The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-01-03
DO ALL WOMEN COME TO The
DESERT OF LOST ilLUSIOksf

DESERT OF LOST iLLUsIoNsf
Il am the happiest girl In the
world. Margie." whispered Mollie.
as I went upstairs 10 help her
change from her wedding TO her
travelling dress
Nothing abe could have saif
could have affected me as those
words. for Immediately that never
10 be- forgotten night before my
marriage unrolled itself before me
that night when Dick came at my
call, and we went motoring thru
the deserted streets under the drip
ping tree branches and darkness
isn't IL queer. little book. that ev-
erything joyous has always come to
me In the rsin-he smothered me
in HIS arms and told me again and
again that he loved me. ], too. at
that time, was the happiest girl in
the world.
looked at Mollie In commiser-
alton. How much she had 10 learn:
how her heart would ache and her
soul would grieye before she
would come TO understand that
happiness was not OF this earth.
We poor mortais are 30 constituted
that. while we can have moments
OF ecstacy and bliss, hours OF JOY,
days OF pleasure. and perhaps
months, when we relax into a kind
OF stupor we may call content, we
can never be perfectly happy
why. little book, that emans
something that we can only I'm
agine. and the awful part OF II In
that we wear our very souls out In
longing for IL.
knew that when Moliie said abe
was the happiest girl In the world.
that by that sane token I was most
miserable. We were as far apart
az the poles, and yet we were sep
arated only by a few years Of we'd
ded life.
And you. dear Margie. have
ness she whispered. You have
shown me that marriage IL a royal
progress In the garden Of love and
faith"
My Cod" | thought rs that
how my lot has looked 20 the out
side world7 II that be true. then
II is also probably true that mil
lions OF other women sre walking
thru their Gethsemanes. and. BY
their smiles. are making those
about them think that they are
dancing across the flowery paths of
Eden's garden"
confidential. "Margie.T she said. Il
want TO tell you that when you
were first married TO Dick. deter
mined not 10 love you. You know
was very fond in a childish fash
ion OF Eleanor rsirlow. felt that
you had come between her and
Dick. You see. Margie. blamed II
all to you. II never entered my
mind that Dick had the cleverness
TO see Immediately how much yoI|
were Efesnor's superior. ThasS
having seen You. be must have won
you. n possible.
because you showed me what I
might become. broad-minded. un-
selfish and sympathetic. can love
with greater capacity because I
have seen how ii is possible for
you TO love"
simply broke down and cried.
Mollle. dear girl. thought I Was
overcome by her compliments.
protestations of love and the
thought of her leaving me. But
little book. strange as II may seem.
was not crying over the tragedy
that had yet TO face. when ! al
lowed myself to think OF that let
ter. but OF all the little hurts and
the big griefs that would come to
that happy girl. whose arms were
about me. before she would reach
the place where | was standing.
Perhaps. little book. she win
never come there. God grant abe
will never know that desert OF lost
illusions. Anyway. II one has de-
iirious JOY for even q short time. II
may make life worth living, even IL
one has paid forevermore.
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