The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-11-23

suicide. Hut they seem TO struggle
along somehow
They don't know what they miss.
And anybody can endure anything.
Look at men in miwcs and In
prisons
lie drew up on the south shore
across the reeds reflected ON the
water. the CULVER OF waveiets like
orumpied tinfoil. the distant shores
patched with dark woods. silvery
oats and deep yellow wheat. lie
patted her hand. SITS Carol.
you're darling girl. but you're dif.
fieult Know what think"
Eyes"
"tiumph. Maybe YOU do. but
Ny humble mot too humhiel opinion
IL that you like to be different. You
like TO think you're peculiar. why.
IL you know how many tens OF thou
sands OF women. especially in New
York. say just what you do. you'd
lose all the FUN OF thinking you're a
lone genius and you'd be on the
hand wagon whcoping u mp for
Gopher pralri. and a good decent
family life. rhcre'x always about a
million young women just out OF col,
ieEe who want 10 teach their grand.
mothers how 20 suck eggs"
How proud YOU are ef that home.
~ rustic metaphor, You USE II at
'banquets' and directors meetings,
and boast q your climb from q
humble homestead"
Huh, You may have my mum
her. I'm not telling. But look here.
You're 40 pr~judiced against Gopher
Prairie that you overshoot the mark
you antagonixe those who might he
inclined to agree with you Ia some
particulars hut Great guns, the
town can't be all wrongr'
mo. II isn't. Hut II could n~. Let
me tell you a fable. Imagine a cave
woman complaining 10 her mate. She
doesn't like one single thing she hates
the damp cave. tho rats running
over her bare legs. the stir skin
garments. the eating OF haif.raw
meat. her husbands burhy face. the
constant battles. and the worship OF
the spirits who Will hocdoo her I'M
less she gives the priests her best
claw necklace Her man protests.
But II cant all be wrongt' and he
thinks he has reduced her to sb.
sursiity. Now you assume that q
world which produces q Percy Bres
nahan and Velvet Motor Company
must BE- civilized. 1t i@g Aren't We
only about halfway along In bar.
hart=m- l suggest Mrs. nogars as
test. And well continue In bar.
hartsrn just AS long A. people "a
nearly intelligent as you continue TO
defend things as they are because
they are"
You're a fair spieicv. child. But.
by xollv. I'd like 10 sec you try to
design a new manifold, or run a
factory and keep q lot OF your fellow
reds from Czech slovenski.rnsxysr.
xcdknowswheris on the job, You'd
drop your theories so darn quick,
I'm not any defender Of things m
they arc. sure. They're rotten.
Only I'm sensible"
He preached hl. gospel. love. Of
outdoors. Playing the Game. loyalty
TO friends. She had the neophyte'-
shock OF discovery that. outside OF
tracts. conservatives do not trcmbie
and find mo sn-w~r when an icono-
ciast turns on them. but rctort with
agility and confusing st2tistios-
He was 10 much the man. the
worker. the friend. that she liked
him when she most tried to stand
out against him. he was 20 much
the successful executive that she did
not want him to dcspise her. His
manner OF snecrIng at what he called
~parior socialists tho the phrase
was not overwhelmingly newt had q
power which made her wish to pla.
cate his company OF weii-fed. speed.
loving administrators. when he de-
n,andcd. would you like 10 asso.
ctase with nothing but lot OF tur.
key-neck~d. horn specialized nuts that
have adenoids and need haircut.
and that spend all their time kicking
about conditions and never do q
HEX of work. she said. No. but
just the Same" when he asserted.
Even II your cavewonan was right
In knocking the whole works. I bet
some red-biooded Regular Fellow.
some real Herman. found her a nice
dry cave. and not any whining criti.
cising radical" che wriEgled her
head feebly. between a nod and a
shake.
His large hands. sensual lips. easy
voice supported his seIf-confidence.
He made her feel young and soft
- Emr.ts..xt. So <x.x~~ 1919 49, <-~r