The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-04-20
= The ::
Confessions
of a Wife
WHAT IS THE
UNPARDONABIE SIN

mo, Pat, / don't believe at this
time l can give up the secrets OF
my little book. The experiences
are still 80 new, the tragedies are
still unsoftened by time, and the
Joys are still without the perspec-
tive that memory will give.
Some day when life has re-
solved itself into the quiet wait
Ing of the twilight hour may dc
1t, but you see, my friend, al
though l am lying here apparent
ly out of it all am still living it
My poor body is inert, but my
mind-my senses, my emotions
my nerves still tingle at the
slightest contact with othel
minds, other emotions, other &C
tions, other words. l am still the
old Margie Waverly, with all the
old longings for happiness, and
4 probably will go on stumbling In
search of 1t until I don't want II
any more, and then perhaps out
of very perverseness Fate will
fling 1t to me-
Pat looked at me In silence a
minute and then said, "Margie
why don't you write something
else. / wish you would put some
of those theories of yours into 9
story. l think it would be in
tensely interesting.
II don't know, Pat. ] dom
know. Perhaps when I began II
write for the people to read
might begin to think of the read
err, and that would be disastrous
you know.
1T would be like flattering al
ugly woman because you knew
she liked to hear it. However
" Pat, l don't mind telling you thu
III have a true story of gir
friend of mine which l may writ
by and by, and If l do you ma
publish it II you WISH"
Wont you begin 1t RICH
away?' asked Pat eagerly.
Il am going to wait until Mo-
) lie gets back. She says she ha
a plan for some work in whic
she wants my help. l am goin
to see il l can do both, or IL
) will have to choose which | woul
rather do. l must work at som,
I thing, Pat, and without bein
| able to stand upright 1t almoi
| seems as though writing were tn
| only thing that | could do"
II Just then Alice came into til
| room and l introduced her to Pa
| alice" I said, this Is one of m
dearest friends, Mr.. Pat Su
| liyan."
| Pat, l want you to know til
| splendid sympathetic companio
| and a tireless worker who max,
| my lot at least endurable."
| Someway, little book, 1 VIZ
| glad that Alice was so pretty as
saw the honest admiration
| Pats eyes.
/ wonder why it is that no OF
can introduce an unmarried ms
| to an unattached woman witho,
| the idea Of a romance poppir
into ones head.
| l expect little book that Il
"uncu guild" as Bobby Bur
called them, would simply
K speeches. with horror If by al
r. possibility Pat should fall in To-
v with Alice and she should retu
TX that love and yet to you / W
Iy confide something-especially
IS ! do not expect to let anyone re,
} 1t but you at least for a long tin
= i know fewer, better, more no
orable or moral women tn,
Alice. She is quite good enoui
to marry any man have ev
known
!! You, little book, know that
70 have no use for a double stan
os ard of morals or an impossib
In standard of goodness and becau
n either man or woman succum
ID to any temptation once is no re
son why either should not rsga
st morality and "be perfectly goot
,r again.
e. You remember when to
ts Dick that IL the time came whit
y I should love a man better ths
% did him l should go to hil
q Well, believe that thought
10 least comes to every wan,
whose husband is untrue to he
h 1t is perfectly human and n
B. tural II you are hurt to want
It hurt back and yet 1t is very pro
b, able that IL this little book WI
h published, I, Margie Waverl
10 would come in for some We
d sharp criticism because I sa
{, that.
Q. We can't be truthful even wi
II ourselves-we women.
d II 1t would help any woman
that blessed end I would almo
be recOnciled to giving Won. lit