The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1897-01-09
NOVEL OF THE FUTURE.
How II VIII Differ From the Novel OF
the Present


As Il sort of predatory note it may be
well 10 call attention TO the fact that
the novel of the future will differ very
materially from the novel of the past or
the novel of the present. y very differ
ent environment and very different man
ners and customs must of necessity result
i'll n novel wholly unlike those we know
and have known. With this explanation
1T should be easy to understand the ac-
companying outline story.
l.
Il will be yours, " she said. "You
could not have pleaded your case better
even if you had taken IA course III law
and devoted most of Your attention to
the subject of special pleadings [ will
be yours; you shall he mine; we will be
cach's',
The reader will note that this scene
would come Just about the middle Of
the novel of the past. but that merely
shows how advanced we are
H.
The wedding bells rang out mcrrily
They always do, especially i'll stories
1t was gala occasion for all except
the members Of the Enfranchised Wom-
ans club, to which the bride had be-
longed, and which naturally regretted
that she should abandon "a future that
was so full nj promise and bring herself
down to the level of the women of pre-
vlous times. In conformity with the
usages of the club the members all at
tended, wearing black Grape bands on
their white fedora hats as the insignia
of their woe
However. il was Il gala occasion for
all the rest, and the wedding was cclc-
DRAFTED with all tho customary formal
ties and festivities
The reader will note that this is tho
kind of "a scene that he might expect to
get at the end of an ordinary love story
OF the present day.
Ill
"Well?''
''Well:'
At the conclusion of this choice bit
OF repartee husband and wife glared
tercely at each other
Things have been gradually approach
ing crisis, and it now locked as if
they had reached it. Both had special
meetings ut their clubs for that night,
and 1t SO happened that both could not
go.
gave up enough for you, - she said
at last, when gave up ali that true
woman naturally desires III order 10
marry you, and yet you are not salts
hcd. gave up my political aspirations
ana resigned from S OF my > clubs, but
yon-you-Why, you have no more re-
gard Tor me, no more love and respect
than to Try to force mo down to the level
OF the old fashioned womanr'
Ihercupon she gave him the mocking
laugh and left him to look after the
house
81 have left for the land of freedom. >
Thus read the note that she found
upon the table one evening when she re-
turned from II meeting of the Society
For the Discussion of the Duties of
Wives and Mothers.
"Aha!" she cried "Oklahoma!"
Then she sank down in her easy chair
and buried her face i'll her hands.
VOL, so be 1T, she said at last. cit
returns mo to tho grand and noble work
for tho benefit of woman and humanity
that | so thoughtlessly and foolishly
abandoned. All, how weak | was! But
1T is hard to shake off the influence of
heredlty, and, so far as | can learn, my
parents and grandparents all had the
Same weakness, absurd as it seems now. -
V.
And so they We're divorced and lived
happily ever afterNard. -Chicaco Post.