The Washington times., 1920-08-14
The Restless Sex
a Romantic Film Drama With
(. MARION VZES
BY Robert w. Chambers.
Continued from Yesterday

(Continued from Yesterday
= As he stood surveying the gor-
geous throng he seemed to be sub
tlely aware of a tension, an ocult
strain keying to the breaking point
each eager, laughing woman he
looked at. The scented atmosphere
was heavy with it: the rushing
outpour of the violins was charged
with 1t: il was something more than
temporary excitement, more than
the reckless gayety of the moment;
ii was something that had become
part Of these women-a vast, deep
bitten restlessness possessing them
soul and body.
SURVEY THRONG AND MEDTTATEs
The aspiring quest for the hith-
erto unattainable, the headlong
hunt for happiness. these were
human and definite and to be com
pretended: but this immense, aim
less, objectless restlesness, mental
or spiritual, whichever 1t might be,
seemed totally different.
1t was like a blind, crab-like, pur-
poselss. siding migration in mass
of the prehistoric female race-be-
fore II had created the male for its
convenience-wand out into
and overrunning the primeval
wastes of the world, swarming.
crawling at random-nos conscious
of what it desired. not knowing
what 1t might be seeking. aware
only of the imperative urge within
1t which set it in universal mo-
ton. Only to weary. after a few
million years of subdivision and
Standardization, and casually ex-
temporize the sterner sex. And
settle again into primeval lethargy
and the somnolent inertia of auto
matte reproduction.
Watching the golden human but
terflies. whirling around him swept
into eddies by thunderous gusts of
music, he thought involuntarily of
those hlmy winged creatures that
dance madly in millions and mil
lions over northern rivers and are
swept in sparkling clouds amid tho
rainbow spray of cataracts out into
the evening splendor of annihila-
tion.
WORLD SPRING TOO TIGHT.
He met pretty woman he
knew-had thought that he had
known onoe-and reddened slightly
alta the audacity OF her Grecien raj
ment Her husband Harvard
man he had known-was with her.
in eyeglasses and Grecien he'll
met-Ajax the Greater, he ex-
plained.
They fingered to exchange
word; she beat time to the music
with sandalled foot. "A feverish
brilliancy in eyes and cheeks.
The whole world said CIeland,
Seems strung too tightly. no.
ticed 1t abroad. too. There's a ten
sion that's bound to break: the skies
of the whole earth are full of light
ing, Something Is going to blow
up"
Hope IL won't be the stock
market" said the man. "I don't
get you. Cleland-you always were
literary"
"He means war" said his wife.
restlessly tanning her flushed
cheeks. "or suffrage which do
you mean, Mr.. Cleland7"
you've got all you want-prac-
tically-haven't your" he asked.
practically. It's n matter OF a
year or so-the vote"
what will you do next?- he in
quired. smiling.
SAVES FROM BOREDOM
"Heaven knows, but we've simply
got to keep doing something" she
said. What a ghastly bore to attain
everythingl II you men really love
us, for goodness sake keen on
tyrannizins over us and giving us
something to night for""
She laughed and blew him kiss
as her husband cncircled her
Grecian waist and steered her out
into the fox-trotting throng. her
fimsy drapories fiuttering like the