Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-29

On the absent face that fixed Won
Unless you can love as the angels NAV
With the breadth of heaven betyyixt YOU
Sniess you can dream that his faith Is fast
Through behooving and unbehooving.
Unless you can die when the dream is past.
/ Oh, never call it lovingl
(Helen sighs expansively. Louise look
pensively through the window. Maudt
fingers her lavender harness. There is ,
dead silence.)
Helen (abruptly)-Girls what does
"behooving" raean, any wayP
Maude-" "Behooving?" 1t tmeans-"Be
hooving' means-Louise, what does ssbe
hooving" mean?
Louise (earnestly)-Now, it seems tc
me that I'd have to know a man was
worthy-no matter how fascinating.
He'd have to attract me by his goodness.
Maude-Ughl "Goodness!" There are
lots of good men l simply abominatel
The man love must be brave and cul-
tured, and he must love me better than
his life or his honor or-or anythingl
believe l could overlook a mans faults
if he loved me to distraction.
Helen (conclusively)- Then he'd be
good for your sake.
Maude with the fervor of youth and
inexperience)-Of course he would.
That's where woman's power comes in.
Louise-You girls talk as if a man
were pliable clay image
Helen-Well, not exactly that, but
pretty near it.
Maude-I believe that when woman
inspires the right kind of love
Helen-What is the right kind?
Louise (solemnly)-Paul says: "Men
love-
Maude-Horrors! Lou won't let the
least shred of romance into her views.
Now, / want my husband to adore me.
No matter how frivolous am, he must
consider me perfection. don't want to
be ruled or reverenced. | just want to
beloved. want my husband to be al
ways thinking about me, and doing
things for me-hand me cherry,
Helen. Fred Willard sent me these.
Lovely, aren't they? Well, as was say
ing, want my husband to be intellec-
tual and handsome; and (as an after
thought of course, he must be good;
but, no matter what else he is, he must
be devoted to me- My ideal man isn't
cold blooded being, like that lank crea-
ture we met yesterday who goes about
doing good works. No! He's young and
chivalrous and patriotic, and cultured
and unselfsh-
Helen-Do you think he exists on this
poky old planet?
Louise-The highest type Of man
Maude Gmpatiently)-Do listen to
Loul 1t sounds like one of Bacon's es-
says. Coon!
Louise-I don't ask for a perfect man;
but do insist that he should have fine
instincts He should love nature and
beauty. He should live for other than
sordid aims
Maude (nibbling a cherry)-Yes, in
deed! do so hate stingy mani
Louise-And, when he marries, he
should seek woman to be his compan-
ion and helpmeet and inspiration. And
his children-well, l don't see how a
man can be bad if he has children!
Maude-I think Louise is cut out to
be spinster, and deliver lectures before
all sorts of women's societies and asso-
Citations and that kind of thing-don't
you, Helen? Imagine the agonies man
would have to % through before he
could understand her! What were you
going to say, Loup
Helen-I was going to ask Lou if her
ideal man must be educated.
Louise-Well, not necessarily. Icould |
love man who had never entered col |
lege if he felt within his soul the desire
to know and the purpose to improve,
and if
Maude-There she goes againI That
poor mani
Louise-And if felt that was neces-
sary to the highest development of his
nature and that he was necessary to
mine.
Helen-Seems to me you want to re-
duce marriage to science You'll take
husband to further your development,
just as you'd take tonic or-or an
emetic to-
Maude-Oh, Heleni How perfectly
ridiculousl
Helen-Did you ever meet man that
came up to your ideas, Louise2
Louise promptly - Certainly notl
When l do, I'll marry him-that is, if
he asks me.
Maude-Now, when / marry, it will |
be purely
(At this instant the clock strikes the |
hour. Maude is shocked into silence.
CONSERVATION lengthens each face. There
is an impatient knocking at the door.
Cries of 'Time's up!" 'Let us inr)
Omnes remorsefully, as they grasp
their neglected instruments)-Oh girls
Our trio!
Tableau
Amy Elizabeth Leigh in Kate Fields
Washington.