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Show ILOVE and MARRIED LIFE! inj, the noted, author H j Idah MCHone Gibson j H SOME MODERN IDEAS, HJHH "What tho matter. Mis Kathorlno PgRB darling? en Jd Hannah, as she opened E9ffp""l my door nnd cmo In and took nie In Egg&H Jior ftrma just sj she used to do when fiSgH I was a Uttlo gJrl. "You Imvon't qunr- HHEH rolttl with that handsome husband of 9H yours, hare BfSmmmm "I don't know whether 1 ' havo or SSiH not," I answered somcwhatfneohoront- HHH ' "Woll. I just navr him going out of IH tho Sto stamping down the 'walk with H a grip In each hand and 1 come up H hero and rind you sobbing your heart; H ouu It looks as If something wcroi HHr . "There Is something the matter, BH Hannah, but I don't know Just what It H ! When John Is away from mo and IH ) down and think about him he mW wooms to bo everything In tho world,' HH that I could possibly wish for nnd I mmW bollovo that's Just tho way bo thinks B of mo when he thinks of me at all. Hut H the moment we come together we seem IH mutually disappointed with each oilier. HH For Instance, when John came In on H Uio train you know I went to meet Isssa mm in my diuo skiti anu suitl waisi and the long blup silk maternity cont 1 expect I was a little dragged out. Not ,i Bit of i.ouqj. MI hadn't put a bit of rouge on for weeks nnd John was so disappointed with my looks that he didn't even of-1 of-1 for to kiss me. I camo home, got into this negligee, grossed up nnd ho seem-od seem-od to llko me again, but as usual we bogan to talk about monoy. Why, do Hj you know, Hannah, tho only subjects John and I can talk on are my appear-, anew and money, and wc never agree on cither. John seems to think I should be beautiful and bright and gay .and happy, under any circumstances.. - Ho can nover conceive of a condition' Hr that should ruffle mo physically or .SI mentally. And Just at present, Han-' C nah, I am really very human. I want. 'ysVtV lo bo nttod a little, een if I am not nSI looking my best." I tijjtaRfl "Were you disappointed In Mr. mm John's appearance when he stepped off TpMtJBBif no train?" asked Hannah deliberate- ' ( jffl "Woll, I haVo scon him when he J f 'JBH looked better. Ho was unshaven and I' f&fl' nls Hnon was soiled, but of course,' t W JfH Hannah, you know he had been trav- ii V cling for n couple of nights." j jirt l "Yes, my dear. I know t.at, but you "'llisf hnvo some excuse, too, for not looking W itfl your boat. I may be nn old maid, Miss W ml Katherine, but it's frcm choice, and iiyV , one of tho reasons I have never mar-jLgjffiH mar-jLgjffiH ' rlcd Is because of all this silly talk fFfOrHI among mon, and even among women, EresjpB that If a woman wants to keep a man's kctJEH love she must always be on dress pa rade How many times nave you scon in tho newspapers that a woman should not wear curl papers at the jbroakfast table, and yet aid you ever ;soo it written that a man should net coma In bis shirt Hooves, unshaven land without a collar to bis own table? I never did. Some time ago the news-(papers news-(papers carried a report of a prominent promi-nent woman writer, who. though mar-'rled, mar-'rled, lived in a soparate home from (her husband to keep tholr love free from the commonplacos that mar many marriages. I think her Idea was good." Trim and Puritanical. I looked at Hannah In surprise. I , ; hadn't dreamed that she held such I Ideas on the marriage quostlon. t'ne , was so prim and puritanical, and I knew she had been my mother's friend as well as servant for at least, forty years. I expected to hear from, her tho most mid-Victorian Ideas and ! herdsho was giving me a taste of the I radicalism of tho most modern feminist.' femi-nist.' "Do you really think, Hannah," 1 1 suld. "that this woman has solved the, problem of how to be happy though j mamoa: "Why, I'm sure, honey. Why do you ?sk me that? The only people I've evor seen at close range that wer? i married were your own dear father and motherand they were very happy, , but .you know your fatner was such ( an Invalid and he was so dependent l on your mother that tho affairs between be-tween them wns more that of mother nnd child than husband and wife. But certainly, either you are in an unfortunate unfor-tunate circle of friends, my dear Katherine, Kath-erine, or the modern marriage leaves much to be desired in tho way or happiness." hap-piness." "Well, you see, Hannah, it's because women are In a state of transition. Wo are trying to emerge from that condition of 'belonging that was th? condition of the .wife of other days, and men. have not quite realized that wo want to be considered something more than a possession. I think that, makes all the trouble. The reason : father and mother were so happy .was! because he never did consider mother a possession." "Don't Cry, Honey." I "Well, don'l cry, honey. I believe If j I were married to a man" I looked at I Hannah's gaunt form and wrinkled , face and smiled to myself, for you, see i that I. too, had the old Idea than a woman must bo prepossessing to hold her husband's love ''what would you do If you were married to a man who 1 thought you must, bo "dolled" up all 1 the time?" I interrupted. j Tomorrow "Hanah s Ideas on Hus-' bands." i |