Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-07

anu lS ordered to go to the southwest
aor, MS health. Carol determines to go
Carol and David reach. New Mexico,
ana find It rather startling: Another let
5 bs. from Gonnie arrives telling them she
The doctors tell Carol that David can
4 baby. girl is born to Carol and David.
A session Of ghost story telling is
too much for the colony Of
CHAPTER XVII.-Oontinued.
"Henceforth X get my sentiment
hand se,ss-9s,-.-
'The girl a t&our table, Emily Jar
Wis, who is a. spheristaxattributes all
the good fortune that has come to
you and David to the fact that at
heart you are in harmony with the
spheres. You don't know what a
spherist Is, and neither do I. But it
includes a lot of musical terms. and
metaphors, and is something like
Christian Science and New Thought,
only more SO. Spherists believe in a
life of harmony. and somehow or 9TH
er they get the spheres back OF it,
n believe in imnlaterial matter, and
that all physical manifestations are
Eegative, and the only. positive, or at
hrmative, is harmony
Emily is very. yegy pretty, and
into the i~ntricaciesz OF .spheral
harmonies. Even such unmitigated
as spherescontrol, spirit
harmony, and mental submission, as
sumes a semblance of dignity when
expounded by her cherry-red lips. She
speaks vacuously of being under
World-dominance, and has absolutely
no physical consciousness. She says
herself. II she ignores her tempt
ing curves and naatchless softness, she
IS the only one in the house who does.
IN fact, ut is only the attraction of
her very physical being. which she
denies. that lends a species of sense
to her harmonious converse. She and
1 are great friends. She says l am
a ,harmonizef .on the inside. :
She Is engagedsato a. mar across
nall, Rodney Carter. She has the
room next to mine. Hisevoice is deep
and carrying, hers is clear and ring
ing, and the walls are thin. So l
have benefited by mos of their court
snip. But the course of true love,
you know she has tried spiritually
and harmoniously to convert him to
1mmaterialism, but Rodney is very
conscious of his physical, muscular,
material being and he boots at her
ueriSlVely, but tenderly. i
oh, c it, out, Emily he said,
one evening. We only afford one
spirit in the family. One of us has
got to earn a living. Spirits, it seems,
require plenty of steak and potatoes
keep them in harmony. 1 could
not conscientiously lead you to the
altar, even a spheral' altar, if I were
not prepared to pay house rent and
coal bills. Ones enough,syou can be
But, aRo,d, ii. y Are IN harmony
you can earn our living sc much more
easily. You must get above this no.
are no such things
- don't believe it, he interrupted
coldly.' There are material necessi-
ties. You are one of them. The
most necessary in the world. You
may be harmonious. but you are ma
terial, too. That is why I love you.
l couldn't be crazy about a melodious
breath of air ghosting around the
yard. And I am no strong for
disembodied minds, either. They
make me nervous. They sound like
skulls and c~ross-bones, and whitening
skeletons to me. II love you, your
arms, your face, all of you. 1t may
not be proper to talk about it, but I
love it. Can you imagine our minds
embracing each other thrilling at the
contact-oh, it's tor.tnyrot.f A, fool
1T may be tommyrotft to you, Rod
said Emily haughtily..s But the in
spiration Of theS matchless minds Of
the mystic men OF the Orient
Inspiration of idiocy. What do
mystic men of the Orient know about
warm-blooded Americans, dead lin
might kiss the air until I
was blue in the face-nothing to tt
but let me kiss you, and we are both
aquiver, and
=. Rodney Garter, don't you dare
say such Things she cried furiously.
1T is insulting. Besides it has moth
to do with it. Itsisn't SO anyhow.
There's nothing mysterious about
.Letsthe old Chinesers pad around
their bare feet and naked souls If
want tO..We are children OF
light, we are. /. creatures OF earth,
We're
"'oh, I can't argue with you, Rod
she began, ~confuscdly.
Il don't want. you to. Kiss me.
One kiss. Emily mine, will confound
the whole United order Of Maudiin
Mystics. 1 am willing to risk all the
contained in an .inhar-
sphere for n touch of your
lips. Go ahead with-your sacred doc
trine of universal and spiritual i'm
becility. but soften its harshness with
worldly, physical, sin-suggesting
Kisses, n l amin tune with the in
'Then Emilyrfbroke I'd the e e9enrare-
ment, and Rodney, after e9lrelieving
himself of more, hseretical opinions Of
spiritual simplicity and n1ystic mad
ness, stalked unmelodiously away,
slamming her door, and his own aft
what / didn't hear Of it myself.
Emily told me ~aftefward, for we are
very confidential: -
THE whole house was intensely in
.erested in the denouement. Rodney
at stolfdly at his table, crunching his
bod, Kazing reproachfully and ador-
ngly at Emily's proudly lifted head.
for all her Inconsistencies OF
physical necessity, lost her appetite.
Ind grew pale. The mental and
physical may have nothing in har-
nony, as she says, but certainly her
mental upheaval, resulting from the
ack OF Rodney's Recommendations Of
owe; affected hersphysical appetite as
veil as her acOmnlsxion.
When Rodney met Emily In. the
aalls. he made her life miserable.
".Good morning, Long Sin Coo.
Hello, Ghostie. Hey, spirit. ma i
,orrow d nip of brandy to make an
Enn.I.l~I 49,. 1880 ~N