Show HOLDING A Adele Garrisons Garrison s New Phase of REVELATIONS REVELATIONS OF OFA A WIFE THE QUESTIONS QUESTIONS THAT TROUBLED THE MADGE-THE THE VOW SHE tiE HE MADE A Am n I I 1 I a successful wife Havo Have I 1 made my husband d happy If It he were free to espouse a n wife wire agaIn and had no feeling of ot obligation toward me would ho with al all the knowledge of ot mo ho has hM acquired choose hoose choo me again aln from all nU tho the world to walk wall b by hla hii side lIdo till tiu death do u part 1 t These are the questions which are arc boating beating In my brain today These ar are a atho the tho queries the answers to which I 1 mean to make mako It my business to find rind It ItIs Is Is R a a time Ume of ot matrimonial stocktaking stocktaking stock stock- taking with me rae this dreary clay y of earliest ear ear- heat liest when a n cold outside outside outside out out- side effectually banishing tho the sunshine has found Its reflection in my own spirIts spirits spirits spir spir- its I mean to cast up accounts with myself and find out l if I have been cheatIng cheating cheat cheat- ing Dicky m my husband In this matrimonial matri g game mo if It perchance he has h been defrauding me or It if we after aCter all have havo struck a fair balance Did I say matrimonial game What a 1 misnomer If It ever there was waa a 1 se serious serious serious se- se rious solemn business In tho the worlds world's whirl of at affairs It is the business of or marriage And I if ever oyer there thero was a Job requiring all alt the tho tact ability and re resourcefulness me- me which a woman TOman possesses It it is la this job known to td womankind of or holding a husband I wonder If I have havo made good upon my Thy Job 1 I rem remember years cars before I met Dick Dicky hearing learing Mrs Stewart the dear old woman wom worn an nn with whom whon my mother and nd I boarded boarded board board- ed quote caustically Any fool tool can marry a man but it takes a wise wize woman to keep one I had not thought of or tho the words In years ear but today they have been ringing ringing ring ring- ing insistently In my ears With them themas as a 3 yardstick I have havo been measuring not only my own marital career but those of the people I have havo known since that time Lillian LUnan and Harry Underwood Of course Lillians Lillian's namo name comes first to my mind in an any ment mental l survey surveyor of my friends friend for tor I hold her above all women rover rever reverence enco ence her Judgment and her high Ideals And yet ret measured by the little yardstick yardstick yard yard- ard stick Uck Lillian LUnan ailed alicd for tor two men have havo called h her r wife and then deserted her But But was was It possible for tor any woman to have havo kept the love love- of ot either man Moro More potent qu question still sun was waft the love lovo of ot either worth sixty lI seconds of ot any true truo womans woman's effort 7 Honesty compels a ne negative answer to both questions Both Dicky Dick and I her nearest friends know how bravely and truly she tried 1 I I I to do tho the rl right ht thing thine in the harrowing situations which confronted her I felt instinctively that if It in that long past vast time when Robert rising artist had sot set tho the feet teet of ot Lillian Gale eager acolyte in the path she sh so 80 ardently de- de aired alred ho he had hod also claim claimed cd the love heI he ho I I had unconsciously won he would have havo I been spared tho the ye years rs of ot mental darkness dark dark- I ness ness' that later later- camo came to him because of ot otI another woman and Lillian would have I escaped that r unhappiness which has been ha been her portion She would have Kept kelt his love lovo and reverence rev rov- crenco always I I am sure of ot it It and and tho the grim Im determination rises within mo me Unswervingly unswervingly un un- h to further tho the lonel lonely artists artist's seemingly hopeless task of ot overcoming her ber quixotic scruples against marrying him BY OTHER STANDARDS Jack Bickett and Katherine My cousin brother and the tho woman friend I 1 count next to Lillian in my mv scale of ot friends I dIsmiss s them quickly for tor Ka- Ka ha has made mado good If It ever a 0 woman woman wom worn an has hns and tho bitterness which was their portion and which It was wag my 01 good fortune fortuno to dispel l wa was all of ot Jacks Jack's makIn mak In lag ing That the they are happy happ now in their Vest Western ern home I know by the long lettera letters letters let- let tera sends mo me and arid which re reflect ro- ro fleet her moods in every lint line Dr Braithwaite alte and ind Harriet my husI husbands husband's hus bus bands band's stately sister their names always I associated with Jack Inck and Katherine because because be be- cause caUM of at that foolish Jealous obsession of ot Jacks Jack's which so nearly caused the shipwreck of ot two to families Surely Harnet Harriet Harriet Har Har- riet net has worked harder to toI tob tobo b bo be a a. true helpmeet to her husband than thao I any woman oman I havo hayo ever aver known and yet yetI et etI I feel teel that she has has' not made mode rood good 1 for she has sacrificed motherhood to her I husbands husband's career and now as the they approach approach ap ap- op- op old age there is no son nor norI j I daughter to make life lICo worth Its Us livIng liv liv- ing I cannot C repress a. a shudder of horror as I think of ot the tragedy ed which Milly Mill Stockbridge e made of ot her married life because she had no conception of at an any duty or 01 responsibility as ns a n. wife and in- in her own o Jealous crazed obsessions until they the finally killed