Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-06

| Ogilvie and told him frankly of the state
| of matters. relying on his good feeling to
| understand and sympathize with his diff
| Guilty. Had there been opportunity for
reflection he would have done SO. but all
was SO hurried at the scene of the acct
dent that there had been no time for
| thought He had accepted of necessity
! the invitation to dinner. Then or be-
| fore going to the Holland House would
| have seen his chance. But again. the
| colonel meeting him and taking him at
once to his family made present eXpiana-
| ton difficult. Dinner finished him. When
! first on the drive he had seen Joy he had
! thought her a beautiful girl. The act
| of rescuing her made her of the supremest
| interest to him. But 1t was not till he
had sat beside her and looked into her
| eyes that he felt that love had come. No
man could look into those beautiful eyes
and remain untouched. But this man,
| heart-hungry and naturally susceptible
after some years of campaigning. fell
madly in love. His very soul had gone
down into the depths of those unfathoma-
| BILE eyes and come back purified and
sWeetened. like the smoke drawn through
| the rosewater of a hookah. Every instant
that he sat beside her the spell grew
upon him. JOY was woman in whom
| the sex instinct was very strong. She was
| woman all over: the type of woman who
4 seems to draw man to her as the mag
| net draws the steel. Athlyne was very
HfdSCulHe person anu therefore
| sensitive to the influence. That deep
| thinking young mailman who committed
suicide at twenty-three. Otto Weinlnger,
was probably right in that wonderful
| guess of his as to the probable solution
| of the problem of sex. All men and all
women, according to him, have in them
selves the cells of both sexes. and the
accredited masculinity or fenininity of
| the Individual is determined by the multi
plicatiOn and development of these cells.
y11an mt or a
entirely masculine and the ideal woman is
| entirely or almost entirely feminine. ZACH
| individual must have prepOnderance,
be 1t ever so little. of the cells of its own
sex; and the attraction of each individ-
| ual to the other sex depends upon its
| place in the scale between the highest
and the lowest grade of sex. The most
masculine man draws the most feminine
woman. and vice versa. And down
| the scale Till close to the border line Is
| the great mass of persons who. having
| only development of few of the quail
| ties of sex, are easily satisfied to mate
| with any one This is the true principle
| of selection which is one of the most i'm
| portant of natures laws-one which holds
| In the lower we'll as in the higher
orders OF life, geological and botanical as
well as human. IT accounts for the way
| in which such vast number of persons
are content to make marriages and even
| liaisons which Others higher strung are
actually unable to understand.
(! AS yet. of course. Joy. being a young
woman. had not her power developed.
Such an unconscious power takes in the
course Of its development its own time.
| Instinct is a directing principle. and obe-
dience can be given to 1t in many differ
| eQt ways. With Joy its course had been
slow, the growth Of time alone. Up to
now there had been no disturbing ele-
ment in her life. Most of her years had
| been spent in quiet house in a quiet
neighborhOod. where there were but few
4 ,1,o1 I,
| therefore. the percentage of eligible men
was small. There was even to her, as
there must be to any girl like her. GER
! tain protecting oppositions. She was at
once practical and sentimental. sensuous
and dainty. Her taste was her first line
Of defense to the attacks of the baser
| qualities of her own nature. Nothing
could appeal to her thoroughly which did
| not answer widely divergent conditions.
Aunt Judy had summed her up well in
| saying that she would. IL she ever fell in
/ love. give herself absolutely. But 1t must
be the right man to whom she did So give
herself-one who must comply with all the
| conditions which she had laid down for
herself. A girl Of her p-bringing-with
| a father and mother who adored her each
| In special way; with an aunt who repre-
sented impulsive youth all the more act
lively because she professed the staidness
| Of age which is without hope, and with
no intimate relationships or friendships
| Of the male kind-had not only a leaning
| to. but conviction of. romance as prime
| factor of life. Life was to her not that
which is, but that which is to be. AS the
world of the present. where such thoughts
are. is not one which is lit and colored
by love, the world Of the future is the
| world OF love. The fairy prince who is
| to bring much happinessEwhen he
| comes-is no mere casual visitor to femi-
| nine childhood He is as real to the
| child's imagination as the things of her
waking life. though his nodding plume
things which surround her. AS she grows
| older SO does he change from coming
more into harmony with living fact. till at
| last in some lofty moment whose memory
| is treasure for after life the ideal and
| real merge in one.
To Joy the hour had come. The Prince
Charming who had swept across her path
in such heroic fashion was all that she
had ever longed for. He was tall and
| strong and handsome and brave. He was
gentleman. with all of a gentleman's
refined ways. He had taste and dainti-
ness. though they were expressed in mas
culine ways. He. too. had love and pas
| sion. How could she not know it who
had seen-had felt-his soul sink into the
deeps Of her eyes. where. mermaid-like.
her own SOUL peeping from behind the
| foliage OF the deep. had smiled on him
to lead him on? How could she forget
| around her waist and which tore her
| from her saddle just in time to save her
from horrible death? How could she for
| get the seconds when she hung on him
| for life, her arms clasped around his
| neck?
| While ne was beside her at dinner she
| was In an ecstasy. Every fiber of her be-
ing quivered in response to his. And yet.
| such is the influence of teaching and con-
vention. all this did not detract from her
| outward calm. When the ladies had
| left the table she had gone out with her
arm round Aunt Judy's waist as was
| the convention of the time. and her smile
| had not lost It's frank gentility. But in
very truth she did not feel like smiling.
She would have given anything to have
| stolen away to her own room and have
lain on her bed. face down, and have
| thought. and thought, and thought. The
whole thing had come on her so sud-
denly. Even the little preparation which
she had had at the auction-the beauti-
full horse and the fine-looking masterful
man who had bought him-did not seem
| to count.
(To be continued tomorrow)