The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
LETTERS OF
TWO WOMEN
BY ZOE BECKLEY
From May Bond, Wife. to Kate
Danskoi, New Bride.


Kate, Kate, Kate!! I'm too ex-
cited to write! What do you mean by
celebrating your twenty-seventh birth
day getting married? And the casual
way you went and did it! And the
calm way you just manage to mention
it! Why, Kits, it's enough to bring
me down in a fever! 1 whose only
excitement is a quarrel with Curt or a
trip to Paola pronounced by the ma
tiYes "Peeoly'D behind Mustard. our
nag. to buy preserve jars.
Excuse all these exclamation points,
| dear, but they don't begin to express
the startlement l felt when 1 got your
letter. I yowled to Curtis 'Katie's
married-Kate is MARRIED.! And
when Curt went right on reading his
paper, 1 jumped over. shook his arm
and repeated my news.
Il heard YOU" he said.
And 1 wanted to go out and kick
the barn to pieces.
That is. one of the things about
Curtis Bond that makes me so furious,
his Responsiveness. But I'm not
going to yipe about my troubles; l
prefer yours.
But why trouble, Kate? You've
taken the plunge, and I'm so thank
full that it has put an end to the CD.
affair that I'm prepared to hail your
husband with glad cries. You don't
write like a happy bride, though.
Kitsie. Why? Think of how 1 raved
! over my marriage to Curt? Don't you
feel ravey? Or has the fancied wrong
| you've done to c. ]. cast a shadow
over your joy?
Don't let it, darling. AS 1 urged
before, that affair was unWhOlesome,
not to say dangerous to you both.
| Nothing good could ever have come
of it. 1t was cramping your life and
| making c. J. more of a weakling than
ever-forgiVe me, dear, if 1 speak too
| plainly. 1 never could see what you
saw in C. ]. But there! Who ever
can see what somebody else sees in
somebody else!
I'm crazy to know more about your
marriage. What did you do-toddle
right up to a ]. P. and have him tie
the knot? And have no wedding trip
at all? And go right on with your Of
| flee job? Why are you going on with
| your job? Don't you feel just too fun
ny and self-conscious for anything
Don't the girls in the office know?
| When are you going to tell them
Where do you live? And how? oh,
Katie, tell me you love your man
| that you didn't just marry him be-
cause you were disturbed and mIser-
able and tired of things as they were ?
Marriage is so hard at best! 1 trem-
! BILE to think what it must be il you
| don't really love your man!
| There is a little woman out here
who comes from the east-so young,
! SO pretty and so unhappy. We've
| come to be real friends, and when 1
am not so filled with the subject of
your marriage to Paul I'll tell you
about her.
| can't picture you married, Kate,
and yet like to think that you are
| We shall have more in common
| There is nothing like marriage prob
| lens for bringing feminine souls close
| together That is why many a friend
ship languishes when one party to it
marries and the other does not
| There are no longer the same in
| terestS, the same subtle problems
| Marriage establishes free masonry
| between women at once. Oh, Kate.
/ there are so many things I want to
| ask you that I'm in a perfect haze!
! Take pity on me, dear. and write
! quickly.
| The atmosphere here is cold and
| constrained. I am suffering from a
| variety of complications bad cold,
| a grouchy husband, a. batch of spoiled
| preserves and a mother-in-law
If I didn't have the little woman I
mentioned above to confab with land
my kitten to hug and your new es-
| tate to think about and the pralries
and the blue sky to love, I'd kick
| over the traces and run for a smash
up. EXcitedly and ever lovingly,
| MAIZE.