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Show Alicia Hammersly A Woman Who Wouldn't Remarry Br iUh McCloo CLbao TTfee Palad SiM moat every other thing In th ron-arlmianaaa ron-arlmianaaa nf man. yet It Is not synonymous with hspptnaas. 1 eiert my marriage waa more nf a aun aaa than tha average. have had tha gresteat bllaa life ran prom-lee prom-lee and I have plumbed Ih depth of human wua. but I did nut hava continued happlnasa. I hava in thank leailny fur something some-thing greater than happln, fur aftar all hupplneaa la a calm atat whlrh, being mada of rommonplar thought and arllun. appemla moat to eomniua-I'lui-e nunda and hearts Incapable nt th grraleat . and highest rmutmna. t.lve me th thrill of rontraat. Cllv ma tha mpertrnra whlrh make m umlrratand that .lit la greater than lo ami I will know that while I may not have been alwaya happy I at least I have lived. Having gn.wn older and saner, t ask fur mora in Ih man that I may marry than I did when I flrat anewered the rail uf the btiiud. Having had the thrill and romance of love, I am now aaklng i.nly for th ralm uf content th.il come from affection and, mun than all riae. unileratandlng. And nnw I am gnlnir In writ th Ini'tilema of my married life and my wiiluwhimd. Meelng them In black and white. I hope will a utile tn aulve lha riddle aa lo why I' hav never married mar-ried uln-why o many wlrti.wa remain re-main unmarried, while moat widower marry again. All you hiiabund and wives whn read this story will recognise Its truth, for I am going lo b aa honeat about myaelf and my life fea It la puaalhle to he, which means I may unuunsriuiisly Ii tu you. Anil all young people nf marriageable age will find my aturv a blused trull that leads safely through the deserts and mi sea of married life. I ahull neither spare my husband nor my friends' liuabanda, my women friends nur myself. If I can make th reading nf thia heart liiatnry aa vitally Interesting lu you ns the living of It has Lean to ma. I ahull have added Knottier' human document to the sum of humiin endeavor. endeav-or. Tomorrow I shall go hark lo my girlhood and live mv life over with you. AI.H'l! HAMMKUMI.Y. PROLOGUE. The other day T was dining with man whom I admlr and reaper! very much and aprnpoa of nothing In particular par-ticular he surprised ma with tha question, ques-tion, "Why la you have never msr- i ried sgain. Alu-la r" 1 answered with a laugh In rover th ronfiiaion Into which hia riirloliy nad thrown mr and iud. "I'erhapa It la because the man that I might hav married haa put arkrd me and th man whn hav aaked me could not accept." ac-cept." Then I changed th auhjet I. aa Tommy Tom-my had a way of "putting the quae-lion" quae-lion" In me from unespecte anglea. lla was one of my beat frlanda, yet if there waa ona definite thought In my mind nn Ih aubjaci of a second marriage mar-riage It waa Ihat I did nut want to marry mar-ry Thumaa l-athnm, Kaquire. self-made and successful business man. That night as I slipped Into a neglige negli-ge I aaked g"nelf the quaatinn lhal Tom had put lo ma al dinner. I have bean a widow scleral year a. but I am atlll young enough lo find th look of admiral idn In a man a evea aa he luma hla head for a eerond glance. am still slender enough to look well la sorts clothes snil dispense dis-pense with eursrta when 1 don my evening dresses. My only son. whn la ao much Ilka my late huaband that I often catch myself calling him l.y hla father'a nam.-t looka with Jealous eve and continues tn "stick around" if he thinks any man la becoming more ut-tentiva ut-tentiva than usual. I'erhapa unconsciously I find thia boy ihut I adore una nf lha res aun a whv I have not married again. Marriage, nr the mating of u mun and a woman. Is the one great Interest of all humanity civilised nnd barbaric bar-baric ulikc. Marring la mora Imiior-tant Imiior-tant tu Ihe individual than birth, ainc one haa nothing to do with hia entrance en-trance Inlo this world. When you.nra, c-t.nacloua of eilsti'tica you Mr here. Without your vdllion the curtain haa raised and the drum nf your lif has begun Whether the piny will l.e a tragedy or a n.medy ileiietida almost wholly upon your marrluge. And the big moment mo-ment doea not coma when Iieath low-era low-era Ihe curtain, but rather when ynu find Ihe place where jou know whether wheth-er you have played your part tu the beat of your ability or whether you have turned a drama that might have meant love and liappineBS Into a sor-, did tragedy af sriflahneaa (and mistaken mis-taken liupula. Kvrry man anil aveiy maid expert to miiny. derail every pereon haa liven tuuuht that only In mnrriage la lo be tound thai perfect happiness fur which Ihe human rare la alwaya blindly blind-ly reaching and never quite getting within Ita graap. Kvery man or woman mho haa been married, and who Is honeat, ruu tell you th it, wliliemarrlagcciin b al- th apider. "Hhe will esrn murh mun). Oalhrr the flax plant with I lie blue flower, aun th threads and then make of Inia thread lac like thai which you ace I have woven. The quern and grrat ladlra will buy It. And for huudreda of ear l. women wo-men of thai land hav mad their towns famous for Ihe rmuiaite Ures which n ine from their looms all of which work w.ia first taiiKht there by a apider, so ihe spiders say. li'upyrlsHt. I;l. Sr lha MrClure N.wasagar eisoiuita. Near York City.) |