Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-18

"AAA Ihob Wno I'LL A7OOW II DC-
cause l had out grown my work !;
that l had found there was no
thing more for me to do in the
little place that would help me
on toward the goal of my ambi-
tion.
And what are your ambitions,
Harry, my boy?' my mother ask
ed hopeful, for she had looked for
big things from me.
Before she had finished 1 knew
that 1 did not have any. l was
just drifting. But l did not want
to break her heart by telling her
so and SO l answered quickly: I
want to be the editor of a success
full newspaper or magazine, mo-
ther, and 1 am going to be some
day
That seemed to please her,
poor mother, and she let me go
without another protest.
Il found out early, as the say
ing is, that: Women fell for me-
seldom met a girl who was not
glad to be in my company. 1t was
hard to break away from some of
them when 1 grew tired: and
some of them (they were the ones
who interested me the most) did
not seem to see my splendid (?4
qualities at first, but I've always
found that after a little attention
on my part, could succeed in in
teresting them in me to the point
where their eyes frightened and
their lips smiled at they saw me
across the crowd.
II wonder, Jim, if any young
man has settled idea of the girl
he wants to marry. l did not. In
fact, l did not want to marry any
one; yet found in many girls the
woman l thought 1 Ioved-at the
moment.
I'm all my experiences, Jim,
I have seemed to find that the
truth of that modern pagan, Thorn
as Hardy, who insists in his. book
The Well-Beloved, that Love is
immortal. but adds the terrible
fact that while Love may be i'm
mortal, he often changes his
abode.
Through all the years of my
stay In the city hunted the Well
Beloved with great enthusiasm
and despaired proportionately
when I discovered that the Well
Beloved which l was seeking was
not lurking behind this pair of
laughing blue eyes, or resting in
the rosy sweetness OF that ador-
able mouth. The Well-Beloved did
not stay enmeshed in Sues brown
hair, nor allow herself to be cap
tivated by the exquisite cadences
of Lucy's voice. In fact, the Well
Beloved, for me, was never to be
found very long in the same girl
ish form. The Well-Beloyed
might stay for one moment in the
arms of one woman, until she
seemed to prefer the form of some
other. She was always changing
her home and~I was always seek
ing her, never quite satisfied, be-
cause-as 1 believe now-no one
woman can be all things to one
man.
''Yes, Jim, Hardy has told the
truth about our sex.
Men seek the thrill of desire
that love gives and when from
safety or any other reason they
find they cannot get that thrill
from one woman, they seek anoth
er. 1t is the well of Love, not the
Well-Beloved that enthralls them.
This is the history of all the
great lovers OF the world: It is
not woman that man wants to
hold. 1t is Love he wants to keep,
And to hold it and keep it, he
must hold many women
My Well-Beloved would mas
Querade for a time in a girl as
blonde as sunshine with heavenly
blue eyes and then it would seem
to me that without rhyme or rea-
son she would transfer her rad
liant presence to a brunette with
eyes rougish and brown.
Whether she was short or tall,
fragile or plump. suffice it to say
my interest never stretched 10
tive women at once and never re-
mained with one long.
Tomorrow-The Web of Fate
When your breath is bad, appe-
tite poor. and you feel blue and
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