The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-13
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LOVE is NO SIGN OF
MARRIAGE

no YOU know. Margie." said
Paula. Il gradually come to realize
that there was after all nothing IN
the whole bag OF tricks. as Emma
would say. 30 interesting as life
When YOU come To realize that all
OF life Is lust playing the game.
things simplify themselves greatly,
| have always been able To get
away from myself so that | could
look upon my haps and mishaps In
Kind OF detached way
when was very. very miser
able | Sald to myself. poor you.
jest 40 | would say Il 10 you. and
when was very. very happy
could appreciate and congratulate
myself accordingly.
Il have never taken myself too
seriously. ! guess. and even when
| walked the streets once with four
uickels In my pocket. wonderrg
where | could find a place To sleep
for two OF them. somehow | did not
Despair.
II was not youth. Marsie. be-
cause | am not now "a young as
was then, and have the same feel.
ing now. hut at that time | was
on the whole very happy. was
doing work which | loved and for
which | was receiving much com
Iiaendatlon. Earnest Iawton was
making desperate and. It seemed.
sincere love TO mo.
/ A
% rail against tho institution OF
marriage. II shocked me
My dear. he said to me, don't
YOU know that marriage as We
know II nov cannot IN the very
nature OF things DO successful
Men and women do not like each
I either
But | Interrupted.
But me no butts. he quoted. !
must still call you a baby child n
you have not found out yet that
loving and hating are almost the
same thing Crushing and con
ouerlng are very much alike. and
when You hate you want to crush.
and when you love you want 10
conquer
We don't wish 10 conquer
when we give ourselves. Earnest.
Buncombe.' was Earneats re
mark No woman gives herself TO
man In marriage or otherwise
any more than men give them.
selves 10 women II e. not even
equal exchange. fifty.fiity II is|
combat. contest. conquest and that
Ia worth while In this world whcth.
or II be over love or hate or money
OF fame or anything that humanity
holds dear.
Il did not know then. Margic
what sophistry this was. did not
know that It was all said with a
purpose. I contrAs'ed it's beautiful
sounding periods with poor Jeirs
haltingiy honest protestRtions and
thought cxultantly that had
found a man TO Iowa man who
knew not only his world but him.
self. and you can imagine how
proud was that such a man had
teiected me 10 be his wife
For. notwithstanding all the
speeches he had made against mar
rage. and In spite OF tho fact that
Earnest Lawtoa had never formally
rsked me to marry him. ccI.a not
believe. such was my bringing up.
that he did not expect 10 marry me
In the near future.
Consequently. when he made
any derogatory allusion to mar
riage. always had a cold little
feeling about my heart
1t was Just about this time that
had one OF the most exciting cpl
sodes OF my career went out one
evening with Earnest TO one OF the
bohemian places in Greenwich vii.
lage and there at Polls met my
two cousins and a rather stolid
looking Englishman very we'll set
up and with military air.
MY cousins pretended not TO
know me. but at Polls you sit at
long tables and the Engllshman
knew Earnest and spoke TO him IN
such q manner that introductions
followed.
Think of H. Margie-being in
PRODUCED 10 your own cousins and
having them acknowledge the in
Productions without batting an eye
Il must tell you what happened
that evening. had It not been tragic,
would have been a joke-a least.
1t had great Influence on me In aft
or life