El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-02
By MABEL
HERBERT URNER

hurTiedly. took out photograph and
handed il TO Helen
That is a man whom I know very
Well-and I think in some ways he
must be much like your husband"
The face was an exceptionally
strong One-One Of determination and
force But there were hard almost
J cruel lines around the mouth. and the
Eyes under the heavy brOws were
stern and piercing
1T is 4 very strong face. muir
INJURED Helen. awkwardly, hardly
knowing what to say.
Yes, and he's a very strong man
but in many ways a very hard one.
All his lie be has dominated every
one with whom be has come in con-
tact-and now he Is trying to dOmi-
nate me Re rides rOughshOd over
everything. And Yet I think it's partly
Els very narshneSS mis- brutal iudirfer-
ence that makes me care Every other
man seems weak In comparison Some
how his very neglect and discourtesy
make the ordinary attentions and cour-
teSies Of other men seem feminine. Oh. -
with catch IN her voice. why does the
mere brute force IN a man appeal so
TO woman Sometimes think all
women are primitive savages-thaU
they want a cave man to knock them
over the head and drag them by the
Helen was gazing at Mrs. Morrison
with breatnless silence. Then was her
own experience a common One2 Did
dominated them: And who was this
man-whose picture she still held in
her handZ She looked down at IL now
with keener interest.
mere is nothing that draws two
women more closely together than
some similar and unhappy experience in
love And now Helen had TO crush
down dozen eager questions It was
not mere curiosity that made her long
TO know more about this man-it was
something Tar deeper than that
Why She Left Him.
.-,- FerhSps Mrs Morrison OWNED her
Tor she went on musingly.
tod you ABOUT leaving Mr.. Nor
rlSOn because we were so desDeratelv
poor ana he had so little ambition
mat was mistake. He was a gOOd
man. and he loved me, and I should
nave stayed with him But / was
more capable than he. and for a woman
70 be more capable than her husband
Is always ali unfortunate thfng-un-
less she is tactful enough to hide il
anyway, / started out for myself And
1 nave succeeQed-at least ] make sixty
dollars week. which I suppose for a
woman means a fair amount of sue
cess But Oh, I've been so lonely
went on.
'Of course 7 have met men-manv
or them But no one for whom I have
ever cared-no one who has ever dom
mated me as this man does He's away
now. he mas interests In Toronto, hes
there most Of the time And II sim
ply live for the few days a month
ne Is here. He only comes on business, [
ne never comes purpOsely to see me- Z
or IT he did-he wouldn't give me the I
satisfaction of knowing II. He has /
never really said that he loved me- [
and yet 1 know that he does. 7 know 4
he would rather be with me than with !
anyone else But oh, he's so selfish and (
so self-centeredt
7 wonder" asked Helen pan+Iv ..ff /
all men who are strong are not self
centered?"
Yes. I have thought of that she
said quickly. Its the man who is
-Orcible, who is unyielding and full of
sgOusm-that is the man who domin-
1tes us and whom we love While the
nan with less strength. less, personal
force, is apt to be more gentle and
more unselfish-and yet that man Z
rarely gets a Woman's intense, abjecJ
devotion. Her instincts are primitive. Z
md she loves most the man who rides
over her roughshOd-"