her and nearly destroyed her husband That the flower of ot of happiness which Is unfolding for tor Kenneth Stockbridge and antI Alice Hoi Hoi- combo combe was on Only I made mado possible in its death is the blooming by that terrible only onh gleam of ot light in all this sordid I tragedy It Is but a n few months now until the tho end of ot the school year and the year ear of ot perfunctory respect et for Milly's memory memory memory mem mem- ory and then the two who havo have loved each each other hopelessly for tor so many years wilt will be united I have no fear tear of Alice being beinS' unable to hold her husband And yet ot I suspect that she will find that tho the placid waters of ot marriage will hide snags as annoying if it not as IS dangerous as those of at the turbulent torrents through which her b bark rk has been steered Jim and Katie An Irrepressible smile comes to me at tho the thought of ot my lit little lit lit- tb tle maid with her tempestuous moods and Jims Jim's smiling stolid acceptance of ot them thein Katie has held her husbands husband's love will love will continue continuo to hold It Is that question as wel las Ins all aU others of ot th tho spirit less lessa a problem when hen life is somewhat primitive primi primi- tive when education and training have not sharpened ones one's perceptions perceptions and and andone's ones one's nerves I return to the contemplation of ot m my myown myown own problem with my spirits both hoth staggered staggered stag stag- ered e-ered and strengthened I have hwe seen the stupendous task with each woman I call ClU friend has hns had to deal but I have ha been heartened by tho the thought that in iii any case where tho the man was a R. poI poI- possible ble human being the game lay la unmistakably abl ably in the wife's wHo's hands And Dicky bless hl hi his heart is distinctly possible possible- J however otherwise I mn may think sometimes when his Instability or his Jealous rages make me suffer Butter I M My thoughts go back ck to my wedding day to tho the wild wonderful bliss of ot that t I honeymoon time yes ee es and to the doubts doubts' that beset mo me even then as to tho the probability probability ability of ot happiness In marriage How much I have havo learned since sinco time Learned that if It there bo be no happiness in marriage there is certainly nothing outside Its iti Its charmed circle which can car I bring bring- such bliss biles and contentment to a womans woman's heart as the knowledge that she and tho the man she sho loves belong to each other wholly Irrevocably Irre to together for tor better for worse ore with all an the rest resi of ot tho the world Learned too with a tremulous fear at nt m my heart that there could be no greater tragedy tr in th n the world for tor me than the tho loss of ot my husbands husband's love If It I 1 want an any peace In this life It behooves es I me to make mako god on my my Job as a wife I j Curiously enough It lt t has b been en the I trembling Inquiry of ot a a. girl on the tho brink brinkI I of marriage which tinier has h set me inc to the I self inquiry the tho mental stocktaking otI of ot j I the tho last HourI Hour nour I I Leila Lelia Fairfax came camo to m my room this morning She is to be married to Alfred I Durkee in a few tew weeks and I have in invited invited In- In the tho motherless girl to be bo my guest gues I while she is preparing her simple trous- trous j I seau Putting her arms around me she paid said earnestly with a hint of at tears In InI I 1 liar her voice WHAT LEIlA ASKED Madge c. dear tell teU me I inc I am eo so frightened fright fright- ened l ened-l isn't ened-isn't Isn't nl it an awfully hard task be beIne being being be- be ing Ine- a 0 successful wife Ite You and Dicky Dick always ahas seem so ISO happy happ and yet et I know ou you must have ha had your jour share of or troubles troubles troubles trou trou- bles as well as ns other women And And I I feel reel as If It I 1 knew so 50 little and ind and andI I do want to make Alfred a good wife Th The The- tears wee were now I saw that the girl was overwrought o and wondered for an unworthy fleeting mini min min- I i ute uto if It her remembrance of ot little studio parties in which her sister herself and Dicky had figured Innocently InnocentI enough I et without m my presence vas troubling I I her now that s she he herself faced the pos- pos 1 o of or b hi Ic ig th thu wIts wife who staved at I I home while her husband enjoyed self solf elsewhere But In another d hi N I had banished rt that thought see 3 assuring her uy that wd and all fears were unfounded z You foolish child ch I 1 scolded Is 15 one ona thing certain A A. t teary teal tho the worst possible 1 lx kind So and liston etoy ator cr to words of ot wi authority Tou are going to a fred tred tho the best pos possible wife and going Colne to be YOUa Idiotically ru p PY N No run along and dry your eyes oyes Or jj AU will that see sea ou havo have you fOU been think don't dont your OtI don t want to marry She Sho tripped awa away smiling th h tears and I havo been sitting here since going over o and over her t ion q It an awfully hard wk task successful wife In I the tho would affirmative not nol daunt her by j jin r Sho Is s entitled now rose color and arid sunlight nOW nOW-It I ia b time for tor BIa gladness 1 ce a by byu but It if I had answered her should hOo have 0 s said ld truthfully Yes Yea Lc Ja It u I 11 tho the hardest hardt-at the tho world task But Just my window T 1 t the sunlight breaking through the r. r zhe and I take tako It as ia a GOOd om omen me f the tho vow YOW I am taking I It is the hardest thing In the w oi Wo-j Wo But BilL please God Cod I am going to SUet In no It |