The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30
Confessions
.SWife/s
THE POWERS OF TINE AND

THE POWERS OF TIME AND
MONEY
1t is six months today since
Dick died.
l sometimes wish we did not
measure things by time. The
two standards in almost all lives
are time and money. One is sup
posed to take away from us our
Joy and the other is supposed to
alleviate our sorrow. l do not
believe, however, that we realize
that time is not always unkind or
money always kind.
Time softens all things and If
it brings to one settling down,
a lessened capacity for great emo
tional upheavals, it also brings
lessened capacity for suffering.
And money has made more trouble
than almost anything else in the
world. l have about reached the
conclusion, little book, that we
cannot say that anything in this
world--anything we can attain
can either give us unalloyed hap
piness or sink us in the depths
of despair. For some reason, l
do not know why, am more
content this morning than l have
been since Dick died. Perhaps
it is because my baby put out his
hands to me this morning and
gave a queer gurgle of joy as |
snatched him from the nurses
arms, all naked and flowerlike.
III finish giving Richard
Waverly Ill his bath, nurse" l
said.
Hastily putting a towel across
my lap / laid the baby on his
stomach and rubbed my hand
softly down his back. l am sorry
/ cannot describe to you the tex
ture of a baby's skin. little book.
/ always think of roseleaves en-
dowed with souls. Sounds rather
sentimental, doesn't it? But If
ever a woman may be senti-
mental it is over her own baby.
And this morning my baby
singled me out and reached his
hands to me. l cannot be un-
happy today.
After l had finished the baby's
bsth I called up Mollie and asked
her to go shopping with me. I'D
love to, Margie. but l do not think
l shall be able to do so. Mother
is here and she is very much
worked up over Jim Edie's re-
fusal to let her take some of her
money from a certain investment
and put it into get-rich-quick
scheme that has been recon-
mended to her. And because l
sided with Jim she says l am a
hypocrite. Both you and Mar
gie,' she says, are always talking
about the ability of women to
take care of their own money and
when l want to take care of mine
you turn around and say a woman
is not capble.
81 wish Mother would not ex-
asperate me to the verge of mad
ness" said Mollie over the
phone, "for l always say some
thing I am sorry for later. This
morning / said, 4 have not
turned around at all. I think
most women can take care of
their own money, but think you
are the exception which proves
the rule. Do you not realize that
you have a splendid income
which will be yours till the end
of your days? You need not in
vest for greater returns. Why
not let Jim take all the trouble
and you take all the pleasure out
of Mr.. Trent's bequest?' She
subsidized, but has been grumpy all
morning, and If I went with you
she would say we were both max
ing her very unhappy.
Donna came in while Mollie
and were talking and of course
was glad to go shopping with me.
1t was the first time l had been
in the shops since Dicks death
and It seemed almost like fairy
land.
I bought q new hat, and then
suddenly remembered the pur-