Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-09-25
THE BEE THAT -
WAS NEVER HlVED
By HELEN MATHERS.


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ID UT you'll have to hive some day. -
ID said the man.
The girl shook her head.
1T is the bee who escapes that alb
ject swarming- gathers honey for it.
self, and eats it-who sees life," she
said, land, like the spirit of the great
Hokusai, comes and goes at will across
the summer fields.'"
''And when night falls-what then?''
said the man.
'"The night and the night perfumes
are even more glorious to it than those
of day!"
"And autumn and winter-how then,
when all the other bees are warm, and
hived, and fed?"
warmth is not everything
comfort-nor food. But travel, says
one of the easterns, is riches. My bee
may perish in an early frost or blunder
into spider web; but even bees know
that the gods die young; they don't
want to grow old-nor do l. And just
think what frolics that bee would have
in the long, long days and nights, he
is certain to hap upon other truant
bees, who have thought for them
selves, and declined to be uncounted
units of those bronzed, convoluted
masses swarming over each other
into"
"You mean hive of marriage" he
said, frowning, as she paused.
"Have you ever read your "Line upon
Line carefully" she said. "There
men were written down just as they
were-and are. The east set the west
the pattern of manhood then, and
through the centuries east and west
have altered little up to the present
time"
"You know too much," he said, with
q strong distaste. '."The women of the
last generation did not talk thus"
mo, they were first chloroformed
by love, then soundly cudgeled into
submission when they came to their
Senses" said the girl. Nowadays if
a man wins woman's respect it is
worth having it is purely
voluntary"
And how can he win it?"
by eurbing the lust of the eye
looking deeper than a dazzle of pink
and white skin-marking the meaning
of gl2 nee, not the color of it-study-
ing the expression of mouth, not it's
shape and searching heart, not for
its own hattered image in it, but ideals
now may find again--if he will"
"But I thought we men were bad
eggs from the beginning?"
mo, It is your bringing up, the
doubtless license you are permitted
from, birth, that makes you what
you are. And how you physically
deteriorate! Look at our girls
straight, strong, often beautiful, and
look at the brothers who start under
the same conditions of health it is
the difference of the life they lead
that stunts the one and perfects the
other"
''Then you demand a muff---an alb
solutely good man."
"On the contrary, we demand a
man half bad and half good, who.
aware that if he is wholly bad, no
one will punish him, elects to stand
by his better self and the woman
who loves him. Then you get self
control, loyalty and, trust me, we
women know how to reward him.
For one human soul to help another
up, not down, o! there's a fascina-
ton in it that all the excitement of
tobogganing down precipices can
never beat!"
'You might lead man any where
you liked" said the man, looking at
her with eyes gloomy and thwarted
in his handsome face.
"Strip off my white and silver
gown" she said, contemptuously;
'strip off my wretched pink and
white body, and what do you find
worth the having? Nothing. For
few brief years, just so long as my
bloom, my youth, lasts, perhaps;
but my heart, my intelligence will
ripen, not fade, and when 1 find the
man who will love me for those
''And don't value them? Listen.
It will grow upon youths restless
ness, this incapacity to submit your
self to love-you will become a
moral vagabond, your inclination
your only law, till at last you will
find it impossible to tether yourself
to one place"
''Only heart could do that. A
man offers it to a woman and gives
her a home; his heart, his inclina-
tions, walk out at the door to con-
quec fresh fields"
He moved impatien:ly.
II don't see why Have you so
little faith in your power to bind
your lover to you?'
"Ol i could bind q woman or .