Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-28 | Page 18 | Our First Year

Ii OUR FIRST YEAR i iI MRS HERROD HERROt TAKES A HAND IN I SETTLING OUR UR TANGLE Mrs 1 Herrod must be able to see through a millstone Before I realized I what was happening she had us at the Country club and sent Jack off oft to tho the thoI links and was talking with me under a arose arose arose I rose covered pergola Presently I perceived she was talk- talk I I Inot Ing to me quite sentimentally and I was not resenting resenting- it She had liked me More than that she had bad loved me ever sl ce Jack had told her of ot our engagement en en- Her own son had died In his first year at college Jack had filled a little corner corner cor cor- ner ncr in her heart and she had liked to pretend I was her own little daughter- daughter in But soon she saw I never would be willing to pretend that I was like most modern modem girls not to be daugh and not to be mothered And it had grieved her She had no young relatives never ls have a grandchild and a ec ed babies Now baby is a small word wod but It maybe maybe may maybe be trusted to make friends of any two I women who use it T Toe Tue e feeling that lit littie little little lit lit- tle tie word aroused in me I attribute to my being so awfully tired My swagger of Indifference deserted me I was Just a weak little girl who needed mothering and I confessed to Mrs Herrold the whole truth about the tension between Jack and me and concluded concluded con con- with the tho hard fact tact that he had lust lost his Job Mrs He listened attentively You modern modem girls she said with a smile PeR Peggy y Dont Don't Y you girls understand nd the first thing about the emotions of noi norma man Why H dear girl your our Ja Jack k wants to tobe tobe be your protector And you wont won't et ci him So he gets Independent himself himself- and obstinate That's mans man's ogy And then she went on to advise rne me Young wives and young husbands today t today to- to day believe in the equality of ot the Th Thye e study biology but never are con convinced vinced that nature manages love fa foJ faher her own ends and 1 nd not at all for tor the thi happiness of ot the individual man nan or oi woman Happiness my dear Is a byproduct of Nature cares nothing for tor weddings weddings wed wed- dings but hut she has put the need to td b womans woman's protector into the hearts fat all an good men That Is what you ind Inde Independent pendent girls fail fall to realize M Lets say what we will wUl not cater to toI to toI I suggested Not even if it is a mans man's mop tion Peggy II 1 g From the beginning Jack and I hats haTe lived as partners I never wanted to b ba bi bia a Nevertheless pedestal ess Jack put you on on one j a wife's most delightful position peel pall tion my roy dear j I To be continued 1