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V.I.U.S.
A.,
MONDAY
26tH
APRIL
1920.
sincere
affection in.a stringer,
or make
any
new
ties thatywould
be disintested.
When
voung and beautiful
women
smile
at
me,
|
see
behind“them
the jewels and
and fine
gowns
I am good
for on which
their
avid
eyes
are fixed.
When
young"
men
hang
about
my wife, I have
a
sar-
donic
vision
of the champagne,
and
op-
era boxes,
and
automobiles,
and horzes,
and country places.
the opvortunities:for
flirtacions with younger
and prettier
vo
men
that
being
“in
her
good
graces
stands
for to
them.
*
“"We
alone
could
mean
something
to
each,
other.
We alone could
be
compan-
ions, friends,
lovers
as
we go down into
the
twilight shades
of
the
evening ‘of
life.
And
yet we:it
vo,
who
should
be
the
closest
toget}?r,
are
the
farthest
apart
of
any
two® creatures
on
God’s
earth.
We
have
not
a thought
in com-
mon,
not an aspiration
in comtmon,
not
a
a hope in common.
“‘I often
wonder
why,
of all the
wo-
men
in
the
world,
I
married
her.
I
know
she
wonders
why
she
married
me,
and yet
when
we
were
married
no two
people
were
ever
more
in
love
with
each other,
and
this being
true,
the
mar-
vel is how
we killed
love between
us.
““Whose
fault
was
it,
hers
or mine?
Mine,
1 think, chiefly.
**Yes,
dust
and
ashes
is on
my head,
becauseI _.urdered
jlove.
I did
it,
not
with one
switt blow, but I
starved
it
to
death through
long arid years
of neglect.
‘You see,
when I married
1
had
just
begun
to get
a foothold
en
the ladder
of
success.
1
had
just
begun
to
make
money,
and
the madness
of that greatest
and
most
absorbing
game
in
the
world
was upon
me.
I was
crazy
for
money
and
more
money,
and
evermove,
more
money,
jand for the
sense
of
power
it
gave,
,the
ability
to
do
big
things,
to
shape
events,
to be.the
little god of
the
machine
that
works
the
strings
and
makes
the
things happen
whereat
men
marvel.
ALL FOR
MONEY.
“l
gave
all
of my
time,
all of my
thoughts,
all of my interests,
all the best
of me,
to my business.
I was away from
home
much of the time.
called hither and
thither by enterprizes
in which
I was
in-
terested,
and when I was
at home
I
was
either too absorbed
in some
new deal
to
be anything but a money-making
autom-
aton,
or
else
]
was
a
wreck
of
over-
wrought
nerves
and
was
as
cross
and
surly as
a sore-headed
‘bear.
- *'l had brought ns
.ife from oat of a
big family of charming
and gay
peoble,
radde
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IF YOU HAD TO LIVE IT OVER
.
AGAIN.
By Dorothy Dix.
“My marriage,’”’
said
the third
man,
‘““is a failure because
there
is
no compan-
ionship
between
myself
and
my
wife.
Our marriage
has
become
the very husks
of wedloek.
The
soul of love, and
even
of friendship
has
gone,
and
nothing
is
left but the body of the thing from which
the spirit has
fled.
‘‘Some eynic said
not long ago
that the
chief
advantage
in being
rich
was
that
the wealthy
had
to
see
so little of
their
husbands
and
wives.
They
were
not
thrown
so closely
together,
and did
not
have to daily rub rasped
nerves
against
rasped
nerves,
org have
their
disillusions
focussed
on
each
other
so continually
as
the poor
do.
Hence,
they
do
not
have
S 0 many unseemly
spats.
“In this
manner*my
wife andI dwell
in
our big house
in
outward amity
and
peace.
She has her apartment.
I mine.
Shg
has
her
allowance,
paid
into
her
bank;
her
own automobile; her
own
in-
dependence
in
every
way.
Whepr
we
meet
in our
own
home,
or elsewhere,
we are
suavity
and
politeness
itself
to
each
other,
but
I
often
wonder if
my
wife is as
lonely as
I am, if the
friend-
ships of the
outside
world
are
as
hollow
to her
as
they
are to
me, if she
yearns
for the mellow
love
and
companionship
that is tried
and proven,
the
love that is
interwoven
with' the
memories
and
ex-
periences
of half
a lifetime that
should
be
ours.
!
BorH
GROWING
OLD.
““We are
bhoth
growing
old
We
are
past
middle
age,
past
the
time
when
either
one of us
ecan
hepe
to inspire any
No. 9}
who
were
most
loving
and
affection-
ate
to each
other.
1 put her
down
in a
strange
city,
and
left
her
to
her
own
devices,
and felt that I
had done
my full
duty when I
gave her
a handsome
home
and
plenty of money
to spend.
I
never
even
thought
of
such
a thing
as
trying
to interest
myself in her pursuits,
or do-
ing anything
for
her
pleasure,
or
at-
tempting
to
find
out
what
she
really
thought,
and aspired
to,
what
sort
of
a
woman
she
was deveioping into.
‘I knew
vaguely that
she
went
into
society.
1 grumbled
at
having to
show
up
now and
then
at
dinner
parties
she
gave.
1
went
with her
ocecasionally
to
the
theatre,
but
mostlyI was too
busy
to
be her companion,
and when I did
go
with herI was too
absorbed
in my
own
plans
to give
her
more
than
a
surface
attention.
“‘So the years
went by, and
she
went
one
way,
and
I
went another
and
cur
paths
grew farther and farther apart,
and
I,
at
least,
was
utterly
unconscious
of
what
was
happening.
[
was
cocksure
that
[ was doing my part
as
a
husband,
because
we had
the finest
bouse
on
the
street,
and [ gave
my
wife diamonds
at
Christmas
and
automobiles
on
her birth-
dav.
AN ANIMATED CHECKBOOK.
"I never
realized
that
I had
become
nothing but an animated checkbook
to my
wife;
that she
had
forgotten
that
blood
irstead
of silver
ran
in
my
veins,
and
that
I could feel
soma
pang
that
wasn’t
caused
by
a slump
in
Wall Street.
Still
less
did
it occur
to
me
thatin
ali
her
splendor
my wife might be starving for a
little
love,
for
a little tenderness,
for
some sign that
she
was something
to her
husband
besides
a stalking horse
to show
off his money.
““Then
one day
I woke
up to the
fact
that
my wife
was
as
indifferent
to
me
as
|
was
to her; that
she
had
passed
in-
to another
world of
new interests
with
which1 was
as
unfamiliar
as
she
was
with mine, and that
we two, who should
have
had
everything
in
common,
had
nothing
in
common.
And
1 was
deso-
late.“IfI had
to
live my life over
again I
should
devote
less
time
to
business
and
more
to
my
wife.
[
should
not
make
wealth
the god befor¢
whom I sacrificed,
I should bow the knee
to love.
‘U should
begin,
from
the
very
wed-
ding day,
to try to win my wife’s friend-
ship
so that
when
the
fires
of
passion
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