The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-08-15

Like you? No, do not think that
am in the least like you. / am taller,
broader, bigger ingevery way. We are
not alike; we are very different"
ooh, dear!7 Throw off your coat and
waistcoat again, as you were this morn
ing when you called me to go to your
father. There! Do you not see that
your hips are like mine. Press your
sides SO, here at your waist. Now do
the same to me. 1 have left off my
instruments Of torture and so i am
not bullet proof this morning. Don't
you see that, though larger than am,
you are shaped the same? Men are not
formed that way" ~ z.~ -
Lisle obeyed slowly and wonderingly.
Her calm eyes studied the blushing
face before her with an expression that
was filed with awe. i = .'
care they not?" she asked presently
"Are men created after one mold and
women after another?' =
"Certainly." III ; +
"Always?' -.,..:..... :. =.
"Always." .-.Es. III ~
'1s that all the difference?"
"Of course not, you gooser
'What are the other differences p
"Why, everything is different, sup
pose" ~.
''Do you only suppose? Don't you
know?"
ooh, dear! Come into the house. Let
US go back to mS room. We can talk
better there. You look so much like u
man in that dress that out-here l feel
as though the eyes of the whole world
were upon u.s. J.
"And If the eyes of the world were
upon us, what then? Is there any
thing to be ashamed Of 2"
"No-that is, not really. But it looks
so. Come, will you go back r, Sc 49, 5. s.
Eyes," F.. .zs.s
They returned together to the house,
and Erna, having closed and locked the
door Of her room. began again her Diff
ficult task. ~' ~ ~>~
"Now, Lisle," She said, please hear
me through to the end Of what i am
going to say without asking any ques-:
tons. Every one that you ask is sure
to be the very one that least expect,
and it is pretty sure to be the one that
1 do not in the least know how to an.
! swer-that is, not in words never
knew before today how ignorant am
myself Of things that ought to know.
That is, thought all the while knew
about them, while the fact is I do not
know much more than you do your
self. suppose it is for the same rea-
son that the Egyptians never thought
of studying their own pyramids until
lot of foreigners blew into the coun-
try and discovered that the hieroglyphic
writings meant something. have liy-
| ed next door to the pyramids all my
life and never thought them worth
the trouble of study, and now you have
materialized on the scene, and you
want to know all at once every secret
that is connected with them. Now I
can show you the way to the pyra-
mids, but / don't in the least know
what the writings mean. Did you ever
read the Bible?" @ - z
my father used to read it to me-"
'Did he ever read about the garden
of Eden?'
"No; do not remember it."
"Of course not. 1t is about woman,
and he wouldn't read that. Well,"-
perately-"there was such a place
when God made the world, and there
was man there. He was all alone.
There wasn't another human being in
the whole world, and Adam-that was
his name-was lonely. I'm not surpris-
ed at that 1t must have been horrid.
He raised some kind of row aboutsit
and so one night while he was asleep
God took a rib out Of his side and
made a woman out of 1t. After. that
Adam became the father Of all men,
and Eve-that was the woman's name
became the mother of all women.
Men are all made after the same pat
tern as Adam, and women are all made
after the same pattern as Eve, and
they are no more alike than a horse
and q cow-at least not to my mind.
Now, look here! have an idea. Ny
clothes are much too small for you, but
I am going to dress you up in them.
Ny goodnessv'
what is the matterY'
MY trunks! I had forgotten all
about them. They've been out on the
prairie all this time, and everything
will be ruined or stolen"
Lisle smiled.
They are here in the house, she
said. 4 gave orders last night about
them. Shall / have them brought
here ?'' .
NO. II they are safe, that is all
care. The clothes we have on are ali
we need. We will change. You shan