Evening journal., 1918-07-09
CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
MEMS EYES AND W0MEN's
HEARTS ARE ALIKE


l used to worry about growing old
not because feared ago or wrinkles
but because 1 always remembered whal
Annie said 70 me once;
Miss Margaret do you ever think Of
the time when you VIII be oldg"
looked at her in CONSERVATION for
I was then at the age when to be thirty
meant TO be old enough to die.
you know sometimes ! think, Miss
Margaret" she continued, that the
tragedy Of years Is that mans eyes
and a woman's heart never grow old.
No matter how many wrinkles there
are about masculine eyes or how dim
they look TO anyone, they always are
young inside and see only youth. The
man may be sixty to ell intents and
purposes, but hls eyes are as blind 10
anything over tho mating age as they
were at twenty-six.
"And a woman, too, grows old and
fat or thin and wrlnkled, but her heart
still asks for the romance Of youth
and her disappointment always comes
TO herafresh when she looks into the
dim eyes Of aging men only to see them
light up at the sight OF some dainty
miss OF twenty.
'Her young heart is imploring the
comfort Of another young heart and his
young eyes are looking only for youth
ful faces.
you see, Miss Margaret because
woman's heart and a mans eyes never
grow old consequently they take the
aging bodies belonging to them into
some queer places" When / feel old
my still young heart seeks out your
manuscript dear Dick.
II wish, dear Marge, that you will
try TO read what have written 10 you
In this manuscript all at one sitting"
read yesterday. II am selfish enough
TO hope that you VIII come to It when
all the world-yes, even Richard Way-
erly III-has failed 10 satisfy you.
when you want again to feel me
near you, | shall always be near 10
you Margie, as you read this manu-
script, II It Is possible for me to be
there"
What was It little book. that famous
said 10 me the other day /
when we were discussing the hope Of
life everlasting2"
Hope" he said. holds both desire
and expectation. You can desire things |
you do not expect and expect things
you do not desire, but when you hope
for things you both desire and expect
ihem."
Dick knew me so we'll that he knew
that ] would do just the very thing
he hoped / would in regard to his man
uscrlpt.
Sometimes. little book. almost think
that when l have finished Dicks manu-
script and said my say about 1t, / will
not write any more on your white
pages.
Which clever historian was It that
said something TO the effect that con-
tented countries. like happy women,
have no hlstories2 l expect that quo
tation Is not literal, but you know, little
book, l am like the old Scotch woman
on whom the dominic called early one
Monday morning He found her out on
the green where she had spread the
linen that she had just woven to bleach
under the morning sun. She was de-
lighted tc see the minister and began
at once to tell him how much good
the sermon he had preached the day /
before had done her OF course the
clergyman was flattered and ne lmme-
dlateiy wanted to know what part OF
the sermon pleased her most. After a
little questioning he discovered that she
could repeat nothing Of IT; not even the
text.
''Aiy good woman" he said. some
What acrlmOniously, II can hardly con-
,eive how my sermon can be Of any
reat service TO you, when you cannot
'emember a word Of It,"
The woman went on pouring water
,yer the long lengths Of linen spread
iut on the grass When she had fin
she'd. the piece Of cloth nearest the
Minister had already dried, There"
he said. as she pointed to It.; ''you do
ot now see drop of water on that
men, but il has done its work and the [
10th Is whittier than before ! poured /
on"
The minister had nothing more to say. \
never am able to quote from my /
averlte authors perfectly, but the L
Of their inspired words stay {
With me always and are a source Of
lleasure and help.