The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-23
LETTERS OF
TWO WOMEN
No. Prom Kate OSway, Business
Girl, to May Wheaton Bond, Wife.
BY ZOE BECKLEY.


May dearest:
I cIutched your fat letter and fled
behind the file cases in the corner so
as to be out of range of old man Colby,
and devoured every word like fam
ished being let loose in a bakeshop.
You say let us be frank. Well, Maize,
frankness compels me to say that your
panegyric on your honeymoon and
your three-weeks-o marriage be-
stirred me into great dissatisfaction
with my own lone spinster state.
1 found myself for hours afterward
making sleeps eyes at poor little
Clancy. the weasel-eyed bill clerk.
Remember CLANCY, whose nose looks
perpetually damp and fluttery like
rabbits? Oh, aren't you thankful you
need never see CLANCY again! Or
Miss Coyne with her gum and her
AFFAIRS" and her 81 SEE to him, sez,'
and he sez to me so-and-so, and
how she gave him a piece of her
mind oh, darling, aren't you glad
you'll never see them again? Or have
to punch time clock? Or run in
with your notebook whenever Colby's
buzzer sounds? Or have to take"
DeWitt's personal letters to his society
friends? Or stay at the office on hot
Saturday afternoons just because the
senior partner might take it into his
darn head to come down and get out
a specification
You have escaped, Maiziei You are
free from the grind! You can take
as long as you like over your break
fast And wander about your pretty
house afterward-you haven't told me
about your house yet, but I know it's
Participating little touches here and
there; sitting down at your piano
have you piano for a touch of the
keys or a minute of singing; washing
your two-some breakfast dishes in a
sunny kitchen; chatting with neigh
Dor or finishing a book
Above an, dear, your life has def
mite answer You don't nurse the
secret dread that perhap no man will
ever want you-as we girls all do, es-
pecially those of us who work" for
our livings and have SO few opportunf-
ties to meet men,. You don't always
have to be keyed up for conquest, ap-
praising every male that comes your
way with an eye to his being a possible
husband. You are settled, MAY. and
! the Great Chase is over. The seal of
mans approval has been set upon you
| Speaking of men. there is a new
man in the office, who came just after
you left. He is in the advertising de-
partment, writes all the ad copy and
does some illustrating He looks like
| a foreigner ard has a queer name
Some of the girls have decided he is
! fascinating. The others shrink and
! SnuOleF ana call MIN an anarchist,
| whatever that may mean. He is not
| sociable, but yesterday l caught him
| looking furtively at me and it gave
me a little SILVER down my back like
when someone walks over your
/ grave" as we used to say.
! Things are just the same here as
| ever-just as stupid. The same tire.
some work from to 5, same office
| gossip, same flirtations. same jeal-
ousies, same hope eternal that glori-
| Gus knight will ride along some day.
! catch US up and ride off with US to
an enchanted castle
Life is particularly dull to me lust
/ now because G. ]. and 1 have had a
falling out. It's the same old story.
May, c. J. IS unreasonableness and my
/ bad temper. Yet 1 suppose / shall
| ultimately capitulate.' What is life to
a girl if there's no man interest? oh,
! Maize, 1 get so. tired of everything
sometimes. 1 just feel as if I'd like
to get on train and go somewhere
anywhere. away where I'll see new
faces, do new things. L begin to fear
am in blind pocket and will never
get out of it.
When you have that little house
fixed up, maybe I'll come out to Ker-
ryville and make you a visit-unless
you're so happy in your new dones-
ITCHY that it will make me lonelie1
than ever. .,.-ss, 49,.
Forgive this stupid better, dear
There's never anything for the one
who stays home to write.sE-
Devotedly always.