| Show n I Confessions of a Wife Wife LOVE MEANS PAIN TO A WOMAN A few tew days day f after atter my talk with Ruth Dayton said Paula she she asked me to come over to her house to luncheon Sho had a R tiny little apartment Just off oct Washington square It consisted of ot a little livIng liv- liv Ing room about as big biff as a good sized packing box with a kitchenette kitchen kitchen- ette otte In to one side of ot the tho w wall There was a a. small amaH bath and a bedroom just big enough for tor a single bed and a n. chiffonier As I looked over the simple furnishings I said to her This Is not the tho kind of an apartment wo we imagine the leading woman of ot a a. successful play lives liVe In When I get Jot up to your salary and climb to your class Im I'm going to havo something something- grand She smiled and stepped over to the book shelf taking from It the tho photographs of ot two splendid hand hand- some faced boys These are tho the grand things I 1 spend my money on she hc said sald In a voice that was a a. ca c. ca- ca ress One of ot them looks very much like you ou I observed Does oes the theother theother theother other resemble his father II Yes he ho looks exactly as his father did when I first knew him My boys are at Princeton you know That was their fathers father's col col- lege Its too had bad their father did not to see them there I said In lri- lri Yes fate has been er very unkind to me she sighed Oh Olt forgive me I did not mc mean n nto to pain you ou You cannot do that tha my m dear child I ilo llo not think I will ever suffer pain again For years I have havo not referred to my childrens children's father tather but since I have haye been In this company I have sometimes felt Paula that perhaps m my story ston might some time help you Oll over the Uio hard places Js Is s It so patent to everyone dear Miss Dayton that I care for tor Eat Earnest Earn tt- tt est cst Lawton I asked No dear I dont don't think so but you ou see as a yom woman n who has loved Jove 1 I 1 can tell teil the signs You are so innocent Innocent in innocent In- In m my dear child that you youcan youcan can never feel the need of or covering up anything At your our age ase my dear Paula I was just the same I Iwas Iwas Iwas was In the chorus chorus' of one of ot the big musical comedies when I met the the father of ot m my bo boys s Ho He is the son of ot a Yer very wealthy man and was at that time in his senior year at college With a n. number number number num- num num num- ber of his college chums ho came cameto to the show one night nig-ht and nd after It ItI ItI itI I was one of ot the girls invited to go goto goto goto to supper with a party part gotten up by hy one of ot the boys for toJ a girl In the company compan I 1 did not make snake a a. practice of ot going out to supper with anyone anone in those da days s 's but when I found that the party part was all aU young oung people I consented We Ve were quite hilarious but It was the o hilarity of ot youth and It was WM I I not really any worse than many a gathering of ot young youn society people The great Sleat thing that happened tome to tome tome me however was that 1 I met Wilber and fell desp desperately In love with him as he evidently aid did I with me From the moment I saw W Will Wilt I could coul only think k of ot him Within a a. month we were married and then came camo the deluge His family tried to buy me off ott They poisoned his mind against me and finally sent him abroad d They offered mea mea me mo moa a hun hundred 1 th thousand dollars If It I would get a divorce but hut I would not While White Will Vill was abroad my twin boys wore born When his people heard of oC the children they again sent me an offer of ot a larger sum of ot money but I 1 wrote them I wanted a father for my boys not their monc money One morning morning- I received a letter from front Will vm saying he was sick of being awa away from me and that If it I would forgive him he he- would come comeback comeback comeback back to me oven even If it his people never forgave him I wrote rote him to come an and loJ told him him about the boys Before Defore he ho received my letter he was killed In Inan Inan inan an automobile ac accident In France Paula she continued earnestly dont trust any man young younS' or old Dont Don't love any man so much that you OU c cant can't nt him if It you learn he does not love Jove you Romantic love my dear means only pain for tor a woman It is a aman's amans amans amans mans man's pleasure because he can forget forget forget for for- get It It- at will but having once clasped love to her bosom a n. woman must ever ever after remember To be bo continued |
