The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-07

medicines According 20 one doctor it
was nervous prostr1tion. according 70
another it had something to do with the
brain, while another gently limited at
vacuum where the brain should be. This
caused pain, for 1 knew that what I
wanted was thoroughly good Whit of
sea air and a short though merry lie
on the ocean wave. So the captain or
the Pink-he called it that because ii was
always fresh as paint and as sweet as a
carnauOn-himself invited Molly, her en-
sign who was home on leave; the colonel
and me to 20 away from this weary world
for a little while, live aboard the PINK
and realize how much we loved eacn
other
Sometimes when there are two women
on board q yacht they are apt to gro"
nasty. but 1 am old enough TO have pass
ed the envious stage. j appreciate MOL
lys good looks. while I try TO make my
self appearas well as possible. IKE
to see the ensign make love 10 Molly,
though / shouldn't care TO be neglected
by the captain or the colonel lea1
about rich men having steam yachts
built, and / wonder and wonder again
where their senses are, for there rs no'a-
ing in this world so beautiful as boat
that is well built and that goes sailing
over the water like a sWdn-au iGealzed
swan, controlled by the mind OF man
We are immensely comfortable, the I'VE
OF US Our host is a charming bachelor
with a heart big enough to love all Wo-
mankind and whose marriage would be
great grief TO all except those women who
had never met him. Then there is the
ensign, who has been TO Egypt seen the
beauties of India. Paris and London ana
eventually laid his heart a the feet OF am
American woman while as for the coionel
well. the colonel is a delicious remnant
of the past. not wornout, big enough 70
be useful, witty enough to be entertaining
and having the courtesy Of Bayard
Molly is young, pretty and IN love WINE
I-weU. 1t has been many a long day
since ] was in love but find that there
is much enjoyment in life, and friend
is good thing to have. We loaf around
and talk and sleep and dream away the
sunny hours, while we wonder how the
people at Newport ara standing the heat
and whether those ~ Bar Harbor are
really enjoying themselves or only max
ing pretend to.
Tonight the moon is out, and Molly
and / stretched on low chairs with the
men at our feet on soft cushions The
Ynoonlight has made a pretty picture OF IT,
and the sailors are singing some every
day dirty that loses its commonplace
sound and blends in with the general air
of romance and makes us very quiet and
very happy. At last the ensign, who Is
given to thinking about things, sad
"Who of you does not love 10 see good
melodrama? 1t is lifelike; that IS the
charm Of It. The society play is life in
the drawing ROOM but the melodrama
takes in all sorts and conditions of men.
The melodrama is an impre5sionist pic
ture-the colors are laid on crudely, but
distinctly-while the society play Is
Meissoner. where every detail Is wrought
out so finely that it hardly affects one
unless a magnifying glass is used. Some
of the pIaywrghts are putting 100 fine a
point on their pencils. On a white sheet
of paper they can only make light gray
lines, and while gray and white are cool
looking they are neither impressive nor
truthful. for life Is sketched out in NOR
uant strokes and if the gray comes in
at all II is between the black and the
white. Lies picture is never gray and
white"
"That is all very well" said the colonel
quietly but why. when we go to see
melodrama, do the tears run down the
face of Molly. Why does Bah sit 50 quiet
ly in the back of the box? Why does my
old heart ache so hard I am forced TO think
il will break my shirt front? IN tell
you why-because the melodrama Is near
" always the Old old story of love and
forgiveness and of honesty triumphant
over vice; because il reminds US in this
Old world Of ours that the time comes when
we must remember that love, goodness,
gratitude and honor are not confined 20
cred where least expected.
Now, as for me-" remarked the cap
tain, Il thought it was the emotional side
that affected you women"
"Yes" replied Molly, that does amount
10 a good deal; but, say what you will
1t Is the heart beat that conTadicts us
all, no matter how hard We may try to
prove we have no heart" She looked SO
bitterly at the captain as she said this
that he laughed, threw his cigarette into
the water and asked, "Ill agree that
we have hearts, but want somebody to tell
me what she means by heart beat@'
The ensign spoke first, 1T is-well, you
know. il is the something that makes you
feel that humanity has been touched and
that each time your heart throbs there is
another one 20 answer it."
"Its-well," said Molly, 81 can feel it,
but l don't know how to explain it eX-
cept TO say that iC is Ike the differ
ence between staring at your face in the
looking-glass ana seeing it in a clear
brook. In The glass, no matter how exact
II may be, you are represented as IL
pleases you. The brook gives you back
natures picture and shows you your face
as God Almighty made IT, and as you have
marked 1t. Then it Is understanding suf-
fering because you have suffered. 1t is
approaching love because you have loved.
II is the exquisite sympathy between hui
man beings that comes from the perfect
understanding that exists between them.
Molly got a round OF applause. and the
ensign looked as proud of her as II he eX-
pected her TO head a regiment for foreign
parts, singing, I'm off on the morning
train TO cross the roaring main"
Now" said the colonel, the melO-
drama that we call Life is good II is
true we all see the dark side once lu
awhile, but there comes the white days
10 contrast with it, and living teaches
one the marvellous art of forgetting
Think how awful il would be If we
could not forget Think of the people
who would live over the dark stories of
their lives Think of the women weep
ing for their lost loves and their dead
childrenl Think of the people who would
always and eternauy suffer from remorse!
Why, we never had anything so good as
forgetfulness given TO us, BY that, now
ever mean the right kind of forgetful-
ness; / mean the ability to forget the dis
agreeable side of life TO soften an the
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