New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-05-18

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:ttrartion?"
Don't you think it would be n mis-
take" said Rose, for me to try tC
nnhlyze it? Suppose | did and fount
here wasn't any"
rs that what's the matter with Rod.
neyT' he asked. SIS this sort Oft
GESTURE with his head took in the table
- caramel diet beginning to &C
against his teeth?"
lie had 10 work tonight" Rose
said. He was awfully sorry he could.
MT come She smiled Just a little
ironically as she said it. and exagger-
ated by a hairs breath, perhaps, the
purely conventional nature of the re-
ply.
YES he observed. that's what We
say. Sometimes il gets us off and
sometimes ii doesn't"
We'll, it got him off tonight" she
said. HE was pretty impressive. He
said there was a ruling decision
against him and he had to make some
sort of distinction so that the decision
wouldn't rule. Do you know what
that means? | don't"
"Why didn't you ask him." Ran
dolph wanted to know.
Il did, and he said he couldn't ex-
plain 1t, but that it would take a
month. SO of course there wasn't
time"
II thought" said Randolph. that he
used to talk law to you by the hour"
The button wasn't on the foil that
time. because the thrust brought blood
"A bright flush into her cheeks and a
sudden brightness into her eyes that
would have induced him to relent if
she hadn't followed the thing up of
her own accord.
Il wish you'd tell me something"
she said. ~ expect you know better
than anyone else | could ask. Why
it is that husbands and wives can't
talk to each other: Imagine What this
table would be If the husbands and
wives sat side by side"
The cigarettes came around just
''''' Hhu hV hSittu Ont TutntT ut-
liberately, at one of the candles, before
he answered.
II am under the IMPRESSION he
said. that husbands and wives can
talk exactly as well as any other two
people. Exactly as well, and no bet
ter. The necessary conditions for real
conversation are a real interest in and
knowledge Of a cOmmOn subject /;
ability on the part of both to con-
tribute something toward that subject.
Well. II a husband and wife can meet
those terms, they can talk. But the
joker is. as our legislative friend over
there would say"-he nodded down the
table toward Il young millionaire of
.altruistic principles, who had got
elected to the state assembly the
joker is that Il man and Il woman who
aren't married, and who are moderate
ly attracted to each other, can talk,
or seem to talk, without meeting those
conditions"
"Seem to talk?' she questioned.
Seem TO exchange ideas mutually.
they think they do. but they don't.
It's pure Illusion, that's the answer"
I'm not clever, really" said Rose,
don't know much, and | simply
don't understand. Will you explain it,
in short words" she smiled "since
we're not married. you know"
He grinned back at her. "All right"
he said. "since we're not married. |
will. Wen take II Hypothetical case.
Wen take Darby and Joan. They en-
each other somewhere, and
about them that men have
volumes about and never ex-
planned yet, sets up. They arrest each
attention-gct to thinking about
each other, are strongly drawn to-
IT'S not quite the oldest and most
primitive thing in the world. but near
". Only. Darby and Joan aren't prim-
tive people. Each of them is carry
.ng IA perfectly enormous superstruc-
of ideas and inhibitions, emo
ional refinements, and capacities, and
he attraction is so disguised that they
lon't recognize il.
Absence of common knowledge and
interests only makes darby
md Joan fall victims to the very dan
illusion that they're intaIcc-
ual companions. They think they re
wonderful talks. when all they
re doing is making love"
And poor JOAN" said Rose. after
/ palpable silence. but evenly enough,
who has thought all along that she
vas attracting a man by her intelIi-
,ence and her understanding. and all
hat. wakes up Il find that she's been
married for her long eyelashes, and
Ter nice voice-and her pretty ankles.
That's a little hard on her. don't you
hink, if she's been taking herself
Mine times in ten" he said. she's
herself. She's taken her own
much more seriously than she
las her mind. She's capable of real
acrificrs for them. Intelligence she
a. q gift. She thinks witty
conversation. or bright letters TO a
riend. are real exercises of her mind
real work. But work isn't done like
hat. Works overcoming something
hat resists and there's strain in it.
pain and encouragement
In her cheeks the red fared up
She smiled again-not her
WI smile-one, at any rate. that was
to her. you don't solve an in
ellectual problem then" she quoted.
by having your hand held. or your