Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-12

return for honest service? You have done
all kinds of work: you have dug bitches
and YOU have the sons OF rlch men Ior
college fitted when you lived in London
I also have worked with my hands ahn
with my head all over the world But
did YOU ever hear Lorrain brag OF work
ing? He would like to be called nero
for giving up his title but still get all
that his title ever brought him. His ram
ily tree is a rotten one; / looked it up
il wasn't there.
Ivan looked solemn at this account OF
the peculiar trickery Of Lorrain's family
tree, but he shook his head. NO. can
not believe that he was never count
He acts like one"
"Acts like one?' scoffed Emil. You
still have something of the peasant chns-
ing TO YOU after all Acts like one. one
would think that being count was as
hard to hide as being zebra. was
waited on once by real count ana Tor
All I know I have been shaved by one.
at must have been long ago said
Ivan. looking at his friends tangled
beard lis it not strange that Dick sets
so much affection on dog
Emil looked at Ivan and winked long.
knowing and thoroughly profound wink.
"Nietzsche says, Ivan: 'ovgrsWeet Irui ,.s
the warrior liketh not. Therefore he
liketh woman. Bitter Is even the sweet
est woman Dick has in him much OF
the warrior-but l do not deny that he Is
fond OF that bulldog"
Ivan sat in deep study. All women
arc not bitter he said, softly.
Not to all men-at the same time
chuckled Emil.
II was thinking Of my mother" said
Ivan
..Think then, also of your father" re-
turned Emil "He knew more on some
subjects than you.
Ivan merely sighed. He found it neces-
sary to sigh frequently in order to orush
away the minor irritatlOns when were
by-product of his friendship Tor Emil.
That a nature could De Dattereu ana
abused as Ivan's had been and still re-
tain it's sweetness, it's ideals, and, TO
large extent. it's reverence. was condl-
ton which Emil was unable to grasp. He
had undergone much the same process,
but the result had been entirely dlnerent.
Now he very rarely felt things: he mere
" thought them. He looked on 1ndi-
viduals of his own species much as he
looked on ants. 1t amused him to study
their busting ways. but their emotions
were entirely apart from him.
"Woman's development has been so
hampered by man that no matter what
she has done-and l admit that some
women have, through bitterness and van
ity, caused much evil-yet. no matter
what she has done, l could never hate
her. said Ivan.
1T is just and wise to hate those who
have injured YOU. IVAN said Emil. virtu-
ousy.
1T belongs to human nature to hate
those you have injured" responded Ivan.
quietly.
'Tacitus invented many aphorisms you
could do entirely without" rejoined Emil,
kindly letting Ivan know who was more
fittingly responsible for the sentiment he
had just expressed. 1t weakens man
to love the wicked"
mo man ever became wicked all at
once answered Ivan.
"Juvenal did not have sufficient data
when he wrote that responded Emil
"A wicked man was born a wicked man.
When he first contemplates evil, when he
first considers 1t. when he first embraces
it. are merely descending opportunities.
or steps, on the same stair"
THAT is nonsense" said Ivan. en-
phatically. You so love to break down
a maxim that you care not IL the truth
also goes down with II. And, also, you
think it is wonderfully smart to give the
name of an authority who has also ut
tered the same sentiment that another
speaks For me, am always willing 70