The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-01
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Confessions
of a Wife
JUST A LITTLE VISIT
OF THE OLD CROWD

All the old crowd except poor
Donna dropped in the evening
that Chad and Mollie came over.
Dick, Harry and Jim did not
come in until late, as they had
been pail bearers at Bill Tenney's
funeral.
Il can't imagine Bill Tenney as
dead said Mollie. HE always
seemed to me about the Invest
proposition l have ever come
across"
"Bill always loved the bright
! lights, and hated the dark so
| terribly that it makes me all teary
! to think of him in the dark even
for the short time 1t took for him
to go in his narrow leaden car
riage to the crematory," said
| Dick.
We'll he got the bright lights
over there all right" broke in
irrepressible Jim
Look here, Jim," admonished
Dick, you must not joke about
| Dill, ne is DEAD.
We'll you know as we'll as I dc
that old Bill would be the first to
laugh at a joke about himself,
dead or alive"
by the way" broke in Pat. 81
see Kitty Malrum's husband has
resigned from settlement work
and he and his new wife have
gone to Europe"
whats the analogy?" asked
Jim, and we all smiled; We could
not help it."
What have they done with the
baby?" I asked quickly.
Left it home with its nurse,
answered Pat.
He was so darn afraid to lei
Margie have it," spoke up Dick
who has never gotten over thu
fact that Herbert thought / would
have bad Influence on Kitty!
child; sit is strange that he think,
a hired nurse would be better"
We'll, you see, my dear Dick,
/ said, as | blew him kiss, mo
everyone thinks am such a sain
as you do"
Are you saint, Margie,
asked Jim. 81 confess | have al
ways thought you quite too hu
man for cannonization."
| Yes, dear Jim, l am alto
gether too human to be tenderet
a halo, and II l were able to sit III
and take proper notice Dick woult
not try to fit me with one"
do you know continued Jim
T am not sure wife in you
condition Is an unalloyed dis
comfort. Dick will always know
where you are. He can be salts
fled that when he comes to dinner
that you will meet him, il not a
the door, at least in this room.
Pat had started the victrola
and Jim asked Eliene to dance.
saw her look at me rather appre
hensively and I fastened to as
sure her that l would feel yer!
badly if anyone kept from dom,
anything they did in the OLE
| uayoB pONauoO VI
Il want Margie to see the new
steps" said Jim, as he and Ellen
floated off.
, Dick, who is growing very sym
pathetic and thoughtful, move'
over to my bed and took one o
my hands. Mollie and Chad triet
to keep still for while, but a
last they joined the other couple
and at last Pat asked my little
nurse, Alice, who was sitting de
murely in one corner, il she woul'
dance with him.
With radiant smile on he
face, Alice took the floor will
Pat, and my thoughts went trip
ping away in as mad dance a
any of the twinkling feet on thu
floor.
IF you are not careful, Margie
you will lose your nurse" whis
pered Dick.
Il would gladly give her up,tt
Pat" | said.
Have you been so happily mar
ried, Margie, that you want ever.
woman you know to follow you
example?" Dick asked rather pa
thetically.
you are awfully tired, dear
aren't your" | said, for | did no
want to answer his question, ant
. yet | will tell you, little book, tina
happiness or sorrow, good or bad
marriage means experience, AM
the woman who misses it MISE
a great deal out of her life.
, could not have said this to Dick
though.
Continued Tomorrow