Show KATHLEEN NORRIS How Smart Is a Smart YEARS AGO I had a letter SEVEN from a girl named Rosamond Her situation was a terrible I clipped the name from the letter and destroyed but I filed the letter Itself because I hoped to hear from Rosamond Rosamond had had three years as an invalid from between the ages of 13 to when she entered in a town miles it was as a special nobody watched her and nobody cared about her She had come from a fine there were two one and devoted They didn't know that Rosamond met a boy named Jack at and began to spend her afternoons and many nights in the one-room shack where Parker lazed away a supposedly artistic What Parker felt was Rosamond was deeply in After some months of this she discovered two one was that she was going to have a baby and the other was that Parker not only had another regular girl visitor to his but that a third this one living in a sorority had attempted suicide on his Felt Like a Heel Rosamond then wrote me the most frenzied letter I have ever received from any She was half-mad with every frightful emotion a girl's heart can Before she had my letter in answer she and Parker had round a doctor who performed the operation that killed deeply in love her child and that killed though she lived until last Then her mother wrote me that she had died of The mother wanted Parker to marry Parker explained that he like a to his own but that now the second girl was and he felt that he owed her honorable If anything have added to the weight of Rosamond's utter humiliation it was but she was and her mother was and her brother whose one idea was was for even he saw that wouldn't So Rosamond's family went and she got Into war and after a few years married a fine man who was In the What he thought of her story I don't but I know she told him the They had one little and tt was while he was away m the south seas that it became certain that Rosamond's health had been fatally affected by the operation years she had never tally Boasting of His Conquests girl knew she was and she confided her little Katy to my her mother from her year she knew nothing but First the terrible which she bore with such cheerfulness and then her college experience with that insufferable man who did not eventually marry even the other but is still probably boasting of his Then the agonies of a septic condition that almost cost her her and then her own shame at having to tell Peter that she was not the delicate girl she And for to face leaving all she and to die at story is finished says the mother's for her father and who can never My husband has been a changed man in these I know I myself am She knew Rosamond exactly what she was doing when she gave in to this man's She was always a wise little She had spent long years reading and studying when other girls are going to first dances and house That's what baffles how could she do she drifted into it just as other all over the are drifting into the same arrangement right It seems it seems to let young passion have its and to believe what the adoring young man go confidently that nobody is going to be hurt by not even Sure they're going to be when Parker gets a job he does so want her to be sweet and loving and stop This seems to be his biggest concern about She gives |