Show Confessions Of a Bride BrideI I Plan to Pit My Power to love Lovo Against My Rivals Rival's Beauty Time Timo stood still while that cut on my forehead was healing heating And yet ct It Jt was well that I r had to live quietly for tor awhile Thus I stored up a ti little extra nervous energy with which to face taco the ordeal of my resurrection At least I am nm sure that I saved Dl my nerves as long tong as I could keep m my mind away from Miss Katherine Miller I Sho She was living In the LorImer house Tommy reported not to nurse Bob Dob but to keep a n. record of his ca case o for tor his ph physicians Bobs Bob's was considered con con- one ono of or tho the motet remarkable problems to ho bo found in tho annals of mental disease Psychologists all dyer cr the country were Interested In It newspapers were making copy of ot It medical students were betting on young Larimer's Larimers chances Miss lIss l I Miller mer was keeping what Dadd Daddy called alog a alog 10 log and some somo day It was to be he embodied embodied embodied em em- bodied in a n medical magazine all which of or course couro Bob Dob dl didn't nt kno know An And Katherine Miller l was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen I was distinct distinctly jealous I regarded my n own chalk chalky face In my mirror nn and 1 thought of or m my rivals rival's gold old tresses and white whito throat and pink cheeks and blue eyes yes She had h hen called the tho H red jed white and blue nurse by soldier r boys abroad I knew she sho wor wore her uniform most becomingly And she saw my Bob Dob at breakfast luncheon lunch- lunch eon con dinner and between meals No wonder I was too jealous to store up 1111 any nervous reserve No wonder time stood still for me mo while that plaster stuck tight as tight as It was Intended to do to do-to to make the tho scar on m my brow as small as ns possible No wonder I consulted my glass so frequently As a n beauty I couldn't compete with m my rival Then It would bo be foll folly to try But Dut I hoped that I had a n. capacity for loving which sho altogether lacked She desired love only as a n. tribute to her beauty and find she wanted only the lovo 10 of or man Sho She had nUrs nursed d men efficiently because their admiration admira tion lion made her labor worth while Nobody Nobody No No- bod body could imagine Miller IIller nursing a woman Nobody ever heard of Ot her doln doing so Maybe labe I was of or commoner clay clay clay- but I coul couldn't nt help loving my neighbor nel if It I J tried I loved my washerwoman's babies And never a day passed that I did not repeat repeat like like a collect Wo Yo are arc the dead Short days clays ago aso wo we lived Jived felt dawn saw sunset glow Loved Loed and were loved and now we wedie we wedie die In Flanders fields I T loved cd them all and all and remembered them always I There Thero are many kinds of ot love and each Inspires and strengthens the others And the women who know lenow I Ionly only the lovo love of ot man can n never vcr know I even that at Its best And what And what Is most queer can queer can never satisfy theman the theman man the they love loveIt It was mv my democratic capacity c for tor loving 10 all things both great grent and small which had attracted Bob to me in tho the long ago days lays when he was a student very much taken up with human human- Oh la la la Elizabeth and Venus struggling for tor didn't havo have havea a a. thing on me mo and Katherine Miller l I said to myself I am about to I compete In womans woman's old age-old battle for tor the tho soul of a man Its It's bod body versus spirit as usual Its It's tho eternal eternal eternal eter eter- nal triangle triangle the the original sex problem lem sometime lcm sometime every womans woman's problem lem and lem-and and at last my own To be ho continued |