Show r J Alicia Hammersly I A Woman Who Wouldn't Remarry By idah idab McGlone I Gibson I Th n. Noted Writer Alicia Hammersly nee nee Alicia Atwell and commonly called Allx Is Allx-Is Is telling telline the absorbIng absorbing absorb absorb- ing tn story of ot her girlhood She is engaged to Hallet Mallet Hammersly On the morning of her wedding day she wonders whether she really knows knos the man she Is U to marry Alicia's thoughts lead her to seek her herI mother for tor consolation She finds her moth moth- I I er In the attic seated before an old trunk which i is filled with memories As Alicia enters her mother Is fondling a a. pair of ot baby shoes Alicia's mother consoles herand herand her herand and points out the great happiness to be found in a marriage based upon understand understand- understandIng ing but warns Alicia that It Is la something very different from the day dreams of an engaged girl Alicia meets Nell ell Marshall an old sweetheart of Hals Hal's The rhe months roll by and Hal Is devoted and regretful by turns A child Is la coming to Alicia and Hal Ilal and she the goes Koes home to tn be with her mother Alicia and Hal ilal with Duane and Bab Dab go for tor fora a a. motor Hal is very devoted an and Alicia is correspondingly ly happy Returning from a a. motor ride Hal lIal finds a telegram calling him to Washington at once lie He has been all tenderness and devotion to Alicia and she grieves that he must go but Is reconciled by the thou thought ht of joining him shortly News ew comes that Hal ha has been beel killed In a railroad wreck The shock renders ren ren- ders deu Alicia unconscious and she i is gravely ill III for tor weeks A boy is born to her Alicia's convalescence began as abruptly as her I Illness and with a o. boy to think about happiness hap hap- returned When Alicia had fully recovered recovered re reo re- re covered her mother showed her old newspaper newspaper news news- I paper clippings n of Hal's Hals I death Then she fe learned that Nell Marshall had died In the I wreck with h him With AVith tI returning strength ren l II i Alicia began n to th think of the future t r The insurance Hal Hallett left is not adequate for tor her needs She is delighted to find that a story she had written was accepted by a maga maga- zine zinc ALICIA'S MARRIAGE VIEWS Of course he answered said Bab when I eagerly asked her if it the editor of the magazine had replied to her note I took the letter she aha e extended to m in me e. e Read this one one first said Bab I My Dear De-ar Miss Atwell Atwell J I am very sorry to learn of your our sisters sister's Illness We are publishing her story in the magazine magazin of next month She has written writ writ- I ton ten a great reat story and I am wondering wondering wonder wonder- ing if it is the first one and hoping it will not be the last Yours wonder wonder-I ver very truly nOLA ROLAND D EARLY Editor The next one was a very short note My Dear Miss Atwell I Atwell-I I am said to be a very hard headed old editor but there has been something strange about your our sisters sister's story story something something that trat gripped me as I have not been in years I hope hop our magazine has not found her lier only to lose her so soon again Sincerely Sincerely Sin Sin- yours ROLAND EARLY Editor Did you tell him flab Dab that I was married and a widow He must have seen the account of the accident I I didn't write him anything I I think he was very curious and its it's a good thing to keep him curious If I 11 were you TOU Alix I wouldn't go to see seel him I would Just write a story and anti send it to him If he can read your yourI j I character from your stories Just let him build up the kind of character that suits him What did you write dear I I simply wrote a perfunctory note saying that you still were very Itt ill and ande Yo we e were not quite sure of your reason I even if you lived I II I suppose when he got that letter t I Bab flab he thought the story had been i written by a crazy woman I Well it does sound rather Queer doesn't it You see Alix Allx 1 I was rather a ashamed hamed to tell him that you were Just Juston I on your honeymoon because you certainly certainly certainly did rail about this marriage I question and you said a great man manY things about marriage that I think II were better left unsaid Just it I answered hotly There seems to be a conspiracy of sl- sl I ai-I lenec which hedges about the marriage marriage mar mar- I state I believe honestly Bab Dab that if a woman would tell the truth i i she would say that the last years of her married life if it she were happy at all these all these last years when her husband and she had become adjusted to each I others other's idiosyncrasies idiosyncrasies i these last le years I i when they had cir learned tolerance e and understanding were understanding were much happier I Ithan than that hectic period which is called i honeymoon I My dear I know perfectly perfectly and and so will you after marriage if you donot do donot not know it now that now that nature knows i i but one law the law the perpetuation of the i species And she touches the eyes of ot I II youth with a magic ointment which j makes both the man and the woman I think that the other Is superhuman I The man feels that unless he I is able to press sn his lips any time he wishes i I Ito to that little curl Just behind the ear I of the woman he loves he will not I be able to live not realizing that after I marri marriage e the time soon will come when I he will forget that the little curl is I I there And the woman wants me reel feel of her lovers lover's strong arms about her I forgetting that she cannot live forever forever for for- i ever in her husbands husband's arms And then for I I j nature brings the two together and after the matins mating she goes on her wa way to work her will with other men and other maids She has nothing more to do with these two people whom she I i ihas has tied together They must depend upon a sympathy of tastes a broad understanding un un- un- un which will make for corn com com I The woman is vain my dear She wants still sUIl to be thrilled by the words of I burning love which tell her that she is the one object of adoration to her lover- lover husband The man wants again the thrill of the chase And so between them disappointment starts and they If It they would be happy again must turn to each other with the knowledge that marriage and romantic love are two i quite different things and start to build i their lives to together ether on an altogether different different dif dif- di- di ferent basis Copyright National Newspaper Service I |