| Show ess Sh a aT T l A WOMAN i FEW ago o DIIo and 1 I chanced to neet on un 11 n south Main Maln A cur Elslo Elsic IB Ii just turned JO 10 1 and andIs al alIs II Is a 1 very wry good gOOt friend of ot mine Mi 11 fr Is IR full tull n oC I news ami ns na tt It tta v a 11 month since wo WI w mot she It had MIU Hems of ot great Importance lust last Lu best lJ st was VaS Have 1111 you heard that j net Is to be to 10 Mr lr In M l nt that heavenly 0 dont you OU think Its It Just the tho nicest thins In Iii Ill all the tho tIt world to bo 10 married Thou Then Thenny ny ow dear became conscious that Her Mr Had led CI her hot to say Io a n deal deol than shu sho hu had Intended and nd the she blushed t most lost charmingly Hull had Bob nob been bet there anti and seen that thul blush 7 noW U It woud have flave been nil all up Ull with him him Bob Dab culls calls on Elsie fairly often otten but ho la Is I only on I 21 or 22 and Is n 1 honest lad Iud who does docs not fashion pretty sentImental words meaning nothing Some Souro day I 1 fancy tunc tny there thoro will willbo willbe willbe be bo an explosion e and deep doell feeling will be bo revealed to 10 himself as us well as ti t another In the meantime s blush disclosed the tho filet fact that thaI sho ho was dream dreaming ing IngI I question In regard to tho nicest thing In all nil tho the world still un unanswered unanswered answered recalls a somewhat different I had hud recently with a u Salt Lake Woman 10 years cor I senior Mrs Irs U 13 has been two years he was not lot my most friend marriage but hut during tim tho last Lur I have havu been hern drawn moro more to her for caL sho sift baa hus iuri seemed to 10 mo 1110 not tr r happy In need aced neel of ot o sympathy Lately she Nhe startled me nie by b remarking Married life all nil Its ls cracked up to tot toJ tolI t lI J L Why Wh I 1 remonstrated I 1 should think you yaU had all 1111 a n woman could pos pas l os 1111 wish vIsh to make malO her happy a IL homo home in which everything Is now and pretty prell lretta 11 IL healthy baby boy and a IL husband hu who lio Is 15 a IJ good provider who never ills and who It Is III all ail devotion What liat more mure do you ou want Yes lc my 11 husband Is good to me but hut du da you ou know I 1 get set tired of ot It all Somo Some tunes 1 I almost wish wl h ho Jio were wei o not nut so 80 attentive 1 I bo le troubled If It ho lu wint away aay for two weeks IL u month a half baIt year Perhaps 1 I am um selfish and anI unreasonable lc but I 1 cant help It How flow c r I 1 ought not to burden hurden you oU with mi my woes WOIS which lire are very vcr very uninteresting esting My 1131 sister slater Mabel whom J I s e in n fl tot 10 years Is la coming comins the latter ran part of at this week for fOI u IL visit come Caine to see lice her wont you Her hus bus land hand Is II Commander Cr In tIle the navy now In the Philippines lnell She Shu could caul tell jou QU ou what a hard lira life married life lIro Is Ishi hi b r husband Is loudmouthed some Nome somewhat somewhat what coarse somewhat t too tuo fond oc or whisky 1 I have hava heard hoard from others In his h vever sho she knows pretty well how to 10 tommaso manage manno him and shell never say a word against him Perhaps she sho appeals to his better nature and anI thus sees a II nobler mann man Jan than do 11 the tho others I suggested Yes that may be lie she sho admitted Certainly she sho Is devoted to him and he appears to think something of ot her Still u II woman who has hils live children and has hus to look out for tar the tho manage management meat ment of at everything herself cannot havo have havea a very ery easy cosy ea y time limo of at It now W can she sho Mrs Irs James Smith this of course Is not her real name arrived and I 1 called culled During tho tIme conversation lion 1 my sympathy for tor anyone anno whoso whose hus bus bind b had work walk that kept him at such mch a 11 distance She SIte thanked mo mc and amid respond responded l lI ed I with a It smile perhaps a little sad Iud hut but full of ot sweetness 0 O we wo In Iii the time navy get to 10 that and an try to the best of ot it nut But dont you feel teel dreadfully when hen henhe lie Iw B sacs i CS es away for tur two or three throe months I naked ked Two or three months Ills Ilia cruises have liao boon been moro Inure often otten two or three yi yrs riot lint If It there hero are aie tIme tho sorrows of ot purling parting thero arc also the joys jas of or meet meeting ing III timid mid 1 always try to think of or tho time latter even when he ho Is about to leave leao Jt JI Is now three years earll and ono one month Inca I 1 have hn seen him Ho 1111 Is now on his Ills way home homo and an I expect to moot moet hm him heio hiemo In about two weeks that beautiful and though Mrs Smith I h past 40 her eyes ces glistened with a u ra mai radiance 1 diance that would have been charming even elU In III Elsie Elslo dreaming of ot Bob or some SOllie someone one else How lIow long