The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-22
THEIR HOPES ALL ON The POLE
HRAvE WIPE AND LTTLL
DAUGHTER or LIEUT.. PEARY.
Len MIN 10 Try Again to Reach the Are
ties Heart. ana Ceondent Hen Win
rms Time tie shall" Mr. Peary
ssyx. ana little Marie weuldn't
E,en Cry when h said ''Good-b,. -

A. q rule, women ana little girls don't
care much for the North Pole. They have
low opinion 81 Il. Useful IL II not. They
are OF that. The l,tle girls vaguely
heieye n 10 to ornamental: In their minds
eve they So Il like unto a monstrous stick
" striped candy planted In a waste Of
SNOW But tho women nave outgrown
even that notion. A. least most Of them have
To just one woman and one little girl
In III. whole wide world docs the North
Pole amount 60 much. The woman j.
Mir Robert Peary. Tho littls girl ~ Marie
81 the IAN. name. Tradition gives every
human l-ing q fateful star. theirs u the
North star Every life revolvee about some
dominant idea as about an asis. the axis
81 their lives n that same Nor tn Pole.
pointed north y unswcrvingly A. the hearts
~ thls child and this woman. II is another
49,, 81 My hearts In tho Hielands.-
Tur ten years that foolish stick IN a waste
~ snow has swept It's shadow across Mn.
Psary's life. She has had thirteen wedding
anniversaries On eight ~ them the North
Pole has thrust itself is.twe,n her and
her husband. Thrust itself betwe en- tlieml
Well. not exactly. Only its shadow has
t.en there For tho Pole itself. wrapped
about with leagues Of ic. and snow, has
o. far maintained itH ina ccersibility. A
v.ry unApproachablc thing il the Pole.
For more than ten years there las been
a. implacable struggle between the woman
and the Pole II SHALT said the woman.
lie shall not said the Pole.
Probably, by way ~ exception TO the
rule, II nd not l-gin with thu woman
II Wa Lieut.. Peary Nho first cas-, coyetous
ewes to the northward Mr.. peary had
just t-,"n married 10 the Lieutenant aud
Wa r.ady To- cast covetOu- eyes east, west
north or south, a. the case might b., or,
more strictly sIsaking. a. the Lieut. cnant
might H. The Lieutenant wanted the
North Pole.
Wen 40 and get It, said Mrs. Peary
They went They lived. loved. longcd
and harmed which j. accurate. as we'll
a. Alternative but the Pole declined the
honor Of their acquaintance. The UNI
sT.akable impudencr Of the thing
We'll 20 again said Mrs. Peary.
They went a second time Still they
failed TO capture tn" Pole. But what Of
that, when they brought home from the
Arctic SHOWS a little taby girl? Storks
have wide wings and long legs and can
lind their way even 10 Greenland. Tn
North Pole rtill held aloof. but the Pearys
did no, mind that -o much when they found
that thu baby appreciated them and stuck
10 them.
They say that the Lieutenant. who Is
. modest man. might have given up try
ing to thrust himself. upon the Pole after
th6-c two r-buhs. It's n grim way to
spend the best years Of ones life crawling
over the frozen end % the world. hunting
for a stick IL, the snow or. grimmer still.
hunting for OILY the place where the stick
tuknt 70 grow VI 'Ht uutakllldNloilr Oh h'lte
gifls were consulted.
The Lieutenant saw II that way At
the same time he did long for that Pole
Stu, tie balance VA ready Ia drop on
thu giye-it-up side II sufficient pressure
could Ire brought 10 bear there. A little
urging from Mrs. Pcary would have fur
nished that pressure, Knowing that, what
did she doS She climbed into the other
eide Of the balance and Said TRY II again >
Last year the woman and the little girl
va1ln~.aI their hggTfs IN tho nnTth ones
more to search for the Pole sesrcher. Last
week they came hack again. Their hearts,
the Pole and the Nrarcher. are left behind.
The incredible Pole still declines the honor
OF the L~ieutenant's acguaint ancc. But
the Lieutenant has the honor and the In
spiration Of hiS wife's acquaintance, n
they two are going To sacrifice one more
year OF their lives, one NOR. wedding ami
vcr-ary, 20 this ong-suhering ambition,
II really seems az II even the grim geniuz
Of the North Pole might al last II plscated.
Mr.. Herbert Bridgman IL the President
Of the Peary Arctic Club. His SPECIALITY IL
zone and then going back in a year or two
10 $50 In he can IND him Twice he has lett
the explorer up there and twice has gone
back and found him About "a month g
he turned him loose for the third time.
And says Mr.. Rridgmsn. -hc looked
bitter and stronger than ever before. when
the Windward goes M FOR him next wear !
expect them 60 lind him safe and sound
And with the Pole in his pocket'"
III will be In his pocket II pluck and
persistence and good Judgment can get Il
There. He has been eliminating pnssi-
hilitier until he has narrowed them down
To ~ha, Is as near certainty a. anything
can he
time would his wife he willing 20 have him
well, I think Mrs. pcary will be ready
10 say Enough +" when this expedition " a.
a. A. NaaAa ~ hAA VAW Nn
Greenland. When she came home las, week
che had just put In over a year on the Wind
ward. Well, now, while tho Nindward
" a tolerably comfortable boat Of its kind,
r,o-s women would not endure that kind
A. for Mrs. Pcary's life on hoard especially
curing the eight months during which they
were frozen In, IL could Scarely have been
eIhilarating. She had books 20 rad hut
one can read a whole library la a year "
one has nothing else TO do. or course she
had Marie.
Mare had lessons with her mother and
that helped To pas Ia time Tor bnth OF
them. when they wero fruz.n In they
cnuld GO ashore, but there was h,ii" to do,
eep-cially A. that was the time Of the ATctIc
n'gh, ..n ,,,r
hair and fair skin like her fathers ana
nother's Thi- summer. OF cour~'' she
had the E~duimaux children for p~layttai"-
and ] assure you the supremacy OF the
Anglo-Saxon race was never better looked
after than by Marie. The little 'huskics'
were strictly In subiection | don't mean
tina, she was dominecrng. but she knew
well. she knew hat she wa a horn leader
Of 'huski.~' She rattlei on tho native
tongue a. we'll apparently a. the other
children did. MIR pearv -aid hat Marc
even talk~i husky In her sleep
.whs, did they play
L hardly know, admitt@l Mr.. Bndg
nan. Who doesn't play himself They
rumJ-d. YOU know That was u. rOmfsd
VI and down the deck. And oh yes Marie
had paper dolls The little 'h'Irkies' re
sarded the paper dolls With a fever Of adj
nifstion. I dare say Mar" could have
hough, gu, a village with tho-a duli-
IT, a great place for bargains, the
terc I bought a blue FOX skin FOR n white
t-Acup This time ] did even better !
g. some fur In exchange for som" ship
tSfuif
Mere the pcarys all well whom you
found th-m'-
oh. We We on tle Erik pas-d the
.uund sh"r. the Windwsrd lay without
either -hip seeing the other. In thn-'
strong rIrrruts and with IN" Continuous
aaNhgt' u L. hard to ksep track eNacflF
II un".- Wh"feahuuts, and teforr We knew