Show 1 THE TANGLE TANGLE- LI LETTER rn FROSt FROU m JOHN ALDEN TO SYDNEY CARTON GAIt CAR TON TOX CONTINUED Sometimes I think thin I Syd that women's minds mind are much cleverer than mens incas They have to educate them or rather ather cultivate them then be because because be- be because cause of ot course we have always alwa's had the muscular Lr strength and they got Kot their own only by quicker th thinking n and d cleverer r planning n 1 ic I confess e I was much surprised when Ruth said to me that Leslie would not worry very much If It she did not have to give up the boy I 1 always alwa's thought it would hurt her beyond everything e even though to g know I swear of ir my to you I have been as straight as a string since our marriage Ruth however howver insisted that the best plan of all was to make a clean breast of or it She made a somewhat ambiguous remark when she said this that I have ha been very curious about She Sho said I have been having a good deal of experience lately with trying to keep things from other oilier people veople that are perfectly innocent in themselves l because of hem being being- r f et afraid that the o other person would wool be hurt burt It seems to me me Jack that I when two people are married or orI orsi even si friends if you cannot be f gs I truthful and pe perfectly fe s i JUL And sincere with each other ether you ou had better break up altogether alto alto- gether Do you ou suppose Syd by any possibility that Leslie Lealie is 19 concerned in that six thousand dollars Really I Im I'm m rather ashamed of that question ques ques- tion but all the while It keeps nagging nagging nag nag- ging me Of course I knew lenew posItively positively that even If U Leslie did have six thousand dollars s she did not want me to know about It would be nothing derogatory to her But I cannot understand why Leslie should have six thousand dollars she did not want not want me to know about I have explained it to myself this way probably she asked her father for more money that she gave me meso i so that she might have a a. little nest- nest egg egg- If It we got Into any more trou trou- ble bie But even If it this Is isso so it gives me a n. new light on Leslie's charac charac- ter I did not dream that she had the slightest lIghtest thought she he would not confide in me I wonder if every man has this same feeling about his wife After what Ruth said about possession I have come to the conclusion that unconsciously I have treated Leslie as at my possession as something wholly In my keeping I am quite sure now that this Is not so especially as Ruth proceeded to explain In answer to my questiOn question ques ques- tion Is it possible Jack you have havo not found that by some kind dispensation dispensation dis dis- dispensation dis- dis of nature a woman after the first flush of passionate love has passed in her married life Is sure to have children children and and with most women material love Is stronger than wite's wife's Children are not as disappointing disappoint disappoint- ing as husbands principally I suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose because the mother mothe feels they are her possessions Love as we I know It means possession It will never be perfect until It means mutual mutual mutual mu mu- giving Do all women hold these opinIons opinions opinions ions I asked for getting for tor the moment my own troubles in this brand new Idea Copyright 1924 NEA Service Inc Continued Tomorrow |