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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmemmmm J 'mVfSr' Wf 'T"1 rrm?TK 1 "WVIT'-F T--" ""' ' - "S , " Frw:- --.- - iiTkiiitfftiii i mi tr Vw e?TCvJTCv. THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE KITTY MALRAM AND BILL TENNEY MEET (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) I wish I knew how that false im pression was spread abroad that wo men were more curious than men. It seems to me that the greatest characteristic a man has is his in satiable curiosity. Every man's mot to seems to be from the time he can think: "I'll try anything once." It's the one' great incentive that makes men do things good or bad. I had an illustration of this last night when Dick brought home Bill I 'lenney unexpectedly to dinner. I don't think he told him that Kitty was here and I knew Kitty had not the slightest idea of seeing him until Dick came in and said: "Kitty I want to present an old friend to you Mr. William Makepeace Tenney; Mr. Ten ney, Mrs. Kitty Malram Spencer." It was rather cruel to both of them. Kitty went red and Bill went white for a moment. Kitty, however, re covered first. , "How do you do, Will. I'm glad to see you looking so well." "Say you're glad to see me," said Bill somewhat hoarsely. "How could you do this, Dick," I said to him when we went upstairs to dress for dinner. "Well, I wanted to see how they would take it; but believe me I didn't think poor Bill was quite so hard hit or I would not have brought him." "And you would not have spared poor Kitty's feelings, Dick?" I asked. "She was not supposed to have any feelings for Bill after she had mar ried Herbert Spencer," said Dick with conviction. "I am glad, dear, for this enlighten ment on the subject of my sex. Ac cording to you a woman can control her feeling and must always put an old love absolutely out of her heart on short notice." "She should do so before she mar ries anyone else," was Dick's com promising pronouncement. "Granted, but can a man do the same thing? I jthink I heard you say the other day that 'no one woman can be everything to any one man.' How about putting all other women out of the man's heart who have contrib uted to his all round life and settling down with just one?" "How would you go to work to pick that one out? Do you try and cata logue the things that appeal to you in each of these women and take the one that comes nearest the hundred mark?" "Now, Margie, wait a minute!" Dick interrupted, and then he added as though to himself: "It's not all cakes and ale being married to a schoolteacher; her habit of mind is so unfortunately logical. "To tell the truth, Margie, and get back to Bill and Kitty, I didn't think much about either of them other than I just had an idle curiosity to see how they would behave during then- first meeting." " 'Fun for the boys but death to the frogs' kind of feeling, my dear, wasn't it?" "Yes I suppose so, but let's don't quarrel about it for if we do we won't get downstairs before they do and it would be rather awkward to leave them alone together." I hurried downstairs, leaving Dick wrestling with his tie. (He is one of those men who can never tie a white lawn tie.) When I got to the por tieres I heard Bill say: "But you did love me once, Kitty " And Kitty an nounced: "I don't know, Will I was very fond of you fonder than I had any right to be but now I am mar ried to the best man I have ever known and have a work to do that will help humanity and I am sure no woman could ask for more than life and love has brought me." "Yes, she could Kitty; she, could I ask for the power to love as devoted.- ISltoltfiiltowja