The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
LETTERS OF
TWO WOMEN
From May, Married, to Kate, Business
Girl.
BY ZOE BECKLEY.
Kerryville. Kan, June 20.


Kerryville, Kan, June 20.
Dear old Kits:
l am all excited over your letter
about the new man. Intuition, strong
in all women, especially so in me. tells
me there is more adding than you
have said. You torment me with lack
of details. Have you broken def
initely with c. j.? What is this
dark foreigners name? His sta
ton? His exact interest in you, Katie p?
Is it just a fling, or is marriage in
your thoughts in spite of what you
say?
To be brutally frank, KIT, 1 have
misdoubted your Willingness to re-
main in the ranks of spinsterhood-
Marriage ris-net for you,-you have al
ways said : and youss have tried to
ease your heart hunger with this stu
pid affair with c. j. l call it stupid
because you are wasting the best years
of your lie in a hopeless cuI de sac.
you yourself have called it blind
pocket" and it is. 1 do not think
he will ever be wholly free. And if
he were, 1 should not approve of your
marrying him. You are unSuited.
But enough of this. 1 ramble on
only because 1 love you and want to
see you happily married, as all wom-
en- long to be, I don't care what they
say to the contrary. Candidly, your
dark foreigner does not sound
For heavens sake, Kits, reach out for
something wholesome.
l did That was why married
Curtis Bond. Or, rather one OF the
why's; there were many. l was 70,
and you know of my disappointed
youth. Lots of men had appeared to
like me-various degrees of like"
from admiration to passion, but no
eligibles ever said the actual word
that committed th9An to marriage!
l was weary Of my life. weary of
the office grind that 1 was unsuited
for and always hated. weary OF the
city and of the men who seemed TO
be of its own dusty. unsubstantfal es-
sence. 1 wanted something fresh and
clean.
Then along came Curt, younger
than myself by year and a nam
hundred years younger in experience
of the world, held in leash as he had
been by an aGoring mother To me
he seemed the spirit of youth and
love personified. To him I was a
vision of cultured womanhood, a sort
he had not known before. And there
was the mutual interest of music.
You know the rest. We married
after an acquaintance of three
months. We always saw each other
on dress parade, as most, girls and
men see each other under our present
social system. Curtis and Mrs. Bond
wanted to get out west again, home
to business (Which is their whole eX-
istence), and we hurried our mar
riage.
But it was marriage! And how l
had longed for it, How I had longed
to be out of the buffets, in safe
harbor. with a man who loved me,
admired my talents and regarded me
as a superior being. 1 loved Curtis,
too. or thought l did. He seemed
moidable And I felt
Oh, well. no matter, what l felt. If
this letter sounds the least bit in
minor key, let it pass as mood.
am happy. I have the things 1 want
ed-love, the fresh green earth, the
blue sky, home. l want you to have
what you want, too. Reach out for
it, Kate: you'll never get it if you
don't. sever this old tie of yours. But
make sure the dark foreigner" is not
merely playing an amusing game. Oh
1 know you are able to take OF your
self But no woman is always on
guard especially in the mood you're
in now-the mood of WEAKNESS and
uncontent. How we'll I know that
mood,
I was going to write you about my
cookery But now l haven't time TO
write about it: must do it. It's past
O'Clock. Goodby, darlint, and don't
MAY
thinksI'm prea hing at you.
The l,lpSbipg hride-eIaYf uaS "a