St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-08-21

Patricia" said Silvia, i've been
thinking
keep IT up, Silvia" / answered,
sit will do you good"
rye been thinking" went on Silvia
calmly, what an awful thing it must
be to be an unattached female"
/ disdained to reply, so she CON
tinued:-
II went to see Kitty yesterday. |
found her in a white negligee, her
iy black hair hanging over her shoul-
ders, her little face with It's big brown
eyes trimming over with mischief.
what on earth did you drag me out
for today, Kit? / said. It was pour
ing rain. "Oh, / was lonesome. Be
sides, I wanted to recover from the
effects Of Susan Lemon In your en-
gaging company Susan lemon I
said. What + name!' oh. ! christ
ened her that Kit said airily. She
ITS 1t to a dot. Her real name is
Mary Martin. For the last two weeks
as you know, /, along with a choice
COLLECTION of spirits, have been at
Bellies country place, and Susan, who
/ believe is an old school friend Of
Belle, was one of the guests. But
what right has she to introduce to a
lot of pleasure loving people a woman
Of Sues makeup?
Zone guest whom she tried to Guilt
vate had a sudden call to her coun-
try place; another congratulated MI
rieI Weston on having appendicitis
at the psychological moment and go
ing to hospital instead Of helping I'd
look after Sue. Why, she lost even
her own name! One woman came up
to me at a party and said desperately,
Heavens, Kit, what Is Sue Lemons
real manner" There was something,
too. pathetically funny in her keen ap
probation OF creature comforts"
Now, Patricia" said Silvia, tell
me what o make of any one like
that"
ITO begin with" ! said, poor Susan
was probably dazed by being unexpect-
edly pitchforked into a lot of Indians,
as they must all have seemed to her"
mo, she wasn't interrupted Silvia,
'for Kit said she liked it, and If she
hadn't packed and strapped every va
riety of bag and trunk for her would
have been there yet"
SILVIA" / returned, ut does seem
Ia pathetic situation to me and as IL
something had gone very wrong from
the beginning of life for her. Chill
dren who are not encouraged in the
doing of kindly actions and the giving
out of love grow up in an atmosphere
of repression which often coIors their
whole after lives. Expression is the
one vital fact of life, and those who
do not learn that lesson early pay
dearly for it in after years. Probably
poor Sue Lemon found herself for the
first time In her life in an atmosphere
which meant real living to her starved
soul, and, as often happens, her being
was dumb, apparently unresponsive,
as the mental vista Of what she had
missed in life enrolled itself before
her. Women, Silvia, who, like most
of our mutual friends, have their In
dividual places as workers in the
world very seldom gauge what suf-
fering must be experienced by the
woman who suddenly comes face to
face with the fact that she somehow
has not understood the great game of
life-that it has apparently been
played without her having had q hand
in it. And what you ali took for all
most stupidity was probably an emo
ton which left her helpless in its
grip. Why, her very appreciation of
the creature comforts showed starva-
ton somewhere, and 1t must have
been hard for her to suddenly realize
that what you women took as your
right, physically and intellectually,
had completely passed her by"
Dear mel" said Silvia, 81 don't be-
lieye Kit and Belle or the others ever
thought of that. They Just found her
queer, and she dropped on them like
q bolt from the blue, and they won
dered why"
Il win tell you why. Silvia. Every
MOW d0A GHGn al l1bS We are SJaEJ1SO
by the unexpected, and 1t Is neces-
sary that we should BE, In order for
US to understand something Of the
Law Of universally and how we are
related to others. II is essential that
we should come In contact with e
phase Of living, and through knowl-
edge and understanding grow into a
larger and fuller life. And so 1t may
be, Silvia, that the advent of Sue
into Bellies and Kitty's dove.
cote was Just the thing they needed to
awaken them TO the fact that life is
bounded by more than what we see
on immediate horizon, and that
peculiar as Sue was she wal yet d
part Of q related whole, there for q
purpose, and they in their
turn gave her d new glimpse into the
Of Life and probably awakened
a desire in her for the self-expression
which no soul can develop
into fullness Of being"
TPL. nzfsk. /