The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-09

arrow a hls plsasra' Bus here 10 was.
FAR removed from those mighty posst-
bilitiea and that splendid sosns. doomed
! % "a hOpelsss sxistsncs I'm . dirty. do
prnnsinG town surrounded by poverty
and disarUnS.- 10 va not hopeless N
matosra turned ont. bue he had Tor some
time, a. his lsttsra show. the exquisite
misery % thinking that 10 was.
what Vas the nature Of sWift's friend
ship With Stellar We read that -wtss-
acres with total ignoI aEcs 81 psychology
scout the possibility u snoh friendship
az IL really was. They shake tAolr heads
wisely and say that every friendship be-
tween "A man and . woman INSIST end in
love: they maintain thiS op.naon in the
face Of every fact which proves the Oppo-
site They would insist on maintaining
t n the woTld consisted entirely 81 these
friendships and Cupid had left the stage
forever They do not. however. desery"
serious consideration These alliances
bstween men ana ~On'en are bsssd m
psychological fact frequently omitted w
human calculations 6osns rnsu ave IL
them rnOrsl aud mental Sha-aOt~rist'cs u"
which ,hey f'nd no response IN the ohHrsS D.
.
, have such rhsrSrtAriatic- 20 which thew
lind no re~pOase N their women fr.ensiS
Nor % this true merely % the rnannisb
woman or the effen'pste mSn In each
case The sxpres-io 81 sIch attributes N
met by a dead wall. an unsylnpathefic
Ulnnk. Sometimes this forms the greater
part % a character. call ia what you will.
the wonians mind 10 n man. the mans
mind in a woman. n - possibly the ideal
perfection % the qualities which ought To
he found in a man ar woman. IL this
demand in the -orl Of either 10 negatlved
or refused through conventions or other
external convenience for the unthinkiDg
ma iority for We ant that conventions
are based on n truth. though they have
become a lieI the psult 10 preeDinentiy
disastrous for the mind making the de-
mand. i,Ist ~ the DENIAL ~ food 10 bad for
the BODY Ne have rarely learned the
aIphai,st ~ psychology u 10 perhaps m
impo@sibility for the mind Of the reuton
To understand the Necessity OF II
We cannot follow Stella further. hut Ne
NAV indicate Just a little Of what II said
here ~ the case Of the more unfortunate
Vanssss. Esther Vsnhomrigh Tor Var
essaD. according 20 this bioEraphe was
unfortunate purely by reason OF her own
character. She should never have be-
CONS Swift'a pupil: was entirely unsuited
for friendship with him or with any man.
That most deadly Of all diseases, SehWcT-
yaerei took possession az hsr-: in other
words. nor ardOrs carried her beyond dis
erection. Yet those take pity on her.
savs this historian. who realize the in
sidiou. nature of This terrible moral weak
moss the existence Of wnich in women OF
every age and occupation points 60 great
defects in their trimming Had her mother
hsen wise she would have recognized that
the only possible end ~ mis- must be dis
astrous for Esther: but those were not the
DAYS ~ experimental education. and
mothers did not carry about with them
psychological Thermometers. She was
therefore allowed 20 GO on unheeded until
swift found to ris 6lsulhy rat his lessons
we're d-recl rded. while no himself re-
c..ivrd The -'ost profound attention from
nj pupil
Svif' was ~ whom Esther became his
pupil and she was -. Thus historian
finds that Swift's treatment Of the enam-
or,.I < irl as the o1ly treat msnt possible
Marriage 9Th her ar with any one else
WIS out ~ m" question II he could have
brought h,ms~lf - marry anybody Il
would undoubtedly have been Stella He
has been SrOnRIy bllmed for temporiz-
ing There are two possible reasons for
the course he followed he may not have
understood the power thaa an unssti>fied
passion has 81 consuming man or a
woman bo.iy and soul; Z was almost an
, inpO=sibhtv for u man Of his temporal
ment 10 understand u. Or he may have
Thought. go the event proved. that any
attempt Ia put Hn end forcibly TO Esther's
love for him w-u4Ild bs extremely disas-
tros He probably knew thai inteFfsr-
rnce by for,'. dO''s moi put an eDd to love;
~ only tends to increase II. tic therefore
adopted policy Of not seeing her and OF
writing 10 her as little as possible Esther
died ~ consumption. Possibly her death
was hasf~ned nv h~r jealous outbreak.
consequent upon TN. false rumor that
swift was going O marry STELLA