The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-28

| uOtNlNS OF ART. AS Sne grew cIeATef-eyeu,
she saw that ono. was a little too short,
another too lean. but he of the 3rosette
| was perfect. 80
Once more he came back. leading a
| woman by the hand. Something new
seized upon Roses heart, a cold contrac-
tion that she had never felt, and her teeth
| pressed together. She wondered If the wo-
rope with her right arm and was drawn
| to the tent roof. He took strap In his
mouth and was drawn to his trapeze, aiso
There. In mid.air. they performed their
| Gus and incredible to the country girl.
She heard him clap his hands, then his
glorious voice rang above the music, anu
itself through the air, was caught by the
shoulders in his great hands, thence with
twist he tossed her. and hooked her by
the hands. Zach time the blood surged
Into Roses throat. as If to SURROGATE her.
horrible fear that was pleasure, some
way rose and fell in her. She could not
turn away her head. She must look. She
was powerful girl. and the idea of faint
| conclusion he dropped In a revolving ball
into the net. far beneath, she turned sick
and her eyes seemed to whirl in their
bowling and smiling. the blood rushed back
to her face, and the perspiration stood out
like rain.
V.-What Romance viii TO.
Mr.. Garland. as veritist 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 pages whereon he traces the conse
quences of Rose butchers first dip
into the intoXication of romanticism
Coming home from that memorable
circus Elysium. she undergOes nota-
BILE Transformation.
When she rose the next day she was
changed. She began to live for him, her
ideal. She set him on high as being 10
| be wOrshfpped, as a man fit to be her
judge. In the days and weeks which fol
lowed she asked herself, Would he like
Inc to do th!s?" And every night when
she went to sleep it was with the radiant liar.
| When the sunset was very beautiful, she
thought of him. When the stars seemed
larger in the sky. she could 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 spoke his name she
could feel hot flush surge UP all over
her body and she trembled for fear some
| one might discover her alteration of him.
Vast ambitions began In her. She de,
to be great Ss she
she consecrated herself to him as to a
king, and seized upon every chance to
educate herself to be worthy Of HIM
| EVERY tlIOIt Wdb ueepIy pdthctN' io
ter how absurd to others. She took no
| counsel, allowed no confidants. She lived
alone among her playmates.
This ideal came In her romantic and
perfervid period. and 1t did her unmeas-
urable good. 1t lifted her and developed
her. 1t 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. 1t kept
her out of reach of the young men OF the
neighborhood.
These were the days of formless mag
| nings and ambitions. II will do! ! will
| do" was her ceaseless cry to herself, but
what could she do? What should she dc? !?
| She could he wise: that she would be. so
she read. She got little out of her read
| ing that she could make Il show of, but
still 1t developed her. 1t made her dream
| great things. impossible things, but she
| had moments when she tried to live these
| things.
| VI Reaching womnn's Estate.
One day q fatherly physician owning
fine 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 indefnable quality which
| seemed to mark her out as being
superior to her surroundings; and end
| ed by calling on her father and persuad
ing him to send the daughter to Madi-
| sui, 10 tue university. Ht
chapters which describe the girls un-
folding under the more wholesome in
| fiuences of a university center possess
exceeding interest. but we must hasten
| forward, pausing to make but one quo
| tation. Rose in course of time became
| very beautiful, with Il beauty which
came from thoroughly vitalized and
| developed physical organism held In
subsection 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 ply
steal excellence of the object of her re-
! gard. The first young man, however,
revealed himself as narrow of mind, u
| 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 filled
| Rose with strange new thoughts A hus-
| band discovers his wife to have been a lover
| and mother in her childhood. and in a
| her to the ground in scOrn and horror.
| She clings TO his feet lin approved stage
fashion, pleading for mercy: II was so
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 SOP" she asked in icy
! calm. Are you the saint you profess TO
| be? VIII one offence contain your crime
| against me?,
what do you mean," thundered the man
You know what mean. In my weak
ness was stained, ineffaceably; ! admit
| it-but you. In your strength. have you
| not preyed on weak women? The law al
\ lows you to escape disgrace-nature and
4 law force me to suffer with mine"
| The self-sufficient young man beside
| Rose said as the curtain fell:
There was nothing else for her hus-
Rose heard him but did not reply. She
felt sharp revulsion Of feeling toward
him for his coarse. hard tone. When he
| laid his hand on her she shook 1t Off and
| when he asked question Of her, she did
not reply. >" That night put her girl
hood far from her. In her heart she knew
that the drama was lie. woman can
set her foot above her dead self as well as
a man. She grew five years older in tho
weeks that followed.
But she did not marry the second
young man.
VII different Points of View.
Graduation came at last: and with 1t
the problem of career. A proud man
was old John butcher as he drove Rose
home, home to the old farm and to the
brand new house which he had built as
surprise for her. 1t was the honest
farmers idea that. schooling now being
over. Rose would return to live with him.
assume the place which her mothers
death had vacated, and perchance, in