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Show It , I LOVE and MARRIED LIFE Imj. the noted author Idah MSGlone Gibson I 15 ( K HOME H I think I surprised myself more thnn H I did Mifs Parker when 1 said that I H Ilkd men SS men but not In the mass B But, thinking it over, I knew that 1 LH had told the truth. I could not re- H t member a man whom I did not like lBt'll individually and yet when f thought Kh of men os a sex I almost hated ) i "I like to nurse women better than LWLw men," confided Miss Parker ' Women Kl lire braver and much more patient, al- BH though I have met a few men who BH wf re the exceptions that proved (ho BH rule. Just as I have met a few fussy BBH nni1 querulous women. Von were a BB splendid patient," she said with a BBBBj BBBBj I could have been otherwise, I was BB4B1 most of the time unconscious, you v know." Cl "It le then' remarked Miss Parker, I '' , "that people show their true nature." "I do not believe that. I have been told by physicians that some of the loveliest mothers In the church used bl.isnhemnus laniruace under an inN-l BBf Bj thetic, and some of the roughest of BjB mm men became as little children under BB-BJ the same conditions. jBrV That In no way controverts my os- TBmmi sertion," said Miss Parker unexpect- RBBJ "Oh, was my astonished remark as ij BBBfl BBBJI I looked nt this woman sitting beside BBBa mo again and again during the next BBjW few hours of our Journev. and 1 won- BjBj di-red how two opb- .ould live to-i gether as jxe had done for many weeks' Sw. and yet one. at least might not know, " ' the other at all Miss Parker had i seemed to me a kind of scientifically i ministering automaton I had never thought of her i hacinR her thoughts inil opinion-- upon pron.-iolv every sun- ,f, fljl " 1 i Whit li had Intrigued my mind l ) jHI said to myself, but all at once I felt Mm I 100 tired to probe further l wanted 'h fl to rest and look out on the SVor-Cheng- Wf ing landscape, l did not warit to think V"' JJf"-' I knew that soon I should be hack Mm In the world the world of bustle arid 17 , i 1 1 1 1 1 . Be Of hurrv and strife .and that tSr kmm'i ' should need fill my coukuc, 1 1 1 my & B T en erg; and .ill the enthusfum I i-os- " I was awakened from mv reverie by Miss Parker asking me, Shall we go a Irecll) to your home, Mrs Gordon?" Am "1 ihink not.' I answered, "although j. Mr Gordon did not Bay I think he expects us to go for a few weeks to our ' room! in his- mother's house. I would i li r no( mo Into the n n house &jfEa until At least a few of the rooms are MBB made habitable. " "Will Mr. Gordon's mother live with KfMH you in your new home"' asked Miss ljjBS si ''id that she was not at all curious in Parker in tones that made me under-'the under-'the matter, but Just trying to make conversation. ' "No. she is to live in the old houses Where she hat lived so many years A friend nnd distant relative of Mr Gordon Gor-don b and of his family Is to live at her hnnif- Mme. Gordon Is a handsome woman for her ae rather austere md you might say, set In her ways. She has elwayB run the house and John and I have been more as guests r boarders with her However, lik" most cases of the kind, the Arrangement Arrange-ment has not been particularly pleasant pleas-ant Mme. Gordon has expected more of us than she would have asked of jruests and we have felt sometimes that me ha:i not paid as much attention atten-tion to our ant as she might have had we actually been boarders although al-though of course. John has always paid the house bills." Miss Parker made no comment, but I was a little curious to know Just what she was thinking for there was a peculiar pe-culiar look In her fai e ' You look re- lln. nrt " I 1H "Oh. I beg - our pardon. ' she said Quick! I did not mean to show m thought, but if I be allowed my dear ,Mrs Gordon, I will sn that the only trouble i have ever experienced in mirsln in families has ome from old-,cr old-,cr people, who thought the) had B 'rlfrht, not because of any training or special fitness for th- work, but solely because of -e, to know better what I to flo In all cases than I or anyone i Kelt Ke-lt is sad. Mrs Gordon, that aire almost always brings selfishness and conclet in Its train I have rarcl Biel an old p.-rson who could :u to me. 'Yes. mv dear I have been through all these things which you are going through now, but take heart, take courage, I nave wei nerea mem, and so will you-Instead you-Instead most old peoph say to you, "You are not doing the tight thing It Isn't what I did at vour age. and unless un-less you change and do no: only the thlmr I want you to do, and In I he waj I want you to do It, you will never come through as 1 have done 1 had no time to sro lutther in the conversatloni because ws were beginning begin-ning to slow up as we went into the 'home station 1 felt mv heart heat a little faster as for the first lime I al-l lowed myself to ask. Inwardly, "Would John be there lo meet us ?" I did expect him rjllv hut oh how 1 hoped he would be there. Although! we had begun slowlv to pass somej people who were evidently waiting for friends I did not really look out the window until we came to a full stop, and then to my amazement I saw Elylxabeth ((foreland and no one else. Tomorrow nil with Elizabeth tloreland. |
