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Show WVE and MARRIED LIFS I tw the noted author Idah MGlone Gibson L - Thinking It Over. m.r usual, all analysis of my npw ltabnJ- my lover all vague diacom-with diacom-with present conditions passed, fSJln a8 John lifted mo from the mo " yP b.nf ;.n'l k'--' "' ' 1 1 ' " r' t7ar,i ,V0f how it miRhr affect passereby. John. John. I s'lld. "they'll know j ve arc josl marri d! w wr nro :iren i we? he asked inrfecil oblivious to how anything f Sat In 'should v Ish to do mipht affei I ' , inv on el' At ,nP ,imP 1 (lllJ "0t i "'llzp ih'i this would romo to be a frfert bupbear to mo. Then 1 thoueht K.t John'" love for me was so over- sJoV-erlM lh worM m";'n' tiling to him. i j wafl embarrassed for a moment at j L,f ronr-piouous position in whirl- he 1 placed me. but Immediately found . . need not have worried abour o I'' .11 a thing, for John strode Into fhr' lobby of he hotel, leaving me to Blow meekly, apparently forgotten; in ii h o 1 li.it h wincing Ijoor through which he jassed pearly Kit nie on the fare ' Hp w:'. so intent upon renins the Kroner accommodations that for the tmoimnt he hnl lo: sdpht of tin , ton fr whom, presumably, he was errinc them. Although I did not real lie It. ' have sinee foinil that this I llnWn0 r P,jrP"'' his absolute 'fl,-i,.-n!!aii'n upon the thing at hand, '' j. ,pni , p ! - I i n i n ;i 1 1 n i,' characteristic. 1 It has mad- him the successful busi- , . . . 1 I .i ! ' i -"in' 'if ' - 1 i,a , ihon-h! ihat I would be thankful f0- fi-wi"! luxuries; and more personal L mriM'l' t "i"n. I btliv exery woman feeds this I v n:i ma; eill i. vanity or what I y,- pleas but h i- a very human t fcpji to wish to be first, not only in I '.the l.eart. hut in i he mind oi the man , ' joi: 1' ve. jA i ' t m Insist- that ' hi.- ha!l . - B ,. in-, ' no ' a married d m.r. v im ha- bren satisfied in he put 1 Bclde for any occupation or diver- i n ? pat his v.ju might elect to pursue. W lEvn maternal devotion must be curb-fe' curb-fe' ed and curtailed if one's husband jPil h-lshes to be amused i ,y, 1 nov. I would be ' .- ;i to task if this stati-ni'-nt of min- were B,.,rJf puldir but '. r v.iii- in hi r .V W" "ill know that what I av ie '1 reai l:rd the desk in , . u to Bee Jr!i i . lohn had r t'tsiei-.-d " lobn to.. don , :' v !." HO ' I"' W 'd J ;. h-- : urin d to nn ;i ml -in il. d , h.' ' fell as theupli o would have 1" ' aiuch hetf-r t.iste in h'axe written Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon." Perhaps K 1 . undulx -i n-n i bu' after the i 9 H 'lal. rpisod' n 1 ih" door the addition! "I of.''1 I ":. -"' 111' 1 : t' be III f'e v. no bf rf'onlaiL i lie-j .i . .i ".iti'l alei ( ml took myself to task immediately 1 1 in L j for this feellns as I realized that if 1 were golnp to be so critical. I should ,'inu noir;h to make me unhappy. The momentous question of rooms settled, John turned to me and taking my arm wiih a earessinc touch walked beside me to the elevator, and acain. such was the power of his physical magnetism that the very 'Teel" of his band on my arm turned my dreams I from gray to cold. I forgot everything 'but the fact that I was John's wife , that I would be with him always -would be able to sense this adorable nearness. ; I wonder If any man looks upon mar-riage mar-riage in Just the way a woman does0 I believe thai every American plrl. brought Up as I bad been, tn i" el that when she marries the man she love. she has reached not only the purpose, but tbe climax, of her existence, endows en-dows that man with certain almost superhuman su-perhuman qualities. She Is bound to be disappointed because no one has told her that her lover and h.T bus-band bus-band are quite as different as thaush they were no kin My mother and father had led vuch a different wedded existence from th usual married life, that 1 had built up dream that was impossible of fulfill ment. It was n dream wherein the Hrsl thought of both husband and wife should be of each other whe rein bey would be that "one-' of which the mar-liagO mar-liagO bond speaks. I know now that such a fhinR is impossible, im-possible, and it nnlv makes for un-happiness un-happiness to teach our daughters thai 'dove a all," while from the firsi our sons estimate love at a truer value Some of tine must have shown In nr. fare for John pulled me down upon his knee and lookinc into my i ee said "W hat's the matter, gjrl" Aron you happy?" "Perfectly," I answered truthfully, for even -now I know that when John smiles and puts his arms around me, I am happy (Continued Monday.) |