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'SWMfH THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE CONJUGAL AND Chapter CXXXI I read Kitty Malram's letter over again while waiting for Dick to come home and tell me what had been done to suppress the Symone scandal Three things in it struck me as im portant pointers toward solving not only Kitty's problems of life, but those of other women. First, Kitty has .demonstrated that a woman's traits are not wholly fem inine, but they are just human. Her vanity was touched by the knowledge that she was holding the center of the stage in her own little circle, that both her friends and her enemies were commenting on her af fair with Bill Tenney. She also told herself that she was making big sac rifices for the sake of her love of Tenney, while all the while she was1 revelling in her love of sensation and luxury. She persuaded herself that this was the one love of her life, the one thing that she could not live without, and had she stayed here she probably would not have found out until it was too late the truth. , Now being daily near a man. that she respects and admires, who is in terested in, and who has interested her in, a great uplifting work she reaiizfes that not everything in this world is bound up in what we call ro mantic love. Oh, little book, this sounds very dif ferent from that rhapsody that I pen ned the night before -my wedding, does it not? And I am a very happy married woman, at that, but I have found out that there is a difference between conjugal and romantic love. In just what the difference consists I am not yet quite clear, but I can not lie to, myself and declare there is no difference, and it is only hypocrisy on the part of any married woman who insists that the wonderful pas sion lasts through all the vicissitudes of married life. If in marriage the dazzling blue ROMANTIC LOVE flame of romantic love gradually grows smaller and finally dies away, then there remains the permanence of that warmth and the steady glow of companionship, habit, mutual in terests and respect, making a har mony of feeling. The passion of romantic love ebbs and flows, but the most beautiful and comforting of all human concep tions, wedded love, is always calm and clear. I have gotten away from Kitty Mal ram and her troubles, little book, in the analysis of married life and love, a most interesting subject to all wom en and most men. However, it seems to me that Kit ty's chances of happiness are much greater with the man she is with now than "with Bill Tenney, even if he were free to marry her. There is only one little fly in the ointment, and that is what Kitty asked me in her letter. ' Shall she tell her preacher love of her flirtation with Bill Tenney? The mere fact of her telling or not telling does not mean anything; but how he would take it would mean very much. Kitty Malram can never be happy 'with a man! who is not broad enough to not only forgive, but understand human frailities as well as human, sins. Kitty is now living. on the moun tain top and it seems to me from her letter that she has an intuition that this man of hers is a bit narrow where women are concerned. Will she be able to abide by his decisions when she gets back to the hard-clay road of the valley of every-day life?. Anyway, I'll write and ask her. (To be Continued Tomorrow) (Copyright, 1914, by the. Newspaper Enterprise Association) o o ' Shiny black hats are very stylish, being trimmed usually with, black,