Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-07-21
a. Invitation to- Dinner

i. for it showed me that men as
e class, whether cultured or other
q wise, were apt to have the sam
! impulses.
q Being a woman could hardly
n conceive myself writing such
S revealing letter about myself a
Judge Turner had written to mi
|. about himself.
: Judge Turner is a very differ
I ent sort Of a man from Rolant
t Early. He is less personally sell
fish, but quite as egotistical.
He writes that he is much in
terested in me and yet, because
he does not want to give up the
= independence and the bachelor
, habits of years. he has run away
"I'lf bring him back" l pro-
missed my vanity.
"Be careful! Do you want. to
bring him back?" asked common
sense. "He has been frank with
you. You must be quite as frank
with yourself"
'Ill wait and work." was my
!, conclusion.
And truly the next months were
\ full of hard work and some wor-
ry. I made the great. mistake of
trying to settle my house and
write my first story at the same
time and when my story was
finished | was not satisfied with
:. 1t. / told Judge Turner so when
i sent it to him and ne wrote
back to me that had I been salts
fled with it he would consider
me impossible as writer.
"My dear girl" his letter read
ito be fully satisfied with the
thing one has created means a
turning point from which the !
trail is downward. Personally,
l am much pleased With your story
1t is most Illuminating. 1t reach
es down into the very basic inn
pulses which form my character.
You are a splendid delineator OF
the individuals as well as the type.
I am satisfied with it and am
very glad that you are not"
Since that time l have written
many articles about men and
events. | have written many
fiction stories and / have learned
that one Of the great tragedies OF
the creative worker is that one &
NAV conceive work of great /
beauty and when 1t is accomplish i
ed know that it has failed to come @
up to the standard set by the f
Imagination.
saw very few people at this a
period of my life. My mother had v
been quite an invalid for a long "
time and was unable to come to /
me. Little Hal was growing fast Z
and needed all Of Hannah's at 4
tention to supply his material $
needs. l tried to be with him T.
every moment that could because n
7 am a firm believer in the old q
Jesuit doctrine. "Give me child
until he is seven years old and
you may have him all the rest OF al
his life and you cannot counter
act my influence =,
Looking back to this time l
realized that l was not unhappy -
because I was so interested in my
work. Each day melted into an "
,ther so smoothly, so rapidly
hat / hardly realized the passage
" time. One day as l was sitting
n my own little office reading ~
proof OF my latest story which
felt was the best thing had
lone, l heard the words from "
light behind my chair: Have ~
.ou no welcome for me. busy IN
ady?" ~
I turned TO find Roland Early be
tanding behind me. al
I stumbled to my feet, and al w
hough knew that ] had not su
xtended them found both my be
ands elasped in his. Ia
As | raised my eyes I saw a 81
ubtle change in him. He had in
rown heavier, his face was fuller, ha
here was a slight puffiness under HI
Is eyes. He seemed to have lost til
Although as yet la,
ould not tell what 1t was. ! knew he
my heart that Roland Early Ia
ad lost the thing that l liked of
.ost in him. an
what have you been doing he
nee l have been away?" he ask ole
|. Then, before could answer. an
: said: Il need not ask that sh'
lestion. 1 know what you have lis
zen doing. You have been work a {
g very, very hard and 1t shows
your writing. No one who has
ntributed to this magazine since
have been its editor has develop ~
SO rapidly. The Man Did NJ
Of Marry (this was my last
orv) was a masterpieces. As |
ad it felt that IL mirrored life
perhaps your life-and l had
irresistible desire To find out
no that man was. Incidentally, s'e
e story inspired in me an un- Pc
fear to come back to @ sue
u and be put under the micro ~ ~,
,pe of your analysis. -, 80
"Now that l have come back, az a..
rs. Alix. I hope that you. VIII -, 49,
xe a little recreation. You are =
} young. my dear girl. TO give