Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-11-07
The Wife.
'IrN. Curtis and Ruth Discuss tho
Woman Question
Ey JANE PHELPS

Woman Question.
CHAPTER LNNlI
n Brian occasionally came home
ana found Ruth out it annoyed him
For an his huhemiauism IL troubled
him not to know where Ruth was
~" had stcldfastly refused to 20 TO
the shop or TO cali for her on his
way up town.
II have no desire To he pointed
out as Mrs IIack"tt's husband he
-Iid when she asked him to do
either
lie often felt uneasy because Of
hts dog -ln-the-mangcr attitude. But
like most men, he would not confess
it lie took Mollic King TO the Ire
wort and other places but he would
have been horribly shocked and In
dirnant had Ruth done the same
thing
lie was Of such jealous DISPOSE
tiOn that, had he cause, he would
have made both himself and Ruth
very unhappy even had he imaEin ed
. cause. l|ut Ruth was so frankly
careless Of attention from anyone
but him that he could not in decency
object to anything she had so far
done. Yet as time passed and Rhth
told Of the ljItlc Courtesles Of her
employer thoughtfulness Of
her-Brian commenced To take on
an injured air which should have
warned her not to hc SO outspokcn
as regarded her Arthur Mandel.
Brian scarcely realized yet that he
was troubled because OF Arthur Man
del Eut there was now an ever
present thought more of feeling
nnFhpf,C- that u1Anu
daily associated with her, was this
imam Mandcl.
Not that Brian thought Ruth in
love with him, or that he feared she
would he. lie had not gone as far
as that even in his thoughts But
he was convinced that Mandel was
in love with Ruth. That her ad
vanccs in salaky were simply one of
his ways Of showing II. Regardless
of Ruth's explanation as to WHY
her pay had been increased, he was
positive in his own mind that she
did not really EARN fifty dollars a
week. II was unbelievable. 4
girl with no business experience
II was all very well for her to toll
him 1t was because she knew what
was needed TO hC done to those old
firm rcdecorated. that might go
MLndol had been struck with her
looks, had hired her, a3d nov was
In lose with her.
This was the way Rrian figured
the raise in Euth's snla"t. That her
artistic IDEAS were wo~'n much
more than she received. he would
not have believed NAuhcE would
il have made any difference in his
ideas had he known that since Ruth
had worked for him, Arthur Mandcl
had never once overstcpped the
boundaries Of proper conduct toward
h"r-that of employer and en-
plovcd.
Ruth often had thought Of Man
ders punctIliousncss lie seemed al
ways to hc Interested in her only be-
cause ~ her work 1t gave her an
easy feeling ana manner whom with
him which would have been ahso-
utcly impossible to her, had she
known his real feelings
But Arthur Mandcl was 4 patient
man Rome wasn't built in Il day."
ho often Said TO himself when he
thought OF Ruth.
Ruth al quite naturally heen
thrown with many wealthy clients
OF the firm. Men and women who
were thoroughly abreast Of the times.
and who were both entertaining and
Mrs. Curtis said to her one day.
when, a. they often did. they were
luuching together.
Those people YOU have been tel
ling me OF age the people you should
know socially. They are your kind,
meant it, at n nod OF dissent from
Ruth. "Nou We're brought up with
that sort. You'n meyer become
accustomed To- the crowpMr. Hackott
like 50 many clever men--affect-
ed before he met you I'm not
knocking them Some Of them are
immensely clever. nut they are too
unconventional to please you.
brought w as YOU were. And you
won't be able to overlook their fam
il,Ar ways because they have brains"
Ruth knew, down in her heart.
that Mrs. Curtis was right. That
never would she feel at home with
tho set to which Claude Bccklv and
those ef his iik belonged. Vet she
was not quite ready To admit that il
WAS SO.
Don't you think it is wife's
duty to make her husbands friends
her friends" she asked. "Especially
when he has taken her to live among
tho people he knows"
"Well--perhaps In a way. But I
am beginning to think that We wom-
en- are too ready to give M our IDEAS
even our individuality. to please our
husbands And also sometimes
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