The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-06-15
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About 4 o'clock this morning
Dies was called 90 the telephone
and Harry told hlm that Ellene was
In a very precarious condition.
Dick dld not want e. tell this 10
me. as he thought Il would frlghten
me, but l suspected his message
was something about El.ene aud
made him tell me.
When Harry telsphoned they
had Just called Ia another OF the
best surgeons f1r consultation
sad we're waiting for him.
Harry Is neay.Y distracted"
said Dick. He seems tn think
Ellene Il going 70 die. and saws II
she does Il win - Judgment upon
him for his sins asalns. her aud
the mother OF his boys
Call him mp. Dick. Immediately.
and tell him not 10 aold Any such
thought about his wife. OF course.
she will 20 thru with Il. 1nd he
must not for minute think any.
thirg else"
Dick called up Harry. and went
20 the phone. The famous surgeon
had Just been there aud said that
everything was all rlght. and rs
yet there was no occasion fcr an
operation.
Margie. win not live u any.
thing happens 20 Ellenc. he said
= suppose most uien feel the same
way at such a time as this. but
most men have not the realization
a. that they have mad. years OF
their wives lives unhappy
But you have made up for II.
Harry. For the last year ana
half | think Eliene has been per
fsctly happy"
Thank you. Margle. YOU can't
tell how glad I am 10 hear you saw
\ that. but all the same | she'll never
forgive myself II anything hap
pens"
Have you ever told tina, to her.
Harry
NO. I did not want 10 worry
Der by making her feel that ! was
a ali worried about her eondition.
Little book. the more ] see OF life
cad It's various comedies and trag
edIes the more ! come TO tho con
einsion that We don't voice cur
thoughts enough. We are chsry a.
telling people that we love them
and that we think OF them often.
We often. however. say the ugly
things we think 10 them and then
when We have hurt them we shrink
even from expressing our sorrow
snd asking pardon.
am sure that ~. IN her travail.
Eliene knew that Harry felt he
eould not live without her and that
he could never forgive himself for
1ssaking her unhappy. II would help
her to bear her agony and prove an
Incentive for her to live.
J am writing .his. little hook.
while expectantiy waiting for the
telephone message from Harry or
some one al the Symone house. tell.
Ing me how Eiiene Is setting along
OF course. ! am anxious and I am
20 very nervous and excited that !
cannot collect my thoughts % even
talk to you with coherency.
IL does not seem possible 10 me
that dear. beautiful Eilene. with ev-
erything TO live for. can die--and
yet. fate IL such an implacsble
thing. she moves on. without re-
gard to the broken cries OF suffer
ing humanity. on whom she has
frowned and without heed az the
Joyous songs OF those upon whom
she has smiled
Did you notice. little book. that
when fate tells a story she never
quite finishes it, We poor NOR
tails are always turning the leaves
20 read what IL on the other side
and we are always expecting some
thing better. The geebler human
story teller takes these mastery
fragments written by the hand OF
fate and pieces them together into
something finished-or ~ least
something that appears finished 70
the finite mind Of man. We. little
arts votaries may claim. most OF
us come TO know that art Ia not
life. IL Is only the idealization OF
life.
Here I go, little book. mesnder-
ing thru the mazes or art IN it's re.
lation 70 life while all the Willie
my heart ia saying "Eliene IL suf-
fering-perhaps Eiieno is dying
Oh. why doesn't that telephone
rfng7" Dick went over 10 the
house and promised TO send me
word as soon as he got there.
Dear. dear Eliene. wonder II
! have made her understand now
much she has been to mellow
her strength OF character and pnr.
pose has helped me 10 be strong
and how her sympathy. forgiveness
and love have shown me that sym.
patty, forgiveness and love arc all
there are in life worth the living.
al L.