The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-30
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Problem
Being a Story OF Liter
airy Education
By BARBARA PHIPPS
By BARBARA PHIPPS

dred Swift was that they were both in.
tellectual, both what the dancing SET
cailed "booky. Now, intellectual Der.
SUNS may love as we'll as other Der.
sons, and the chances are that whom
they get down to the real thing" thev
Will be like other real lovers-lovov
dovey-and as real little children tall,
paoy TAX. so will these intellectual
lovers talk love talk. don't mean
mat he will say to her. WHO is Tho
delight of thy hearth" and she will 70.
ply You. or that he will say "Whosc
pet pldon are 'ou?" ana She win re-
ply, "'Ours."
what ! do mean is that they viii say
what they really feel, clothing it in |
language that has been used by lovers |
from time. immemorial
v hen Tymerson met Miss Swift hc |
nad recently been graduated at one Of
the oldest universities in America. ono
~ Whleh knoWledge had reached
pinnacle so high that the professors.
looking down from it unon what was
/ beneath, as man viewing surround
ing peaks from the highest Of a noun
tain range, had begun to take the no
sition that those outside their own wv
clad college walls We're mere pinheads
In the intellectual world.
Tymerson was fair representative
OF his alma mater, and this is a 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
g1ate method at a one horse college
containing mere bagatelle Of 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 1udg-
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 it
impressed Miss Swift. She, too, was a
college graduate and during her col
lege career had contributed to the De-
riodicals issued at her alma mater.
More than this, emboldened by her lit
erary prominence while in college she
had soon after being graduated aspjred
to the writing of story. or. rather
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 it
could breathe at ALL
One of the first experimentation fan
cied requirements of 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 to
him to secure his opinion OF its merits. |
But the young authoress knew that |
when a man of the world is given |
something to read which has been |
written by one of his lady friends it is
with the expectation that he will say |
something complimentary about it. |
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 I
these two young persons. On the con T,
trary. their hearts struck the love gait /
as soon as they became acquainted. If |
there was the coldness of intellectual I
ity between them they met in the sea
son of ethereal mildness, and that is +
half of Cupid's battle, for it is well |
huON lIdJ tne llItle goa HltS MS ar
rows in the spring with more telling
effect than any other season.
A courtship ensued which lasted for
a year. Then Mr. TymersOn spoke.
From what has been said of him it
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 with
one another. and when love asserts
itself intellect takes a back seat The
took place in a fashion very
ordinary and In which a large number
of proposals are made. Tymerson one
evening essayed to kiss Miss Swift.
She objected on the ground that he
had no such right, whereupon he grew
and gave himself the right
by stammering out disjointed state
ment that he loved her and would she
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 herseh. Six
months after she had written her novel
she read it, not having seen 1t in the
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