THE SCIl ANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 18il5.
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THE EVOI.VTION OF A WOMAN.
The distinguishing; feature of Mr.
Hamlin Garland's art 1b its fidelity to
the commonplace. As a' verttlst tv
deals with verities, but with the com
mon and familiar ones rather than with
those which' lie in the depths. If a
difference may be detected between Mr.
Garland's fiction and the realism of Mr.
Howells, with which comparison seems
natural, it is a difference in the vital
ity and in the temperament of the char
acters portrayed rather than in the
fundamental standards of the portray
al.' Both aim to hold a mirror up to
actualities, Both eschew the liberties
which the imagination is bound to take
with the writer and with the reader of
conventional romance. But Mr.
Howell's actualities are for the greater
part tame and subdued; while the ac
tualities focused by Mr. Garland's lens
are stark naked and prlmevally robust.
In the one case the men and women
whom the author dresses with the fine
drapery of his rhetoric are carefully
selected typos; in the other, they are
Just m and women, and the rhetoric
Is less of a consideration than the fact.
Hut perhaps the best way to establish
our point Is by Illustration, and to this
method we shall adhere In the present
notice of Mr. Garland's latest work,
"Rose of Duteher's Coolly." which has
recently been Issued by the enterpris
ing Chicago firm of Stone & Kimball.
I What Men Call Death.
There is something almost biographi
cal iind yet withal quite touching In the
way In which Mr. Oarland begins with
his heroine almost at the moment o; her
birth, and parent-like, follows her every
deed and thought through the varying
episodes of Infancy, childhood and
school girlhood up to the moment when
potential womanhood suddenly ceases
to be a potentiality merely, and be
comes a glorious fact. Rose was the
daughter of a plain and silent Wiscon
sin farmer, and at the age of five, her
mother died, leaving father and daugh
ter alone on the old homestead. There
Is an. effective reference to this unex
pected deprivation:
Rose got up the next morning after her
mother's last kins and went into the room
where the body lay. A gnomish little fig
ure the child was, for at that time her
head was large and her cropped hair
bristled until she seemed a sort of brownie.
Her lonely child-life hud given her quaint,
grave ways.
Hhe knew her mother was dead, nnd th:it
death was a kind of sleep which lasted
longer thun common sleep, that was all
the difference; ho she went In and mood
by the bed and tried to see her mother's
.face. It was early In the morning and the
curtains being drawn It was dark In the
room, but Rose had no fear, for mother
Was there.
Hhe talked softly to herself n III tie while,
then went over to the window ami pulled
on the string of the curtain till It rolled
up, Then she went back ami looked at
her mother. She grew tired of waiting
at dast.
"Mamma," she called, "wake up, Can't
jvu ivtt ufr. 1 1 J (l 1 1 1 r 1 1 .
She patted the cold, rigid cheeks with her
rough brown little palms. Then she blew
In the dead face, gravely. Then she
thought if she could only open mamma's
eyes, she'd be awake, - no she took her
- fuunr and thumb and "tried to lift the
lashes, and when ahe did fte was fright
ened by the lott-f the set faded gray
eyes. Then the terrible vague shadow of
the Unknown settled upon her and she
cried convulsively: "Mamma! mamma, I
want you!" Thus she met death, early
in her life.
ii. ine insnnci or interrogation.
John Dutcher was not. a talker, and
the questions of his motherless daugh
ter, asked him in childish prattle, be
cause Rose had none other to address,
were seldom answered. And yet this
silent man, this seemingly Indifferent
'.' plougher of the prairie soil,' was 'by no
means a clown' or a clod. We are told
that:
often at night, as he saw her lying
asleep, her long lashes upon her rough
' ened, sun-burned skin, his heart went
out to her in a great gush of tenderness.
Ills throat ached and his eyes grew wet as
he thought how unresponsive he had been
that day. His remorseful memory went
back over her eager questions to which
he had not replied. Dear, sweet, restless
little heart! And then he vowed never to
lose patience with her again. And some
times standing there beside her bed, his
arms closed around the little mound un
der' the quilts, and his lips touched the
round, sleep-enraptured face. At such
times hlB needy soul went out In n cry to
tils dead wife for help to care for his child.
'John Dutcher had many a trlul be
cause of Hose's questioning. liy and
by the child's queries took hold of deep
er things; and the father fdund himself
confronted with the duty which even
mothers sometimes shirk. Says the
author:
Ho saw that the day of petty Actions hid
gono by. Tho child knew that little lambs,
and calves and kittens did not grow down
in the woods. She knew that babies were
not brought by the doctor, ami that thev
did not come from heaven. "Good Lord!"
groaned her. father one day, after an un
usually persistent attack from her, caused
fcy the appearance of. a little colt out In
the barn,- "I wish your mother was here, or
some woman." ,
There, were moments of pathos, too.
in the young girl's loneliness. Once
uur weni uj ine railroad siauon, ana
the long lines of steel reaching put into
the unknown Impressed' Rose with a
new sense of the Immensity of the world
about her. It was after that that she
asked her father to take her to the top
at a hill near by. .
They climbed slowly up the steep, grassy
Itpe and stood at last, on the flat rock
which topped the blurt. Rose stood there,
dlziy, out of breath, with her hair blown
across her check and looked away, at the
curving valley and the river, gleaming
' fiere and there through the willows and
elders. It was like looking over an un
explored world to the child. Her eyes
expanded, and her heart filled with the
same, ache which came into it when she
looked down along the curving railroad.
