Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-25
Margaret CARROTS
Husband
MOULDING A MAN
CHAPTER XII.
By JANE PHELPS
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ed in New York without letting me
know his intentions in time to ioir
him; and twice again 1 shut myself
away from the others and moped un
til his return. If l had to cruelty my
self to mould Bob into the man
wanted him to be; the kind of man ]
thought he was when l married him
why should do it.
Occasionally he had told me in the
morning that he was to remain in town
and had gone in and we had gone tc
an hotel. We would have dinner, then
go to roof garden or something if
Bob could get away, if not sat quiet.
ly In the hotel room and waited for
him.
Take it all in all it was a very happy
summer for all of us. Our boy, we had
named him Donald, was healthy good
natured baby, and mother declared no
care at all. Bob had wanted to name
him Kendall after John Kendall, but
II wouldn't listen to it. l always had
admired the name Donald, SO altho
know no one of that name save Donald
Payne, it was the one gave my boy.
Bob gave all his evenings to me. He
would come down early and play ten
mis- until time for our late dinner, then
after that was over we would sit on
the porch until we were sleepy. l en-
joyed those quiet evenings with Bob
beside me and would tell him how much
l loved him as | slipped my hand in
his IN the half darkness of the summer
nights. was not quite so happy during
the week ends, for then John Kendall
and Henry Creedmore came down, and
Bob played golf all day Saturday and
Sunday.
But L flattered myself that he was be-
ginning to realize that 1 was right in
my demands; that he had decided he
had a duty toward me, for he scarcely
even went over to the club in the
evening. even when his friends were
down. Elsie Barton said it was because
he was too tired after his long days
on the links but l knew better-at
least | thought / did.
We returned to town the first Of Oc-
tober. Della went in few days ahead
to put the apartment in order. 1t was
so clean, so livable looking that Bob
declared we hadn't been away at all;
we had dreamed we summered on the
island.
One day Elsie and were talking of
a girl we both knew who was unhap-
PLY married.
Gone might know they would be un-
happy" Elsie said in her usual decid-
ed way, "they haven t single thing
in common. She is gay, loves life, wants
to go and have good time; while he
wants to sit at home, read his paper,
and go to bed.'
eff he were a strong enough charac-
ter he could make her see that it was
her duty to stay at home with him."
1 replied. "What's home for9"
81 don't know about thatl perhaps
it is his duty to go out with her. What's
sauce for the goose, you KNOW
"No, l don't knowl when people |
marry their duty is to make home
for each other; to be happy together
in it,
"People don It always do their duty,
And how 1 hate the word;
ii always conjures up something un-
pleasant"
"You re as bad as Bob! he hates to
have me use the word, but l do just
he same 1t is good for him to be re-
minded that he has duty toward me. !"
"Have you commenced to realize,
that Bob ism It the quiet, do
nestle man you declared he was when
you married him2"
"Bob is all right, it is his friends.
lie will not see much of them in the
future; so 1 won't have that to an
10Y me-"
II wouldn't be so positive of that,
N a roaret and T-p
MI waited a moment for her to finish,
hen as she seemed disposed to drop
he subject, asked:
''What do you suppose made Grace
marry that T. Blackl"
" Propinquity, and some sort of ply
ical attraction, probably"
"That s horridl"
f'It is the reason nine out of ten
ouples marry"
'FYou mean that they don't marry
or love like Bob and 1 did7"
"They THOUGHT they were in love
for a little while. But stop and think,
dargaret. Don't you suppose, even in
-our own case, that had you and Bob
lot been thrown together under just
he circumstances that you were, you
aight never have married. Bob was de-
ressed, sad. He had lost his mother.
Tou were sympathetic, you soothed him,
nd in his saddened mood you appealed
o him-to a certain side of his nature.'
''You mean to imply that had met
sob before his moter died he would
ot have cared for me9'' asked indig
ant:
"No-not just that. You perhaps
Iouldn t have cared for him if you had
net him when he was careless and
ay as he used to be. But that isn't
he idea; didn t mean to be personal.
was only trying to prove that pro-
inquity was the cause of most mar
iages, that and physical attraction.