Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-05-14
THE DEW ON THE ROSE"


How many of Americas twosomcs
can say with Fannie Hurst aftcr n
iull lustrum of married life that the
u9st IS still on the butterfly wings
Oh their adventurc-that "the dew il
still on the rosei"
Probably few.
And that is so, not because their
young married lives have been fail
ures, but because they have run true
TO the ordained course of Nature. If
the maintenance of the dew undricd
were essential to true happiness, per-
maps Mother Nature would have i'm
planted IN mortal beings love whose
liamlng intensity would remain CON
slant at 30 Fahrenheit through the
springtime of ones wooing and we'd
Ding, through its summer and autumn
and on through its winter to The
grave. Nature saw early in her OK
perlments that it wouldn't do for the
honey moon to last forever. 1t inter
fered with ones duty to society and
1T intefered with the prosaic bust
ness of making living. 1t was
therefore decreed of Mother Nature
that Homogeneous must wane. must
pass into eclipse and give way to the
sunshine that is better fitted to scrv
Ice In the Lords vineyard-and sun
shine inevitably dries the dew. But
the beautiful rose remains, and the
average happy American household
loves 1T mono the less because it is
no longer wet. "
IL would be rash to suppose that
rannie Hurst, interpreter of the East
SIDES thousand and one rights and
days, has stumbled on II stupendous
secret. She has chosen to marry and
i've apart from her husband They
meet by appointment and breakfast
together not oftener than twice n
week They have their separate cir
Gle OF friends and limited circle in
common. Miss Hurst retains her own
name and Mr. Danielson keeps his.
she continues her writing and he his
piano playing. If there should be
children, they will take his name IN
III they grow up. Then they will
take the name they like best of the
two, in true spirit of self deter
mlnatlon.. So living, says Miss Hurst,
she and her husband enjoy "a fine and
full companionship," neither is tired
of the other, and 1.-THE dust is still on
the butterfly wings of their adven-
| ture.
1t is interesting but it doesn't
promise we'll for the race. Fannie
Hurst, who writes so skillfullv of
pulsing love in her stories, has some
how failed to find it herself. The
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS marriage would
never be admitted even to the ser
want quarters of her poorest fiction
plot. AS a realist she would denv in
her stories the possibility OF what
she asserts in behalf of their creator
So we must conclude rcgretfully that
when Miss Hurst sat down to heI
typewriter and wrote that most en-.
gaging interview with herself on the
marriage which she had succeeded
for five years in keeping secret, she
spoke of the "dcw on the rose" in q
large spirit of poetic license.
The human race will until the end
of time sigh with Abelard and Heloise
and thrill with Dante's passion fol-
Beatrice, but it will build no litera.
lures on the love story of Fannie and
Jacques. Simply because it is not q
love story. The dew is still on the
rose because it has never been ex.
posed to the fire of passion. The
dust is still ON the butterfly wings
because the butterfly has been pack.
ed away in cotton. Miss Hurst has
discovered no magic recipe for pre.
serving love in intellectual alcohol
ana serving it out rs needed