The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-21
A CHANCE LOST.
Practical Opinions as to the Divinity OF
Nan Allowed to Escape.


Practical Opinions As to the Divinity of
Nan Allowed to Escape.
From the New York Sun.
1t was Friday night in Stuyvesant
square. A cab drove up to where the
man and the woman were waiting in
the deep shadow along the southern
side OF the park and a second man
Jumped forward to meet him.
rs that you. Thompson" he asked
The woman bent forward eagerly TO lis
ten. Did you find out anything"
Hes gone there" was the reply.
It'll be all right tonight. sure. No
slip-up this time. You'll be here when
/ get back?"
Just then the wind gave a touch OF
its quality.
Ugh" said the man who was wait
ing; and turning to his companion,
we can't stay here; he might be an
hour or more"
II don't care" returned the woman.
II only want to be through with IT,"
No" decided the man; I'VE can't
stand IL here. / know where. Down
the street, there, where you see the
lamp outside. Looks like a church.
That's where the philosophers talk. We
can stay here till 1O:45."
The cab sped away and the man and
the woman entered the building. That
was how they came to hear the phil
osophers talk
The philosophers settle an important
point once week. This time they were
deciding whether or not mans nature
was divine. They were hard at It when
the couple entered.
n woman philosopher was speaking.
Once she was a socialist, men said, but
now she had sacrificed her shape and
French womans instinct OF taste i'm
dress upon the altar of esoteric Budd-
hism. Dress reform carried out to its
philosophical conclusions suggested
meal bags in this case.
Man is divine" she said In conclu-
sion.
Men are beasts" said the woman
who was waiting, to her companion.
A long string of philosophers sue
ceeded one another upon the platform,
each settling the question. A boy phil
osopher trampled the divinity OF man
under his feet and spurned it. Mans
higher nature was a myth he said. and
man was vile. To prove IL. he told how
he himself had been turned out of home
and renounced by father and mother.
sister and brother.
He is frank" said the man who was
waiting.
HE knows men" said the woman.
A pantheistic philosopher spoke. He
said that he had part of everything and
all ideas were part Of his own. SO his
ideas got all jumbled up and ne had to
ask the audience what he was talking
about. The audience told him
WONDERFUL" cried the man who was
waiting; they are actually listeningr
Should he not be back by this timer"
asked the woman. looking toward the
door,
An East Indian philosopher spoke.
He was sleek, fat and oily. His melli-
ont foil h. -
the audience sleek. fat and oily. Per-
haps they were meaningless sentences.
but they seemed soothing and comfort
ing.
HE is a great favorlte with women
who attend his lectures" whispered the
man who was waiting.
His voice is soft and low" said the
woman; soft and low and false like
The talk of the philosophers flowed
on at high pressure, with never a Jog
The wan president sat with his head
leaning against the wall. never moving
save TO choke one philosopher OFF and
turn another on. The man who was
waiting looked at the door and then at
his watch.
1T Is now 1914" he said. and ~
isn't back yeti"
The philosopher on the platform
talked faster than ever. The audience
began pulling itself together. At lO:44Ik
the door flew open and the man OF the
cab darted in. whispered a word TO the
man who was waiting and darted out
again with the pair. At 10:45 the phil
osopher suddenly threw up hiI arms I'm
despair in the middle OF a sentence as
the audience rose In a body and tore
out into the street. The question Of the
divinity Of man was settled and the
OF the philosophers 10 talk
was past for the week.
Two philosophers fingered on the
sidewalk under a lamp post.
That was a good meeting" said one
OF them. Very good. indeed. But we
are not sufficiently practical"
How So" asked the other.
We should introduce experiences
from practical life into our discussions.
They would be OF value. We might
have had some practical opinions Of the
divinity OF man tonight, for instance
You saw that man and woman sitting
I'm front OF you? And that other man
who rushed in after them? They might |
have told us something"
Who We're they
The man was Jones. the divorce law !
yer. and the woman was probably one /
u his clients The other man was a
private detective. What was their 4
business here? Well. you can guess
what the news was that they were
waiting for there and that the detec- 4
tive came I'm such a hurry TO tell them /
Good night"