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HE LIVES IN A 'LITTLE HOUSE IN A
suburb of New York and makes that house a
home.
He too lives in the little house for a part ot! his
life; but the rest of it is spent in an office in the city.
All sorts of men ride with him on the suburban
trains, or visit him in his office, or meet him for
luncheon at his club.
His life is full of stimulating contacts. Every
day brings him new experiences that mean larger
growth and more assurance. He is a far bigger man
today than he was last year, and ten times bigger
than when they were married ten years ago.
And she?
Her life, too, is tilled full; but the experiences
that come to her are neither so various nor so
stimulating.
There are the older children who must be
hurried off to school each morning. There is the
baby to be bathed and put to sleep. There are meals
to be planned, and bills to be paid.
So, day after day slips by with hardly a spare
moment. Happy days she would not change them
if she could! Only a single cloud crosses the
horizon of her happiness.
In the evening sometimes when they sit on their
little front porch, and he tells her of the experiences
of the day, of the men he has met and the topics he
has discust, of the problems he has solved prob
lems thnt a few years ago would have been far too
large for him at such moments the cloud is there.
No such experiences have come to her that day.
The problems that he and his friends discuss are
strange and far away. She had meant to know more
about them, but there was no time.
"Suppose he should outgrow me," she says to
herself. "Suppose that ten years from now should
find him bigger, broader, abler because of his ex
periences, and me, no longer his mental companion,
merely the mother of his children'
The thought causes her lips to close-a little
more tightly.
"Somehow J must find a way to keep my
thought and-interest "constantly fresh, constantly
expanding, step by step with his. simply can't let
him outgrow me."
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