Show CONFESSIONS OF OFA A WIFE FATHERHOOD AS A VOCATION I 1 think Margie I had my first real appreciation of women during the Eleanor Fairlow episode wrote Dick Your great treat understanding of your own sex and your breadth of character In y your ur dealings with the matter were something I would never have dreamed of a woman doing When you said that I was to make my choice it seemed to me after atter the three days of Just plain hell which I Iad had ad been living through to be the greatest thing you could possibly give m me As I told you before It was Just be between between between be- be tween you and rae nie no one else elle n not t teven even poor Eleanor counted But In my selfishness a and d egotism I thought it was going to be Just ime It was before You dear have often otten laughed at me About a mans man's forgot- forgot tery terr I could havo blotted all our trouble thit it entirely from my heart eart and brain that night but alas ala I could see seel that with you It would never be bethe bethe bethe the same again Sometimes dear in the years that came ame after atter I thought you almost almost hated me and I was at times sure you welcomed wel wi- your long siege in bed bec because use It kept us more or less apart Once or twice I let you see that other women found me agreeable At times imes I almost wanted to be cruel to you I wanted to make you feel even If It t. t were only to feel hurt In those years dear I realized absolutely what a man misses when he does not make malse marriage his avocation Wo We men however I am afraid would consider that a rather unmanly sort of an interest In the eyes eyes of the world making marriage successful Is not a a. a JobA jobA Job A man can have any sort of an avocation from breeding race horses to becoming angels for pretty chorus I girls girls' Indeed many men that I know have achieved their greatest fame by way which they managed an avocation avo avo- cation of this kind Men have looked at them with great if somewhat JOcular jocular jocular lar respect but of f the men to whom their Wives were of gr greater grater ater moment than anything else In the world it al almost almost almost al- al most seems to me that they were worthless as business men men Why is it dear Is there something about bout conjugal love one down to love alone atone Is that the reason that we all insist that thata a womans woman's place Is In the home I haven't thought enough about this my dear in fact It seems to me that I have never thought much about what our lives tog together ther meant before now Certainly I have never tried to express it and I do not think most men attempt to do thiis even to themselves However However however How How- ever I j do know from all the experience that I have had and the marriages that I nave have save seen th that t the man makes the mos moss wonderful husband rarely makes anything else I wonder If the American woman of today would bo satisfied with such sucha a man 7 Perhaps dear being a h husband and anda a father Is as much a vocation as t neing ne- ne e- e Ing a wife and a mother Will the time ever come when men re realize U this Do Down n deep in n our hearts w we still cling to the idea that men m must st always be m menThe menThe men n. n The greatest lovers have no not been good husbands husbands- the g greatest n business businessmen men have not been good husbands husban J r rs s sometimes ask myself is any man a 3 good husband We expect women after atter we marry them to be always wives and mothers We continue to be be t tTo I To be continued |