The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-04

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TRYING TO BE BOTH FRIEND
AND SERVANT.

Right there was the first mis-
take l made continued the girl
of the streets to Jim. I was a
servant and should have been
proud to serve. ] should have said
II will do thus and so and when it
is finished then my time is my
|own. You do not want me around
all the time and I will be happier
to be with my own friends"
"The poor girl had learned
something Jim," I said.
II think you will agree that her
education came high before fin
ish," he answered.
Well, I went to the place.
continued the girl. where I found
the family to consist Of husband
and wife, a small boy and a half
grown girl. The wife was one of
those suppressed beings whose
childhood had been one long
period of repression. Both her
father and her mother had taken
what little youth and imagination
she had had out Of her long before
she married.
"'She probably never had had
much vision, but she held rigor-
ously to the path of right doing
and right doing was always as she,
saw a situation and how to act in
regard to 1t. II you deviared in
the slightest from her ideas of
right and wrong you were lost
soul.
Just how the fun-loving,
splendid-looking man who was her
husband came to marry her I will
never know. She was tall and an
gular with a colorless blond COM
plexion which was forever more or
less rough and pimpled. Her hair
was a nopdescript tint. She had
very light eyebrows and oyelashes
which made her cold gray eyes
colder than they really were. sup
pose. Her mouth was thin and
shut with snap which made one
feel small just to look at her."
Say, l can see that girl is going
to love her lady," interrupted Dick
with a grin.
4 don't believe she noticed all
this at first" said jim. "That de-
scription came to her while she
was talking to me after the drama
was over. Here is the description
of the man as she gave it:
| He was tall and broad-shou-
dered, with wonderful brown eyes
and brown hair that was somewhat
rebellious- He had great warm,
useful hands. fine sensiti.e
mouth and lovely teeth. This man
loved the great out-of-doors. His
wife hated 1t. She never would
open a window for fear of losing
heat. She economical air as we'll
as everything else.
I" The man loved company. His
wife thought company too much
trouble. She was never willing to
spend either her energy or her
money to entertain company.
The man was fond of hearty
food and at night after he was
thru with his work he was always
ready for something to eat. His
| WIZ ihoiStCu tudt tOdSL WHICH H6
detested, jam and tea were
enough for any supper. She would
have been surprised and she
known that anyone had ever called
her. a lazy woman, but she was
|supremely lazy. She would do moth
ing in the way of inviting her soul
or the soul of any one else.
The man liked to take long
walks on Sunday. His wife would
go to church and church only on
Sunday. This was one of her duties
to her God.
The man liked to smoke. His
wife said tobacco made her sick.
1.-THE man wanted sometimes to
go to the theater. His wife thought
the theater was rank extravaganza.
The wife was a good house,
keeper, a good mother, a very con-
scientious woman and the pinnacle
OF coldly virtuous wife,"
To Be Continual