Hhe turned suddenly and fell sobbing
against her father.
., III.-Tho Assertion of Sex.
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ters that tell of the girl's first education
of her walking miles In the coldeBt win
ter to and from the district school and
of her mad desire, while at summer time
play, to be as one with the boys, to
share their roughness and exhlleratlon
and not to be put into a separate class
on account of the as yet unrealised
thing called sex. To our notion these
portrayals of the formative moments of
Hose's girlhood constitute the author's
most interesting work. They exlilbii
with peculUr vividness albeit quite na
turally the gravity of the responsibility
of parentage and the Importance of the
duty of motherhood in respect to the
proper guidance of the child mind and
the child life. There is a chapter con
cerning an Incident of the school period
which teaches a lesson, and gives a new
point to the carelessness of the aver
age rural school system.
The winter Rose was 14 years of age she
had for a teacher a girl wnose oeautitut
presence brought a curse with it. She
was small and Kraceful. with a face full
of sudden tears and laughter, and dreams
of desire. She fascinated ine children, anil
the larger boys woKe to a suauen sav
aifcrv of rivalry over her. which ho one uiv
derstood. The older boys fought over her
smiles and her low-voiced words of praise.
The girls grew vaguely Jealous or were
abject slaves to her whims. The school
became farcical In session, with ever-Increasing
play hours, and ever-shortening
recitations, and yet sucn was me teacner a
mower over the . students that they did
not report her. She gathered the larger
gins around ner as sne nineu wun iae
young men, until children like Carl and
Hose became a part or it an.
At nlg-ht the vounir men of the neigh
borhood flocked about her boarding-place,
absolutely lighting In her very ipresence
for the promise which she withheld, out
of coquettish perversity. She herself be
came a victim of the Btorm of passion
which swept over the neighborhood. She
went out to parties and dances every
night, and came languidly to school each
morning. Most of the men of the district
laughed, but jthe women Degan to tain ex
r.iieillv shout tho stories they heard. At
school the most dangerous practices were
winked at. The older boys did not scruple
to put their arms about the teachers
waJst as thev stood by her side. Al the
reserve and purity which is organic In
the Intercourse of most country girls ami
boys seemed lost, and parties and sleigh
rides left remorse and guilt behind. There
was something feverish and unwholesome
in the air.
Do not think that this bold Bcene is
over-colored. It Is to our knowledge
true In many country districts, especial
ly In the west, where parents are so
much occupied with the care of cattle or
crops that they have no time left for the
care of their children, and shunt the
whole dutv over without compunction
nn to the shoulders of the Indifferently-
pnld school ma'am. The character of
this school ma'am Is determined mainly
bv chance; rarely lit it a subject of care
ful advance Inquiry. If good, well and
good; If bad. heaven help her pupils! In
such scenes as this Mr. Garland sharply
differentiates his theory of art from the
more anaemic and lifeless realism of the
Howells cull. No doubt his boldness
will In some quarters be pronounced
shocking; but like the lightning's shock,
It clears the air.
IV. First Gliramsrings of Romance.
One day this school now emancipated
from Its thralldom to Delilah was
thrown Into paroxysms through the
riding past of a courier In a glided box,
who, as he went, scattered gaudy bills
proclaiming the coming of a circus.
The children read eyery word of those
high sounding posters, standing In knots
by the roadnide.-It was the mlKhtlest
event of their lives. The whole country
awoke to the significance of the event and
began preparations and plans. At school
and at church it was talked of. The whale
population awoke to pathetic, absorbing
interest in tne quality ot tne posters and
.the probable truth of the foreword. The
circus was the mightiest contrast to their
slow anil lonely lives that could be im
agined, It came In trailing clouds of glo
rified dust and grouped itself under vast
tents whose lift nd fall had more majesty
than summer clouds, and Its streamers
had more significance than the lightning.
It brought the throb of drum, and scream
of fife, and roar of wild beast. For one
day each hum drum town was filled with
romance, like the Arabian Nights; with
helmetcd horsemen, glittering war maid
ens on weirdly spotted horses; elephants
with howdahs and head-plates of armor,
with Hons dreadful, sorrowful, sedate and
savage; with tiigers and hyenas in unman
ageable ferocity pacing up and down their
glided dens while their Impassive keepers,
dressed In red, sot In awful silence amidt
them. There was something remote and
splendid In the ladles who rode haughtily
through the streets on ipranclng horses,
covered with rot and gold trappings.
There was something heroic, something
of splendid art. In the pose of the ath
letes in the ring. From the dust nnd
drudgery of their farms the farm boys
dreamed and dreamed of the power nnd
snlendor of the pageantry. The girls
planned their dresses nnd their hats, and
the lunch they were to tnke.- Everything
was arranged weeks ahead.
Rose went with her first beau, Carl.
