The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10

digged bitches. It was the excellence of
privilege. You and I don't want that
we want the utmost measure of individual
good that we can possibly get. It is the
quest to which we have pledged our lives.
but we want everybody else to join in
the quest and be just as happy as we are,
and find life just as great a go. And we
want this partly because our hearts are
gentle and Gods love is in them, and
partly because we see that the path of
the quest for ourselves is the path of
service. Salvation to be COM
pIete must be for ALL j. %
John had large and radical program
of reforms, but he took a sane broad
view of things and did not expect them
to come in a day a generation, and
refused to be discouraged or, disgruntled.
He proposed to make the home he and
Margaret were to build for themselves the
center Of strong but unobtrusive infu-
ence, where they would have sweet. hui
man. helpful relations with our neigh
bors, and try to help on socializing and
humanizing the world They were to lend
hand to those minor movements which
LEAD In the right direction, to be helpers
on and not idle on-looking doctrinaires
10 this latter program Margaret sug-
gested that he was very practical per
son for an idealist and his view Of this
was as unusual as his other views He
said: DO you know that the most prac-
! teal people in the world-n fact, the only
practical people in the world-are ideal
| lists! The whole fight towards the better
| lie is a fight for better and nobler ideas
OF me- AS soon as men want the better
| day they can have it without waiting
for any further inventions of Edisons or
Teslas.' y.
| Il suppose you will want at least one
peep at John, the lover. If he is admir-
| able as man of ideas and action ha ic
adorable as lover" and Melissa blushed
prettlly at her unwonted warmth of
praise. But it is hard to pick out a
| scrap that will even hint at his quail
tiles In this role. Here is one of his clever
h1ts that should make you smile: Mar
garet has done this for me-she has res
cueu me from belrg a doctrinaire in the
matters OF the heart. And that is really
what Is the matter with all old bachelors
ana sonneteers. They are SO busy with
thelr silly theor1zing, that they haven't
any time to really love-
This was just when he was on the
uepataple ground between admira ton and
love. In the same uncertain frame al
mind about his own feelings he solilouuizeC
IN this sensible fashion,: 1T is one thine
TO admire woman and quite another
thing to love her. 7 should be sorry tc
love woman whom did not admire. TO,
1 should feel that the love was quite I'm.
worthy and must be put aside at what
ever cost. But it would be lust as sad a
mistake to take admiration fancy or any
other sentiment whatever for love ~ we
can admire many people. fancy them. il
you please, or even love them in a certain
friendly way, but the grand passion. the
love that either makes or mars ones life
that takes possession Of ones very being.
that makes one hot or cold, strong q,
weak, tempest or calm. that makes :
London fog paradise, or the Riviera E
| oesert-th1s comes but once. It is tire
mendous experience. God help the man OF
woman who gets a counterfeit
John Percyf1eld came Of gentle foil
and had that ccnsummate grace Of GOO
breeding. He fully realized it's worth
moreover, pricing it as the flower of life
his definition was haracteristic Here i
Is: Good breeding then. is religion don,
IN terms OF everyday life do not exag
gerate when I say that it is the mos
important thing of all the many things
that are. mans breeding is the meas
ure OF his social evolution. It stamps hi
greater or less kindship to the GODS
Th1s breeding made him delicately con
slderate In many ways that I think W.
women who-Work and meet men of al
stages of social evolution can appreciat
more than women who lead more sheltere,
lives. 1t is the custom, of course for ,
woman to fix the details of her own wed
ding, but I often think they actually d
1T less than they appear to; at any rate
like what John said TO himself about Il
just see, for a final bit. If you don't:
" But for once, at least, my habit O
theorlzlng was real help, and gave m
patience which 1 otherwise might no
have had. I had always thought tina
wedding ought to be arranged absolutel
to suit the bride, that in every detail
: ought to be as she would like to have Il
the one most perfect day Of her life. I
would have been objectionable selfishnes
{ on my part to intrude a single wish 70
to have my supreme wish gratified, t
nave Margaret my dear wife forever
r made every other wish seem unimpor
tant. y" -.--.