Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 17 | The Tangle

TH THE E r TANGLE LETTER PRO FROM LESLIE I YUES PRES co COTT TO I. I LESLIE IJU CARE CAUL OF 01 rilE SECRET VEIl i r I am so glad little Marquise that I have e taken your our implied advice particularly in writing to you all my discontent and sorrows when I 1 I have any I believe that this is one gone of the reasons why two people who are married are so unhappy Say what you will everyone has to get his anger his grief his Jealousy and annoyance out of his system some way Generally we pour It out outto outto to the one ono who is nearest us and the husband or wife Is the scapegoat scapegoat goat It is very human to grow tired of ot being being- annoyed and unhappy So the quarrels begin If every wife had a a. little tittle secret drawer like yours and mine il it might solve many of ot the problems of ot other her married life Almost alwa always s when a woman speaks angry contemptuous contemptuous contemptuous con con- or cutting words to her husband she Is la sorry for it it however however however how how- ever much they are deserved and of course doubly sorry If f she finds fh f that it is all a mistake le I am not sure sure sure-oh oh why do doI I say that that that-I I am almost sure in n my heart I must confess I am really sure that I have a right tb to be very unhappy So unhappy and miserable that I do not know where to begin Perhaps as good a place as any atly to start is with Ruths Ruth's return from New York She had been homo home three days be before before before be- be I fore she came to see me I thought this rather strange although I knew she was very busy and if I 1 had not I gotten Jack to telephone that I was not able to get out of ot th the house I really would have gone to see her herand herand herand and thought nothing about it My cold had developed into a bad case of Just before she r r- r turned but I was much better the day Jack Jacl phoned Ruth sent all sorts of lovely messages to me but she shedid shedid did not come to see me that night as us usI asI I J had expected In the meantime Mrs Smithson called caned again and I Imade Imade Imade I made the mistake of seeing herI her I was not feeling too well In my mv mind as I had not received th the promised letter from Alice abo about t the pearls and I grew hot and ana cold I every time I thought of what I haJ had done in selling three of them Tn In some wa way it seemed to me that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was a thief for unless Alice knew I absolutely that the pearls were real realand realand and she had gotten otten them in to a perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- legitimate way I knew that I ha had l no right to claim themI them I think it was because I was worrying worrying worrying wor wor- about this and the fact that Jack had telephoned me he would not he be home to dinner that I welcomed wel wel- welcomed med c Mrs Irs Smithson as a a. stopgap between my misgivings and my I loneliness I had not even let 01 old 1 Nannie bring the baby in for tor fear rear II I I would infect him with my throat t I trouble This had made me v v very ry I unhappy x I I felt so lonely without i ithe the si sight ht of his little unconscious i face and the feel of his little wet I mouth I IThe The thought of It now made me swallow hard which of or course gave aVe me a physical pain as well as a painful heart throb I think be because because because be- be cause of this I Would have ha welcomed even Jacks Jack's mother and she is the person at least of all in the world I would ever want to see again It was in this frame of mind I I told Nannie to tell them downstairs that I would see Mrs Smithson i Continued Tomorrow Copyright 1923 NEA Service In lut i i