There Is an exquisite realism in the
description which Mr. Garland vouch
safes to this eventful episode in his
heroine's - mnidenhood. The daylight
start, with Its preliminary of a wakeful
anticipatory night; the entry Into Tyre
with the first dinner ever eaten at a
real hotel; the procession to the tent,
past the alluring prospectuses of the
ubiquitous side shows; the passing
scrutiny of thn wild beasts in the men
agerie, and finally the open-mouthed oc
cupancy of tiered .seats in the circus
amphitheater these are touches which
carry the most blase-of amusement
lovers back, to the gala lay of child
hood. But passing all that, we come to
the scene which follows:
Rose sat In a dream of delight as the
hand began to play. It was an ambitious
band. and played operatlo selections with1
modulations, and It seemed to Rose to be
the most splendid music in the world. It
shook her like a stallion's - neigh and
soothed her like the coo of a dove on the
barn roof. At last the band blared an an
nouncing note, and the uniformed attend
ants tiled Into the ring and took positions
at set points like sentries. Then the music
struck into a splendid gallop, and out
from the curtained mysteries beyond, the
knights and ladies darted, two and two. In
glory of Crimson and gold and green and
silver. At their head rode the man with
the brown mustache her hero.
He wore blue and silver, and on his
breast was a rosette. He looked a god to
her. His naked limbs, his proud neck, the
lofty carriage of his head, made her shiver
with emotion. They all came to her lit
by the white radiance: they were not
naked, they were beautiful, but he was
something more. She had seen, naked
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boys, and her own companions occasonr
ally showed themselves naked and' cower
ing before her, but these men stood there;
proud and splendid. They Invested their
nakedness with something which exalted
them. They became objects of lumin
ous beauty to her, although she knew
nothing of art. As una grew clearer-eyed,
she saw that 'on, was little too short,
another too lean,' but he of the -rosette
was uerfect. .;
Once more he came back, leading a
woman by the hand. Something new
seized upon Rose's heart, a cold contrac
tion that she had never felt, and her teeth
pressed together. She wondered If the wo
man were his Wife. The woman seised a
rone with her richt arm and was drawn
to the tent roof. He took a strap in his
mouth and was drawn to his trapexe, also.
There, lu mid-air, they performed their
uangerous evolutions. It was an marvel
ous and Incredible to the countrv artrl.
She heard him clap his hands, then Ma
glorious voice rang above the muslo, and
the lithe figure of his companion launched
itself through the air, was caught by the
shoulders In his great hands, thence with
a twist he tossed her, and hooked her by
the hands. Kach time the blood surged
Into Rosa's throat, as if to suffocate her.
A horrible fear that was a pleasure, some
way rose and fell In her. She could not
turn away her head. She must look. She
was a powerful girl, and the Idea of faint
ing had never come to her, but when at the
conclusion, he dropped In a revolving ball
Into the net, far beneath, she turned sick
and her eyes seemed to whirl in their
sockets. Then as he leaned to the ground
bowing and smiling, the blood rushed back
to her face, and the perspiration stood out
itKe rain.
V.-What Romanes Will I'o.
Mr! Garland, as a verltlst whose creed
In part at least is that the age of great
romance belongs now to history, comes
near to confounding his own dicta in
the pag.es whereon he traces the conse
quences of Rose Duteher's first dip
into the intoxication of romanticism.
Coming home from that memorable
circus Elysium, she undergoes a nota
ble transformation.
When she roan tho next dav she was
changed. She began to live for him, her
ideal. She set him on high as a being to
be worshipped, as a man lit to be ner
Judge. In the days and weeks which fol
lowed, she asked herself, "Would he like
ine to do this?" And every night when
she went to sleep it waa with the radiant
figure in blue and silver before her eyes.
When the sunset was very beautiful, she
thought of him. When the stars seemed
larger in the sky, ahe eauld see the star
on his grand breast. In all the talk of
the circus which followed among her com
panions, she took no part because she
feared she might be obliged to mention his
name. When others sooke his name she
could feel a hot flush surge up all over
her body and she trembled for rear some
one might discover her adoration ot mm
Vast ambitions beean In her. She dc
termined to be a great scholar. She would
be something great for his sake, in snort
she consecrated herself to him as to a
king, and seised upon every chance to
educate htrseir to be wormy or mm,
Every effort was deeolv pathetic, no mat
ter how absurd to others. She took no
counsel, allowed no ronfldants. She lived
alone among her playmates.
This, ideal came in her romantic and
nerfervld period, and it did her immeas
urable good. It lifted her and developed
her. It enabled her to escape the clutch
of mere brute passion, which seizes so
many boys and girls at that age, and leads
to destructive early marriages. It kept
her out of reach of the young men of the
neighborhood.
These were the days of formless Imag
inings and ambitions. "1 will do! I will
do!" was her ceaseless cry to herself, but
what could she do? What should ahe, do?
She could be wise; that she would be. So
she reud. Hhe got little out of her read
ing thut she could make a show of. but
still It developed her. It made her dream
great things, impossible things, but she
bud moments when she tried to live these
things. ...
VI. -Reaching Womnn's Estate.
One day a fatherly physician owning
a tine practice and an elegant home in
Madison, Dr. Thatcher by name, visited
the district school, heard Rose recite,
was Impressed with her reserve powers
and by some Indefinable quality which
seemed to mark her out as a being
superior to her surroundings; and end
ed by calling on her father and persuad
ing him to send the daughter to Madi
son, to the university. The half-dozen
chapters which describe the girl's un
folding under the more wholesome in
fluences of a university center possess
exceeding Interest, but wo must hasten
forward, pausing to make but one quo
tation. Hose In course of time became
very beautiful, with a beauty which
came from a thoroughly vitalized and
developed physical organism held In
subjection to a searching mind of con
stantly growing power; and twice in
the university epoch she came near to
falling; in love. In both Instances her
favor was primarily won by the phy
sical excellence of the object of her re
gard. The first young man, however,
revealed himself as narrow of mind, a
circumstance which proved fatal to his
wooing, and the doom of the second
was brought about as follows:
Once he took her to the theater. There
was his mistake! The play was one which
pretended, at least, to show New York and
London life. .Men In claw-hammer coats
came and went, with strange accents and
with cabalistic motions of hats and gloves,
and women moved about with mystic
swagger. The theme of the play tilled
Hose with strange new thoughts. A hus
band discovers his wife to have been a lover
and a mother in her childhood, and In a
tempest of self-righteous pussion flings
her to the ground In scorn and horror.
