The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-21
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MarCia'S
Problem
Being a Story of Liter
airy Education
By BARBARA PHIPPS
By BARBARA PHIPPS

tellectual, both what the dancing set
called "booky." Now, intellectual per-
sons may love as well as other per
sons, and the chances are that when
they get down TO the real thing" they
will be like other real lovers-lovey
dovey--and as real little children talk
baby talk. 30 will these intellectual
lovers talk love talk. don't mean
that he will say to her. "Who is the
delight of thy hearth" and she will re-
ply You" or that he will say Whose
pet pid'on are our and she will re-
ply, "'Ours'
What do mean is that they will say
what they really feel. clothing it in
language that has been used by lovers
from time immemorial
When Tymerson met Miss Swift he
had recently been graduated at one of
the Oldest universities in America, one
in which knowledge had reached Il
pinnacle so high that the professors.
looking down from it upon what was
beneath. as man viewing surround
ing peaks from the highest of noun
tain range, had begun to take the po-
sition that those outside their own ivy
clad college walls were mere pinheads
in the intellectual world
Tymerson was a fair representative
of his alma mater, and this is q prime
reason why Miss Swift was first at
tracted to him. At the time he was in
trOduced to her there were several
persons in the group, including a
| young man whose intellect had just
been Matched under the ordinary collie
| giate method at a one horse college
| containing mere bagatelle of a thou
| sand students and which dated back
not more than $50 years. This young
man ventured the statement that Mr.
| Dickens would outlive Mr.. Thackeray
Miss Swift noticed the look Tymerson
! gave the speaker and the delicacy with
which he turned the subject without
even deigning reply.
An elaborate lecture on literature
could not have given so marked an i'm
preston Of the superior literary judg-
ment Of Mr.. Tymerson as this quiet
squelching of the person who had ven.
tured an opinion in his presence. But
there was an especial reason why il
impressed Miss Swift. She, too, was a
college graduate and during her col
lege career had contributed to the pc
riodicals issued at her alma mater
More than this, emboldened by her lit
erary prominence while in college she
had soon after being graduated aspired
to the writing of story. or. rather. q
novel.
The literary atmosphere she had
breathed was, like that found in high
attitudes, rare. In the school she had
been taught to admire cultured fami
lies. The Imagination was tabooed
Dramatic situations were considered
as pertaining only to yellow literature
Some writers of this school had at
tanned an elevation where the atmos
! phere was so rare that only readers
with lungs especially prepared for II
! could breathe at all.
| One Of the first requirements-or fan
cied requirements literary begin
ners is criticism. As soon as Miss
Swift had become impressed with Mr.
Tymerson's literary judgment she was
DESTROYS of submitting her work tC
him to secure his opinion Of its merits
But the young authoress knew that
when man of the world Is giver
! something to read which has beer
written by one of his lady friends it i,
| with the expectation that he will say
something complimentary about 1t
Miss Swift, desiring an unbiased opin
ion, determined to wait for an opportu
nifty TO get her novel before Mr. Tymer
sons critical eye without his knowing
that she was its author.
This preliminary may make it appear
that there was no love affair between
these two young persons. On the con
trary, their hearts struck the love gait
as soon as they became acquainted. il
there was the GOODNESS of intellectual
] ity between them they met in the sea
son of ethereal mildness, and that IS
half of Cupid's battle, for it is wei
known that the little god fires his ar
rows in the spring with more telling
effect than any other season.
A courtship ensued which lasted fol
year. Then Mr. Tymerson spoke
From what has been said of him i
may be supposed that his proposal was
a model Of courtliness expressed in the
choicest English. This is not so. Love
/ and intellect have nothing to do witt
one another. and when love asserts
itself intellect takes a back seat The
PROPOSAL took place in fashion very
ordinary and in which large number
! of proposals are made. Tymerson one
evening essayed to kiss Miss Swift
She objected on the ground that be
had no such right, whereupon he grew
/ ashamed and gave himself the right
j bv stammering out disjointed state
ment that he loved her and would she
Z marry him? 1t was after the break
had been made that loves baby talk
came in.
: During all this time Mildred Swift
kept her literary labors to herself. SIX
months after she had written her novel
she read it. not having seen 1t In the
meantime. and il struck her as worth