The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-02-22
AN AFRAID WAS TO BLAME
Copyright. 1915. by the Newspaper
Enterprise AssoeiatiouJ

(CopyrighL 1915. by the Newspaper
Enterprise AssoeiationJ
All day | have worried about
Dick. but ! could say. nothing be.
cause I did not want 20 trouble his
mother. who was happier than she
had been since dads death
The rooms at the hotel are very
comfortable. and mother and Moilie
can 1.-Two there for Si95 a month.
Mother told mo she vas going 20
pay the hundred she got from the
rent OF her house and let Mollie nay
the other twenty i've
Poor mother, She means well
She. is perfectly willing to give up
ell her money to make them com
Portable. and they will be very con
tented. | am sure. In this place
There is only one thing We will have
to do. and that will be to keep her
buoy.
am going to ask Mrs. Sslwin 10
invite her to help In the charity
work she is interested in Mother
Wayerly will be flattered at Mrs.
Selwin's notice. and perhaps every.
thing will come out all right with
all the rest--but where am I?
Dick and I have quarreled and +
am TO blame, We quarrel much
easier and oftener lately than We
used TO. | wonder Why
Il Dick getting tired OF me- I
guess ! am too serious-minded
am getting too salf-centered I
think too much OF Margie Waycrly
and her affairs.
I am telling you this. little book.
aud eonfessiug my sins OF omission
and commission 10 you while wait
ing for Dick TO come home TO din.
ner. When he comes ! am going
to act as II nothing had happened.
and even II he has been drinking
| am not going to say anything
about II. for this morning was
just horrid.
What a prig a woman can be
who prides herself on doing the
right thing In the right place.
have always hated those people
that Bobbie Burns designated the
''unca guild and can see. little
book. that I am fast becoming one
Of those goody-goody people my
self.
did not bother Dick about his
actions before ! married him
just loved him. But. you see. little
book. he didn't worry me with his
everyday actions--he just loved
me.
did not dream that Dick would
swear when his tie would not
pull" through his collar. and I am
sure he never thought I'd be such
a silly prig as TO be sarcastic and
catfish when he gave vent TO his
feelings.
Being married. little book, II very
You cant be both. Consequently
there is tragedy as we'll as wit IN
that old toast: TO our sVeethearts
and wives may they never meet %
n ever { have "A daughter. ! shall
try and make her understand that
a sweetheart Is a very different
thing from wife a sweetheart
has only need OF five senses "a
wife must have common sense and
sense Of humor added. Some
times ! think ! have neither.
Oh, / do wish Dick would come.
so that | could tell him all this We
married women are Always telling
our husbands and ourselves about
the man VINO always stands by to
give Us the flattery and attention
that they are too lazy or too
thoughtless 10 proffer. but what n
they should whisper to us Of the
pretty women who are 20 rendy to
fIatter and "understand' them'
Little book. little book. none Of
us is an angel none Of us Ia per
feet. and marriage II only one long
give and take. one long compromise.
have put On NY prcttiest gown.
tSe one that Dick likes best. and I
have beeisteak for dinner. but / am
not sure he Is coming home
am miserable. and it's all my
FAULT What are a torn tie, split