Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-01-08
THE BEE THAT :.
WAS NEVER HIVED
BY HELEN MATHERS.

said the man.
Inc girl shook her head.
1T is the bee who escapes that abb
ject swarming gathers honey for it.
self, and eats it-who sees life she
said, "and, lie the spirit Of the great
Hokusai, comes and goes at viii across
the summer fields.
"And when night falls-what then|
said the man.
"The night and the night perfumes
are even more glorious to 1t than those
Of dayl'
and autumn and winter-huw then,
when all the other bees are warm, and
hiyed, and fed?"
Warmth is not everything nor
romfort-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
lin the long, long days and nights, he
Is certain TO hap upon other truant
bees, who have thought for them
telyes, and declined to be uncounted
units Of those bronzed, conyoluted
masses swarming over each other
into"
you mean hive Of marriage" he
said, frowning, as she paused
Have you ever read your Line upon
4 9,4.
vas 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
nave 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"
mo, they were first chloroformed
oy love, then soundly cudgeled into
submission when they came to their
senses" said the girl Nowadays if
man wins a woman's respect il Is
worth having because it is purely
voluntary"
And how can he win it?"
by curbing the lust Of the eye
looking deeper than dazzle of pink
and white Summarizing the meaning
Of a glance, not the color of it-study-
ing the expression of a mouth, not it's
shape searching a heart, not for
rs own fiattered image in il, but ideals
pure as those he once had, and lost, and
now may find again-if he will"
But ! thought we men were bad
sggs from the beginning2"
mo, it is your bringing up, the
boundless license you are permitted
from birth, that makes you what
Tou are. And how you physically
aeteriorate! 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 perfeets the
sther"
Then you demand a muff-an alb
Iolutely good man"
Ch AtAI NbAAA al We uEuAauQ
man half bad and half good. who,
aware that If he is wholly bad. no
one win 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
hp, not down, o! there's a fascina-
zion in it that all the excitement of
lobogganing down precipices can
aever beatl'
"You might lead a man any where
gou 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, contemptuouslv;
strip of my wretched pink and
white body, and what do you find
worth the having? Nothing. For a
few brief years, just so long as nv
bloom, my youth, lasts, perhaps:
but my heart, my intelligence viii
ripen, not fade, and when / find the
man who viii love me for those"
'And don't I value them2 Listen.
II win grow upon you-this restless.
ness, this incapacity to submit your.
self 70 love-you win become a
moral vagabond, your inclination
your only law, till at last YOU viii
find it impossible to tether yourself
10 one place"
"Only a heart could do that. A
man offers it TO woman and gives
her a home; his heart. his inclfna
tions, walk ont at the door TO con
.guer fresh fields"
He moved impatiently.
81 don't see why. Have you 5,
little faith in your power TO bins
your lover 70 you2"