She' clings to his feet (In approved stage
fashion), pleading for mercy: "I was so
young."
He would not listen.
While Rose burned with shame and In
dignation the outraged woman, on the
stage grew white and stern. "Who are
you to condemn me so?" she asked In Icy
calm. "Are you the saint you profess to
be? Will one offence contain your crime
against me?"
"What do you menn," thundered the man
and hufband.
"You know what I mean. In my weak
ness I was stained. inefTaceably ; I admit
It but you, in your strength, have you
not preyed on weak women? The law al
lows you to escape disgrace nature and
law force me to suffer with mine."
The self-sufficient young man besldo
Rose snld as the curtain fell:
"There was nothing else for her hus
band to do but lust Are her out."
Rose heard him but did not reply. She
felt a sharp revulsion of feeling toward
him for his coarse, hard tone. When he
jpld bis hand on her she shook It off, and
when tie-asked a nuestion of her she did
not reply. That night put her girl
hood far from her. In her heart she knew
that the drama was a lie. A woman can
set her foot above her dead self as well as
a man. She grew five years older In the
weeks that followed.
But she did not marry the second
young man.
VII. - Different Points of View. '
Graduation came at last; and with It
the problem of a career. A proud man
was old John Dutcher as he drove Rose
home, home to the old farm and to the
brand new house which he had built as
a surprise for her. It was the honest
farmer's Idea that, schooling now being;
over, Rose would return to live with him,
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the course of time, marry a sturdy rus
tic who would help work the old farm
fon shares. But the inevitable impossi
bility of such a destiny soon became
manifest to this girl of great powers
and even greater ambitions. For
months she fought in silence to bring
herself down to compliance with the
parental wish. She, in her way, loved
her crude old father, but even that love,
deep and passionate though it was,
could not obscure the truth that she and
the limited horizon of the farm career
were elementally incompatible. Very
touching is the scene wherein she shat
ters John Duteher's modest Ideal:
His heart was big with pride and affec
tion when this splendid girl came over and
put her arms about his neck, and put her
forehead down on his shoulder.
"O pappa John, you're so good to me I'm
ashamed I ilon't deserve this new house."
"O yes y' do, daughter." His voice when
he said "daughter" always made her cry.
It was deep and tender like the music of
water. It stood for him In the place of
"dear" and "darling," and he very, very
seldom spoke It. All this made It harder
for her to go on.
"No, I don't, father O, father, I can't
stay here I can't stay here now!"
"Why not. Kosle?"
"O because It's so lonesome for me.
There is nobody for me to talk to" (she
had to use phrases he could understand)
"and I want to go on with my studies."
John considered a moment.
"Hut liosle, seems to me you've got
enough; you're graduated."
Rose saw the hopelessness of making
him understand that, so she went back.
"it's so lonesome for me here, pappa
John."
He considered again. "I 'spose it Is.
Well, you can go to the Siding every day
if you want to. Hitch up old Doll every
day"
"I don't enre for the Siding; It's Just ns
lonesome there for me. 1 want to go to
Chicago."
John grew rigid. "Chicago! What you
wont to do there?
"I want to study pappa. I want to go
on with my work. I'll come home sum
mers JiiKt the same, I'll come home Christ
mas if you want me to. It won't cost
much, I'll live Jast as cheap as I can"
"'Tnln't that, 'taln't that, Rose," he
said. Then he lifted his head and looked
around.
She read his thought nnd the tears came
to her eyes in a blinding rush.
"1 know, pappa. It's terrible to go now,
when you've built this nice home for me,
but what can I do? I thought maybe
I'd get used to It, but It gets worse. I
can't stay here this winter. You must let
me go. I'll go crazy if I stay here all win
ter. I must go out Into the world. I want
to be an artist. I want to see great peo
ple. I can't stay here, pappa John!"
The terrible earnestness of every sen
tence stabbed John Duteher's heart like
a poniard thrust. He put her away and
rose stlllly.
"Well, well, Ttosle, If you want to go"
He did not finish, but turned trembling
ly and walked out. She remained on tho
floor near his clinlr and watched him go,
her heart sick with wretchedness. Why
Was the world so ordered? Why must she
tortura that beautiful, simple soul? Why
was It that all her high thoughts, her
dreams, her nmbltlons, her longings,
seemed to carry her further awuy from
him?
Alone, In the meadow, among the
bees, John Dutcher wrestled with his
trouble.
It was the bitterest moment of his life.
His eyes were opened to his fate; he saw
what he had done; he hail educated h's
daughter out of his world. Never again
would she be content In the coolly beside
him. Ho saw how foolish he tind been nil
these years, to suppose he could educate
and keep her. Kor a moment tie flamed
with resentment and said to himself:
"I wish she had never seen a hook."
