The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

name" said the purchaser, stranger
Another. California girl, was called
to chief part in a new drama Another,
POLITICALLY musical from Leschetitzky's
training. much applauded by our great
est artists, was at once invited by
Anton Sidel to appear with his orches-
ira Another-but the list is too long to
detail
Such young women are everywhere.
in colleges, and the studios and conserv-
atorfes of great cities, New York, Bos-
ton, Berlin. Paris. where they have set
tied after breaking from home in
search of their summum rerum-
How often one hears their tales. How
dreary and barren was the old home.
How the strength of young blood stung
them to effort. How great Is their
faith in their genius-their hopes. their
ambitions 1t is such discomfort that
Miss MacLane puts in admirable liter
airy form.
Rumor says that this book has al
ready earned the author enough to take
her to college The wise wide world"
has then given a wheaton loaf. and not
a stone to her out-stretched hand That
is joy to others than herself Let US
hope she will be assisted in choosing the
right sort of college for her tempera-
ment.
will be the knowledge that many anotn-
er girl has been grinding through dis
| tasteful work, secretly at war with it.
and looking toward, and living in fancy
| fore she has been three months in the
| cap and gown community she will find
/ such views among her associates Her
| kindred spirit may not have had the
] sands and smelters of Butte Possibly
she may come from the grass lands of
| Kentucky, or from Maine where the
cliffs YEARLY beat back the sea- But
wherever she is from she will tell of
| the inanity, the stupidity of the folk
among whom she has dwelt, and her
own solitariness-
| 1t is the welt-schmerz. the yearning
after accomplishment and acquisition of
! the whole organic life of our race, that
| impulse upward and outward which has
brought US to what we are, and Will
| carry US still farther than our poor
| sight can now sect is the Energy the
old Greeks called divine, that, in it's
| manifold workings. has prompted this
little book All human beings suffer it
more or less With Miss MacLane its
expression is the young woman's nerv-.
| Gus staccato. She types it in some OF
its women forms.
| Her writing, then, Is a dithyrambic
voicing of the hopes, the longings, the
yearnings, the expectant waitings or
young women. For several of our past
centuries there has been allowed to wo-
men only expectancy and waiting, each
| for her own inefable He That is our
old order, natural order, and the best
| order if the right He were always to
| come to the right She and with her
| found their home But in our day with
| increased latitude and need of action,
| a young woman's thoughts are often
but also of her ambition, the present
narrowness of her life These the au-
! thor chants. and in sensualities at times
| most unfortunate and uncommon Some
| of the finer things she has left out
The more extreme passages. the ex-
| cesses, seem now and then i'm possible
| to a young woman of protected NE
Certainly they would be impossible to
| nd n
certify. and sense of personal dignity or
/ the Anglo-Saxon-that obedience TO
| truth that refuses to allow one to pose.
| to attitudinize. to hold for INSTANCE.
| liver and stomach up to public gaze,
| The emotional wave, the mental warp.
| that can do this at all to1erably lies
| with the Celtic and Jewish bloodS-two
| gifted peoples that seem at times in GER
| tain histrionic qualities very closely
| allied The author of the little Por-
travail is at times conscious of her
| attitude of the poser. of pseudo-sin-
| cerity of the atmosphere of the melo-
! drama. Her Celtic blood warns, graces
| WHITES, but there is. as she says, "a
| thin. fine vapor of fraud in her work
To say of this book. however. that the
! author will live to be ashamed of II
| is not enough Such snap, masculine
judgment is shallow. Snap judgments
are apt 70 be shallow. whether they ARE
masculine or feminine The pain of the
| book IS pitifui. The exposure of some
| parts of it is pitiful But such a ma
| ture as the authors would never regre,
| it's publication if, without its publica-
| ton. the life she bemoans must have
| continued. 1t is an instance of a strong
nature facing fate to give what it de-
| SireS.
To one who has seen a great deal O,
colleges and college women it is cleaI
that little Miss MacLane, with her riot
ing individualism, will learn at college
| that it is better to cultivate love thai
repellency. selfiessness than selfishness
aItruism than egotism: that filial rever-
ence is a more beautiful thing than g
red, red sunset; that honor and honesty
are to be chosen, never, never, never
dishonor and dishonesty. There will bs