Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-17
THE BEE THAT ~
WAS NEVER HIVED
BY HELEN MATHERS.
ID UT you'll have to hive some day,
n said the man.

II u l.
J said the man.
/ lie girl shook her head.
1T is the bee who escapes that alb
ject neutrality-suspicious. 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 them"
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 a 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
was no one to square the Press then.
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
strong distaste. The women of the
last generation did not talk thus"
No, they were first chloroformed
by love, then soundly cudgeled into
submission when they came to their
senses" said the girl. Nowadays if
man wins a woman's respect it is
worth having-because it is purely
voluntary"
"And how can he win it 90
by curbing the lust of the eye
looking deeper than a dazzle of pink
and white skin-marking the meaning
of glance, not the color of it-study-
ing the expression of a mouth, not it's
shape-and searching a heart, not for
hts own fiattered image in it, but ideals
pure as those he once had, and lost, and
now may find again--if he will
But l thought we men were bad
eggs from the beginning?"
No, it is your bringing up, the
boundless 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."
ION the contrary, we demand s
man half bad and half good, who
aware that if he is wholly bad. n,
one will punish him. elects to stanc
by his better self and the womal
wAo loves him. Then you get sci
control loyalty and. trust me, w,
women know how to reward him
For one human soul to help anothe
up. not down, o! there's a fascina
ton in it that all the excitement O
tooogganing down precipices cal
never beat!"
you might lead a man any wher
you liked" said the man, looking a
her with eyes gloomy and tAwarte
In his handsome face.
Strip of my white and silye
gown she said. contemptuously
strip off my wretched pink an
white body, and what do you fin
worth the having? Nothing. For
few brief years, just so long as m
bloom, my youth. lasts, perhaps
but my heart, my intelligence wi
ripen, not fade, and when / find til
man who will love me for those
"And don't I value them? Liste
It will grow upon youths resides
ness. this incapacity to suhmiA ron