Evening star., 1915-02-07
Drawings by M. Leone Bracker

Il dumping grounds, and not OVert1dy one at
that,-a hilly wilderness of piled up rocks left
over when the work finished. The thunderous
of the volcanic melting pot, the welding hammer
of the icecap the Slow grinding, glacial pressure
thus had left it, grim, bleak Eden for Dame
Nature to tend.
The SCARED nakedness shocked her,-she ever
something of a Mrs. Grundy,-so she brought forth
her wonderful fabrics and arrayed it after her
exquisite fashion,-tall trees, waving grasses
gemmed with half-hd flowers velvet moses and
green-gray lchens, sturdy bramble and vagrant
creeper. The hilsides and wales became sanctuary
wherein the moose, caribou, and deer, the bear,
lynx, and wolf, and innumerabe other wild crea-
lures, fourished and pershed,- "a kingdom governed
by nexorable law, without hypocrisies atr,isns,
frankly Implying and ruthless the law of the alert
brain, noiseess foot, keen claw, sharp fang,the law
that taught to mark weakness spring swiftly, strike
surely, and the grip of the locked jaw
until the foes cessation from struggle announced
death and victory.
The hot ashes of a lumber jacks pipe upon
sun-scorched grass served to wipe out the age-ong
husbandres of Dame Nature and break up the saw
age kingdom of the wild. When the roaring torrent
of flame had passed, the hills and wales of Havilah
again lay black and bare in the shaming sunlight.
Erased the wonderful green and GRIM
son and gold of the woods; destroyed
dispersed in wildeyed terror the creatures .
they had shetered stripped and swept, =
the bare house as if in preparation for some
new, strange tenant!
So ran the Ancient Word,-chaos-
cosmos-the grass, herb, tree-the creep
ing ng-beast-cattle-the Man
then Woman.
I'VE stood at the farmhouse door and
II called "Adam!" There was no re-
sponse. The hour noon, the day
fercely hot. Dinner ready. She stood -
and waited "a tall, handsome woman,
with large, restless eyes, firmly drawn, full -
red lips abundant raven black hair braided
and coiled with tasteful neatness From *
her 1.-THE, long-limbed grace gathered -
the impression of alert, vigorous swiftness
of mind and body, eye and tongue,-a
woman of dreams and woman of action, -
courageous, vivid, decisive. There was in
her bearing even in repose that which y
suggested mperiouSness She was five and Il %
twenty. eHs
Eden was lonely spot for a wide
vsioned, boundessy ambitious woman of
the years of Eve; SO she spoke much with
the Serpent that Ancient Serpent, wisest
of all creatures of the field who did not
always go upon his belly. He was her in
structor, philosopher, counselor.
Discomfort written her broad
brow, in the hunger in her ever-questing
eyes; she pupil after his own heart,
and he selected disciples with infinitely
fastidous care, having neither time 1.-The sou
patience for numskuls. He found her had bur
ceptve to the Word, quick to grasp strong
to retain, answering to practise its pre-
cepts When he thought of Eve and Adam together
man and wife, he laughed mmoderately for phil
osopher who should laugh more readily than he
Poor dull lump of an Adam! To till and deve to
and browse bovinely forever in the Garden east
of Eden, filed lifes cup of happiness for him. She
dreamed oe world beyond the pale her heart throbbng
with desire Of until its ache became almost insup-
portable. He paralyzed by the corrodng vice Of
contentment. His Paradise her prison, hateful,
repulsive. Miles upon miles, and miles again, of PRAIRIE
the heaving, gray mass of mid Atlantic
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