Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-07-16
M angwered il Immediately.

we'll 1 answered IL Immediately.
Also there was a wire from Judge
Turner szying that he had tried
TO get ne on the train but evil
IDENTIFY, through the stupidity Of
the conductor, / was no to be
found, as the wire was returned
to him
Miss Beleher wired eongTatula-
tious upon the outcome Of my
visit and informed me that Mr..
Early was returning soon and
that his wife had gone to sani-
torium with q complete nervous
breakdown, the doctors saying
that It would probably take her
4 year at least TO recover The
telegram ended with the words:
Poor man, 1 am sure that even
you viii feel that he does not
deserve this"
What does she mean by that?"
I asked Of Alice, to whom / show
ed the telegram
IT cannot understand. she
answered. unless you have said,
or given her to understand. that
you did not think he was a mar
tyr to his marriage vows
'I guess I did. Did you ever
know Mrs. Early, Alice?"
rYes. 1 know her very we'll She
really is a very sweet woman and
although she IS much older than
he she did do a lot for Rol Early.
She helped TO put him through
college. I have never quite for
given him for his treatment Of her
Notwithstanding he has been so
kind to Bill and me.
Strange, isn't it, Alix, that a
man can be so splendid in many
ways and so mean in others? Rol
Early is a man of splendid attain
ments, and he has done some very
wonderful things not only in a
business way but in phpanthropic
directions. He is kindness Itself
to everyone except to his wife and
she loves him with a deviation
that perhaps. has widened the
breach between them
You see he likes to be the pat
ron and not the patronized. Every
thing that he has ever done for
anyone has always seemed to me
to be because it made him feel
good. He has always been the one
to give and after all. giving is
rather a vainglorious pursuit,
isn't it?
"on the other hand. down deep
in his heart he knows that every
thing he is. everything he has ne
owes to Lila Early and il is a
constant scourge to his vanity
Many men are like that, Alix.
Many men who get a geat name
for kindness and sympathy and
understanding and get 1t under
false pretenses because they only
are kind where 1t will be known
among all men, they only have
sympathy with those who return
the sympathy with almost servtle
gratitude, and their are only un-
derstanding means no great ef-
fort"
why, Alice, though you
liked men"
Il do, my dear, very much, but
don't you understand that We ar
rogate to ourselves the right OF
criticism Of those We care for very
much. while those who do not
particularly interest US are let
alone. Men, however, my dear
have no more faults than we; the
whole trouble with this criticism
is that when a woman criticizes
a man all those who hear her in
mediateIy jump at the conclusion
that she thinks her own sex is
perfect and hates men. Why l
have known women who have
posed as the very apostles OF Joy
and received the plaudits OF more
than their own little circle Tor II
and vet who would not allowed
the slightest grief to touch them
selves who had no accord what
ever with anything that deviated
in the slightest from their own
little narrow standards THESE
were women who had no charity
for another's dereliction; no for-
giyeness for another's shorteom-
ings. and yet. after all. Alix dear
it's a good old world and men ana
women take them by and larss'