The Jasper news., 1922-10-19

keeping the nome together, anu put
ting up with annOynnces. IOr the ulti.
liliIs good VI all. especially OF Eunice.
, She went right OH then quickly, be-
fore could sny anything. She suid
TINT, of curse, understood that
wns still Mary aud Marie, even IL Jerry
did Gull me Molne; and If Marie had
married man that wasn't always con-
genial with Mury, she was very sure
Mary had enough stamina und good
sense to make the best of II; and she
was very sure. also. thar II Mary would
only make a little effort TO be once in
while the Marie he had murried,
things might be lot ensief-for Mary.
OF cosrse. laughed ut thnt | had
to. And Mother laughed, too. But we
understood. We both understood.
had never thought of It before. but
had been Marle when married Jerry.
l loved lights and music and dancing
and gay crowds just exactly as we'll as
he did. And 1t wasn't his fault that
suddenly turned into Mary when the
baby came, and wanted him to stay
with his dressing-gOwn and slippers
No wonder he was surprised. He
hadn't married Mary--he never knew
Mary at all. But. do you known I'd
never thought of that befOre-until
Mother said what she did. Why. prob
ably Jerr~ was just as much disap-
pointed to find his Marie turned intD
Mary as l.
But Mother was talking again.
She said that she thought Jerry was
wonderful man, in some ways; that
she never saw a man with such charm
and magnetism, or one who could 30
readily adapt himself to different per-
sons and circumstances. And she said
she was very sure II Mary could only
show a little more interest In pictures
Especially portralts), and learn to dis
cuss lights and shadows and perspec-
| tives, thar nothing would be lost, and
that something might be gained; that
there was nothing. anyway. like COM
munlty Of interest or of hobbies to
bring two people together; and that 1t
was safer. to say the least, when 1t
was the wife that shared the commu-
nifty of interest than when 1t was some
other woman, though of course. she
knew as well as | knew that Jerry
never would She didn't finish her
sentence. and because she didn't finish
II, 1t made me think all the more.
Then, In a minute, she was talking
again.
She was speaking Of Eunice. She
said once more that because Of her,
serious trouble between Jerry and Inc,
for, after ell, it's the child that always
pays for the mothers mistakes and
short-sightedness. just as 1t is the SOL
der that pays for his commanding off,
GERS blunders. That's why she felt
that had had to pay for her mistakes,
and why she knew that I'd never COM
pei my little girl to pay for mine. She
said that the mother lives In the heart
of the child long after the mother Is
gone. and that was why the mother
always had to be--so careful.
Then, before knew 1t, she was talk
Ing briskly and brightly about some
thing entirely different; and two min.
utes later l found myself alone out
side of her room. And hadn't told
her.
But wasn't even thinking Of that
l was thinking of Eunlce, and of that
round, childish scrawl of a diary up
stairs In the attic trunk. And l was
plcturing Eunlce, In the years to come
writing her diary; and thought
what II she should have to-
went upstairs then and read that
diary again. And all the while was
reading thought of Eunice. And when
Il was finished l knew that I'd never
tell Mother, and that I'd never write
TO Jerry--not the letter that was go
Ing to write. knew that.
They brought Jerry's letter to me al
just thut point. What wonderful
letter that man can write-when hS
/, wants tOl
He says he's lonesome and homesick
and that the house is like tomb with
, out Eunice and me. and when am
coming homer
wrote him tonight that l wa
gOlng-IOInorrow
nIIU MN