The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-24
LETTERS OF
TWO WOMEN
The Gold OF Heart.
kerryville, Kansas,
Wednesday Morning.
BY ZOE BECKLEY.

kerryville, Kansas,
Wednesday Morning.
Kate Darling:
/ cried over your letter. You won
der, of course. what there was to cry
over. But. oh, Kits. wait till you're
going thru what 1 am, and you'll I'M
derstand the abnormal state of mind
and body woman is in before her
baby comes.
I'm so glad you and Paul ARE har-
monious. I pray for harmony and
peace as 1 never prayed before for
anything. For the truth may es well
be told: Curt and I cannot keep from
jangling. Probably 1 am wistful
and dependent and exacting. 1 admit
1 have times of panic when it seems
oh, it's such a strange feeling, Katie
that am all alone in a sea of mys-
terry and danger.
one day in that mood 1 hurried
over to Curtis's mother and she told
me 1 was feeling badly because 1 in
sisted on singing and practicing on the
| piano instead of doing wholesome
household work.
1.-The singing strains you" she said.
And sittino at the piano keeps you
from active duties. Homework is the
best exercise in the world, and it's
really time to take in those plants
from the garden and pot them for the
ought to be done"
That's the cry always and always
and always. Kit! Never stop a mo-
ment for the happy things of life!
| your SOUL My husband and mother
in-law simply don't know what it is
to have an emotion outside OF digging
onions or selling a mortgage or a
COW.
Let me tell you what happened last
night. Curt aid I went for a walk.
You know 1 never WIS strong on those
walking stunts. But I did not want
to be making excuses all the time, SO
| went.
There's a long dip in the road half
way to the village, and it simply ex-
hausts me t. go down it and up the
other side without resting. 1 told Cur
| tbs I'd sit a minute on tree trunk
and get my breath.
"Oh, for the love of Mike, May
don't! That isn't the way to take a
walk" said my husband. who is SC
young and athletic. This dawdlina
doesn't do you any good. You have
| to tramp along fast. Besides, I've
got to attend a meeting of the YOUNG
mems club at the church. There isn'i
time to STOP"
We'll, I must stop. that's all. Curt,
I said, with an edge to my voice. I'm
not feeling my best. you know
"oh. I know" he said contemptu-
ously. Am 1 ever allowed to forget
it? We people out here never used tC
think it was any great stunt to have 6
baby. You'd think it was a most I'm
paralIe1ed event the way you go or
about it. Come on, May, don't BIZ
foolish and pamper yourself. You're
feel lot better if you'd forget it and
live just as usual"
And, Kate, he walked on ahead
Yactuaily leaving me there in the gath
ering dusk, sitting by the roadside or
that stump. 1 got frightened pres
emily and went hurrying after him.
I reached home with my hear
pounding and my head dizzy. But Il
was nothing compared to what 1 fel
in spirit Kittie, they are so cold OF
heart. Only the primitive appeals tt
them-food, sleep, the soil, wealth
and a certain sort of religion. Blu
their religion is all profession and nc
I practice. Curt went to his meeting a
the church and I went to bed, sicl
and exhausted, body and soul Oh
how lucky you are. dear. to have IN.
derstanding between you and Paul
In my short married lie 1 have fount
that is the prime requisite for true
mating. You can even live withou
love. if you have sympathetic under.
standing. But you cannot live nc
matter what else you have, if there ii
an eternal jangle between types. And
that's what is the trouble between us
Your lonely old
MAIZE.