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Show IjLOVE and MARRIED LIFE Inj. the noted author I j Idah HGlone Gibson j I M.i.n-.HXi;ss M Isn't It a queer thing that w e human 'M beings more or loss arc dogs In the - JH manger. J never have had the slight - H est tecling of romantic love for my M cousin. Charles Goodwin, but It had L HB been pleasant to my vanity all the IKB ji-ais since 1 wore my hair in pigtails jEH for him to show mc by flord. action FKfl and devotion that he had never loved iPjM any other girl but me and had stayed : : Ingle fur in)' sake. 'B That Is a selfish quality, isn't It? But H til mure or less selfish and it -Hfl rather hurt me to find that on this, the last night in my mother's bid , ,i i ome, wrhii ti held bo many childish II i fiiorles for Charles arid mc, that he JBBBfl could desert mc for Kuth. 1 told my- 'BH self that It was the best thing that KH could happen to Ku;h They weiel BBCH i.iueh more suited to each other Ihnn I B Ku'h h..d ln'-.i -ut-d to Hobby but Bj nevertheless that little hurl in my f Still lal.nl ji TO .M.hL A SUCCESS OF IT. (JBL J lf 1 were writing tins lor publlca- WEmmt tlon I would never tell those intimate' JBjBBB and somewhat sorry thoughts of mine, fBJlBI but Instead I am trying to put down' flB r,!l in., inrnu.sl fi r lings :o that I mav B9Ev read them over and find wheie I have in Called and when i i in improve. For; p( ' whatever else shall come to me. I am rfH determined to make a success ot mar-' jBH riagc before I die I IJBBBJI Of course I Jtnow It takes two to do LUBB" but 1 do not despair with thin Bt Knowledge. BA And ho determining not to think' lBB .hob; Charley's deflection I went to' 2ffJ K1 i oon-. and went to sleep. I believe that my ability to sleep v V under any cicCumscances, if sleep Is what I want. Is the greatest of my I !Jrv-..j reparations. Life has never put me j , a ,.i Buch situation th.tt, when night ' pi ABJ d i ailed hi i he beneficent 'VM Gejddess of Silence and Kepose. sleep BjV ', la- not come tu me and with solacing j It linger pressed my eyelids softly down . 1 v upon consciousness, from which I have P HR always awakened refreshed and forti-11 r JBT' lied, ready to meet all that might ' 1 WJ (.unic to me in the nex; waking hours, h a'Bt 'trough the morning I made z wj (m , myself think only of the preparations'! FvyBBs r. tf mis . w 1 ' l.arb ' .rm o or Kr esirly and helped 1 With his usunl 1 f tl'.ouglitf ulness and efficiency. Ruth, with little Ruth in her train. ' mk who since her fright had tuken a dog- dlon to Charles, whom she t fV Insisted upon calling "Uncle Paxhire."1 A V hei mother had impressed if upon her th;t Charles had saved her'i ' kkJ-s from deatl They .11 Btayed for lunch-1 JflBaV eon and I began to see more clearly flBH than ever what a delightful thing H I -IbbHBvI Would be i Charles would murrv I BBS ciiaul;:s' m anm.k FATHERLY. They ell trouped down to the train I We walked the few blocks to the Sta-jtiop.- Huth Innocently remarking a. Charles trundled the baby carriage I that ht hud a very fatherly air, ami then meeting the Splash of color which suddenly appeared In his face with o blush that reddened her. fair skin lit to the roots of her hair. 1 congratulated mysslf upon m I thoughttulness I did not smile or acl In any way to indicate that 1 had no-itlced no-itlced anything except the obviousness of Ruth's remark, and I said, "Yes i Charles, you know, Is godfather to Mary." At which both of them looked , r elieved Win ii we were settled In the train Miss Parker, the baby and I, Charlet land Kuth left us I watched them out of sight, walking side by side, Utile Ut-ile Ruth astride Charles' shoulder and her hands playing among his thick, whitening locks. 'What a splendid couple they would mako," said Miss Parker, "Mr. Charles 'seems so fond of children." Yes, no '3 Just tneklnd of a man 'to niarrv a ready-made family," and ;1 felt my Hps curve Into a smile as I thought how sweet and kind harlee 1 would be to those children. I It Is almo.'it too good to be true," 1 said. "Bllno. fate seldom brings two I persons together who would be ao hap-P hap-P ;.s my Cousin Charles und Kuth ( iaylord." "Oh. do you really think that, Mrs. Gordon?" asked Miss Parker with tr.c eagerness of a woman of 35 who has never muri led. "Don't you " ' I parried You must have seen many unhappily mated couples.' cou-ples.' TENDER TO THE MOTHER. "Oh, of course I have seen some men that were more attentive than others, but you must know, Mrs. Gordon, Gor-don, that most men arc tender to the woman who Is the mother of their children, In the first Hush of parenthood, parent-hood, at least. 1 seldom see them afterward." af-terward." ' Haven't you seen men who were surly and unhappy because another child has been born Into the family?"! fam-ily?"! asked curiously. "Oh, yer. I hao many times but In the end most of them tnko It philosophically philo-sophically Jn fact, much more so thun the wives," "That was LecaiiP Miss Parker, you did not hear all the man said. The tvlfe had hurls that no one but she could know." "Don't you like men, Mrs Gordon? " "Individually, yes, very much. In the moss not at All.'.' T' morrow Rack Hemic. |
