New-York tribune., 1905-02-11

Il feel like the person in the song;
But when love brings
Tears assraadns aaS susR saP thinss anss.
Love may 20 hang.
she quoted gaily
but don't mean TO be Ike you. I'm not going to
ian IN love and marry and al snas s0I, ia OK ps5
working for myself and just leave stupid men
Stupid menr' Edith laughed.
Stupid because they expect you to go "a 5slng 1.a IN
shah have men friends, she ended supsroEy;
but they won't ever be anything more, ~ = s-1ipe
nonsense 70 say there can't be friendship between
The two girls were talking in the drawing room.
writing -,
tools. little girl said gently Sometimes IL IT.
the wretched man goes and gets tired OF friend
ship. and wants YOU to marry him lnstea9:. @ ouI
minded people % wouldn't III i be SO idiOtic'
The crudeness of seventeen is very crude. ana
wondered where in the world Phyllis had evolved
her views Of strong mindedness and platono friend
Modern ideas must be in the air" said TO
in the most incomprehensible way. have long ago
ysnp phE TR 0e2f % SSgpsd S a s
from platforms in a few years
idea of being a hospital nurse and as soon as she
was old enough she began COMPREHENSIVE stcoy
nursing and medicine which she could come
What really like is the scientific part Of IT, T.,
she said to me eagerly. her gray eyes asloNs
ments. and everything I don't really care so
much about the actual patients"
My dear child, what in the world DO you mean
We'll! don't care about the sentimental side Of
sym2athizing soothing and being kind TO SICK
people VIII bore me to distraction 1 shall enjoy
the active part of nursing. not the passive
The passive part you call it, IS rather I'M
She shrugged her shoulders indirerently.
bTt . apFsns a es D0oks a, s9 tns & %.Tsanding
| patients temperaments. and fussing round their
Of their bodies It's really the scientific part OF
nurang that appeals to me-, she repeated firmly.
our great hospitals Phyllis interested herself in
some OF the SICK poor IA our m th fSs tSeory she
The disease and It's interested her solely 70 the
exclusion of all real interest in the human sunsTer
Her manner cheerful and breezy to al alike. &
nstinctively that she touched only the surface OF
their lives and she either could not or would
not penetrate into these deeper parts whlch Illness
she was l 9nfaiiIngly bright but she was hard;
she could not understand or syrnPatnize with Tl
she called the sentimental and morod 2u' TItsn - :
! touch was wanting in her as was any reaI az.
! had sheathed herself IN an arrnor OF hard practi-
| cability from which she did not wish TO emerge
her proStoneTs o life at St. chads and her
e{ 6e5f men n beT vork Every month she came
| to US for week end visit and II was evident thai
found Ti them Quite as enchanting and delightful
she had ANTICIPATED. But noticed that she talked
masse. She had little pathetic stories to tel us
wards Of their hard lives their patience in sick
ness or their gratitude those who cared for them
rush Of accidents into the accident ward Of The
fun Of getting her beds MADE quicker Ina9 any one
operation, Of the general stir and hustle and sx-
hospital but which dinly felt should hsve liked
to have subordinated to real love Tor the nu-
haf- Nhn chi
! sl15ost undssnabIe change coming over my daugh-
ter Il was in1possibIe TO PUT il into words it
! seemed to that she was developing some strange
and a new gentleness in her manner. for which
could not at hrsL account OQ1 solTI az ba % 1stterq
/ she asked If she might. for her next week end
bring home with her one Of the house surgeons
She had often mentioned this man; his name was
/ quest came Dick and I wondered, as parents will,
What manner new Oh bapn5s PT99 'Rg tor for our girl
| But PhylIiss next letter dispelled our hopes and
7 am glad you will ask Mr. Mr TownSbend ID down .
she said; Il think you will IKE him re ana @ are
/ know always thought such a friendship was pos
si4Is biz. now 3gg,!t,a9 | h9vs so{ti2 proved it"
7 hope the poor chap feels equally sure ne has
Phyllis Is heart whole. it doesn't follow that this
fellow Townshend is the same The child a,.ai. IS as
means to sticl, her resolution about old maid
Was she exactly what she had been7 Ny
| mothers heart asked that. with sudden ontnOus
I fOrebOdng when Phyllis and her new friend came
| into the drawing room together Was anything
| ever going to he the same for her again, l won
dered looking from her strangely softened eyes into
| the face of her companion2
My heart went out to him at once. as surely any
woman's heart must have done. for think have
never in the whole course of my life met any man
| quite like John Townshend.
| He was tall and very fair His face set in
a somewhat stern mould. but his smile was one OF
unspeakable charm and his blue eyes still held the
| purity and simplicity OS bOyhood. Yet manliness
| lire of his strong chin and well cut mouth, and
| his simple direct speech the index of nature
| equally direct and simple.
ConveutiOnality and John TOwnshend were not
/ within speaking distance of one another; and il
| was this unconventional quality in him which had
led 10 the deep friendship plainly existing between
| him and Phyllis
| II never had any sister" he said to and
sometimes feel horribly lonely. Phyllis and are
| real pals and it's awfully good Of her TO be my
/ friend
| That was his view of the matter, but what OF my
! girls? Ahi what of nv girls feelings?
| II was plain quite plain, to me that he did not
| love the child the man loves the woman he
| wishes 10 make his wife But Phyllis2 Did she
/ only really for him friend, or--had some
| thing at last plumbed below the surface into the
| depths of her heart?
| ing was In every way repugnant 10 me. but did
| saw 10 her gently on the evening Of her arrival:
| Phyllis darling are you sure you are not be-
| ginning to play with edged tools? a friendship
| sometimes''-