The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-01
CONFESSIONS
OF 4 Wife
MEMS EYES AND WOMEN's
HEARTS AXE ALIKE

! used TO worry about growing
old. not because feared age or
wrinkles. but because always re.
mombered what Annie .aid 10 me
once.
Miss Margaret. do you ever think
f OF the time when you will be oidy''
looked AT her in CONSERVATION.
( for was then at the age when to
{ be 20 meant 10 be old enough 10 die.
You know. sometimes think.
Miss Margaret" she continued. that
the tragedy Of years il that n mans
eyes and a wofnan's heart never
grow old.
NO matter how many wrinkles
there are about masculine eyes or
how dim they look TO any one. thcy
always arc young inside and see only
youth. The man may be 90 20 all in
tents and purposes. but his eyos are
as blind TO anything over the mating
age as they were at Is.
And a woman. too. grows old and
fat or thin and wrinkled. but her
heart suii asks for the romance %
youth. and her disappointment al
ways comes 10 her afrcHh when she
looks into tho dim eyes Of aging men
only 10 see them light up at the sigh,
Of some dainty miss Of 20.
Her young heart il imploring the
comfort Of another young heart. and
his young eyes are looking only for
youthful faces.
You see. Miss Margaret. because
never grow old. consequently they
take the aging bodies belonging TO
E them into some queer placeE." When
feel old. my stlll young heart recks
out your manuscript. dear Dick.
II wish. dear MsrEie. that you VII
not try 90 read what | have written
I to you In this manuscript; all at one
sitting" | read yesterday. II am
selfish enough TO hope that you viii
T come TO q, when all the worid--yes,
even Richard Waverly IiI.--has
failed TO satisfy you--whcn you want
again To feel me near you. I shall
always be near to you. MHrRie. as
you read this manuscript II II Is pos
sibie for me 20 be there
what was a. little book. thnt IA
nous psychologist said 10 me the
other day when We were discussing
/ the hope OF life everlasting
Hope" he sald. holds both de
/ sire and expectation. You can desire
[ things you do not desire. but when
you hope for things you both desire
and expect them"
Dick knew me 40 well that he
knew that would do just the very
| thing he hoped | would in regard TO
his manuscript
Sometimes. little book. almost
think that when have finished
Dicks manuscript and laid my say
to YOU about Il. | will not write any
more on your white pages.
Which clever historian was Il that
said something to the effect that con.
tented countries. like happy women,
have no historiea7 expect that
quotation is not literal. but you
know, little book. | am like the old
Scotch woman on whom the dominic
called early one Monday morning
He found her out on the green.
whore she had spread the linen that
she had just woven 20 bleach under
the morning sun, She was delighted
TO see the minister. and began at
once to tell him how much good the
sermon he had preached the day be
fore had done her. or course. the
clergyman was flattered, and he i'm
mediately wanted TO know what part
OF the sermon pleased her most. Aft
or a little questioning. he discovered
that she could repeat nothing OF IL,
not even the text
My good woman" he said. some.
what acrlmoniously, 81 can hardly
conceive how my sermon can be OF
any great service TO you. when you
cannot remember a word OF t..
The woman went on pouring water
over the long lengths OF linen spread
out on the grass. When she had fin
ished. the piece of cloth nearest the
minister had already dried. There"
she said ms she pointed to Il. you
do not now see a drop OF water on
that linen, but 1t has done it's work
and the cloth Is whittier than before
poured II on"
The minister had nothing more TO
say.
never am able to quote from my
favorite authors perfectly. but the
meanings OF their inspired words
stay with me always and are
source OF pleasure and help.
Ito BE Continued