The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-08-19

| uOn SynulCHte lot all lne pIOuuClS VI
her pen for ten years. Miss ZELDA was
born and educated right here in New
! York, though much OF her time the
last few years has been spent abroad,
| chiefly in Paris, Brussels and Vienna.
| at is the women of New York who
are the great hypocrites,' she contn.
| ued. Always they shut their eyes
If they can only have money. They
know their husbands do wrong, but
they will not open their eyes, they
will not unseal their ears, they will
not speak.
| You tell me many women get di.
vorces, but | say II is only when the
husband cannot get them enough
money that they get divorce for
that which they know has always ex.
listed. Yes, they know, but they smile
and even receive the other woman in
their homes and pretend everything
is all right. Pah!" with a characteris
tic Mary Garden gesture, such hypo-
crisy is sickening.
Then there are the Others" she
hurried on "those ! call the humble
hypocrites. These women are afraid
to speak out. They are afraid to pro
test against the great conspiracy of
crime which they know is going on
around them all the time. They trem.
BILE at the mere thought of admitting
that anything is not as it should be-"
do you mean" she was asked
that a wife is a hypocrte if she ever
condones her husbands wrong doing?"
THAT is Just what | mean" respond.
ed Miss ZELDA.
"But If she loves him."
THAT makes no difference" inflex-
IDLY. mo matter how much she loves
him she must have sense of woman
ly pride and dignity which never
should endure his unfaithfulncss.
When she has given him everything
and he knows it and she knows it
then, when he goes to another woman
there is nothing for the wife to do but
to say, Take her and then to with
draw her countenance. Once the men
are convinced that the woman will
act in this way, then they will govern
themselves accordingly and act as
they should. Now they expect to be
forgiven or unnoticed and so they
don't try to restrain themselves.
New York men are altogether too
susceptible" she declared. "If any
young woman with the least bit of
magnetism and tact and even moder-
) ately attractive, is thrown TO any ex-
tent with any man in New York,
don't care whether he's married or
single, she can just twist him around
her little finger. She can do exactly
as she likes with him and it lasts till
the next girl comes along. New
Workers take their love deals as they
take their business deals-with a rush.
And neither one has any permanence
"a man and girl become acquaint-
ed. In four weeks they're engaged
they've fallen head over heels in love
with each other. Then, again, in four
: weeks they're married. And maybe
four weeks after they're trying to get
a divorce. What they call love is a
{ flame that starts in a minute and
scars up high in another minute and
: the next minute is all gray ashes"
Then you think romance-real ro
mance-is dead?" she was asked.
Romance is never dead-real love
cannot die"
TELL me your definition of 'rea
lover"
; "Why, it's a trinity" she smiled
There's the purely physical attrac
ton, that by itself is passion, but
that must be part of real love. Their
there is the mental communion, the
perfect understanding, the ability T.
read each others thoughts without
: the congenial talk of books and mu
J.. sic and plays and philosophy. Tht
u best sweetheart is always a chum, too
you know.
: And then there's what I call The
1ove-love.' It's the part Of love tina
!. doesn't want the person cared for T.
l be hurt in any way, that would pro
all the world that would so inhnitel.
e rather suffer in rlace of the beloved.
Those three kinds OF love max,
9 IN the perfect affection between mai
Z and woman. But if only one of thu
three is lacking, there is bound t,
7 be discord and jangling. That's VIII.
there are so many divorces-becaus
l. the husband and wife don't care TO
t each other in all the three ways.
. do you know how you can tell sure
e ly if you don't love a persona" Mis-
a ZELDA demanded suddenly.
u IF you are jealous of him, then yo
don't care for him. Jealousy does no
belong to love. It's pure selfishnes
and vanity. Love presupposes perfec
trust. Now, either you trust a love
. or you don't trust him-that is, your
jealous of him. In that case you don
e really love him.
" Jealousy shows such a humiliatin
loss of self-respeCt, 100. It's as if yo
sair to yourself, Now, love this ma
j. ana ne loves me, and yet | am nc