Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-07
ONE WISE IN HIS
GENERATION.
BY II. S. CANFIELD.
Author of Down by the Rio Grande,
90 y ! IItc..!Etc.

Copyright 1901; by Daily Story Pub. Coz
1T VS. naot that Maude Harrington,
% years old, was devoid of capacity for
loving. 1t was rather that she had not
been taught to love. There We're depths
in her nature. unstirred. Possibly The
right man hda not appeared. Or. if he
had come into view, he had failed to use
the right means. Some of her women
friends believed tha>.she was essentially
,une inotional and would die an old mail.
Others held thta she had met with i
disappointment and her heart was a
burned-out volcano, in whise sullen
ashes no spark might ever kinde They
Were very young, these last, and they
regarded Miss Harrington with a reVer-
: nt and appreciative awe. Whatever the
cause of it, or the explanation of 1t. the
fact remained that, possessed O.; health,
wealth, beautiful figure and face, high
social position and mind strength, she
remained untouched. She had few con-
fidences, but she had been known to tell
those whom she liked best that there
was a defect in her which prevented her
recognizing anything attractive in the
opposite sex.
Men are we'll enough IN their way
she had said. '"rhey are good to dance
with, to ride with, to act as escorts. Be
cause of superior muscular strength ana
a liking for combat they are sometimes
valuable protectors against possible
harm. But as for loving one of them
well enough to surrender life into his
keeping. | do not see how it is done. l
know that it is done every day. of
course, but I cannot understand why.
If it is a law of nature, as thephyS!oio~
gists glibly assert, then I am outside Of
tbn law \ the other SIDE
the room is we'll enough The closer he
comes thereafter the more ! dislike him.
l have even given up dancing on that
account
When John Paramount. who VISA con-
, siderbaly Travelled and had studied Wo-
/ men sd We'll as men, met Miss HarrhS-
l. ton he was attracted by her beauty.
I Then he was more strongly attracted
by her talk Then he became moro
| strongly attracted by her attitude. She
was the first girl. apparently SOUND IN
wind and limb. whom ne had found
to be perfectly passionless. In the carry
stages of their acquaintance ne told
himself that the virginia. instinct or sell
defense was responsible for her mental
poise. but he soon discovered his error.
Mss Harrington was not self-defenslVe;
i. she failed to see any necessity for de-
Il
that it could not be ignorance of the
+ scheme of things which made her
|. hreathing statue because she was a
| woman of the world He did her too
much honor to accuse her OF that
| prulery which is closely akin 40 pru-
| riency He found her a fascinating study
"a study so fascinating. in fact, tnat ne
! came to give up most OF his time TO lts
| nursuit 4 not unnatural result Oh ms
| constant explorations of her ego was
that ne lost his own. In other WORDS
| John FairlnoltAt, considerably traveller
and a. student of women as Wei as OIL
men, fell more deeply and foo'lsh'y III
love than a boy of 20. because there was
more to him, Then, with the b ,undlesa
hone of a lover, he set himself to awaken
her. He did this steadily and deity
| but without app eciable reward.
If WAS plain to him that she -tHcI
| him She was at no pains to nlue lhe
| fact. In truth, she ted him 50 with Il
simple directness that may nave peeh
| pleasin gto him as man, but was alS-
/ concerning to him as Wooer' l'ei
was something in her which SAID 10
him NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to her-
self-that she had "a soul. but thal IL
I was asleep 1T was his task to find the
thing which would arose 1t from us
? slu4nber He tried literature, but uls-
i COVERED that she was more Interested
I in the abstract features of 1t than IN
?! the concrete. She liked the mysticism
! of Shelley. She discovered new mean
n mos in browning She breathad force
into the super-retined rehhemehlS "a
I Meredith. but any tale which was pure
T. ly Il tale of love, or of primal passion
! interested her not wit.
l. tod
! through many hundreds of yards of
! galleries with her. She knew enough
I Of il to discuss tone" and 'color ana
"f4aling" and atmosphere. and all
THAT sort of thing. but not curve OF
! nymph or swelling muscle OF some
| godlike male figure appealed to her at
! all. save as an instance of torceful
drawing In a frenzy of desperation he
took her to a pottery show. but kef-
amcs' were a desert to her.
Being considerably travelled, Fair
mount had met strange peoples here
and there and among them stood out
more distinctly in his memory GER
ttain Herr Johann Reuter-, bespecta-
clal and beWhiSkered fat old German
with the wisdom of a serpent and the
heart of a child. He had first seen this
man in a garden in Vienna, Wnefe the
Younger Strauss was conducting baho
which rendered his fathers sensuous
music. and had been amused by the
hilarious and unreserved manner il
which the old man, forgetting mis- beel
and his companions, had applauded the
numbers. He ran across him again II
Rlda-Pesth and again in Berlin anC
again at Bayreuth. where the widowed
Nagnerin was ENTERTAINERS of the le-
eion which followed the banner, of hen
! husband. Butting against him one day
| on broadway. Paramount renewed the
acquaintance and finally came to con
fa,. his trouble to him. Taking a SLOW
sin of black beer and slower draw a
\ his pipe Herr Reuter- asked:
She hat der ardtiSt soul, you say?'
,L The artist sOul-yes; bat no