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Show I. ILOVE and MARRIED LIFE! - twj. the noted author I I j Mali MSGlone sib$on j I Things That Make a Difference. "ICatherinc, Katherlne, you must not feci this way," said Alice, as I still kept sobbing. "But I can't help It, Alice, I know j that it la very wrong, but you know, don't you Alice, how happy I was when ! thought my first child was coming ' to me? And you know how It hurt mo when John said ho was sorry that I was to become a mother. It Isn't that I do not want childron, I probably! shall love this child when It comes. I think it is a beneficent law of naturol that whenever a woman feels the soft Jk little flesh' of her baby within her W arms, she can't help loving iL ! Going to Tell John. 1 "Oh, Alice, you knew, and you still j M-v know, that I am heartbroken. I think almost the lost conscious though 1 ex-j WK pressed was that I was going to tel) l1 John the entire truth; that I was going j to tell him that, I could not live with I him any longer, and we both agreed . vhat, as long as I had no children, WM I owed It to myself and also to John to separato from him. For although you have s?ild that you do not think he Is unhappy, I cannot see how ho would be otherwise. Alice, ho must miss the faith and trust and spontan-eous spontan-eous affection that I poured out to him when we were first married. He must feel that nyirriago does not mean to him all that he thought it would. Per-haps, Per-haps, if this baby had not come to me, and I had left him, he might have been, much happier with some other Hj woman." "If you feel this way about It, my dear," said Alice, "why not separate from John anyway. You are a rich woman now. You are independent, you can bring up your child as you choose. It doesn't seem to me that Hj - things have changed in such a fashion 4 that you must continue to live with your husband if you feel as you evl-dontly evl-dontly do toward John." frj All Three Lnhnppy. HftjvJ "But yau said, yourself. Alice, that, HSfS since Bobby Gaylord fell desperately, EUfi in love with Helen and left Ruth and ( Hm llielr children In order to marry Helen, i H9 all three are unhappy. And you were Hjjl right. Bobby writes and asks me to HA go to see his children and tell him Hi about them. "Try to persuade Ruth ' IH3 to let them come and sec me," ho HJ says. Helen Is unhappy because she has HB found that she cannot be everything i to Eobby. The strings of his parenthood parent-hood draw tighter and tighter. And 'even though Ruth told Bobby, when (they separated, that sho would be glad to get rid of him I he would .leave her the children she has always jbcori more mother than wife yet you jteli me that even she, with money to bring up her children as she wishes, ' is not perfectly happy without their I father. No, Alice, I do not believe in divorce when there are children "I do," Eald Alice, unexpectedly reversing re-versing her attitudo on the subject. "I think it is much better that children should be brought, up 'in an atmosphere atmos-phere of peace and' happiness, nnd I know that Ruth's children aro getting this, than it Is for them to bo where thoro are always quarrels and bickerings bick-erings and black looks." "There have never been any bickerings bicker-ings and black looks between John and me, Alice," I said, and I do not think we have many real quarrels. He Never Understood, i "Whenever I havo found fault with John for something he has done, ho : has always put me aside with a little smile, and said: 'Oh, you are not 'yourself now, you are not feeling well.' 'Always attributing Jt to some physical ailments. That has been one of my greatest hurts. He would never understand under-stand when tried to show him my heart, that it was my heart that was .aching and not-my body." I Alice sighed and turned away. I .know that she felt that longer dls-Icussion dls-Icussion of the problem would mako ; me. more nervous and unhappy, i I had became calmer and the doc-' doc-' tor's sedative had done its work. My brain felt numb, and I said rather drowsily, "Alice, go and sco Ruth as .you had Intended. Ask -her hpw sho feels about being away from Bobby, We know exactly how Bobby and Helen Hel-en feel, but Ruth has said nothing on this subject. In the meantime. I will go to sleep and forget, if possible," Forget! Ah. the times that I have i wished and wished and wished in vain for that "good forgettcr3'" that John 'seemed to have. I could always remember re-member my unhappiness and John forget all his troubles. That is the difference between a woman and a man. (Copyright by National Newspaper Service.) Tomorrow A Gift from John. |