day"
This was an extract from a note
from Elelanor FairlOw which
handed to Dick at the dinner table
that night
Il expect to go out of town sun
day" was his only comment
But you are not going until late
Sunday night, and ! do think, Dick,
you should go. Eleanor Fairlow was
flne to you when you were hurt"
"YOu know how | hate hospitals.
Why Margie, it was all could do
to go to the hospital when you were
there. ! do think Eleanor might wait
until she is in her home before she in
sisted upon her friends visiting her"
"Dick, | think you are rather sell
'ish. You know very well that Eleanor
Iai l.. %.
Of me-"
Dick stirred uneasily and grunted:
And it is no more than reasonable
that she should do so. She has known
you ever since you were children and
me only slightly since we were mar
ried. Under the same circumstances
| am sure that l would feel very
much hurt"
"Oh, come, Margie, you go over
and see Eleanor yourself Saturday
tell her how | feel about it. say that
I'd dance and be glad with her, but
that I've enough to make me sorry and
sad without seeking all the pain and
hurt | find in a hospital"
"Oh, Dick, you sometimes disap-
point me so. Just when ! think you
are not as selfish as other men then
you do something that shows me that
YOU are"
For Heavens sake, Margie, don't
try to make a saint or even near
saint out of me- for, If you do, you
will be doomed forever to disappoint-
ment. My dear girl, I'm just normal
man with all a normal mans big
faults and little meannesses 7. like
all my sex, want to have my fun and
let some one else pay the piper.
want to suffer, II suffer | must, vicar
iously when curiosity bekons or
calls. | usually heed no
one's warnings. / am selfish and
egotistioal, proud of nay physical
and careless of my moral
weakness. Margie, / sometimes hate
in the world, even myself,
and | am sure that most Of the time
| play this game Of life not only like
a piker, but a cheat"
He stopped abruptly and said:
Don't ask me to go with you and see
Eleanor at the hospital The thought
Of physical pain turns me sick"
"All right, dear I'll go over and
see her late tomorrow afternoon"
Now here, little book, is the queer
est thing | have yet told you. | found
that | could go over to the hospital
Saturday morning, instead of late in
the afternoon, as | told Dick | would
20. When | was about a block away
from the big front gate | am sure
saw Dick come out and walk away
down the street. | know | could not
lie mistaken in my own husband, but
when | went in Eleanor Fairlow
smiled and said: Poor, silly Dick"
when / told her how he felt about
coming to a hospital even to see her.
Tell him." she said, that | know
ne was not only lying to you and ma
ibout not wanting to come to a hos
pital, but he was also lying to him
elf. Other peoples pain would not
lurt Dick"
She put out her hand across the
'ed as IL to touch mine and then she
irew it back and said rather rue
ully: Perhaps yoyu know more
Ibout men than / do-at least you
hould know more, having married
| have never yet seen one
hat could always he true to even his
Tod for more than few minutes at
time"
"You must have met with some
cry bad men," / said
NO" she answered, soberly. The
nen | have known are the best in tho
world. Remember one of them Is
our husband"
(To BE Continued.)