Then he grew tender. He saw her npnln
In her little blue apron with Its dockets full
of wheat he saw her blowing hair, her
sunny face; he heard ugnln the wind
tossed chatter of her cunning I'ys. Ho ran
swiftly over lur development how tall
she had grown and how snlndid she was
now, the hundsomest girl in the coolly,
and he roftennl. She wan right.
So he rose to a conception which had
never come to him before, and even now It
was formlessly vast; he felt the power of
the outside world, ami reached to n dlvlna.
Hon of the fntnllty ot It all. it had to ht,
for It was n part cf propn-sp. He was old
nnd bent nnd th'll. She was young, glo
riously youne. The old must give way to
the young. She was queen and he was
subject.
VIII. -The Conqueror.
Rose's conquest of Chicago was brill
iant and rapid perhaps just a bit too
rapid to be altogether in iceeplng with
the requirements, of plausibility. She
calls with a letter of Introduction upon
a woman doctor, whom ahe subJuBat"s
by one Imperious outpouring of her
domlnatitiK nature; is Introduced at
once Into the heart of Chicago's Intel
lectual and nrtlatlc net and proceeds at
somewhat staggering speed to impress
herself upon It. Two or three men long
hardened to the wiles of conventional
womankind succumb to her untutored
graces und assertive Individuality, but
there is only one who succeeds In arous
ing her deepest Interest who, In short,
compels her love. Hingularly enough he
is an editor. In whose extraordinary
mentality and complex sweep of sym
pathies nnd of eccentricities Mr. Gar
lund embodies a signal if not alto
gether a convincing tribute to the
Fourth Estate.
It is this omniscient journalist, War
ren Mason by name, who teaches Hose
Dutcher what creative Authorship im
plieswhat breadth of knowledge and
of sympathies, what discarding of con
ventional molds and models,-whut burn
ing nnd painful fidelity to self-mastered
truth. We should like, hud we th"
space and time, to give our readers an
insight into Musnn'n original make-up.
To do that would take pages, so elab
orately has Mr. Garland portrayed him.
It must suflice us to reproduce only a
few of his views concerning marrla"
vlew3 that are expressed during Ma
son's reported talks with an engaged
bachelor confidant. This friend had
asked Mason why he had never mar
ried. This was the reply:
"For ten yenrs I've been trying to
marry, and I've been conscientious and
thorough In my heart, too."
"What seems to Be the matter?"
"Kor one tlilniv, I suppose I'vo gone too
far In my knowledge of wome;i. I've gone
beyond the capability of being bambooJed.
I've seen too much of the ropes and props
that sustain the pasteboard rcsetree."
"That Is flat blasphemy," put In San
born. "I know more about women than
you do, and "
"I don't mean to say that women de
ceive In a base way often they ere not In
tentionally deceptive; but hereditarily
transmitted, necessarily defensive wiles
lead them to turn their best side toward
men. I know perfectly well what any
young woman would do If I called upon
her tomorrow. She would take a seat so
that the softest shadow would fall over
her face. If she had good teeth she would
smile often. If he" teeth were poor, she
would be grave, if her arms were fair,
her sleeves would be Ioohc; if they were
thin, she would wear ruffles. If she had a
fine bosom her dress would be open a lit
tle at the neck"
"O look here. Mason," Sanborn Inter
rupted, "I can't listen to such calumny
without protest."
"I don't mean to say that all this would
be conscious. As a matter of fact it Is
Jnnodent and unintentional. A woman
loi not deliberately say: 'I have a
dimple, therefore I will smile.' She in
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herited the dimples and the smile from
long line of coquettes. Women are pain
fully alike from generation to generation.
It's all moonshine and misty sky about
their infinite variety."
"Suppose I grant that who's to blame?
Mind you I don't grant It but suppose I
do, tor argument." .
"You are k lover and a fortunate man.
You have In Isabel a woman of character.
Mark you! These wiles and seductions
on the part of women were forced upon
them. I admit that they have been forced
to use them in defense for a million years.
Had they been our physical superiors un
questionably the lying graces would have
been ours. At the same time It doesn't
help me. I can't trust such past-masters
In deceit, albeit they deceive me to my
good."
But Mason Is brought Into close asso
ciation with Rose, and being a man of
naturally fine instincts albeit turned
cynical, he comes to regard with unsus
pected admiration her extraordinary
Imagination and regal potentiality of
character. It was after this acquaint
ance with its new revelations had taken
hold of him that Mason, talking again
to the same friend upon the same theme,
soliloquized rather than argued:
"I manage to live here and support
this fire, which Is my only extravagance.
I keep the establishment going, and a II.
tle more. I'll anticipate the usual argu
ments. Suppose, for a little while, it would
not increase expenses. It would not do to
bring a woman here. It would not be right.
When children came and 1 should hope
for children they should have a home in
the suburbs; I don't believe In raising chil
dren In a Hat. That would mean an es
tablishment which would take every cent
I could hook onto, ami it would mean that
the whole glittering fabric would be built
on my own personal palm."
'Hut she might earn something you say
she is a genius."
"She is, that's the reason she'll never
make money. Holding the view I do, I
could not require her to toil. 1 do not be
lieve marriage confers any authority on
the husbanu you understand my position
there."
"Perfectly and agree with It, to a lim
ited extent, of course."
"Going back, therefore I do not believe
I can assume the risk involved. I'm not
c&ipable of twenty years' work at my pres
ent rate. I'd break down, some line day,
und then my little home, upheld upon my
Atlas palm, would tumble. No, I can't
take the risk Resides, her career Is to
be considered. 1 don't believe I can af
ford to let her marry me."
