The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-06-16
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Confessions
of a Wife
MOLLIE SHOWS A LITTLE
PIQUE

WOuueT, llttle DOOh, IL VIC dIc
all more or less hpyocrites?
After my announcement din
ner, where everyone had seemed
to congratulate Pat most whole
heartedly, | began to hear from
them individually what they real
ly thought of 1t.
The first one was Mollie, who
came over the next morning as
Alice was just finishing up my
toilet for the day.
your party was the most won
derful l ever attended, Margie,"
she said. 1T was all so gay and
bright and full of laughter"
"Yes, and it had that note OF
tragedy" l interrupted, which
makes even the most hilarious
things of life of greatest interest"
Alice, who seems to be a most
tactful woman, when Mollie came
in, said, "I'm going out to pick
some fresh flowers, Mrs. Waverly,
while your sister is with you"
do you think he really loves
herr" asked Mollie, breathlessly,
Immediately after she had shut
the door.
l laughed heartily. "What you
mean, Mollie, dear, is do you
think that after loving me he can
love her so soon,
Mollie Joined rather ruefully
in the laugh, and then she owned
up perhaps that is what l
mean"
"Yes. my dear Mollie, think
he does love her."
Mollie sighed. do you think
she will make him happy"
Happier than you would have
DONE"
What makes you think that"
she asked, rather wistfully.
Because she has been tried by
fire and came out pure gold, be-
cause she can fully appreciate the
love that Pat is giving her. Mollie,
in some ways Alice makes me
think of you. She has your big
soul and sympathetic heart. but
her contact with the world in
learning her living has made her
still broader and more charitable
than even you are. She is of
splendid family, you know; much
better than Pat If you count fam
lily by the name it bears. Her
education has been obtained in
the great school of experience,
which, to my mind, is the great
est school of all. / think fate
has been good to Pat to keep
from him both Of Chadwick's
wives and let him have this beau
tiful woman"
ooh, of course, you think 1t Is
all right, Margie, for l am sure
you made the match"
Don't be silly, Mollie. You
don't look well as a dog in the
manger. II has always seemed
queer to me that a woman invari-
ably wants the man she has re-
fused to marry to be broken
hearted forever. Why, my dear
child, don't you know that the
easiest thing in the world to
mend is a mans heart? Jim told
me the other day that the reason
for so many unhappy marriages
was that woman knew she loved
a man when she accepted him and
man never knew whether he
loved a woman or not until after
the honeymoon, and usually 1t
was not"
Jim Edie is positively vul-
gar" said Mollie viciously.
mo, dear. only frank. l some
times think, Mollie, that life is
vulgar and commonplace, and it
is not that belittles u.s."
Dear Margie, l hope you are
not going to be one of those real
lists that only see the sordid in
life."
81 hope not, dear, but do
want to face facts. Too many of
us ignore the facts and cling
wholly to ideals, and too many
! of us flout ideals and keep the
sordid facts uppermost. Why do
We not own up to the facts of
life, and not beat our foreheads
gaily against the stone wall and
while still bleeding from its con-
tact, exclaim there Is no stone
wall there"
Are you getting to be a ma
terialist, Margie?"
"If you mean one of those peo-
pie who have no ideals, no. II
you mean one who accepts facts,
yes, and the fact just now is that
Pat has won a wonderful woman
to be his wife and l want you to
love her as I do"