The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-07-27
CONFESSIONS
OF A Wife
LOVE BANlSHES I'LL
THOUGHTS

II, seemed rather strange To me.
Margie." said Paula, TO hear Ger
~ and Lord Beauclough talk about
marrying some one else so calmly.
You see the attitude Of the English
man or other foreigner OF title Is
just the opposite Of ours.
THE family IL everything To
them. Marriage means TO them
tho betterment OF the family first.
last and all the time,
Poor Gerry's life was tragic.
and think the only 10y she had in
IL was tho few months Beauty
Beauclough spent over here. She
broke her heart getting him set
tied. an she called IL, and then she
married at her mothers request
an immensely wealthy manufacture
or OF automobiles from Detroit.
After her marriage she seemed
10 take no interest In anything.
and she died in giving birth 60 her
child. "A boy.
However. 10 80 back TO the
time before her marriage Gerry
and I saw much OF her English low
or that summer. They took me
with them. as Aunt Rachel would
not let Gerry go alone with him.
Gertrude soon found she was not
wanted. and took herself off TO Bar
Harbor with some friends.
The day OF my episode In the
park. Gerry and her lover-for he
was much I'm love with her-took
me home. and could not help feel
Ing rather lonely rs ! saw them
drive of perfectly happy because
they were together.
Il climbed the stairs TO my room
in the boarding house feeling for
lorn. had not heard from Alma
for a week. and II had been months
since had had letter from
Emma. I had not had one word
from jeff since he left for Europe.
AS | reached my room and ps
the key In the door. began TO
feel that most corroding OF human
torture. self.plty. But when ] en-
tered the room found two fat let
ters lying on the floor where they
had been pushed under the door.
one had a foreign postmark.
II opened IL before looking at
Alma's letter. II began without
any salutation. 4 was riding down
the Strand the other day | read
In Jeff'a well-known handwriting.
when I saw a sign. II told so true
story that copied II. and am
sending Il to YOU:
Isn't it funny some folk you
cant miss
And some folk you miss n pile
And those YOU can't miss you
see just a pile
The others just once in n
while
BLESS him said to myself. L
wish | could tell him how much |
miss him And then IL all at once
came to me that had been think
Ing about Jeff great deal lately,
and because he was so far away
from me | was inexpressibly lone
~. felt II | could only grasp his
hand. or even hear his voice over
the telephone, life for me would be
more worth living.
Jeff was so honest. always. so
tender and sincere. | could always
tell him all my ideals and he would
understand Why was II that with
this wonderful understanding be-
tween us we had to he separated?
Even n marriage was out of the
question. why could we not be just
the closest and best OF friends?
Alas. Margie. did not know
then that platonic love was out of
the question-one Of the dreams
that never come true. Also | did
not know then | missed Jeff so
much because the emotion ! felt
for him was much greater. much
more engrossing. than platonic
love could ever be.
"As read further in his letter,
my heart beat faster and faster.
and after had finished It. God
was again in his heaven and all
was right with the world.
Ito be contlnued)
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