The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-26
BY Robert Herrick. The
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Mr.. Herricks novel has been rated
as largely "outstepping realism and
dealing with broad and fundamental
motives Of American life.'
1t begins with the description OF a
marriage between the daughter of a
wealthy fastener and an ambitious
his experience OF life in the West.
The bride is college bred young
woman. and among her wedding guests
are a number of her college mates
whose marriages have preceded her
own. She scans their faces and is dis
appointed to find that they -do not
| look as happy as she thinks they
should be. Standing beside her bride
groom. with the nuptial vows still
echoing in her ears, she begins to
speculate on the causes Of marital ,un-
happiness. and wonders what her fate
| in life might have been had she linked
herself to any one of her admirers be-
side the man she had really welded.
Her honeymoon. spent in the Adiron-
dacks raises additional doubts as to
the wisdom of her matrimonial choice.
Afterward she goes with her husband
| to live in a little frontier Western
town and here began the routine OF
her married life. The house ran, it
WAS pretty stdtlIdSllNc--lidll W do
her business. Then what? She potter
ed in the garden little she read a
good deal and she played at translat-
ling some German lyrics. But the OBJ
ljective point OF the day remained
/ John--his going and coming"
| To the man business and the wo-
man he had won were enough-they
We're his two poles"
After while 1t was not enough for
the woman. Her husband became
more and more absorbed in his BUSH
ness. She saw less and less OF him.
| and the gulf between them grew Wild
err and wider Finally she fancIed
herself in love with another man, and
| her brother, to save her from making
| shipwreck of her happiness and hon
or as he had done, quarreled violent
nv with that man and was killed by
him.
Then loathing herself as the cause
! of her brothers. death. the sister wen
with 4 friend to mountain sanator.
l5ium and was cured of her bodily and
mental ailme1its by doctor in charge
who told her the truth.
so what have you women made OF
marriage, leading your own lives?'
said he. The best among yoli-those
who Will not marry unless the man
has aroused their best selves think
| they have the right to choose again
when your so-called souls have play
! ed you false the first time, and so you
develop divorce. What have you indi-
lvidually done for your husband? Where
lis he now? Where has he been all
these years? What is he doing this
hour? Have you nursed his spirit
his sword?"
"She was silent self-convlcted, but
1.-the self within her was not dead Ihe
| conquering achieving self! That was
| the spirit of her race to see and take
THAT which was good In their eyes. e
| feed self with all that the world con.
ltained OF emotions, ideas and exper-
1 ence; to be big and strong, and rich
to have power.
| In the end, however. truth on the
,iips of strong man conauers self
and the woman goes back to her hus'
band and begins a batter life on q
| better, surer founda ton.
This is the barest outline of the
main thread OF the book It contains
thirty or forty characters in all, ant
the stories of the failures Of many
married lives and their causes.
1t is always a question whether tht
evils in American social life, out o.
which the divorce has grown nnt
lspread are bettered by beingsanalyzet
and written about. 1t would seen
that there should be some reserves
some relations that are too infinitel,
sacred and. tender to bear the dis
allusioning touch OF invasion,
II writing of them however. conlt
cure wrongdoing and many fruitfn
causes Of nnhapplness. one might So
some justification of the writer and hl
book. Otherwise, II neither effect 4
saving purpose, to what end has tn
one, worked. and the other appeared
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