The Washington herald., 1910-07-24

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child 6xakens- IT'S first sound il can to the
ons Il loves best.
aiy childhood never dies. Always. always upon
awakening my heart calls to the one ! love-
Ny thought seems separate from my body from
my will No matter with whom have spent the
day nor how much I have thought q him, upon
awakening from prOfund sleep my thought flies
to ycu.
awakened Just before dawn to a new world
/ lay quite still with my eyes closed.
In all this great city not a sound
I listened. Not a breath not a wing hutters.
Silence l feel you. I clasp you. I drink you.
Tho glitter. the confusion the Of battle have
passed. This IS the tented field
lie wrapped in my coyerlet. folded in the womb
of night
A faint regular beat as Of muffed duzn vibrates
In my Ear. Il Is my heart.
In the midst Of death / am in life.
Again my healtbful soul peeps out from
the dark and responds to the light The
ebb and flow Of tide in the soul succeed
each other as they do in the ocean. and
the action is as uncomfortable, as in
explicable. How much Of our nature IS
under the control OF physics, purely? We
know not, and perhaps It would not be
well for US to know.
look we'll tonight. and Jimmie will
soon be here. Jack liked me best when I
looked best, perhaps. that is natural, but
Jimmie likes me Just the same. always.
There is a sort Of restfulness in a man
like that. With some men a woman
must always be on dress parade. For
what other reason does fashion exist,
mean fashion in woman's dress, that
fascination which enthralls
the world?
Did Robinson Crusoe have mirror?
It would have told him many stories If
he had been able TO translate them. Il
tells woman OF her power-the most
fascinating thought that ever crosses her
mind, Was there ever one who did not
glory In her power? one stakes all upon
the power of her beauty; another upon
the power OF her possessions; another
upon the power of her intellect; and
some very unhappy women stake all upon
the power Of their love The dream Of
It is with her from her cradle TO the
house of rest Some -ToInen realize it
in their sons and husbands. But that
is not quite personal enough. Some types
OF women take this secondary place and
make good wives and mothers, but the
woman VINO makes the superb wife. the
superb mother, is the womans who real
ICES power In herself and is strong
enough to keep her head through the
There are two types OF man TO which
each woman responds-her, physical op-
posite, who attracts her through what We
call magnetism. and the intellectual op-
posite, whose temperament alone domi-
mates her. OF course, a man is so in
nuenced too, but he is apt to be domi-
mated In turns by sundry and various
types, for ne is much more complex after
all than woman, deeper and stronger.
therefore much more slowly does he
reach an understanding with himself
Since emerging from my chrysalis
state, with new ideas or wings 10 fit the
new atmosphere. I find that there is a
man I have known for a long time and
whom have liked for a long time with
out realizing It. who nov. makes me
think of him, and shamefaeedly, I con-
fess it, because I desplse the tickle, vary
Ing, shallow-nuaTts ed. who forget easily,
interests me. and is helping me TO re-
create my world again for you know
my world a little whils ago was chaos,
and without form and void.
This man dominates. my moods. You
can measure a friends influence over you
by his ability to do that. / am said to
have temperament and to spare. but
Jimmie has it to share. and that is bet
ter. He often looks into my mirror with
me. and he is a whole company. He is
Jacks opposite, and both men are proud
and ambitious and both are passionate /
Of temper. but there the likeness ends. /
Jack is all impulse. and he lets II work
for a time, Of whom he may
hurt. then his sorrow is too deep for
words, and he is Impossible" until he
finds his equilibrium again.
Jimmie shows his impulsive nature con-
-rOlled as II by bit and snaffie until every
nerve tlngles. He comes now beside me
4 COOL refined presence. all thought, with
feeling put quite in the background. Jack
seems to look over the other shoulder,
2 glowing. radiant personality, all feel
ng, with thought well In the background. |
He is natural compelling-charming
The other is trained man-profound and
in that curbed power One is
nine (shall I never lose that thought, /
the other a comparative stranger, and
sit and muse on both and sometimes
wish that they were one. and then I am
glad that they are such distinct identi- |
lies, for Jack is OF in a temper and
nay not return and I must have some one
10 talk with me, to speculate with me, TO
1ream with me, and I am not, protest. !
4 coquette, only a natural woman with
both feeling and thought, and both strug- |
Cling just now as to which shall be put
n the background.
Now will laugh and play with life for |
In hour!
The light touch! II is another name for |
grace, that charming word May 1t be- |
,Ome habitual-this spirit of touch and go. |
70 relinquish a thought the moment It !
becomes painful. 10 change the subject |
before one wearies the listener; to APP
,reoiate the nice distinction in everything
between enough and safety, is the spirit !
which gives the delightful poise 70 some
characters.
Perhaps the most interesting line ever
written was the one traced upon the |
land. ALICE GARDINER wHIPPLER.
Summer Neckwear.