Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-02-11
JOHNS WRATH

In thinking back over my married
life II seems that 1t has been the litt,e
things that have made the big differ
ences.
And the things that some women
perhaps would have thought big
enough to hurt them irretrievabI,,
have not seemed to affect me nearly
so much as the constant flow of little
larnoyances, which are surely drown
ing my love for John. And yet he stiil
SO fasclnates and charms me with his
bigness and virile stanohness that
when | lean against him and feel his
arms about me, Lam absolutely GER
tain that ! would be nowhere else In
the wide wide world from choice.
wonder II II is the fact that women
are In a period OF transition that
causes the unrest of the married wu-
man today? Surely modern woman
has travelled far from her progenitor
who thought her husband "all in alr';
who had no thought but his Today's
woman thinks pretty much for herself.
She wants her husband 10 be her COM
panion, her pal" her lover And she
wants him to respect her mind as he
does his own.
AS Il was while | listened to Alice
and John In the next room Quarreling
over me, I do not think | was rs angry
because John had not sent me a flower
as | WAS because he made IL purely
mercenary matter. He didn't send me
flowers bcWuse he thought had
enough without his tribute. when he
should have known that ii was true.
.aa Alice said that | could have
brushed tho entire garden OF bios
SONS out the window and held in my
hand one flower because il conveyed
his love and his Joy in my recovery"
A Terrible Upheaval.
remember thinking idly that his
mother was in for bad quarter of an
hour with John and rather regrettIng
that Alice had told him OF his mothers
little trick IN extortinE money from
/ hlm. However. | did not dream that
i 4 would lead TO the terrible mpheaval
which It did.
! | felt that II was impossible, after
overhearing John and Alice. to talk 20
either of them, SO when first Alice tip
toed into the room and John came
with heavier footsteps feigned sleep.
my face turned to the wall
II was with sigh OF relief that l
heard the nurse bidding them good
nisht.
did not know when the uncon-
seriousness of sleep came over me and
was awakened IN the morning by the
telephone ringing Soon my nurse
came to my bed
MADAM Gordon wants 10 know II
YOU can see her this morning, or,
rather She told me she was coming up
this morning, and | told her would
ask you ii you felt well enough to see.
snyone"
had forgotten an about the CON
lversation had overheard the day be-
fore and said "Of course will see
her Isn't it nice Tor her to want 10
Gomez"
bringing an Accusation.
But alas. when she arrived the mo-
nient / saw her face. AIice's and Johns
quarrel came back to me with a rush
ana knew inialtively that she had
come 10 accuse me OF telling John of
her money attaining scheme.
She did not ask me how was, or
slew amy signs Of soIicitude tor me,
but as soon rs the nurse had left the
room, she said:
Il have thought many ,hlngs-of you
Katherine. bat I never before thought
Sou were a talc heArers"
what do you nean -
You know exactly what ! mean.
Aud should think you have = hard
enough time setting money out u
Joha Yourself not 80 symrNthize with
ire / have never been able 70 get \