The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-07

LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE
TO LESLIE PRESCOTT,
CONTINUED

I was greatly annoyed with that
woman customer. but l think l was
to blame after all. l brought it on
myself by giving her a chance to
draw the wrong inference about
Walter and myself. l shall never
do it again.
I'm not going to advise you about
your husband. 1 think that Is one
of the silliest things another person
can do. Although John loves you
GevotedIy, from d mans point of
view. l know that John thinks he is
we'll with in his rights. and you.
loving and loyal as you are, I know
think he is quite outside them.
But. oh, let me tell you something,
Leslie-unless you feel that your life
is unbearable. unless you can look
ahead 10 an old age without your
husband, try and explain to him so
that he can not fail 10 understand
your position and your point of view.
| am sure, then, you will come to-
eether.
Do not stand entirely on your
rights. dear MorriaEe is wholly
life in which there is giving and TAX
ing every day. and !, who know,
must tell you that after two people
have been married and lived to
gether in close companionship; after
they have mingled both tears and
laughter. JOY and grief. they can not
part without great unhappiness to
both.
/ think | showed you that letter
from Harry to me I know he has
been quite unhappy since be left me,
and it has saddened me greatly: for
I. YOU know, have found happiness.
I did not tell you. however. my dear.
Of the loneliness that was mine after
Harry left me. Sometimes I was
almost ready to forgive and forget
all he had done if he would just come
back to me.
Nature has put something into n
woman's heart that makes it impos-
sihle for her to be happy unless she
mothers something. II may be a
husband or 4 child, a cat or dog,
Il
or crusade; but she must have
something in her life that satisfies
the maternal urge.
l think at times I should have
gone mad if it had not been for the
little shop. I have said something
II his kind to Walter. and strange
as it may seem-he being a man
he has understood the feeling He
says it is because he lived and felt
the want of me so long before I
came to him.
He thinks the time has come for
YOU to let it be known that we are
| in partnership in the lingerie shop
Both Walter and are sure that
married people need little vacation
| from each other occasionally. 1t is
said that we all grow tired, physical
| ~. mentally and spiritually, and
those who are nearest and dearest
to Us first feel The consequences Of
nerves filled with the poison Of
| fatigue and boredom.
If l told this to anyone but you.
dear Leslie. that person would think
that already Walter and I were
grown tired but you know. my
dear, this is not so. We still are so
deliriously happy l am afraid it is
too good to be true-too good to last
think he feels the same. so we are
trying to insure our future against
that terrible, corroding WEAKNESS
which monotony-even the monot-
ony Of great and constant happiness
brings
Walter does not want me to give
up the shop. He has come to the
conclusion that a woman should
have something outside OF absolute
domesticity. and the catering to her
husband, to take up her mind I
know he would be perfectly content
if l supervised the shop part of the
time, and allowed myself occasion
ally to leave it entirely in your care.
We are thinking very much of
buying home here in Albany. You
know Walters family many years
ago used to live here OF course,
when we are in town L could spend