The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-20
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WOULD PAT LIKE TO SEE HIS
OWN STORY IN PRINT

WOULD PAT LIKE TO SEE HIS
OWN STORY IN PRINT
"You don't know what you arc
asking. Pat" said. as my heart
began 20 go NJ trip-hhmmer speed.
why, do you know-but OF
course you could not-~that you are
IN the little book. that ali my
friends are In it1 have talked
20 that book M could 20 no iiy.
ing person. Pat. cannot unfold
all the lives Of my friends IN this
way. Every one would recognize
II and themselves. even tho !
changed the names Why. Pat,
Two connded 90 my little book all
| knew and have thought about
your tragic romance and friend
ship with Chad How would you
like 20 see that IN print7"
Pat turned pale MY story" he
said. seems rather trivial. but II
you thought Il was part OF the
human document YOU have spread
on the pages OF your little book, !
would not object
You see. Margie. we are such
conceitad wreteheH We only
think OF ourselves and our own
little circle Of friends Wo say 20
ourselves. i cannot let the world
know and yet the world 10 rs n
oniY few friends IN perhaps one
little city. II your little book II
what think II II. sincere and
absolutely faithful transcript or
human life. human eudeayor. hu'
man mistakes. human errors. hu'
man Joys and human sorrows. with
your analysis and thought behind
| II. Il should be one Of the greatest
helps 10 men aud women.
"liut. my dear Pat. don't you zee
I'm no sometimes ] think
am almost a sinner. ! have never
pretended to my little book
have been absolutely truthful and
more sincere than could ever
have been had ! thought the story
was TO be told elsewhere.
People read into stories things
that tho writer's never dreamed OF
being there I could not bear b.
have some one miHundcrHtand you.
for instance. have told my little
book that you were MAN, Some
might say when reading about you
that you could never have sacri.
feed love for frlepdship and found
4, worth while. aad. having done
30, At times wished you bad not
How do you know that. Mar
gieT" interrupted Pat. bis voice
ltrsfnh bling with ernption.
simply because you are Just =
human being the same as ] am.
| I answered. You no more than
can always live up TO your Ideals.
You see. sometimes feel that.
knowing art T. selection our writ.
ers mako their selection too care
fnliy--thelr heroes are too heroic,
their heroineR too. lovely aud
sweet. Their saints are not only
without sin. but also without hu'
man paKaiona--almost without hu.
man emotions: their sinners have
no redeeming qualities.
'Pat. I'm going to tell you some
thing: something that makes me
very charitahle-vcry humble
and that IL that have found out
that the space between what we
call good and what we call evil r
only the slightest slip Of the
tongue flicker OF an eyelash
of times
." Lead us not into temptation
should be the plea Of us all. for
none OF US that is made IN mortal
mold is able always 90 withstand
temptation. provided Il comes In
the right guise at the right time
and the right place.
We pride ourselves on our
goodness often because the par
ticular bad thing that would Rp'
ipeal TO us has never come in iuxta.
position with time, place and cir
Icumstance. and 40 we Judge others
whose lines have not fallen in such
pleasant places very harshly.
THAT IA the reason. Pat, why
take so much comfort with my III
tie book. II plays no favorites-ii
does not make me say 20 II the
tame things | ought 20 say. but the
true things I want 90 say--it lets
me be perfectly sincere, perfectly
human"
And that Is Just why. my dear
MarFie. II should he published. II
would certainly make people think
make them more charitable
make them understand."
But would Il, Pst7 wonld an,
ono understand the absolutely sim
pie truth OF II all1 I'm no prig
Pat ! could not TELL 10 any one
the things have TOLD so freely
10 my little book. I know I have
clarified life for myself by writing
lit. | know that all the experiences
In II are neutrality-suspicious. that
the daily paper chronicles every
lday-and yet ! know that many o.
these experiences would be denied
20 good man or woman 10y
those critics who do not stop e
think that In all the human worlds
OF which we know. only one mar
has ever stood the test OF perfec