Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-24
The Struggle
The New Partner,


Join one heart 10 another and the
result In courage and strength u
more than two times one. with the
new consciousness OF having In Edith
an active partner In his bsuiness
problems, John Ferrol felt more ag-
grossivs IN his plans for getting out
OF hls economic rut than II he had
taken somo man into partnership.
with Edith and their $500 savings
behind him he cast about for way
cut n tho treadniii VI salary exist
once.
lie had noticed bes beotacled
woman coming fos various confer
ences with he head OF tho publishing
firm for whom he worked. The Mon
day utter his talk with Edith. Ferrol
noticed this woman come out slowly
and dejectedly from his employers
office. with a package OF manuscript
under her arm. lie had seen many
one come out 90 from that inner
bfflcc. lie knew what had happened.
Il wns Just another volume teJected
for publication. That this women
hbd, cono 81 often meant that the
fate q. tho book had hung In the
balance Tor a long time before !t VIE
turned aown.
with an impulse strange TO him,
hut which ne must have caught ns
tnen sometimes do catch qullltius
con ntasiously from women, ne stopped
up TO the disappointed writer.
Excuse my pcrsonal question,
madam" he .AGAl Hut are you
about to submit your manuscript 10
some other publisher"
"Why yes, she answered. n little
fluatorod: that Is. hope to II can
find another You see, | have shown
Il to others before brought u hcrc''
she said
Il thought W." said Fertol. That
is why am going to mako strange
request am only one OF the firms
salesmen 1'ut would you consider
t.tting me look Mt your manuscript? .?
/, may be. II the book seems 20 mo
promising. | may have a proposition
20 make you" Ferrol was surpr lsed
at his own nerve.
The woman hold out the apRc ksigs
to him eagerly
"Oh. | shall he - glad, to have you
look at IT." she said N ann u
tNachcr Of physiology at tho high
achooi. and Il occurred TO mo that
since an many children come 20 me
tAaAfF NAll'Nl anu ASK NhFNNlNlN hANHk
tho same lines, questions thcy are
ashamed to ask their mothers. |
thought that book giving answers
to those questions WOULD be some
thing mothers would lire to read
call tho book THE Question of Life -
Fcrrol nodded !nterestedly, Ito
knew this Kind OF questions children
would ask Of "A teacher ot physiology.
Hc hard asked them himself when IA
hoy when his mind began 10 wake
10 tho mysteries ot life, its creation
and ltA propagation. His parents had
either hushed him up when he asked
these questions or eVaded them by
foolish myths which only made him
distrYst their word thercaftcr and
sent him seeking for explanation
among Toys as ignorant as himself
rhcy gave him explanations as fan
ns,lc re those his parents supplied,
bat Infinitely more debasing In char
actrr. Fcrrols own children would
soon begin asking these questions II
st"GCk him that such a book was
needed II Il properly treated the
subject
Tha, evening and for several eve
nings John and Edith read tho manu-.
script together. II struck Edith at
once as something which she rs "a
mother had always wanted. .-
but, John. while this woman
knows what she IS writing. and has
In the main. the right Idea, she lacks
neutrality-suspicious., / don't know
'uEt whnt--to make her book cNHC'N.
yht lie, mo see what u is'" she
sara whom ;hey had finished The
manuscript. 81 have H." shc crlcd "a
Nt.lc later
"What II il" asked John, who
had also felt the lack and did no;
know what II was.
The mothers point OF vew,'
Edith cried
Eva ctlyl" John exclaimed. The
worry thing! J wander II shA wanid