The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
IETTERS OF
TWO WOMEN
From Kate Osway, Business Girl, to
May Bond, Wife.
By ZOE BECKLEY.

May 1oOuu, WIG
New York, on my birthday.
May Dearest:
Troubles? You ask me to write
you my troubles, to take your mind
off yours! Well, 1 can't write 'eml
1 have nothing but troubles, and like
when you have the toothache, your
own trouble always, seems so much
worse than anybody elses.
Let me start at the beginning.
First, there has been a big shake
up at the office. An awful affair was
discovered between Mr.. k and
one of the stenographers. And he
was dismissed. Everybody was moved
seems there was shortage in money
found, too. The whole thing is a
complicated mess.
1 say an awful affair" 1t is only
awful because 1t entails such misery
for the girl You remember her
A. L, with the wonderful
blond hair and shy eyes? And Mr..
K, as you know, married and with
three little boys
I don't know, May. what to think
of men Sometimes women puzzle
and anger me. too. But I understand
women so well, and know how hun
cry they are for love and companion
ship. for some strong male creature
to cling to and rest against oh,
Maize, we've all been through it!
l.
1 would dbefriend her. I could find
it in my heart to spurn a girl who
sells herself for gewgaws and the
gay life because I don't feel q girl of
that caliber is of much consequence
one way or the other. What does it
matter to the world what she does i?
She contributes nothing
But girl like A. L.! My dear if
ever there was a potential wife and
mother natural born home mixer
a real woman. it is A. L. She did
not sell herself for glitter She gave
herself. She worked as hard as any
body in all that office, harder maybe
She never shirked or asked privi-
leges. And probably that mans
love" and comradeship were all that
frightened life for her
Well. dear I'm running on too
much about that
The second trouble that hit me was
that Paul Danskoi had a row with one
of the office chiefs and resigned
bling. just like that!
And the only way that comes to be
my trouble is that I've married him,
and the complication of marrying a
man without a job adds to an the
other complications I was suffering
from!
There! 1 can see you sitting down
hastily in a chair with your mouth
open, gasping like a chicken with the
PIP W ELL QSdTs IAef6 was nothing
else to do I got so crazy thinking
over the pros and cons of the situa-
ton that I couldn't eat or sleep or
work
And one night Paul waited for me
at the entrance TO the building and
cit was the day of the shake-up) told
me he had left the office ana that I
had got to marry him right off that
minute or he would think it was be-
cause he had no job.
I was bOwled over. I didn't know
what to say. for l had used up all my
arguments against marrying him
long since, and he had destroyed then.
one after another The loss of his
job while paltry in itself, nevertheless
doomed somewhat large to my upset
mind So. for fear he would read
said mind. 1 agreed 10 marry him
I felt weary and bewildeTed. And
I did it in what a friend of mine call
"a weak moment" I just shut my
eyes=and jumped God only knows
where 1 shall land. Write me quick:
I'm still at the office and no one
knows anything KATE.