"That's mighty kind of you," Sanborn
dryly remarked.
"Thank you. She is younger, and as
her adviser I think I must Interfere and
save her from the power fit a vivid im
agination and abounding vitality. You
see, there arc a great many considerations
Involved."
"Real love, I must repeat, wotiU not
consider."
"I wish you wouldn't repeat that; It
does you an injustice. The animal passion
of youth would not consider. With youth
it Is marry marry, even if within Hie year
you are picked up by the oatrol wagon, u
vagrant In the streets. The love of my
time Is not so heedless nor so selfish; It
extends to the question of the other party
to the transaction."
"Then," Mason resumed, nnd his tone
was cynically humorous again, "there Is
the question of the 'possible womin.' I
can't give her up. There she stands In a
radiant mist always just before me like
the rainbow of our childhood. I can't
promise liny woman to love her until
death. I don't know as it would he safe
to promise It even to the woman with
glamour. Another mlirht come with a
subtler aloiy, and a better llttlng glamour,
und then"
"What then?"
"It would be all rn with the flr.t wo
men." he said with a gravity of tone
of which the words gave nn hint.
Still further on, Mason says:
"The woman In my thought is moving
past ine lilie a queen sjdciulld, supple, a
smile of conscious power on her lips, the
light of success In her eyes. It's a terri
ble temptation, I admit, this power to
stretch out my hand and stay her. It
makes my blood leap, but my sense of
Justice will not permit It. I shall let her
pass on, beautiful and rapt."
"To many some confounded pin-head,
who will make her a domestic animal,
und degrade her Into 'my wife, gents." "
"Possibly. However, my respcl-slblllty
mds when I say good-bye."
"Don't shirk don't shirk."
Mason turned on him. Ills voice lost
a little of Its coldness.
"la n man to have no credit for letting
such a glorious creature pass him, un
harmed and free?"
"Why, yes, certainly. Hut the world of
art will not satisfy that girl. She's sure to
marry she must marry nnd she Is en
titled to more consideration. You've got
to look ahead to the time when she regrets
the lack of husband nnd children."
"Ah, but It's a frightful thing. Sanborn
to arrest that girl, to mr.l;e her a wife
and mother, to watch her grow distorted,
stiffened, heavy with chlld-b'iirlng. I pre.
fer to see her pass me, in order that 1 may
rc-member her. lithe, radiant, moving like
music and light."
"That's title. Mason. I honor you for
that spirit," said Sanborn, deeply moved.
"Hut you must remember that tha wo
man's nature moves on from this beauti
ful state you've described so well, not
merely willingly, but eagerly. Half the
girl's joy, which we men seo In her face.
the smile of anticipated mothorhood.
If the girl knew she was to be olwa.vs
young nnd childish, her youth and beauty
would be of no value to her It Is the un
tried pnlns and pleasures of other years
nnd conditions which make the beauty so
radiant now."
"All of which merplv means she makes
the best of an Irresistible nnd tragic Im
pulse, a force which she dons not orig
inate and cunnot control. Therefor I
say It Is a sorrowful business to hew down
a temple or tear a lily to pieces."
IX. -Tho Conquered.
Ro much for the man's view. Now
for the woman's:
As the winter deepened Rose narrowed
the circle of conquest. Whe no longer
thought of conquering the world; It came
to the question of winning the approbation
of one human soul. That Is, she wished to
win the approbation of the world in order
that Wurren Mason might smile and say,
"Well done!"
She did not. reach this state of mind
smoothly anil easily. On the contrary, she
had moments when she rebelled at the
thought of any man's opinion being tho
greatest pood In the world to her. She re
belled ot the Implied Inferiority of her po
sition In relation to him and also at the
physical bondage implied. In the morn
ing when she was strong. In the midst of
pome social success, when people swarmed
about her and men bent deferentially, then
she held herself like a soldier on a tower
defying capture. Hut lit nlKht when the
llsrhts were nil out, when she felt her es
nntial lonvlflleas and weftkncM nnd nee.l
I when the world seemed cold and cruel
and stilish, then it seemed ns If the sweet
est thing In the universe would be to have
him open his arms and say "Come!"
''' X.-The Surrender.
What was Inevitable of course befcl.
Mason proposed and Rose Dutcher ac
cepted, but the proposal and acceptance
were both unique. The former came by
mail and it read:
This letter may be considered an offer
of marriage. It is well to say that now,
and then all the things which come after
will be given their proper weight. Let
me state the debit side of the account first,
and if you feel that Is too heavy you cn
put the letter down and write me a very
short answer, and the matter will be
ended.
First, I say to you: Whoso weds me
weds sorrow. I do not promise to make
you happy, though I hope my influence
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will not be always untoward. I cannot
promise any of the things husbands are
supposed to bring. ' I cannot promise at
home. My own living is precarious, de
pendent upon my daily grind ot newspaper
work. For though 1 hope to achieve suc
cess with my novel, great successes with
novels do not mean much money. I do not
feel, either, that I shall ever be free from
money cares; luxury and I are to continue
strangers.
I cannot promise to be faithful to you un
ways, nor to bow to your wishes, though
1 will try to do so. I cannot promise to
ossume cordial relations with your rela
tives, nor accept your friendships as bind
ing upon me.
