Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-09-12

CEORDg AND
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/ you"
THE feeling IS mutual. assure YOU,
dear. I was thinking only yesterday
/ that it had been months since we had
a chat and I was on the point of cali
J ing YOU over the telephone when some
thing else gained nay attention"
What do you know that is new ?"
Really, I hear so little lately that
I suspect I'm growing rusty. one
must stir about 10 keep posted Of
course ] read the papers. but one
doesn't get the things that one likes
hest to know IN the public prints. The
papers I'll us up on war news but I
imagine IL wouldn't be good policy to
tell as all Of the happenings iu sthe
city"
You talk as IF you had a scandal
up your sleeve
oh, not at all I was only speak
ing in general way"
Now, III bet you know something
and you just want nae to beg YOU TO
take me into your confidence.
Y am surprised that you would
make such an assertion. You know
that I wouldn't think OF keeping from
you any mOrsel that I thought you
ought to know"
Then, perhaps. you know some
thing that you have decided that YOU
should not tell me- Really, Z am dy-
ing to hear some news of an excjt-
ing sort"
We'll. II agree 90 let you iu on
the latest viii you promise to return
the compliment"
Il would gladly. only ] cant recall
q thing that you don't know"
That's the way y0u always talk.
but I have noticed that none Of us
has it on you when it comes TO get
ting an earful Of the latest
Wei, you go ahead. and I'll try
70 collect my thoughts as you go
along"
"Well-now for my sake don't ever
breathe this TO another soul because
the folks concerned are among my
dearest friends and if they ever heard
that / had gossiped about them they
would never speak 10 me again, and
besides they have done us numerous
fav0rs. such as loaniug US their lawn.
mower and taking as for a ride IN
their machine when ours was laid
up for repairs"
You ought to know by now that
you can trust me with your inner
most secrets.
Il have never doubted you only
I cant yet understand how that story
that I told Won about the Browns last
winter got all over the neighb0rho0d
and even beyond. was simply NOR
tilted when 7 got it from Jessie two
weeks after I had let you i'm on IT, Fl
didn't dare to ask Jessie where she
got it for fear she might have said
that you gave it to her. and that
would have simply killed me. for I
have always placed such implicit
trust in you"
Positively. dearfe, I never breath +
ed q word of that Brown affair to
anybody not even my husband and
you know that there is little we keep
from one another. There are not many
couples that get along as my husband
and / do 1t makes no difference how
late he returns home at night he will
waken me and tell me where he has
been. who he has met and what he
has heard. / do the same when I
have been out of an afternoon, and
you can imagine how beautiful our
home life is as a consequence"
I wouldn't give q. whOOp for man
who tattled every bit of gossip that
he hears TO his wife. Speaking of
husbands, no one knows better than
You how good Charlie is to me- He|
gives me everything that i want Het
is just as kind and considerate OF me
today as he was during our honey
moon, and you must remember thati
we have been married more than ten
years. He never has claimed that he
tells nae all his secrets And he has
not asked me whether I tell MIN ev-
erytbing I know I have reference 70 /
little happenings that do not involve /
the honor of either of us. dent +
care to hear q lot of idle talk that
comes to his ears during his day away
from home. Neither is ne interested +
in the conversation that passes be /
tween me and my friends over the /
telephone while he is away from nae
at his work. Or course if there is .
real news Z let him iu on it,"
You want to be careful, my dear
Beware Of a husband who Keeps the /
little things from you. In time he'll
tell You nothing I know OF such .
cases right here among us. Tt breeds
distrust Once a wife begins 10 feel
that her husband is not con6ding i'm +
her then the fires of suspicion are
ldndled. I have never insisted thatI
my husband report in detatI<to roe att
the end of every day. Neither has
he made similar demands upon me
It's a mutual understanding with us
and YOU viii never appreciate how
much its adds to the harmony of the
home until You have followed our
plan
You don't mean to fnsiBuate thatH
my husband is playing me false. I +
hope?7
Bless your soul. no. ] ana simply
suggesting that YOU are missing q lot|
in not following the plan We have
grown into. I believe that your hus-
band is one of the nobIest men in the
city He looks the part and he acts
it, too. Honesty sticks ont of his eyes
I don't believe he could deceive you
If be tried
You don't know my husband as
well as YOU imagine you do Under
stand, we have never had a quarrel +
In our whole married life. but just
the same ] have caught him in sew
aral tight places. I wouldn't say that
be lied to me. but I have made him
confess that he had made mistakes"
@Arent YOU the charitable woman.
though If they'll trifie with the truth
Ia little things. as I have said, be-
ware of them when an Occa slim arises