Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-12-29
,ear bal Nobody wants Us. baby!"

bear I'll Nobody wants us, baby!'
And then thought of my OWL
dear little mother. How she would
welcome me with open arms, although
her heart might break at nay sorrows
How she would care for me and a
baby that would call her "Granny,"
Writes To Her Mother.
With sudden determination and
strength which moment before
thought did not possess, went to
Johns writing table and wrote:
Dear Mother: am coming to you.
am coming to you to be with you
always!
II can not live here any longer. ]
do not know my own husband he is
so strange, so thoughtless, SO selfish!
Mother, dear, when told him this
morning that am to become a moth
er, he was angry with me. He made
me feel that in some way ! was to
blame and that what / thought would
be the crowning of my womanhood,
was in his eyes only an annoyance and
hindrance to some plans he had for
the immediate future.
Mother, dear, 1 hope that I won't
make you too unhappy, but am COM
ing-coming right away!
Your unhappy KATHERINE"
read this letter over carefully apd
the picture of my dear little mothss
reading it, arose before me, and /
knew that not even the death of my
father, whom she had loved SO devot-
edly, would bring her such intoler-
able pain.
Again / read the letter through.
Oh, how wanted the consolation of
her loving arms. I wanted to put my
head in her lap and cry out my disap-
pointment and sorrow. And then T.
Remembered that she had only lit
tie time to live and / could not sadden
her declining years with my sorrow.
1t would not be brave, and above all,
the thing that l despised most in this
world was lack of courage.
Tells OF The Accident.
I pushed the letter one side, and
wrote another:
This is to tell you, darling moth
er, that I arrived home this morning
to find things were not nearly so bad
rs l had feared. John had an autemo-
bile collision yesterday, and while ne
was not hurt, the occupants of the
other motor were badly injured. When |
John telegraphed me he thought one
of them was going to die. Fortunately |
the doctor has pronounced both of
the victims out of danger.
"Of course am very tired tonight |
because / have been with John at the /
hospital today, and at many other I
places where l felt my presence would /
help John. am not going to write /
you q very long letter tonight, but |
lust felt that could not go to sleep
letting you know that every
hing is all right with your loving
laughter. KATHERINE"
4 This letter sealed quickly without
'eading it., stamped it and called, a
nan to mail it, before my courage
hould fall me. As the man came to
he door he said:
Dinner is served, Mrs. Gordon"
After bathing my face I stumbled
own the stairs, hardly knowing what
was doing, for had made the most
nomentous decision of my life, and in
loing so had told my mother an
ther lie for John, and that lie had
apped away little more of my love
nd trust in himsl
John entered the dining-room just Fl
s | did and smiled cheerfully.
Good girln' he said ''I had it out
nth mother after you were gone. She
1 h1 viz n divt,, L.
er would not have married Eliza
eth Moreland If she had been the last
'oman in the world"
/ could not refrain from saving,
Would that have been the truth yes-
srday?"
Altogether Too Bossy.
Don't be nasty he begged, ''cause
ere going to besall right from now
n, and besides, Katherine, 1 think it
true--I don't think l would have
larried that woman under any cir
nfnstances. She is altogether too bos-
Y. want wife to comfort me. to
we me, and one for which my friends
i'll envy me. | don't want one to in-
'rfere all the time with my big plans,
18th her little feminine schemes"
Sometimes, john" said "it seems
lat God and nature interfere with
,ur schemes without asking your
He frowned at my reference and I
new that should never be able to Z
AXE him reconciled to our coming 4
lby, My only hope was that it wouldI
ing its welcome with it. AS it was,
y reference changed my husbands
ltire mood and he continued his din
sr in sullen silence.
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