The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-02-21

of a Bride
Copyrighted. 1919. by tho News
paper Enterprise Association
IT ~ IMPOSSIBLE TO
IMAGINE CuRNS EATING
COARSE MEXICAN FOOD

chrys began her story with her
Der.
4 never knew who carried me off d"
she said. II was watching spence
and Archer as they pounded down
tho panel In tho wall. Suddenly a
shawl was flung over my head and
fingers frightened ON my throat and
| kept me from calling out l was
dragged up flight OF stairv-i was
dragged roughly and | was very
much afraid. For the first time in
my life. was afraid. Jane. That
was becauH. I could not see think
was choked into insensibili,y. when
could move freeiy--and open my
Giles. found myself In hovei l
think u was tho meanest hut Ia the
village"
"ImposHibleT' exclaimed. You
chrystobel Lorimer-shut up In a
dirty shaniyr'
For days and days. my dear"
chryu replied.
And eating coarse common Mexi.
can foodf"
surely. And very glad TO get Il.
after few days"
''Iforriblel Now understand why
you were all In when We found you
on tho beach and 30 helpless in the
storm. How ,crrihier'
mot. az all, Jane. Not AZ all, I
had all the comforts tho poor natives
had II u was not AN impossible
hahitailon for other human beings
why should {, prove Impossible for
met"
looked az the girl IN aa,onish.
mont. Plainly. the tender soul vhieh
had been missing from that beautt
ful body had found It's way back At
last.
Nobody ought 20 Exist under the
conditions I saw Ia that place. Ana
yet thousands do--the poverty Htriek
IN In every corner Of the globe. Hincs
the war. more thousands than ever
In tho history OF tho world. sup.
pose. Nobody can learn how hateful
poverty IL just by reading about g.,
Nobody can know what Htarvstlo
means unless he 10 deprived Of food
You've go; TO live u. Jane Well
I've lived u all Don't feel sorry be
cause suffered. my dear. do no,
rcgrc, anything tina, happened. I'm
really giad. Jane"
"chrys. you talk as II you'd gone
hack 10 your Job Of reforming the
universe. I said.
Maybe have" ahe naid softly
but no, In IN. old way. I'd begin
reform now with tho individual. And
first. I'd set everybody TO work.
Many people are lazy. People do not
realize that human comforts only
come from human effort, This old
world isn't suffering from any too
much homes, effort. jus, now.
Jane. | learned tho worst there is
to know about life during those
awful days In tho hovei. Noise.
smells. dirt. wrc,ch.d food. quarrel.
ing and brutality. greed. selflshnesN.
crime and sin met them all face
I TO face And discovered how blind
had always been to them aa actual
facts In this big world I discovered
how wilfully had ignored them jus,
hecaus they were 30 hideous that
[ the thought OF them hurt me saw
( for the first tim. that they fiil the
years for millions Of human beings.
And counted my nice friends and
my nice relatives. cultured and well.
TODD persons who positively refuse
to behold any form Of human wretch.
ecneE.. jus, ns have always done.
Jsne. We felt the rule 81 war. And
We hated it-and stamped Il out.
Now We are ruled hy grc.d--and We
haven't any machinery ready Ia
stamp that out. Jane. I believe that
human greed makes poverty and
vowed that " I ever got out Of that
HOLLAND back 10 my tribe again.
ia spend my days making this world
iesa selfish. N soon as stopped
thinking about myself. something in
/ side Of me relaxed. And | spoke. one
day. TO little child which was cry.
/ ing bitterly because Il. had been
beaten. I spoke out loud without rc.
membcring that had been dumb for
months, forgot myself TO comfort
la babyr'
/ Hystcria had always cursed Chrys.
tobel Lorimcr. Never would IL do SO
any more I realized as she finished
her story.
My Prince Charming. you sec,
was a pitiful weeping infant
TO BE ConfinucsD
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