The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-27
THE STORY OF SELMA WHITE

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| Schopenhauer would have his readers Ne.
liovc that great gulf has been fixed be-
tween man and woman, which no possible
straninx OF the comprehension will serve TO
bridge Within certain limits his PROPOSE
ton is self-eyldently true, for such a gulf
has been fixed, though II BIO not so vide ba.
tween any two Municipalities. and where
those indlyidualitles are of different sexes tho
gnlt is OF necessity SO much the wider. But
after all, It ia tcmperamontai differences
which stand most In the way OF the compre-
hensIon OF man by a woman, and the story
OF Selma White, which has just been told by
Robert Grant In his novel, "Unleayenod
Bread" Is 10 illustrate just such mscouoep-
tions and miscomprehensions
Selma White Is a mothcrless girl reared
by her father, country physician OF un-
certain attachments. She is married while
still young by pushing energetic young
man In tho paint and yOrnish business In
the adjoining town OF Bcuham She goes
there to 1.-Two in her own house. with stained
glass windows and metal stag with glass
eyes in the front yard. She ia happy in her
own way. Though her mother was a Meth.
odist, she goes TO tho Epscopalian church
with her husband, joins a newly formed
womsn's club and is IN other ways active
outside Of her homo. Though abe does not
know H. It is her own neglect which leads
TO the babas death and Der prcoccupatlon
which leads her TO divorce her husband hut
in all such matters che Ia lfdoceived
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As soon ms she Is divorced, Selma White
contrlves to support herself by writing for
the newspapers OF Benham As the scene
Is laid in the early '70s, when Il was much
easter TO obtain hearing in such trivial
matters rs she was able 10 discuss intol-
ligcntly sho 10 able TO get along, though she
misses her former husbands generosity but
young Now York architect. who had built
the naw church edhcc for the EpscopaliRns
of I3euham and had beer prepossessod with
solma's spiritual face and evident conscien-
tiousnoss, comes to SEQ her, learns she Ia
free proposes marriage and is accepted on
tho spot They are married and remove TO
New York, where Selma IS introduced into
tho Llttleton household and circle of artistic
and literary friends
BEING an utterly Uniformed and unin
formed young woman IN tn most hopeless
or all states Wnero bnN uoes not even INV"
what learning Is and is therefore the more
hopolessly beyond It's influences Selma scorns
the society OF brnin-workers in which she
Is thrown, regarding them fryolousi and,
though she deeelgcs herself about it always.
and her husband for long time, her heart
is set Oh attaining a position in fashionable
uoc,otv ~ this end sba nust have moro
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money to spend ana she hIRes nor huspH"u
both into gambling in the stock market and |
into foo close an appileatIon to business I'm |
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'raer 10 Brauly ner sei"7n "esn''' w" ~
asst he finds her out and secs the reason Tor |
,er Iack NJ avmpntby wsh his artistic aims |
- $780, oraat,v a,d ~. worry and hard |
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From rev YORK Selma goes pack 70 Den
lam for time and succeeds In capturing
be affections OF a lawyer OF tho town, who
: -. a.. $3.50 :. .o,,,a.s Atw.y. |
8 soon after elected 10 congress. Alway'
asbIonable society and when she finds In
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