The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31
Cn the Waves Of Chasee.
BY F. Fl. LANCASTER.

tCopyri~ht. 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
The Aterary woman was playing the
oracle to the man OF means. He liked
her we'll enough She was honest,
though she did have a penchant for
putting her thoughts into periods.
They never agreed; but then it is
rot always exhilaratirg to converse
with people who say only yes" and
why certainly"
To-night the bone of contention was
the self-Iaade man.
There isn't such thing she de-
clared. Let me show you how this
self-manufacturirg business appears
when you get it into a focus: We
really have rot much say so about
what we are going to do and what
we are rot going to do. We are wash
ed on shore by the waves OF chance,
and because we were furnished before
hand with roots predetermined 10
strike into the soil. and because the
soil happens to suit the roots. we
stick where we are tossed, make a
goodly growth and cry out to all be-
holders: See what l have done by
my lone self If the soil doesn't
happen to suit sur roots. we shrivel
instead of fiourishing; we tap each
passerby on the shoulder and whisper
to him that this is the Lords doing.
He interrupted her with an impa-
tient movement and the woman
laughed lazily.
Not very fiattering, eh?"
ut is not true"
True enough, and growing truer
every day. Take this terribly tor
nented question of matrimony. How
many men and women out OF hum
Gred couples do you suppose sought
each other deliberately? They just
happened to meet and happened to
fall in love and happened to marry. If
the marriage turns ont well, why, 1t
is their doing; if they DRIFT into the
divorce court. the Lord gets the
credit for the whole of Mysterious
Providence
She laughed at his disguised frown.
You are like all the other women
of to-day" he remarked. Even While
you stand before the altar you have
the divorce court in clear perspec-
tive"
II am not standing before the altar"
she cut in dryly, ''and don't expect to
be for one long, sweet while. What IS
more: the women who are flocking
to the divorce court aren't the women
of to-day. They are the women OF
yesterday and last year. The sight OF
our freedom has made them feel their
letters"
DO you honestly believe that?"
"What?''
That the unmarried woman has
better showing in life than the mar
ried woman"
Eighty per cent of the divorce suits
are brought by wornen."
THAT proves nothing, Breach OF
promise suits are also brought by
women"
The literary woman shrugged her
shoulders.
1T isn't human nature to know
when it is well off,
"Tnen what about divcrce?"
Just so; better be dog and sleep
on the door-mat than divorced
woman. But you and | know that
there are horribly unhappy married
woman-lots of them"
There are unhappy women in all
walks of life
"Grantei But when the weather
grows too foul for the single woman
she can blow out her light. The
mother must live for her children"
The man of means got up and kick
ed the smouldering log in gloomy ao-
stractic-.
You claim in ali sincerity that the
self-supporting woman is the happiest
on the average?"
You have said"
That even if she loved 1Ae man
who loved her, woman would be un-
wise to marry?'
"Oh. if she loves him she had better
marry him. Not because it will be
the best thing for her. but because il
she doesn't, she will so through life
convinced that she has missed the
biggest thing in it. If She is familiar