The evening world., 1920-12-22
Four Writers Try to Solve
This Question
"HOW Would a Man and Woman Linked Together
for Three Days and Three Nights by Te1-FOOt
Chain Feel TOpGrd Each OtheT?"
How Would You Answer It?
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NNNIfHlAf AttNs " the Nrl1n N1nnlIHIIlnn
tins New foIt REsnina W.nal
IF a man and a woman were linked
together for three days and thrsa
flights by a iO-foot chain. how
would they feel toward eaCh other st
the end Of that timer
That exceedingly prov0cahv6 auoa-
ton. IL by way % being hurled as
lovers and other members OF the pub-
Ia through a little volume Of cor
porato authorship. which ls enutl6a
Tho Ten-Foot Chain; or Can Love
Survive the shackles1" II yOuve done
your Christmas shopping early ana
paid the last inStaiment oe your in
come tar. you may as we'll Rivo =
thought to the problem Of Wholhar.
after three days and nights Of sneh
an unusually binding tie. love would
strike on its chains--Or hug then
lighter. You may not como 70 any
decision, but at least you can start
something In the family circle, that
gets a bit dull and sleepy these Lens
Winter Evenings!
-Four experienced writers, four liz
OrRry analysts Of the human heart.
give their respective answers 70 ths
question Of loves feaity or frually
after a beYenty-two-hour siege, Ia
"Tho Ten-Foot Chain" which il
brought out by the Reynolds Pa
fishing Company, Inc. Lst ~ zee
what they have TO say:
m his tale OF tho East, wNasre-le We
may judge from Rurton's "Arablah
Nights" and certain other taioa--enay
love with generous intensity and an
attention TO technique unlInOWn~ 20
more austere climates, CApS. Achmod
Abdullah flouts the wisdom OF his old
Prime Minister, who has asserted;
mo love IN the world can survive the
chain Of monotonyf
Capt, Abdullah's pair Of love BIRDS
are twitteTfng tho same song oe rap
ture at the end ot the three daya,-anR
nlghts--of grace, as at the beginning,
and we read Their love could not
have lived without the chain. u wan
their love which WAS the chain"
The folk in Max Brands story,
which comes next. rather bag the
question they are supposed 70 settio.
For before the end OF the third day
they die In what headline WRITER'S oal
a sui de pact" one gathers tho
author thought they were too happy
20 risk future separation How doeo
he know but what thoy simply
couldn't stand II another mtnuto9
q. h Means N aure that Just TITS
revulsion would be the reaction Of .
man and woman at opposite ends oe
a ten-foOt chain. His amusing couple
OF color are out for q "dooVo'coH AZ
tho expiration OF their period of
mhnacled matrlmonv. each having
decided that the other n 20 far tllo
reverse Of adorable as 70 be plum
nauBeatin'."
The last story in the book. and IN
my opinion the cleverest, 10 written bg
Periey PoOre BhCehan. FOR this a.
mlration OF oynics, the following NOR
ais may be drawn from 4:
I. A man can stand tho ton-eoee
chaln--although subject to ViBitatioua
OF reEret--becauBo he n more interest,"
ed In his work than In his ohain-matd.
IA woman feels that the ton@4ooe
chain allows her husband too much
liberty: she probably would reduce -
to two feet.
3. No matter what his difficulties
with ONE chain. the minute he II free
Of It a man IL more than willing to take
a chance on ANOTHERi
Unlike these masculine writers,
Geological reaction Of q member Of the
opposite sex TO the strain OF the ten-
foot chain. But I know how Il would
affect a woman. even though q blnn1
her TO her hearts desire amOng an
mankind.
At the end Of twenty-6our hours ne
would wonder why ne didn't have his
teeth straightened when he was y0uma.
Also. why he wore glasses when Be
wasn't reading.
At the end OF thirty-aix hours she
would have made a list OF uubiscta
impossible TO discuss without IoainH
temperBs subjects which would In
clude the League OF Nations, movies
food, feminism. women who write
novels, lip rouge, the uplift.
A. the END OF forty eight hours gho
would lift weary eyebrow Rt the
sound OF his 0verwoFiked words en1
phrases-such a. spFoposition." "Foag
good" and "HOws every little thingf
would have learned by heart Me
tavorite Jokes and yearned for neN
one.
Az the end Of sixty hours ahe would
ne looking over the time table %
Reno.
At the end Of seventy-twO hours.
the chain or. she would be taking
the tubes 20 HobOlSen 10 buy a self
cooking revolver--no; sin monthE'
residence requirement must aneodats
It's use.
''can love survive the uhaoldesg'.
From a woman's point q view. tn
nnvwer In SNol" For u 10 trusr og
lovers than OF any other human he-
ings that ''oniy the free are bond and
only the bond are free"