The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-07
LIE TIERS OF
TWO WOMEN
From May Bond. Wife, to Kate Osway
Business Girl.
BY ZOE BECKLEY.
Kerryville, Kan, Aug. l.

Kerryville, Kan, Aug. l.
Kitsie Dear:
| Why, in heavens name, does a man
marry one kind of woman when what
| he wants is quite another type? Why
| does he choose an ornament when he
needs utility? Why does he WOO
| and wed a girl reared in the fancy
things of life when he intends to put
her into the fields to pillow? Why
hitch a race horse to a farm wagon :?
Why take one kind of thing and start
in Immediately to make it over into
another kind of thing-Why not get
the other kind of thing in the first
place?
A woman, Kate, would know better.
A woman would not buy ball gown
and cut it up for floor rags. She is
too practical. Or perhaps she has not
the creative impulse as strongly as a
man. Is it creative impulse that urges
man to make over his wife into a
different being from what the Lord
| intended her to be?
| Or is it sheer cussedness?
There, deari 1 feel better at get
ting this off my mind. You have
probably guessed that your Maize is
peeved at something. She is. Curtis
and 1 had our first real jangle this
morning and my nerves have been
screaming ever since. Like most
quarrels, it grew from almost moth
ing.
/ had risen before 7. Oh, yes, kan
sas folks get an early start. Curtis
hadn't even walked up by the time 1
had bathed and dressed Gin Bingham
kimono-apron and the pink morning
cap you made me.) Then 1 began my
usu:4 struggle to get Curtis up, final
ly dragging him out, hurrying him
thru his toilet and derricking him to
the breakfast table, which, of course,
I had meanwhile set and laid with
the meal
He has to be at the bank at half
past 8. I sped him off with tender
goodbys, played with the cat for three
minutes, cleared the table, washed
the breakfast things, ordered supplies
by telephone, made the bed, cleaned
the bathroom, swept and busted, oiled
the floors and was just sitting down
to mend and darn. :
Then in came friend husband, to
find some papers for the bank.
Gosh all hemlock, May" he greet
ed me. Not done with your work
and dressed yet? Why it's past 10.
| Mothers got two days work done al
ready and is down trimming the
church for the festivali''
Now, Kate, does that convey any
thing to you? Do these simple words
give you any idea of the type of Curtis
mind? Can you imagine the sick hurt
that went thru me as he said that?
Is there anything more flabbergasting
ones efforts received like that?
I was too hurt and too angry to
speak. 1 simply lifted my head and
looked at Curt.
"Oh know he added, catching
my glance, you're too much of an
aristocrat to hustle as We folks do"
Kate! 1 know exactly what had
happened. He had been over to his
mother's-she is a shrewd, capable wo-
man, I don't deny it-and she had de-
livered one of her usual shots about
my lack of domestic virtues She has
never forgiven me for not knowing
how to kill and pluck and clean that
devilish chicken I wrote you about
And I working as I never worked in
my life before!
If I am an aristocrat, it is the very
thing about me that attracted Curtis
first! Now it is the thing he hates
in mel
Oh, Kate, I feel like walking OUT of
his house and out of KerryviIle and
onto the train and back to New York.
oh, Katie, I'm SO unhappy! MAY.