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Show r LOVE and MARRIED LIFE j! u, the noted author i Idah MSGlope Gibson I HI TH SURPRISES ME. The poem " hlch" I knew meant to niy husband the contrast between his desire for Elizabeth Moreland and his love for me. It was the first thing 1 hnd Reen since my marriage to John that made me think of the man with whom I had fallen so desperately and quickly In love, In contrast to the man 1 had married. It .showed me clearly that thore are two natures In every man one the primitive, which responds to the one great Uu 01 the unlvenj the hunter who must ever enjoy the spirit of the chase and the other one which man has developed through centuries of proplng for BOmetl mil: that Is higher and belter than instinct. The poem was beautiful. Something In me responded to: "When I look Into those, wells ofj truth, her eyes, My soul leupa out from Its hiding place of clay And tiles to do her bidding " I rallied for whatever John Gordon's' sou) might have done when he looked I Into my eyes I never could remember when It flew "to do my bidding." JUST AN UNRULY HOY. Poor John, he's Just a little unruly I bov; a boy who has always had his; own way. always felt that he was supreme; su-preme; a boy who has always been able to talk back to his mother and' sister, and yet who. deep in his heart, I f It superior to both. How much happier a man would bo, if. Instead of this eternal warring with! Ill the opposite sex. he accepted woman v h at her true valuation and made her his i-iiim-idi' and his friend, instead ofj fc-SM treating her always as a plaything or 1 MMa A servant. 'Jrmji 1 rcac' tne Poem once more. It was beautiful. It had more real human 93 nature in it than the one which Karl Hfl Shepard hud sent mo Again I felt HJr the old time thrill which had never 8Rp7 wholly vanished and which returned lut when John was near .and kind to mc. Jm. :J. It was probably because of this that ft jJA 1 have lived with John Gordon as long H M 1 have Since we were married " John has seemed to feel that it is not quite nianly to make love to me any more He had forgotten nil about A "what should be" In the ever present .m 1 presume to Borne women the find- 4kc1 lnF of that scrap of paper would have ,' j!m caused eater hurt than anything vkflH else he had ever done. The mere fact BpH that John acknowledged there was a fl chance of choice between us might Hb have made another woman jealous I and unhappy. But 1 confess that I JBS would much rather be the queen of his soul than the minister to, or the EHpil companion of his senses ami I was n I her complimented A i;ul I believe that I could be both H J if he would let me I see no reason jBW why a man's wife should not be all in all to him Because most men hold BI different opinions is perhaps the greatest reason that we have one divorce di-vorce in every eight marriages I WILL UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER. Haxfl "Oh, my dear; m dear," I said as I HfvSj - snatched up m baby who was worry- ing in her cradle, "surely I will never i4r l have any such problems with you. You Jfe4fl and I still understand each other. You I iwlll always know that mother means the best for you You will always understand un-derstand her experience will help you lover all your troubles" Then again I laughed mirthlessly us I thought that probabl down deep In John's heart he had the same feeling that I should understand that everything he did was the besl tur me I expected my baby would understand. I laid my baby back In Its cradle. Then 1 resolved to go back and fight ! for my own to make John feel as he did when he first fell In love with me. In spite of .ill ihni everyone may say about the Impossibility of warming warm-ing our love I am going to make John fall in )o e with me all over again. And while I airi doing It I am going to try and make him understand thai the love that I am asking from him and being so disappointed because I do not receive it, Is but a part of the experiences ex-periences of marriage and marriage is but a part of fh experience of life. One thing, however I am going to tr to make myself as well as John understand, and that Is that love may be for a week, a month or a year, but marriage is for every day and all time. I urn going to work for the love of my, husband, but I am going to try to achieve a successful marriage for mv-self mv-self Alice has achieved it why may not 1 Ruth's marriage was n failure because be-cause she made motherhood Instead of wifehood her goal Marriage includes in-cludes both being wife and mother As I was thinking of Ruth she illustrated il-lustrated the old adage, 'Thinking of angels you hear the rustle of their wings,' for she passed my window on flw. r.tlmr ul.ln nf f V-. . ,..th 1 t..'irles. SURPRISED AT Tin: DEFERENCE. I wasn't surprised to see her with Charles, but I was certainly surprised! I to see how deferentially he bent over) her and to note the smile she gave; him. I This time she was not thinking ofj her children to the exclusion of every- I i thing else, tor with sudden terror I saw tiny Ruth, who had been walking I .long by her mother's side, suddenly dart out almost in front of an automobile. auto-mobile. Tiie mother did not notice the child's danger until Charles Hashed Hash-ed quickly in front of her. brushing , her aside with such sudden force that she almost fell to the sidewalk, and snatched the baby almost from under I the wheels. There was a great commotion Ruth shrieked as Charles stumbled and fell, flinging the child from him. I John, who bad evidently seen the J whole thing from the window below mo, rushed out to them and, paying no attention to Ruth, raided Charles from the ground He evidently asked him if-he was hurt, for Charles shook his head. Then both men turned to the baby. v. "no was lying In a Utile tumbled heap. She had evidently thought It was some game, for she , was laughing and holding out her hands to Charles. Ruth came forward with outstretch- , ed hands, and as Charles clasped them ' I said to myself, "I wonder. I won- , der." Tomorrow Is Ruth Falling hi Love? ' |