will vili ho ho Ill able 1 all hI to 10 re ft remain r main on shore this thin time 1511 Mrs Mis MisU M us U Ii who had lately Intel Joined UH us Two years at mit least wo wt cant expert expect moro mora than that 1 have littI Men lilea where wo we shrill II be hc Ho lie hits hn applied Tor for duty ut lit the Lime League Island mivy yard but he lie mav III be hl besent sent s lIt to Mitt Maro o Island Cal Cui there thoro la l j ni no telling 0 O It will ho good genii to 10 have hun him ii ha with vl th mo mime again aga In InI I should think It would bo bi good goad to have havo him near when It conies comes com os to looking liner lifter tile the live children In Interposed Mrs H n It that Mrs ml I r rm Smith nn In 1 always take time the care and am management of or tho the family on all my nn myself self You see teo co Tams Jamis luis law been beon away moro more than half of nt tho tue IS 15 i years year that wo o havo boon ho n married And us as IS It happens so s Ii oft Often n In tho the navy that an ll officer has to leavo within a 1 very cry few rew days after utter receiving orders I 1 havo hlo done 1010 tho the packing amid nil may moy moving lag ing myself iM I 1 think I havo changed home more than thull 10 times during the tho past 15 lii yours year and It has hus meant a 11 good NOlI deal of ot work for tOI me mime I 1 dislike may moving lug ing so Co o much on 1 the tho childrens account quito quite Its 1 ir much I us UH on an my amy own Take our record for tor the past t seven year car Florida I Hoston Ul ton Massachusetts Ohio Norfolk Virginia nm then thon Dayton Ohio That sadly Interferes with ell all continuity In schooling However It means mianS everything to have a n home llama In only mini two weeks I t shall be hc expecting a u tele telegram gram tilling telling of Mr Smiths Smith arrival at lit San lInt But do you know I always that telegram of o ar nr arrival arrival rival I have hwI han been with others when It vms news hews of at a 11 sick husband n Ing lag to this thin country countr or worse than that Thero was wn apparently n a good deal of ot between the tho homo life as nil well as n time the husbands of ot tho two sisters yet It If Commander Smith had hada a composition somewhat coarse ns aim n Mrs lra B U had suggested his hits wife wHo cor certainly appreciated him for his host best and her liar munch much Interrupted homo home yield yielded lehl ed ell her a great deal of or Joy and pleas pleasure ure uro Thero There Is It something for tOl Mrs U B to 10 think about I j mused and further as ns I recalled tho the unanswered I J wonder sondor If It the tho purring sentimental Elsie was W alt author thor wrong S S S SNo Xo No love lovo like Ilka evor C I has hils shown sang ono one of or our nur poets and wo we o all iii know some seine 1 of those noble nohle wo woo women wamen men mell who having been bO dented he time blessing of ot children bare havo bestowed all nil time the wealth of ot their love lovo on all homo less ones cues sometimes adopting them and tilt giving them all th Ih thi ad ILI advantages vantages and all 1111 tho Iho th tenderness they would have havo lavished on 00 their own Not long ago n a well known citizen was WOI offered Jred an on excellent position In one ant of or our aliI nourishing flourishing camps and amid 1111 soon thereafter loft with his hl wife to tomake make a new mica home hOlle In a n new town It was a 1 matter of or deep regret to them th both that no children had bless bloss blessed ed cd their union minion and anI they finally de tie decided to 10 It adopt one ono They notified relatives In III Salt Lake Lalo of or their Intention tion asking them to make multo Inquiries Into the tho matter mattir Ono One of or the time relatives a It physician fortunately I know Imo of or Just the tho baby babIl a fine 11 Ill healthy Infant of ot honest parentage In need neel of or a home In answer to U his letter helter explaining conditions ho received n a telegram from fromn his brother saying Mary Mar will leave leavo on the morning train for Salt alt Lake for far their Impatience sas no sa great Brent that not a n moment could bo ha lost and omit a II mile Journey by IJ rail and stage on all short notice was the merest trifle TIme Tho prize at nt thai tho journeys end was worth any amount of or Such n a l boy boyl bo Of course thoro there never navel was ivas such IlIch another Thero There never wore suck such gurgles thero there never were such lIuch dimples In III fact he ho was all nil dimples antI when ho lie smiled It was ivits hIko n a flood of sunshine shedding radiance on out nil all rho Tho rather father was wired that baby had been secured and amid that they tile the would l be homo home ns aim soon as aim tile tho adoption papers wore were drawn amid executed He lie became at dIce one OliO possessed Pos ho could COUIl not mot eat ent ho Ime could not lint sleep the tho baby en como mo but It was days before daddy laddy regained his him equilibrium LADY BABBIE |
