The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-11-19
Confessions
of a Bride
Copyrighted. 1919. by the News
paper Enterprise Association
WHEREIN THE BRIDE DIS
CtSSES THE ETERNAL
TRIANGLE

IRlANtlG
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was very lonesome after my nice
brothcr-in.lnw had returned 20 the
army aviation field. sent Baby Babs
back home with her nurse. Mrs.
Chaplin. Probably ought To have
gone with them. but In spite Of my.
self stuck around" that wrctched
border town waiting for my husband
10 como back. just as Jim. Jr., had
prophcsiod that | would do.
Would l have stayed In that lone.
some. uncomfortable place had Bob
been off on ordinary businesH7 Ger.
tainly not. | simply couldn't 20
north and leave the other woman
and my husband in tho same vicln.
ityi
when put the case plainly 20 my.
self IL seemed 10 absurd l hated
myself for being tangled up In a
vulgar mex triangle. / had never
dreamed that I. the bride OF Bob
Lorlmer. could possibly have 10 1--we
thru an experience OF that kind.
Bob had loved mo because I was
intellectual and educated. he said. As
girl ! had been what II usually
described as spiritual" And Bob
had pretended TO adore that In me.
After ! was married was shock
ed TO find myself falling away from
my plane Of high living ana high
thinking, And my own husband was
pushing me down. Thru him II was
that a common cr~ature-Katherin
hiiler--eouid touch my personal
happlnensi
IL was unthinkabie, II wus the
supreme insult Of my ilfel
Undoubtedly the girl was n moron
IA beautiful adult female with the
mind Of girl OF IL years. she and
were as different as darkness and
daylight. She was ignorant and
passionate. was educated and re-
served. compared myself 90 her
with SNUG satisfaction. Doubtless
every jealous wife has done the same
thingi
Tho worst Of my hurts was not
that which touched my personal
pride II was Bob'a fan from his
own high plane which made mo weep
most bitterly. had always held
my Bob 20 be quite superior 20 the
ordinary vulgar pulls OF scr. Ny
worst horror was the possibility that
the girl might add my husband 90
her conques,s. and drag him down.
Even n no no longer loved me. !
didn't want 10 Hee him degraded TO
her level
Tha; was a maternal feeling. sup,
pose. In wifeiy love OF the finest
kind there 10 always this maternal
element.
ragged for n day and night over
the hard condition which ] could not
control collected ideas enough 10
make a large book. Its proper title
might have been 'othcr womcn'H
Husbands" And It's theme the sad
fact that women are themselves 20
blame for much domestic misery.
Women In general blame mcn-wivcs
invariably blame husbands for every
upset 81 the matrimonial cart. Adam
has always been scoifcd at. hut he
was right when he put u onto the
woman" believe. Any permanent
reform In tho morals Of matrimony
must begin with women them.
selves.
- union OF women pledged 20 let
married men alone would help n lot"
heard Mother Lorimcr asy once
upon "A time.
rather fancy that n all women
would agree TO leave properly mar.
\.
standing OF their respective spouses
the world would be a more decent
place to live In. Women. when they
become rivals. arc the worst enemies
OF tho home.
Honor between womcn--is there
such a thlng7" asked myself And
I thought that the cheapest women
In the world are not the poor. rougcd.
young creatures who dress only with
with an eye 10 attract the men.
These girls are at feast honeHt-they
do not attempt TO conceal their In.
tcntion.
The cheapest women I'm the world
are the amugly respectable women
who infeat every plane of social and
business life and slyiy fitch the In.
tereHt Of other womcn's husbands
They desire to appear respectable
and innocent. but they are tho every.
dry vampires who work subtly and
unseen. Like dangerous disease
germs. they poison society and de.
stroy domestic life.
Katherine Miller was an every day
vampire. wondered why I had ever
made any attempt 20 save her.
I rather hoped she would elope
with the bandit chief. IL would be
n comfort TO let Don Manucl's wife
do the rcstl
TO be continued)