The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-04
LET TIERS OF
TWO WOMEN
LEND Me Your Babies!"
BY ZOE BECKLEY.

Lend Me 4 our fSuDieS.
May Dear:
| am dusty and wind-burned and
all a-thril, with my ride with you,
Maize, over that desert! That letter
of yours, that wonderful tripi May,
if you could make me forget my pivot
chair in a New York skyscraper and
make me think ] was in your car
riding over the Mojave desert, you've
got the markings of a writer in you.
What a shame that the one holiday
you've had must be poisoned with
apprehension. 1 don't blame you,
dear old girl. for threatening to cut
and run if Curtis tries to make you
live on that ranch at the end of moth
ing. 1t seems to me as tho it takes
two or three people to make one fair
ly complete and happy human being.
Here you are with babies to spare and
stifled for a bit of city interest; and
me, with city life swapping me with
its overmuchness and not a baby to
pIay with!
Maize, let us to two girls beat life.
If you do have to make your threat
of leaving the ranch, come to me.
I'll get you job in my office, you lend
me your babies! Yes, 1 know this is
woman-foolish talk. l can just inn
agine how with hands-in-air-w with
despair the men folks would greet this
proposal. But L don't know that they
| ct much farther with their laboriouS,
s Iperpractical, common sense" way
of beginning to get ready to start
a-thinking of the possible solution to
a problem,
Come on, Maze, let's swap. If you
come to New York, we'll get you a
| flat somewhere next to ours. Well
hire q right good woman to take care
of the kiddies during the day, while
we're at work. oh, gosh, how 1 want
| t try on them some of these good
sounding theories professional moth
60 ri %
these writers are maiden ladies' per-
fectly respectable, so that their ex-
| periences as mothers must have been
gathered in a previous reincarnation.
But never you fear, May! 1 shan't use
up more than one or two of your kid
dies in the cause of magazine mother
hood!
Seriously. dear, there's food for
thought here At least, it's some
thing to stiffen your backbone with if
you've got to put up your back to
Curtis-the thought that you have
| another way out, mean.
AS for me, how 1 would enjoy
squeezing your kiddies! And get copy
out of them. And talk. talk, talk with
you, old pal of my heart.
A perfectly respectable thought
| has just come to me, the kind you
offer the sweatshop drudge to make
her willing to drudge all the more,
while the boss gets the benefit of it.
But tho trite, it is true all the same.
and it helps me.
was complaining a few minutes
| ago that each of us yammers for
something she has not. Well. why not
put that down a thing to be glad
over? 1 mean, a sign of that divine
discomfort which marks the human
from the clod," etc. It's old stuff
| but, Maizie, it helps me to think
that / would rather have life incom-
plete thru wanting too much than
complete thru not wanting enough.
But l want you and ! want your
babies. You want the city and, / am
| vain enough to think, me. Let's pool.
| Paul, 1 know will not mind as much
as l shall be glad. And as for Curtis
| if he doesn't like it-and, of course,
he won't-then let him do something
! about it to make up to you what he
| would have you do without.
What say, Maizie2
Yours for anything you decide
KATE