Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-08-30
THE BEE THAT ~
WAS NEVER HIVED
'DUT you'll have to hive some day,
II said the man.
BY HELEN MATHERS.
ne girl shook her head.

4 ne girl shook her head.
at is the bee who escapes that alb
ject swarming gathers honey for it.
self, and eats it-who sees life, she
said, "and, like the spirit of the great
Hokusai, comes and goes at will across
the summer fields
And when night fnlls-what them
said the man.
"rhe night and the night perfumes
are even more glorious to il than those
of day"
And autumn and wnter-how then,
when all the other bees are warm, and
hiyed, and fed?"
warmth is not everything
comfort-nor food. But travel, says
one of the casterns 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 /. 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, 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
Line carefuIly?" she said. There
was no one to square the Press then,
men were written down just as they
wcre-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"
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 Il wuman's respect it is
worth having because it is purely
voluntary"
"And how can he win it?"
"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 its
shape-and searching heart, not for
its own ilattered image in it, but ideals
pure as those he once had and lost, and
now may find againf he will"
"But | 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
dcteriorate! 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"
"l'hen you demand a muff-an alb
solutcly good man
"On the contrary, we demand n
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 ftscina-
ton in it that all the excitement of
tobogganing down precipices can
never beat!"
"lou might lead a 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 yon find
worth the having? Nothing, For a
few brief years, just so long as my
bloom, my youth, lasts, perhaps;
but my heart, my intelligence will
ripen, not fade, and when | find tho
man who will love me for those"
"And don't / value them? Listen.
1t 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 a heart could do that. A
man offers it to woman and gives
her a home; his heart, his inclina-
tions, walk out at the door to con-
quer fresh fields"
He moved impatiently.
81 don't see why. Have you so
little faith in your power to bind
your lover to you?"
80! / could bind woman or a