The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-18
Confessions
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A STAB in THE BACK.

could not feel wholly grief
stricken over Mollie. II seemed to
me that she was too wonderful to
be pitied or even sorrowed with
/ told Dick about her when |
got home, and altho he had MOI
yet become quite reconciled to me.
he became very much interested In
Mollie.
Tears rolled down his face as I
told him about her and he made
some remark about Chad always
being "a temperamental cuss."
II am going over there" he
said, land make Chad see what a
selfish ass he is. There is no use
crying over split milk, Margie!"
And yet We are all very prone
to do so, Dick" answered.
IL don't think you do, Margie,
and neither does Mollie or Eliene."
mo, Dick, women are not SO apt
to fill their lives with unavailing
regrets as men. In the first place,
few of them do things which cause
regret, and, in the second, they
will, as you say, stand the gaff.
A woman that Is worth anything
at all must have moral courage"
"You are always making a great
TODD about that, Margie," said
Dick. and just then Ehene came in
with the inquiry:
what are you always making a
great TODD about, Margie?"
well, you know, Eliene, what l
think about women having cour-
age, both moral and physical, and
l expect | make myself a nuisance
by talking about it both in and out
Of season."
but, my dear girl" said Eliene,
you make one great mistake by
attributing to women the most
moral courage. l do not. believe
that courage of any kind is a thing
which belongs to one sex only.
There are towards among men and
among women, and brave women
as we'll as men.
"The greatest coward I know"
she continued, SIS one who writes
an anonymous letter. l have just
received one from someone who
evidently objects to everything |
do"
And almost always that person
is a woman" broke in Dick Gag
erly.
Il am not so sure of that, Dick"
said Eliene, "altho the anonymous
letter I received 1 am sure was
written by a woman"
what woman would write you
a letter that would hurt your" I
Exclaimed.
81 hate to think that any woman
would try to hurt me-" said
Eilene, "for I have never know
ingly hurt woman in my life; but
outside of my personal feelings in
the matter, the thought that some
despicable coward has the chance
to stab me in the back, as 1t were,
and run away, makes me ashamed
to confess that l am a woman.
"What makes you thing the let
ter was written by q woman ?"
asked Dick, curiously.
well, a man usually signs his
name to what he writes, or he
does not take the trouble to write.
He wants you to know what he
thinks, not what somebody else
thinks.
II really thought, however,
she continued, that women had
gotten away from thinking that
because they were women they
need not stand back Of their state
ments, and then. received this
despicable letter, to which the
writer was too much Of a coward
to fix her name.
II wish l could say to that wom-
an: If you think a thing should
be written, write 1t, but don't, for
the sake Of your own soul, dodge
the ISSUE
II respect an honest enemy who
fights me fairly-I despise a cow
ard who hides behind anonymity
and tries to stick me in the back
without putting himself in a posi-
tion to take what he is giving"
| / had never heard Eliene so We
hement, but l could not blame her.
A stab int he back is the worst
stab Of all, and 1t hurts me to
think that anyone of my sex would
do.
Ito Be Continued