The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-05

under her thumb that she dId wnar she liked with him
 Then she must needs nag at him to bring me to see her Why she wished to meet me was puzzle l certainly had uO desire to meet her Do bring your friend He must be a lovely man since you are so fond of him And Jim was fool enough to beIi,ve thu she wanted to meet me because ! was "a lovely man.
 Just as soon uS they were engaged there was friction as tu the evenings she wanted Jim and those | wanted him being reasonable creature was willing to divide .Tim's evenings with her Not so she If Jim made an engagement with me she would make him break It.
 Despite all this pulling and hauling for Jim's companonShip. he must bring that lovely friend of his to see Der. refused to go This frightened Jim. for be said that 1t would create an enmity between her and me that would be unpleasant all round gave In to Jim-not to her
 Considering what sic wanted me for. her treatment of mo was remarkable. You would have thought she was in love with me Instead of Jim. I'm aw. fully glad to see you"' she said, all smiles. "I'vc heard so much about YOU that 1t seems have known you a long while You lIve no Idea how foEd Jim Is of you. You must come and see me often. Any one that Jim spenks of so highly Lust be very nice
 If you had heard the intonation she gave the words "vCry nice" you would have realized the irony between the beginning and endils of this sentence.
 Mind you. l diGut see through all this then COL 'ess was fooled while she was shOwing plainly that she had an object ia fUOling me No one but woman can coddle a man and let him krow that she is stutting him without rrpelling him. Instead Of repelIing she winds him round her tiD ger while she Is r,eding him poison.
 But 1 know ii III now. Jim was married, aud when he returned from his wedding trip he fried to grasp my band with fcrvOr hH # was not the same fervor as before l knew that 1 had been suppIaut"G. and. more than this, | knew tliat hi. wife bad under mined his good 0pimi a "! m Then IL became apparent "hy Shr wished Jim 10 bring me ln see irr She couldn't attack one Slir had usvcr seen or if she did her onslaught would have had no weight She rust have some thing tangible to ntta"'~
 "So this is thr wonderful man." ] doubt not she S':. . after seeing me that you have N. "n lauding to th' skies Why did lr not say some oi those bright thing 'h1t you have so often spoken of: .iint feel well enough acquainted: suppose ] shaN have to wait till h !ocS Some day when he feels mOrr home here ore sume he will drluG, with his wit"
 What a melanChU, .Wakrnlng JIm must have had aft. 'hiS first In spection by his ladyhye uf his bosom friend to discover that W, after all a commonplace person. A.-: how sin gular it is that these Creaus: ,, who dc not know the difference u'twcen syllogism and sole leather. cen produce on a man of intellectual viEu lAe effect they require by mere irony! d.m had known me intimately for years, and yet by few words a woman had shat tered his idol
 Jim has relapse occasionally ana drops into my room fnI A bit of "old times," as he calls them But he knows they are not old times; they are altered times Doubtless he thinks that for him they are changed for the better; that he is leaving me i!I sta honary position. while he has ad Vanced. At any rate, have noticed that those things l continue to enjoy. or think I enjoy are beginning 10 bore him. If speak of a new play on the boards he wilt turn the subject to the smart sayings of his little Jim Then too, he has become absorbed in piling up money for his wife and children after he has gone. He says it is awful to think of leaving them without sup port. It seems to me that in getting married he gave up all the fun there Is in life to make a slave of himself
 Sometimes wonder whether if Jim and | had grown old as bachelors we would have maintained the same in terest In tLrh other fear not. Men develop on different lines. Some men don't develop at all At any rate. | find that association with any one does not interest me as II once did 1 won der If I will snlue day regret not hav ing put my head Ia one of thesp peStlf 'erous matrimonial C""ee*