The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-06-26
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DICK suLks AND MARoiE
ANALYZES
Copyright, 1915, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Assoc atom

When Dick came into my room
about an hour afterward ! was still
awake. He began 10 undress. but
! could see by the expression on
his face that he was determined
not 10 say a word 10 me about the
Fairlow affair. and to tell you the
truth, little book. I was too weary
Of II all 10 start any new argument
There really is no reason why
Dick should not help Eleanor Fair
low TO get position. and IL would
be perfectly natural for her TO ask
him. ! am not jealous OF Dicks
helping any woman ia the world
who Is IN hard luck The thing that
hurts me IN the fact that he keeps
II from me. showing me that he ex.
poets me TO be jealous-to object
90 his kindly acts.
am very sorry for Eleanor and
would help her in every way can.
but she will not let me do anything
for her. and always makes me feel
that II try she thinks II Is 10 show
her that ! am married 10 Dick. I'm
der any other circumstances. I
think she and could be splendid
friends. She r. clever woman
and only needs the experience Of
work 20 make her a big woman |
am not jealous OF Eleanor Fairlow.
little book. ! am jealous Of Dicks
opinion OF me In regard 10 her. lie
seems 10 think that viii not like
any woman that he likes | won
der II II r. mans supreme egotism
that makes him think that he IL al
ways a bone OF contention between
his women friends
don't think ! would ever be
jealous OF Dick. for. as ! under.
stand jealousy OF ones husband. L
means n suspicion that he cares
more for some other woman than
he does for you. and n ever felt
that ! believe that would 20 to
Dick and tell him that would give
him a divorce. that he might marry
the woman he loved.
This IL the first time. little book,
that have ever said anything To
YOU on the subject OF divorce. and
! never have discussed II with any
other woman. not even Aunt Mary.
When Donna Tenney asked me
about II AT the time she was diyorc.
ing Bill. ! told her. as you will re-
member. that II was something she
would have TO decide for herself.
But. dearest and most discreet OF
eonfidants. know. can say TO you
that ! have thought some about IL.
I taftova fan,.Ia vuuh int, Ii.o~rs,
too quickly. Women expect too
much from their husbands. They
want the dear tcmperamental hu.
man virtues, but with them they
look for the superhuman absence OF
temperamental vices.
Man-all men-cannot be other.
wise than they are as long as the
whole world gives them the right
10 do as they please and the whole
education OF a boy is wrapped
about the double standard of NOR.
ais.
Man insists that he loves one
woman best-that woman his wife
but II Is not she he loves best,
but comfort and responsibility.
Strange as II may seem. little
book. most women don't under.
stand that men are just as tena.
cious OF being respectable accord.
Ing to mans standards as women
are 10 theirs. The standards are
different, that Ii all.
oh. little book. all the trouble.
all the sorrow. all the sin in this
world Is caused just by misunder-
standing.
Before ! was married | had a
sweetheart who wrote me verses
occasionally. and one of them
comes to my mind very often:
Thus on we tread. an army march.
ing,
With listing ears:
Each waiting. hoping for the dis.
tant music
lie never hears.
And the only difference in the love