The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-05-22
CONFESSIONS
OF 4 Wife
A MANS THOUGHTS ON
MARRIAGE

Dear little book. have been look
Ing back over your pages today.
What long time ago II seemR'
Hut Dicks reference To our wed
ding day made me wish To refresh
my memory. | wanted again To sec
what really thought OF II all.
LATHE book. read long way
In fact, | spent most OF the day In
looking over the volumes In which /
have written down not only my con.
fesaionn. but the annals of my fam.
lily and friends.
And now II In all over. Now that
part OF my life In finished. almost
feel that In a very it'll. while all
that IN interesting In my life will be
over. and even you. little book. will
not be Interested In my everyday
life. But | must keep on telling you
for little while about Dick and
Dicks baby. for this manuscript
Dick has left me shows that he. too
had very distinct ideas OF married
life when he stopped TO think.
Wasn't II dear OF him to think OF
telling mo OF all thls7
II he had not written II to me
would never have known that per.
haps he thought "a much abou, mar.
riage ah did. and l don't mind con.
Teasing to YOU that some OF Dicks
manuscript is not very fiattcrlng TO
me.
Dear Dick. he has been honest.
and that IN splendid Of him. for
thing OF this kind can have only one
merit. and that In absolute and hon.
90, sincerity. not only OF mind. but
Of purpose.
In his manuscript. Dick says; "Do
YOU know. Margi.. when I had my
first disappointment In your
Don't Hhuddcr. dearest: was per.
haps more to blame than you. but
wonder II every man has "A rude
awakening after marriage. and n Il
always does come as early M mine
did.
You remember. dearest. that
ding. You were no sweet. | think
have told you II was the passionate
apex OF my selfish happiness. You
wanted TO belong you told me
Poor child. YOU did not know what
you were saying. but I. In my AFRO
gance as conau.ring and possoaAa.
ing male. believed you.
Then came that morning on the
sleeping car when compared you
with all IN. other women In the cold
gray morning after a NOR. or ieAa
.lecple.s night In berth. saw
that you were like "A great big baby
In your fresh beauty bcsid. tho worn
and wrinkied women who followed
you to the dressing room.
IT was perhaps providsntiai that
there were no other brides In the
car. Margl~. and that could only
compare you with the much older
women who were travelling At that
time.
II did not stop To think that you
and would grow old I only knew
tina, my vito was tho pret,ies, WON.
an TO be seen In tn. car. and was
proportonatciy happy.
II was sup~rs,itious enough 10 he.
iicve you brought mo luck In Buf
faio. when got that school contract
with so little trouble. and. wife %
mine. you were perfectly adorable
that day Mt tho Fails when we for
got everything except this wonder
full. wonderful world. and that We
were alive 20 enjoy IL.
TOO bad. isn't IL. Margic. tina, 80
many times since then we both for
got tina, the world was wonderful
Too bad that now when | can only
zee tina, the path of life ends in a
mist that covers up everything he
You'd. I realize It's wonders more than
ever. Too bad that we cannot al.
way understand what In NO OF, on
our lips. Time II flceunr.' until IL
has fled Sometimes think that Il
4. only ut tho door Of eternity that
we realize the time we have wasted
in pursuit Of non essential things.
81 ntill remember how you looked
that morning at tho Pals as you sat
clos. and trembling beside me sa we
went down the Gorge. | do not be.
licve tina, ever after had that
sense Of possession that I had then"
fTo Bc Continued