The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02

| mon sense and she clearly perceived
| that it WAS necessary to 90 on as they
| had. Society cannot proceed without
/ its conventions and these simple regu-
| lations were their conventions which
had 10 be obcycd, And so they parted.
But parted as they had never parted
before, torn asundcr by their own COM
PIlancc with their own petty rules, their
hearts protesting.
had erected on the topmost hill Of the
island huge pile Of dead wood from
thc groves beneath. She had lighted
fires with her flint and steel for him
from time 10 time 10 teach him what
they were. She had even managed to
cook some of tho vegetable growths
Of the island as well as the eggs of
the turtle; oysters and mussc!s which
they could gather from the rocks at
low tide. And she had Taught him
strange whlmsyl-to eat of these
thlngS on occasion with tho use of salt
with a sort of dim anticipation that
same day he might come into the land
Of cooked food and Of flesh food and
find the power capable Of development
and useful.
She had taught bim all sorts Of lit
tic rciinementS and nicctcs of civiIiza.
lion. lie had an accurate idea of
FORK: although he had never seen one.
He knew that 10 cat with n knife
WAS thing to he avoided, aitbough he
knew no knife except the sailors
sheath knife. which she still woro at
hcr waist dainty person. she had
taught hlm 10 comb his hnir Indeed
she had done that first herself. marvel.
ing at the brilliant golden curls that
adorned his head. She had taught HIM
TO trim his beard and to care for his
person. smiling tho while to find how
much more inherent daintincss and
nicety and refinement arc than, as
some would have us believe. only cx.
tornal requirements of civilization. He
mad mad lessons III manners and cti-
quettc, this halfnakcd savage. Indeed
the timc had been all too short for
what she would have him learn. But
she had gone about IT systcmaticaIly.
pcrslStently. and given days and DAYS
without break 10 her task, and the re-
suits were wonderful.
when they had parted she bad sup
Rcsted to him-and it was significant
that now it was a suggestions: ycsfer-
day NJ would have been a command
mat he should take time 10 ascend the
hill and rearrangc thc great heap of
wood which they had builded. During
all the time that had elapsed since she
had been there no sail had whitened
the horlIon, no curl of smoke had be-
tokcncd the distant passing Of a steam
er. But no spot of tho globe could for
ever remain unvisited, she thought, and
some day that pile of wood might make
a beacon light 10 call civilization TO
them, He was glad to comply with her
glad for occupation, and so
he promised and went his way.
When he had disappeared she |
turned the edge Of the clin in the Sc |
'Iudcd amphitheatcr where her cave |
'rontcd the ocean. She threw aside her
.unic of woven grass and plunged into
.hc cool. delightful pool, which fortu-
latcly the earthquake had not dis. |
urbed. Her clothes. the scanty gar
nents she had improyiscd from her un-
lerclothing had long since worn out
L had not been difficult, however, to
rlait Of certain pliablc ushcs which
.rcw In plenty upon the island the
oosc and shapclcss garments thew both
wore. She had used strips torn from
what had remained of her cIotkinp for
binding and edging and practice had
lade her deXtcrous and skiIlful in the
udc weaving. She still preserved, how.
vcr. the blouse and skirt Of serge. her