Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-15
A PRACTICAL TEST.

"For my part Mamie Whitmore 70.
marked, drawing her little wooden wrap
somewhat closer round her ears-they were
on board an ocean liner nearing the
"banks'-''I say a woman's first duty Is
to her husband
"And for my part, Arthur answered,
leaning across toward his wife, II say a
woman's first duty is to her children"
Show do you make that out, Whit
morep" the major inquired lazily. The
major had a pretty knaok of his own in
oasuistry.
"Why, 1t runs through all nature" Ar
thur Whitmore replied. "It belongs to
the very essence OF the feelings engendered
In us by natural selection. The male
young; the female fights for the young
only or turns tail to protect them, leaving
the male to defend himself"
II remember" the major unused. ~
was out tiger hunting once in nullah In
India, and I came across tiger, with the
tigress and cubs lying hid In the jungle.
fired at the BRUTE and he leaped straight
up at me, but the tigress and the cubs
skunk away through the long, tall reeds Of
the canebrake. Well, killed that tiger,
and went after the tigress but when got
her at bay she fought like a regular devil
for her cubs, can tell you. So there's
your case. Whitmore.
eyes. 1t must always be So" Arthur
Whitmore continued. "The male, as the
more active and stronger of the two, must
Arphr fout ho In nd tho IN h.
er; the female, as the weaker, yet the pro-
tector of the young, must leave the male
to look after himself, and at all risks to
him must take care of the little ones.
They are the hope Of the race, the future
of the species. The sire has had his day.
If he sacrifices his life for his young, 10
great harm can come Of it. But the little
ones have all the world before them. For
their sake the mother must run no needless
risk. Her first duty is to them. She has
borne them and sucked them. 10 sacri-
fee them to the father would be unnatu'
raj and harmful and in the widest sense
unfeminine."
"Thats all very we'll for the beasts, +"
Mamie answered petulantly, "but we are
not beasts, and say, with us a woman's
first duty is always to her husband. Fold
up my chair before you come below, Ar
thur. I'll run down and see how Charlie
and the baby are getting on in the state.
ROOM
ut opens up an interesting moral ques-
tion," said the chaplain as Mamie disap-
peared, with nod, down the companion
ladder. t'It seems to me you make things
rather rough for tho husband, don't your
"Well, no." Arthur answered. II look
at 1t like this: Parents bestow much love
OH their children, and the love they re-
ceive in return very rarely requites them.
1t Is repaid by the children to the next
generation, as the father and mother them
selves repay the debt they incurred to
their own parents. It's the same with the
father. The love he lavishes on the wom-
an Of his choice is repaid by her in part to
himself, in part as care on her side for tho
children, who are, after all, his children.
don't see how u race could well be kept
up otherwise. The man must love, first,
his wife, then his children; the woman
must love her children best Of all and re-.
pay the surplus of her love to her hus
band"
"Let's have q cigar" the major said,
with yawn. "We're growing quite SEN
timental.''
They smoked and went below. In halt
an hour all was still, save on the bridge,
where the officer Of the watch paced up
and down and pesred before him into the
dark, for fog was forming.
Fog ON the "banks' at night is terri
BILE thing to the experienced seaman.
About 2 In the morning every soul on
board was awaked OF once by terrific
crash that Jared horribly through the ship
as she came to sudden standstil. Her
iron plates olanked; her timber oreaked
and shivered. Tho bows were stovo in.
She had run into an ioebergl
In second the electric light had gone
out, and all was darkness. Too terrified for
screams, men, women and children CROPPED
their way through the long corridors and
up the companion ladder. On deck a few
dim lights made the gloom just visible.
The sea was rushing into the forward
compartments; leaks had sprung In the
after ones; the fires were out; tors of Ice
numbered tho quarter deck; the foreoastlo
had disappeared with the violence Of the
collision.
Still all on board was order. The cap
tain, wounded by the falling ice, gave the
word Of command clear and stendy as
ever. Sailors were lowering the boats; tho
second officer, revolver in hand, was hold
ing at bay the half naked stokers, who
had surged, up from their noisome hole at
the earliest alarm and wore trying to seize
the first boat for themselves, regardless Of
tho claims Of the women and children.
One boat was ready. Arthur Whitmoro
stood on the deck, holding his wife's hand
tenderly. Mamie pressed the two children
tight against her bosom.
women and children forwardr' tho
captain called out in his clear, calm voice.
With wild sob and a fleros embrace
Mamie chung to her husband. Arthur,
Arthur" she cried, trembling won't
they let you go with uss'
mo, darling" Arthur ANSWERED, kiss
Ing vito and little ones. "This boat is for
women and children only
''Then I must go with tho children, !"
Mamie sobbed, breaking forward.
They took their seats on tho th,garts and
were pushed off into the dark deup. After
throo days at sea in tho open boat they
reached Cape Race. But Arthur went
down on the sinking steamer.
He was justified, after all. Instinct had
solved tho problem Alright for Maimie.--
Grant Allen In Sketch.
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