The Detroit times., 1910-08-10
TO LOVE is THIRST
AND TO THIRST
IS TO PRAY
spiritual Passion" With Physical
Touches Exemplifed in Book by
Mrs. Edith Hall 0rthwein, West
ern Authoress.
The Greatest Thing in the World is
the Love of Man and Woman"
go She Says.
BY AGNES APPLETON.

NEW YORK, Aug. iO.--I found her
IN pink and lacy lingerie house
gown, en- the eve of her departure for
brittany, where love was young and
robust thousand years ago. The
golden wisps OF her hair nestled In the
races about her neck, and the pink
or her plump, downy cheekc rhymed
with the color note OF her gown.
All this made very pretty picture,
with its setting or New York hotel
luxury-but / was wee bit disap-
pointed. One expects something dark
ly fascinating, something slender and
brunetish, something smoldering with
volcanic fire In the poetess Of passion,
the woman novelist OF love. There
was nothing suggestive of slenderness
In the pink gown.
But Mrs. Edith Hall Orthwein WAS
fascinating when she began to talk.
AS the writer or our latest literary
sensation, Love In the Weaving"
lad gone to her for a definition OF
love, It's something I've wanted TO
know for a long time. There was no
hesitation, no pause fo- emotional
thought
Gives Her Definition.
1--we told that on the very first page
OF my book" said Mrs. Orthwein.
ITO love is ever to thirst, and TO
thirst Is ever TO pray.
ffrrrs love r. prayer; and trcy who
love best pray best.
Love is a necessity 10 each of us.
We cannot live truly without it. We
only develop through the heights of
happiness and the depths of pain.
Love is the only emotion that can
raise us to the heights OF lower us to
the depths"
Mrs. Orthwein spoke with all the
enthusiasm OF the western woman.
She spoke as II she knew both the
heights and the depths. She is the
beautiful, happy wife of a wealthy
Kansas City broker She knows So
ciety. Her book is the result OF her
belief that she knows what the public
wants and knows how TO write II:
for isn't love the alpha and TIE ONE
ga? Also the middle initial. what
ever that may be IN Greek
Mature gives her love full and free:
and are we not greater than Nature?''
queried Mrs. OTthwein. | agreed that
we were; there could be no doubt
about that.
Love is holy. don't you Think" she
went on. Almost too holy ever TO
have perfection I'm this world. The
heart is like the flower which yields
not its sweetness till 1t be crushed.
Life in all its saddening, and in all
its gladdening phacesJlove, disap-
pointment, sickness. death--all is Civ
en- to make us great by opening the
door of our understanding.
1.-The greatest thing in the world
Is the love of man and woman. The
love OF the truly mated is the greatest
love in the world--greater by far than
mother love. The love of a mother
for her child is natural passion-thc
child is part OF her flesh and blood
but the love of woman for a man is
wonderful, unknown and unknowable.
81 am student of love psychology
but have very poetical tempera-
ment. | dislike the grosser side. In
Love IN the Weaving. / have touched
ON somewhat the same idea as El;nor
GYMS Three Weeks but | have
touched a great many things very
lightly. The physical-dwelling upon
II. | mean-repulses me So"
Twas Light Of Great Love.
left Mrs. Orthwein still wrapped in
her pink house gown and her purple