Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-11
The FREE LANCE

If any person is in doubt as to why
Prof. Edward Griggs, one of the outs
of the Stanford university faculty is called
by the ladies IAN ideal man. let that
person read the following from Prof.
Griggs pen, and. understanding, will
come
The ideal woman is not the one who
spends her entire life indoors. tending
to the wants of her family. and rubbing
out her own life mark by strengthening
that of her relations. To be sure. she
must be real mother. if she is a moth
er, an honorable wife. if she be a wife,
but at the same time she must remem-
Der that she is also a unit in her fami-
ly. not an outsider; that her life is as
valuable to them as their existences are
to her: that her health is important
as theirs. and that life should be en-
joyed by her as well as by those who
are around her."
Probably that didn't accord with the
views of Mrs. Stanford, head of the de-
partment on compulsory retirement,
any better than did DR.. Ross views on
the Chinese.
From an English woman's love let
ters:
In all the world, dearest, what is more
unequal than love between a man and
! woman? I have been spending an am
orous morning and want to share it with
you, but 10, the task of bringing that
| bit of life into your vision is altogether
| beyond me.
What have I been doing? Dear man.
! have been dressmaking. And dress
when one is in the tolls, is but love
letter writ large. You will. see and adj
mire the finished thing, but you will
take no interest in the composition.
Therefore l say your love is unequal to
| mine.
For think how ravished I would be if
you brought me coat and told me it
was all your own making! One day you
had thrown down a mere tailor made
thing in the hall, and yet kissed it as
I went by. And that was at a time when
we were only at the handshaking stage.
.i,e palsied beginnings of love. You,
mean.
But, oh. to get you interested in the
dress | was making to you today. The
, beautiful flowing openng-not too flow
! ipg-the elaborate central composition
! where the heart of me has to come, and
tho wind up of the skirt, long reluc-
tant failing off, full of comas and colons
of ribbon to make it seem longer and in
sertions everywhere. l dreamed myself
in it, retiring through the door after
J having hidden you good night, and you
watching the long disappearing elo-
ouence of that TAIL still saying to as it
vanished: .'Goodby, goodby. l love you
So See me, how slowly I am going,'
Your name woke me this morning.
found my lips piping their song before
1No~1
I wonder if the rogues babble when my
spirit is nesting. Last night you were
high tree. and I was In 1t. the wind
blowing us both, but l forgot the rest
Whatever, it was enough to make me
wake happy. There are dreams that &c
out like candlelight directly one opens
the shutters They illumine the walls M
longer. The daylight is too strong fol
them. So now I can hardly remember
anything of my dreams. Daylight, will
you in it. floods them out
Life presents this suggestion to I'll,
doWntrodden authors as step in tn,
direction of evening things up with tn,
tyrannical editors. 1t should be in tn,
form of printed circular to be sent ii
the return of manuscript:
The author regrets the editoor's ina h
ility to appreciate a Truly Good Thin.
| The rejection of manuscript, howeye r
does not necessarily imply that the edi
tor is lacking in merit merely that he i
lacking in Judgment.
AS many thousand manuscripts are re
turned to him annually. the author can
not enter into correspondence with eacl
editor personally concerning the deficen
cies of his taste. Nor can the author Civ
his reasons for considering the edito
blind to the best interests of the maya
zine
Because. as an editor he does not NEE
the nresent requirements of the autho