The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-10
CUPID CASTS OUT THEOLOGY.
STUDENT FORSAKES HIS hooks
WHEN BLUE EYES CALL.


| log, and girl with yellow hair
The town of Bloomfield ia agoG with H..
and throughout that pastoral village the
tale ran from the depot Of the Erie to the
depot Of the Lackawanna. Bill Hoskins,
the ioeman, told II on his rounds, rogu-
ishly winking Old Jerry, the eXpressman,
Il raconteur with whom no tale loses in the
telling, passed 1t on with sage reflections.
Tea parties buzzed with it. The students
OF the German Theological School, earnest
young men and good, related il with grave
faces, obviously shocked; sweet young
things Uttered IT at morning market
Two years ago Charles i. Dornette,
tall boy OF seventeen years. came to Bloom
field from Cincinnati 10 study for the MIN
istry in the theological school that occupies
the square, old-fashioned building in Park
place He is the son of a sober. well-to-
do Porkopolitan, man of piety and sub
stance who ardently desired his son to be
Presbyterian preacher.
The boy came to Bloomfield thrilling
with zeal for the work. He wanted TO be
preacher in every inch of his feet. He
lacked frivolity and a Ger tain sense oil
humor, likewise experience OF a useful sort.
These things not being part OF the cur
riculum of the school. it required two years
for him to acquire them. He was u good
looking boy with fresh, red cheeks and
pleasant address.
When he applied for admission to the
seminary he assured the faculty Of his
thorough conversion, of q real regenerate
life. and of an insistent call to the ministry.
He took up his course and shone i'll II He
attacked the history of German literature,
devoured 1t. mastered Livy and the Aeneid,
and re yelled in the -Odes OF Horace. Plato
was @ cinch for him, and the Odyssey
hadn't chance with young Charles. The
cursory reading OF selected chapters oil
the Hebrew Bible spurred him 10 the higher
life. Psychology was nothing for Dornette
the theolog. He made mark.
The second year it was the same. He
stuck TO his room az the seminary por-
ing over books. converting with fellow
students on the things of serious import
discussing grave affairs. The pretty
girls who passed him on the street looked
In vain; young Charles knew them not.
The swishing of silk skirt the turn of an
ankle, the color Of ribbon, whether eyes
were blue or brown these things We're OF
less moment to him than proposition OF
Euclid.
Then. quite suddenly. IL was noticed that
the boy was negecting certain courses OF tho
work. The Metamorphoses of Ovid were
not sighted but the Shorter Catechlsm was.
Whether All Gaul was divided into three
parts or six. didn't seem 10 make the slight
est difference but in rhetoric he fairly
flew Certain of the lyric poets were fav-
ored. Dry Volumes of sermons we're un-
touched. His markings went up and down.
He was often out Of his room. especially
at right He oerked n IN apl@f mce,
showed a fondn 49, for bright ties and tes-
tive shirts He talked little now about
Che ministry as a profession and about the
steTnness OF life
Then the whisper went through the
school that Dornet'e wa, in love with
tall yellow haired. hlue aged girl thet the
theologs had soma reason TO know aOoL.
Young Charles was ~ and she was p. II
was she that caused the discipluing OF
Young German who came from his country
to study for the ministry. who started
in like Dornette and then got sent back 70
Germany because the Lorelei of Bloom-
field got in her work Tho good young
men in the school talked 40 much about
Dornette's relapse that 1t got to ears OF the
faculty and especially TO those OF the Rev.
Arnold W. Fismer, professor OF the New
Testament exegeris and ethics. He WAS
slightly related to the boy and thought
ne ought to do something
He wrote 10 the boys father in Cincinnati
and was told 10 stop II at all costs When
he found that Durneite was calling on the
girl every night and was letting his school
work 60 10 tine bow vows, he made up his
mind that drastic action was required
Thursday night Of Christmas week be found
the nov OOk Dl ms room AA tllH SEMINARY
building. Round TO the house OF the girl
went the preacher al 1915 o'clock All
was dark The preacher raped al the
door and inquired for his uaCkalidden
protfge 4 voice from up above answered
that everybody had retired.
Il took that 70 mean said Dr. iismer,
that the boy had left but something told
me he had not that he was still with the
girl forgetiul of his sacred Obligations.
II vas bitterly cold and the snow wa deep,
4 FL d.
midnight Then | saw him come out !
walked up TO him and said:
You are just the young man ! want TO
see
Why. hello. Doc said he quite M
abashed. Amt you afraid OF getting
Then I talked to that bov seriously,
told him what a mistake he was making 10
let yellow haired girl keep him from being
a minister. but he laughed. and. wouldn't
make a serious answer. When told him
| had heard he was irving TO get position
as a typewriter 40 he could marry her, he
said he guessed that WAS about right.
Does that mean | have got 20 give up
the girl or the theology: said he.
Il told him ] didn't want 10 put il Just
that way, but it certainly meant dropping
the girl He said he wouldn't give up the
girl. and left me Very shortly he was re-
called 10 Cincinnati, and he is not now
mon, ber Of the institution. II is regrettdble,
,
mon arc prone 10 1t. It IA NATURAL and
laudahle emotion Most Of us have had it.
but for a boy. a mere child. to become
enanamored Of a girl eight years old er
than himself and throw hi- career 20 tho
winds il pains me: really II pains me
The sudden entrance of dancing glii
into a monastery would not Great" moro
rerressed excitement than the tale of
Young Charles = cjDoyr did among the rtsid
Young fellows Of the theological school.
They told il with gls,o. hut behind the
backs OF their hands and in the absence Of
the professors.
L have seen that girl many times on he
stree, said one Of the students, and
have avoided her eye always. Shc has a
most remarkable eye, The spirit Il willing.
but tho flesh il weak. and nobody knows
what will happen To him IL a designing
woman gets him in her tolls. | fear that
poor Dornette was not really called
just what the young woman thiuka about
the matter il not known TO many besides
hers, IT, She vas not approachable on tho
subj ect She j. a very pretty girl. unusually
tan with a wealth Of yellow hair md APP
pealirR blue eyes.
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