The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-11
Confessions
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NEW LOVE FOR OLD

q ihehts AhoA BIC. WtOtO DhSh -
the beginning of his next Install
ment. Il am sure that If any
man was asked what was his
most embarrassing moment, he
would say 1T was at my wedding
ceremony, provided the cerer
mony was a church affair, as ours
was.
Sometimes l think that we
are almost as barbarous with our
weddings as we are with our
burials.
do you know, Margie, I feel
q cold chill go down my back
every time / think what will
happen after l am dead. | know
that mother will want the same
ostentation she had at the time
of our wedding"
Poor Dick, that is just what
his mother did have, the most
ostentatious funeral that was
ever held in this city.
can safely say, little book, IL
Dick hated his wedding he would
have been furious at his funeral.
And now l am coming to the
most surprising and unexplain-
able thing about our love and our
marriage, Margie. You know at
the reception you met Eleanor
Fairlow.
Eleanor Fairlow and had
been sweethearts ever since l
could remember. We took alter
nate bites out of our apples and
divided our dish of ice cream
amicably. l always carried her
books to school, and when We
grew older Eleanor and l were
always paired off together. We
were left alone many times in
those years of our adolescence,
and-well | should not wish my
daughter to have the freedom
with any young man that Eleanor
had with me.
II do not think one of us was
more to blame than the other. You
see, we always intended to marry
when we were old enough.
Honestly, did intend to
marry Eleanor. That was per-
haps the reason why | did not in
so many words ask you to marry
me. Altho at the time | did not
concisely voice that reason. And
I give you my word that from the
time l saw you thru the door Of
that school | absolutely forgot such
girl as Eleanor Fairlow lived.
Il make no excuses, Margie. |
used Eleanor Fairlow very badly
and you worse, but 1t is the way
of the world, my dear-the way Of
mans world-the way of a
world made by man for man. 1t is
only now that l know all this.
Sometimes | think we will be-
gin to understand, but | am afraid
1t is going to take something very
tragic in the way of happenings
to bring the world OF men up to
the realization OF what are only
their just deserts.
"Think of 1t. After practically
all my life from the time | could
talk, with Eleanor Fa.rlow forgot
her completely when | saw you.
And | never thought a bit about
her until two days before we were
married and she called me up and
asked me to come over and sJe
her.
II did not want to go. hated
to be made unhappy and felt like
a yellow dog, as we'll.
Eleanor was a good girl, Mar
nsA 20 haf ch q
loved me devotedly and even you
can hardly blame her when sic
said to me that day:
Dick, l am not going to give
you up. You were mine a long
time before. she took you away
from me- tried to tell her that
you had not taken me away from
her, that the moment / saw you,
you had bowled me over and I
knew l would be perfectly miser-
able III did not get you.
but, Dick she whispered.
you will get tired Of her.
Il started to protest and she
said, Yes you will for you have
tired of me and she can't love yod
any better than l do. She can't
be any more devoted than I have
been to you.
I am pretty, people tell mr. ,,
and even you have called me Gle :
er, and / want to tell you, Dickie,
that am going to wait until you
are tired of your school teacher
and then you will come back to
me-
81 fairly SUNK from that girls
presence, but as soon as l saw you
again l forgot everything except
1 loved you and you loved me.
Ito Be Continued.)