The Washington times., 1934-06-12


to her and the children! Those
terrible things they heard about
other husbands and wives-they
couldn't possibly happen to
THEM! Then suddenly, hide
ously, out of a clear sky, it
DID happen. The wife came
home from a long siege at the
hospital to find
But you can fill in the rest
for yourself. The furtive week
end trips, when she'd supposed
he was away on business" The
nights at the office. The whole
heart.breakingly familiar, sor-
did affair.
WHY DID HE DO IT?
What do I think of them
, all-of her, her husband and
the other woman?"
AS to that, 1 have no answer.
What can think, not knowing
any of them. But 1 do know
bit about life and marriage-and
human beings. And perhaps that
will help.
Regardless of who you are, or
what you're up against. you can
always bet on this one fact.
NEITHER LIFE, NOR MAR
RAGE, NOR YOU, NOR THE
OTHER FELLOW IS EVER
GOING TO TURN OUT AC-
CORDING TO SPECIF1CA-
TIONS.
We're told so many pretty
fairy tales. we're taught so
many delightful theories. and
we invent, for ourselves, SO
many cockeyed notions. about
what life and people ought to
be.
~ BUT THE REALITY NEVER
FITS ANY OF THEM!
Neither marriage nor life nor
folks turn out as we think they
will, or should.
NOR DO WE OURSELVES
TURN OUT AS WE PLANNED
WE WOULD!
We go along for years, leading
exemplary lives, holding the
finest principles, feeling the
purest motives. Never once do we
consciously desire to harm or
fail anyone-to do anything
shameful, reckless or unkind.
AND THEN SUDDENLY,
FROM SOME SECRET DARK
NESS WITHIN US, SPRINGS
A STRANGE SELF WHOSE
EXISTENCE WE HAVE
NEVER SUSPECTED - AND
SWEEPS OUR NORMAL PRO-
GRAM ASIDE, AND WRECKS
OUR LIVES.
That isn't true of just some
miserable isolated spirit. To a
greater or less degree, it's true
Of all of us.
WE ALL HAVE DOUBLE
NATURES. WE ALL ARE DIR.
JEKYLLS AND MR.. HYDES.
How do we get that way?
Does Fate will it?
Move get that way because
we want to get that way
through our own decisions!
But surely we don't deliber-
ately decide to become cruel
and shameless scoundrels, break
ing the hearts of those who
love us most, dragging our own
names in the gutter!
No, we don't deliberately
choose any such tragic career.
But each day, each hour. we
make seemingly trivial deci-
sions to do the weak or the
wrong things petty indul-
gence of our lazineSs, greedi-
ness, vanity, cowardice or rest
1eSSneSS secret evaSionS
and excuses which never even
come into open action.
We think those small, for
gotten acts don't count" But
they do. They are the warp
and woof of our behavior. They
are the things which determine
our character.
FOR SUDDENLY, SOME
DAY, WE ARE CONFRONTED
WITH A GREAT TEMPTA-
TION AND OUR NATURES,
WEAKENED BY THOSE
SMALL, FORGOTTEN SUR
RENDERS, CANNOT STAND
THE PRESSURE.
Why do We do the terrible
things we sometimes do?
What's why.
And how should We treat
those who hurt and fail us in
such ghastly "tail spins?
HOW WOULD WE WISH TO
BE TREATED OURSELVES?
We ALL are DR.. JekyllS and
Mr.. Hydes. We ALL have done
those things which we ought
not to have done, have left
undone those things which we
ought to have done"
Perhaps YOU haven't cpme to
YOUR day of reckonirEs yet.
But when and if you do
WHAT WOULD YOU WANT
THE OTHER FELLOW TO DO
TO YOU?
=, Syndicate, 1nc.)