I cannot promise-to be faithful to you un
til death, but I shall be faithful so long as
I All the relation of husband to you. I
shall not lead a double life or conceal
from you any change in my regard toward
you. If at any time I tind a woman whom
I feel I should live with, rather than with
you I shall tell you of her with perfect
frankness. I think I shall tind you all-sufficient,
but I do not know. Men and wo
men change, grow weary of things, of
bonds, of duties. It may be that I shall
become and continue the most devoted r,f
husbands, but I cannot promise It. Long
years of association develop Intolerable
traits In men and women, very often.
On the other hand, let me say I exact
nothing from you. I do not require you
to cook for me, nor to keep house for ne.
You are mistress of yourself, to come and
go as you .please without question and
without accounting to me. You are at lib
erty to cease your association with me at
any time, and consider yourself perfectly
free to leave me whenever any other man
ccmes with power to make you happier
than I.
I want you as comrade and lover, not as
subject or servant or unwilling wife. I
do not claim any rights over you at all.
You can bearmechildrenor not. Just as you
please. You are a human soul like myself,
and I shall expect you to be us free and
sovereign as I, to follow any profession or
to do any work which pleases you. It Is
but Just to say that 1 have nevtr been a
man of loose habits. No woman has any
claim on me for deed or word. I have
thought at vnrlous times that I could
marry this woman or that woman, but I
have never before made a proposition of
marriage to any woman.
I have written you in good, set terms
what you may expect from me. I am not
a demonstrative man by nature, nnd my
training from childhood has made me sav
ing of words of endearment. My love for
you must be tnken largely for granted af
ter It Is once staled, for I regard the word
"love" ns a Jewel rot to be carelessly
tossed from hand to hand.
I have written frankly because I be
lieved it would prejudice you In my favor.
Had ( believed otherwise, doubtless 1
should have written In terms of tlatte-y
and deceit, for of su"h Is man when seek
ing woman In marriage.
As for the acceptance. It went by tele
graph, and It said simply "Yes!"
XI. -In Conclusion.
Unfortunately for the value of this
Interesting novel as a sociological
study,, the record here comes to an ab
rupt end. What follows is left wholly
to conjecture. In so odd a courtship of
so "new" a couple there Is bred the
curiosity to peer ahead Into future
yeurs. Did they live happily? Did
children come? Did the "possible man"
or the "possible woman" ever step for
ward to mar the harmony and to feed
the divorce courts? Mr. Garland
should remember the dictum of Howclls
that the real verities of life occur after,
not prior (o, marrlugc. Hut for all that
we should not quarrel with hint. He
has given us a bold and an original
book, with merit that stands out
despite a certain carelessness of gram
mar and of diction. U S. R.
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Hardy, a paper on "Amateur Photo
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Thompson and a discussion by Mrs.
Rennselaer Cruger of the question "Wan
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II II II
The January Godey's Is a "woman's
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ion nearly every phase of the current
"woman's movement." There are
papers explaining what the new woman
has achieved and what ahe promises to
achieve In education, philanthropy,
politics, business and the fine arts. Tha
number is decidedly original and also
decidedly instructive.
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As for the January St. Nicholas' opin
ions will differ, but for our port we
think the Samoan letters of Robert
Louis Stevenron to a boy, another In
stalment of which appears In this Issue,
the most Interesting single feature. Still,
the whole number is full of good things,
that must be read to be appreciated.
Number three of the Pocket Maga
zine offers as its piece de resistance
Kipling s qyaint sea tale, "The Devil
and the Deep Sea." with which our
readers are already familiar. In it
Kipiing at least exhibits his versatility.
Other famous contributors to the Janu
ary number of this new periodical are
Gilbert Parker. Frank R. Stockton,
I-oulso Chandler Moulton, Ople Reed.
The venture is said to be meeting with,
very encouraging success.
'I 11 'I
The December . Looker-On eulogizes
Mme,. Saville's new Juliette, discourses
upon the mimetic genius of Miss Olga
Nethersole, criticises Irving and Terry
in Macbeth, contains a paper on Shane
speare's dramatic construction, traces
the influence of poets on music, mints
a dramatic story of a Virginia romance
by Gertrude liluke Stanton which in
places suggests Amelic Rives cx-Chan-ler,
and has finally another charming;
"Olive-branch Observation," this time
On the Departing Woman, which Is so
npt. and ito apropos that, with the
IOoker-On'n consent, we Intend soon
to republish portions of It In our Wo
man's department. As we have here
tofore sold, the Looker-On Is a journal
which restricts Itself to the higher
forms of criticism and comment con
cerning music, letters and the stage.
It represents In our judgment really the
only exclusive exponent of artistic cul
ture that we yet have In this country
among the monthly magazines, und we
are glad to note Its success.
MTEUARV(iOSSIl.
