Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30
Gossip About Plays and Players

has krown that lover of hers. And she
gives herself without stint. and feels that
1t is true that even before the flight of
time began she was his.
And who shall say under what conditions
this love is born? "Was ever woman in
such humor wooed? Was ever woman in
such humor won?' queries the crafty Rich.
ard, pleased both with the answer Of the
bereaved widow and his own guile. The
humors in which the wooings and the win
nings Of the world have been carried on
are as widely varied as the people of the
world. All of which has much to do with
the growing belief that truth is not so
absolute as some would have us admit.
II is rather more relative than a fixed
fact, and, as morals are to some extent
a matter of geography, so truth is in a
very great degree a matter of indi-
viduality. One of our harmless amuse-
ments is TO say what We would do IL
we were placed in situations where we
see others. 1t is so easy to speculate on
a line of personal conduct when one has
never been called upon to put that speca-
lation into the form of action. But no one
has yet laid down a code for the govern
ment Of love-making or to regulate the
way Of a man with a maid. One may
lure her with a bouquet and a box Of
carsmels. and another may win her with
a siX-shooter and a string of gold mug
gets. And between these methods are Just
as many ways as there are couples. We
never tire of asking what she could see
in him, or what he saw In her, and It
= never occurs to us at such times as tina
that others are asking the same thing
OF ourselves. And every man has al some
time asked himself what It was that won
for him the woman into whose ears he
poured his hot words of passionate avowal
And every man In whose veins flows rec
blood has felt that divine insanity that
questioned nothing that dared all, tina
rocked not the cost nor the outcome, buI
forgot all and everything In the presence
Of the woman. And the woman herself
must feel something very much like this
The Intellect has no part in this.
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Ruth Jordan gave ample evidence Of the
struggle Of the physical woman trying tc
break through the intellectual swathing.
that held her back and clrcumscribed her
It is likely, alto gether, that she did no
understand the nature Of her exaltatiop OF
that night when she was left alone at tn,
little ranch house in the desert. She hat
, been wonderfully happy for days, and hsr
} exuberance was the subject of inquiry
: from those around her. She stood in tn,
! door and apostrophized the night. revelh
in the sheer joy Of physical life. No matter
II she were the cultured daughter Of {
D long line Of puritanical ANCESTORS and heI
E mind stored with the conventional belief
and rooted convictions OF her race; in he
nature stirred that indefinable something
a that made her turn back at the suprem.
r moment. when she held her captor's re
volver in hes hand and turned 1t 10 he
head; she had not the courage to pail TN
$ trigger. She loved life and refused 4
% leave it. Nor did she. when she pointed 1
= at him, have the courage 10 fire, for sh.
e could not take l.fe. And. as he said after
S wards, when their eyes first met Their
- flashed a look hat burned away all CUES
/" tion OF right ana wrong II was blind In
e stinct that led her 10 choose him as tn
5 least brutal of the three.
b Now. many yards OF Newspaper arr
e magazine space have been used in the de
d bate as to what should ave been he
d course. Her neither, anchored IN the Sc
a eurity of the home where she had bee
Z taken a bride, thirty years before, wrappe