The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-19

bigamist is used by Winifred Black to
point the moral of one of her recent
sermonettes on the text of Justice
rather than Mercy. The bigamist con-
fronted by the two women he had
wronged vas wept over and forgiven
by wife number one and calmly identi-
fed and handed yer to justice by her
successor in his affections. The point
Winifred Black made of this was that
the first wife was the inferior of the
second in character and that
the man showed good taste,
in deserving her for the second. If it
came to a showdown, Miss Black
thought, the second had the
bigger heart and was capable of a
stronger, more lasting and helpful de-
votion than the other.
The theory is all right. and no at
tempt will be made to combat 1t, but it
is a poor a~necdote that can not be
made to work every way and illustrate
testify. And the real truth about the
bigamist and his two wives may have
been and probably was that the first
woman loved him and the second
wept over him and forgave him and
why the SECOND identified him in court
and handed him over to legal punish
ment without batting an eye. Also,
that was why he owe the second
woman and deserted h first n for
her.
"H'mi" said a fine old lady grand
mother. looking her pretty young
since the latter had reached the age of
done-up hair and long skirts. Rather
pretty! Are you in lover"
The granddaughter bIushed, dropped
her eyelids but made no audible an
swer.
1907" observed the grandmother.
"Well, are you loved?"
"I'm told so" replied the grand
daughter indifferently.
'"Then you must be happy" said the
grandmother.
But it isn't the same man." explain
ed the granddaughter.
well V mind" said h old1ady:
1.-THE one you love would love you if
you didn't love him and h one who
loves you wouldn't If you did. You
must make the best Of it. It's the way
of the world"
There were two of them and one was
having a good time. This was the girl
in black who was telling all about the
morality play 'Everyman" which she
had recently seen in Chicago. She was
ter than that. But you know people don't
wan to hear about a play they haven't
seen. If they're interested in it they've
already learned more about it than you
could tell them n If they're not in
terested in it a long and minut
synopsis won help matters. The same
with a book, or a picture or a horse
race or a football game. The only per-
son with whom you can safely air your
enthusiaSmS is one who shares them.
He'll listen to you in order to have a
chance to do a part of the enthusing.
It's real joy to watch two baseball fans
discuss a game. But, o, the panied ex-
preston on the face of the man who
doesn't care about baseball when some
other fellow begins a detailed account
of the Slaughter
r. L. H. - A. -@-A
of the girl in brown She was fearfully
polite about it but why didn't the 9TH
er girl see how bored h vas Every
one else saw it. And every one around
her was bored, too. Perhaps the gon
of the girl in brown was not entirely
wasted if it caused all the people who
overheard the monologue, as it caused
to reflect that they must often be
guilty of a similar offense and resolve
a reform. But the girl in black was
utterly oblivious. She was having such
a good time listening to herself that
she never noticed how strained and
of her companion. YesI"
sYes!" indeed" cit must have been
interesting!" Il am sure you enjoyed
It'll" How good!" etc., etc.
The waiter was q long time with
their order Tut during the entire wait
m~onologue continued. When the
left she had brought Every
to his sad finish and was just
on 1Dsens ghosts. ProDa-
bly, a very cultured young lady but
wen then it is likely that the girl in
brown would nave enjoyed doing a lit
tie of the talking.
She was big and broad and had an
she was Intellectual. NC. she
thought she could make other people
think she was Intellectual-in her own
h knew herself for a -four
fiusher." But as h paused on her way
from the shop door to her carriage,
had her attention called by the
woman who accompanied her to some
one farther down the street she asked
in a tone loud enough to be heard by
all around, Whom is it?" and repeated
again in a louder tone and with an air
of conscious pride in III elegance of her