To the younger gtneratlon of book lov
ers a great acl ot Interest and not a lit
tle curiosity have lately been excited by
the a-'lilevfiiif nt.i of that hew steliar light
In the twinkling dome of American let
ters, Sir. Stephen Crane. Their Introduc
tion to Iiiin has been recent. Some poetry
thu:, while Nlolallng With serene self
confidence well-nigh all the traditions and
conventions of versification, nevertheless
fpoke forth a virile message, deep In its
philosophy, daring In Its Imagery und un
mistakable in 'the subtle play ot Its writ
er's genius; this and a strange perform
ance in prose comprise about ull that the
majority of ordinarily Informed reader
yet know concerning Stephen Crane. To
be sure, some of them have heard, In a
faint way, thut he Ib 8 young author who3a
future Is brilliant with high promise. Mr.
i-iuwells has raid as much. Mr. K, J. Ed
wards, the reviewer and correspondent,
has frequently reiterated the statement;
and in New York, within the partly coin
cident circles of Journalism and letters,
sevetal persona of equal or less renown
have undertaken In a modest way to uct
as Mentors to the young genius and to
aid In "bringing him out." Hut to the
muss, he is known, if at all. only as thn
author of "The Hlsck Riders" In verse,
nnd of the "Red Radge of Courage" In
prose; efforts, both, that challenge study
und bntlle understanding rather than
soothe superficiality or pander to tha
wishes of mental Indolence.
In these two works, and especially In the
prose one, there existed a quality which,
rmong the curious, courted investigation.
To those who knew that these strong,
strange writings, these bold Teachings Into
the d-ths of nature and of truth, were tha
achievements of a boy scarcely beyond hi
majority of, a lad who at 17 had placed
pen upon paper with the confidence and In,
some degree with the warrant of well
seasoned maturity they amounted to a
piquant challenge. Some there were who
felt It a duty to extend the hand of fra
ternal recognition: and a pleasure to make
of this duty a chance for personal scru
tiny and for s.tudy at short range. No
doubt it was this motive which Inspired
the Society of 'the Philistines, an organiza
tion of bright newspaper ami literary
workers which has its axis about East
Aurora, N. Y., tha home of H. P. Taber.
Elbert Hubbard and "The Philistine''
magazine, to scheme the emprise of a riln
ntr to Mr. Crane, the consummation of
which was p.v-asantly commemorated at
the Genesee hotel. In Buffalo, eight days
ago last nlirht. The dinner Itself was an
exquisite effect In artistic gustatatlon; but
It was chiefly notable as an incident In
the early career of a possible Immortal,
nnd perchance as a refutation of the die
turn that no good thing can come out of
Ji'dea. There were present at It represent
ative brluht minds in letters. In Journal
ism, In medicine, In the law, In architec
ture, and In the art which speaks through
colors, not to mention a liberal sprinkling
of men who orsetice the less ethereal art
of nractlcal buiness; and these men. one
and nil. extolled what Mr. Crane had done,
ttnred thpt he rr main true to the best In
ftlncts within him. and pleaded for room
and recoxnltlon for the newer generation
of writers w ho aim to sneak a true thought
In a wav not cramped by the archaic con--entlons.
In this personal age. to speak of arv
achievement Inevitably incurs the comple
mentary duty of exploiting a personality.
There Is little to be suid cf Stephen Crane,
the Individual, further than that he is a
youthful-looking, modest person, with a
fnco that suggests at once strong men
tality and supersensitive nerves; and
with a nrnnn-r that shows no signs of
snoillng. He In now 24 years of age, nl
Ihouab he looks n year or two older, The
"Red Bsdge of Courage" was begun ere
he was IS and finished before Its author
had become a voter. An oracular English
reviewer of It the other day. In n preten
tious Anglican quarterly.-exnntlaP-d at
fonie lencth upon the book's internal evi
dence that the writer of it h-d expressed
his own emotions as a soldier bearing
arms; whereas. Mr. Crane had probablv;
never smolled even the gunpowder of sham
battle "prior to -the -book's acceptance by
the Aoplrton's. Mr. Crane has been at In
tervals In active newsriaper harness. Ho
Is one of the craft, nnd Is thoroughly one
with It In its sympathies and Ideals. Twoi
yenrs ago, upon an assignment for Mc
Clure's magazine, he visited Scranton.
and made a rtudy of mining and Its social
nmhiYiii If I mlstnkft nnt h has rein.
lives In this city. Although the tempta
tion is before him to work fast nnd care
lessly. In order that the financial crop of
his nonulsrlty mav be harvested at . Its
seem'ng rlneness, he refuses to not-boll;
m l fl-m friends ar sustaining him in It.
T'1 "Red Bad"0 of Courage" has fascinat
ed England. The critics are wild over It,
and the English edition has been pur
chared with avidity. Mr. Crane hn let
ters from the most prominent of English
tnbH"hr asHne for the English rights
to all of his future productions; hut th
yo"ng sutbnr refuse to he hurrld. "t
writ" wli?t l In me." he said, at Buffalo,
" and It will hf enough to follow with ohe
dienpo the nrompt'ntrs of thet Inspiration.
If It bt worthy of so dignified a name."
BROKER AND JEWELER.
Radln Bros., 123 Penn." ,t
DRY GOODS. FANCY GOODS,
Kreiky. E. II. ft Co., 114 8. Main.
. CREAMERY ' - -.
Stone Bros., 308 Spruce.
BICYCLES. GUNS, ETC.
Parker, E. R., 321 Spruce.
DINING ROOMS.
Caryl's Dining Rooms, E06 Linden.
TRUSSES," BATTERIES A"ND RUBBER
GOODS. '
Benjamin ft Benjamin. Franklin ft Sprue.
; MERCHANT TAILOR. ; .
Roberts, J. W., 128 N. Main. '
: PIANOS AND ORGANS,
fiielle, J. Lawrence, 803 Sprues.. -
DRY- OOODa . CLOTHING,: BHOEaV
HARDWARE.
Mullty.Ambrose, triple stores, Provldsnc,