The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-05-11
The Supreme F act
JEANETTE MARKS, in Southern Woman's Magazine.
May 25th.

May Zotn.
For the time being-l came very
near writing down "for the moment
everything except the supreme fact
that we have found one another has
been in allegiance.
Now l will go back to my jour-
nal and keep it faithfully. 1t has
been a wild, sweet time in my hus-
bands wilderness lodge, which even
the black flies here in the moose
head region could not make less
beautiful to me. And it seems i'm
possible to believe that the war is
going on. | go out every
morning off our little island, where
the best finishing is, and watch
Murray fish. | love to see the way
he uses his hand and wrist, and the
bend of his body forward just at
the instant when his fly bug touches
the water. He seems part Of the
canoe itself which takes the motion
of each little wave. When l see 1t
all, | have the strangest sensations
as if it were the very love Muir
raw gives me. l can't quite ex-
plain even to myself what it is |
mean. but, then Murray says that l
never can explain, anyhow. How
ever, now that have my husband,
and he says that he is satisfied with
me as | am, it doesn't matter how
little | know.
May Goth.
This morning when | awoke at
dawn l lay still and just listened
ard looked, Murray sound asleep be-
side me on this porch he built years
ago before | came.
From down below | could hear the
roar of the water going over the
great dam. | could look off, off, oil
into the sunrise clouds at my right,
and northeast through the woods to-
wards Lily Bay and Kineo.. | could
see hundreds of tips Of the pointed
frs on this beautiful place which Is
all our own. The tips of the hrs
seemed to beckon me away, some
what as candles on Christmas tree
set me dreaming and make me feel
as if l were some place else. But
I didn't want to he beckoned away.
I was almost frightened and put cut
INV bond TO touch Murrav'e shor!-
der He didn't waken, but as he turn
ed over I heard him say "No'ma'
Mrs. Iunrd's first name, and | was
sorry I had done it.
May 9th.
The sun hos 60 MANY different ways
IF rieinr. This mo'ninr It came M
like q great red rose THROUGH the
proe, fr tree which shelters our bed.
I rotohnd it rise, touching MnrrHV,5
little islord down in the nond first,
and then to the tip top of the fir tree,
and finally, with flare and a tilrt OF
it's rays, swing off into the great
painted canvas of the sky. And at
that | just couldn't help it; l gave
him a kiss-that is, Murray, not the
sun-and hoped out Of bed singing.
But this husband Of mine dldn I
even waken. He lay there sleeping
as if his life depended upon it. lie
does everything intensely and is al
wavs doing something. Murray calls
this q vacation and it is the first he
has had in | don't know how many
months-he told me once; no matter
The two guides Murray has had eV-
orv summer since he was boy Just
laugh and say, "Oh, that's only the
way M. Lodge is made-he's another
like Roosevelt" 1t makes me SO
rrord to hear them say he is ike
Poorevelt-cnlv wish he wouidn
work so. I feel sure that am the
horriee+ bride in all the world and
know hove the best husband-eV'
erv-Nodv hos told me so.
7 ~rnrore haven't much knowledge
of thinos in general-father always
sid tho+, and now Murray, saws pre-
ciseIv the same thing. Yet an
twenty-three and I shall be twenty
forr day after tomorrow.
life IS so solemn to me-even mere
ut tiroee. ! keep remembering tina;
NJ. Luord is coming tomorrow anc
feeling apprehensive. She and Muir
row hnve heen so much tooethor hui
it ouoht to be different now. | don
know that I quite know whv eT"ent
that I am his wife and ought to have