The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-31
Confessions
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WHEN A WIFE Is MOST HUI.
INFLATED

/ Just tu1nk Wnat IL WOulu
mean, Dick. to be placed so that
you could not help a friend you
loved very much without hav-
ing to make all sorts of explana-
lions and begging for a little
money from someone who was not
particularly interested In the
trouble of your friend"
Dick and l were driving in my
little electric on our way home
from the train which brought me
from my visit with Donna.
THAT is the position In which
most wives find themselves, Dick.
Do you realize that?"
II suppose 1t is somethink like
that for a lot of women. Tough.
isn't it," said Dick with his
crooked little smile playing over
his features.
4 knew he never could realize
how humiliating such a thing
could be to a proud woman and
l remembered what row we had
had when | asked for an allow
ance. II had not persisted, lit
tie book, we would probably be
on that same footing now. for l
do not think that Mrs. Selwin
would have left me her money II
she had not understood that I
had all my life been able to take
care of 1t and Dick thought l was
crazy to ask for specified sum
to spend in my own way.
When | got home Alice called
me up and | was glad to tell her
what | could over the phone.
Il shall never cease to be your
debtor, Margie," said Alice.
Forget it, my dear girl, as l
SHALL" | said, and then / hung
up the reviewer as Dick came into
the room. He went out to busi-
ness soon after and Alice came
over and / told her the whole
story. She wept unrestrainedly
and then said as she wiped her
eyes. Don't think that / am
weeping because I still love Har-
vey. / don't. I cannot tell you
how much / love Pat and how
grateful / am to him, but, Mar
gle, Harvey was almost like son
to me as well as being my lover.
felt that he needed my care
he was my first love and some
how l think that first love al
ways holds a little sacred place in
a woman's heart even il later
love fills her soul with Joy and
content."
Alice looked at me question
ingly as tho she were asking me
IL | understood her. I did. lit
tie book, and I think that most
other women would have done so.
Thru the long ages woman has
learned to crave love above ev-
!erything else in the world. When
she sees romance fleeing from
her she feels that life holds moth
ing more for her. Man can put
adventure in the place Of ro-
nance and usually make an ad-
venture Of his romance, but to a
woman the love Of her family,
her husband and her children
means life itself.
| 10 lhO dttlluuc ludt L
been trying to get away from, lit
tie book. Love may be the great
est thing In the world but it is
capable Of giving the greatest
pain as well as the greatest joy.
| l do not want ever again to
be as unhappy as ! was when l
found that Dick had been untrue
to me. l do not want to face
the agonizing grief I felt at the
loss of Sonny. l would rather
never have the joy IL I must pay
with the agony.
There, little book, l have writ
ten something on your pages,
which, Ii you were to be publish
ed to the world, would give a
wrong impression. l do not mean
that wish l had never gone thru
any of the experiences l have
told to you. 1 am glad that
have had every one of them, but
II just don't want to have them
again. l think l am quite as
afraid Of the ecstatic bliss, which
takes you soaring out into realms
of consciousness so rare that hui
man beings cannot stand it long,
as l am of the sorrow which hurts
and sears until you cannot look
upon living with any degree of
Icomplacency.
Supreme joy and intense suf-
fering are somewhat the same
emotions, little book. l realize
that the longer l live. II hurts to
be very happy as it hurts to great
lily grieve.