The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-12

riedly. took out photograph and
handed it to Helen.
THAT is a man whom l know very
well-and l think In some ways he
must be much like your husband"
The fact WAS an exceptionally
strong one-one of determination and
force. But there were hard. almost
cruel lines around the mouth. and the
eyes under the heavy brows were
stern and piercing.
1T is very strong face" murmur-
ed Helen, awkwardly hardly knowing
what to say.
Yes, and he's a very strong man
but in many ways very bad one. All
his life he has dominated every one
with whom he has come in contact
and now he is trying to dominate me.
He rides roughshod over everything.
And yet | think it's partly his very
harshness. his brutal Indifference that
makes me care. Every other man
seems weak in comparison. Somehow
his very neglect and discourtesy
make the ordinary attentions and cour-
tesies of other men seem feminine.
Oh with a catch in her voice, why
does the mere brute force in man
appeal so to a woman? Sometimes |
think all women are primitive saw
ages-that they want cave men to
knock them over the head and drag
them by the hair
Helen was gazing at Mrs. Morrison
with breathless silence. Then was her
own experience common one? Did
other women love the man who rough
ly dominated them? And who was this
man-whOse picture she still held in
her hand?"
She looked down at it now with
keener interest.
There is nothing that draws two
women more closely together than
some similar and unhappy experience
in love. And now Helen had to crush
! down a dozen eager questions. 1t was
not mere curiosity that made her long
to know more about this man-it was
something far deeper than that.
WHY SHE LEFT HIM.
Perhaps Mrs. Morrison OWNED her
sympathy and the unasked question,
for she went on musingly:
Il told you about leaving Mr.. Nor
rison because we were so desperately
poor and he had so little ambitions
! That was a mistake. He was a good
man, and he loved me, and | should
have stayed with him. But | was more
capable than he, and for woman to
be more capable than her husband IS
always an unfortunate thing-unless
she is tactful enough to hide it. Any
way, | started out for myself. And |
have succeeded-at least | make sixty
dollars week, which | suppose for 4
woman means a fair amount Of sue
cess But, oh, I've been so lonely.
She hesitated q moment, and then
went on.
OF course | have met men-many
of them. But no one for whom | have
ever cared-no one who has ever uOm-
! mated me as this man does. He's away
now. He has interests in Canada; he's
there most of the time. And II SIM
ply live for the few days a month he
! is here. He only comes on business, he
never comes purposely to see me, or
if he did he wouldn't give me the sat
isfaction of knowing it. He has new
er really said that he loved me-and
yet | know that he does. l know he
would rather be with me than with
any one else. But oh. he's so selfish
and Sc self-centered ."
Il wonder" asked Helen gently. "If
all men who are strong are not self
| centered ?"
Yes, l have thought of that" she
said quickly, It's tn man who is for
| chile, who is unyielding and full Of
egotism-that is the man who domi-
mates us and whom we love. While the
man with the less strength, less per-
sonal force, is apt to be more gentle
and more unseltsh-and yet that man
! rarely gets a wOman's intense. abtect
devotion. Her instincts are primitive,
and she loves most the man who ride )
over her rOughshod.'