The New York herald., 1922-09-03
mis- Freedom"
Continued from Page One.

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comes a craze, it becomes an obses-
sion. il becomes a drug. They take
TO a thing-anything poison like
mine. or a pursuit like some one
elses or an idea like some others
or q career in life, like yours.
Rosalie-they take to it and go
deep enough, and they're its: they
never. never will be able to come
out OF 1t. Men have hobbies.
They don't have attachments; they
have detachments. They detach
themselves and turn to a thing,
and they detach themselves from it
and turn back again. Women
don't turn to a thing; they 90 to it,
They don't have hobbies. they have
ebsessions. They cannot sip, they
drain. It's in their bone. For a
woman there is no comeback.
They don't issue return tickets to
women. For women there is only
departure: there is no return"
We now reach the event which
well nigh shattered Rosalie's self
made philosophy of life. Up to now
1t had been 50 easy to take a mans
part in a mans world admitting that
mems ways were the better ways.
even though men themselveS-aH
men-were beasts, tame cats, tabby
cats. wild cats and the rest OF it.
She refused to remember that last
despairing cry Of Sister Anna which
had haunted her childhood: 20 God.
Thou knowest how hard it is for
women" But presently she meets
Harry OccIeve. whom at first she
scorns because he Is the good catch"
that Aunt Belle has carefully picked
out for Rosalie's painful cousin"
Laetitia. And then. all Of sudden.
she and Harry forget Aunt Belle and
Laetitia and the rest OF the universe
IN the Joy OF having discovered each
other. There can be no love like
love suddenly leapt from repression
into being"
RosaIie. that had abhorred the
very name of love, now finding love
was quite consumed by love- She
loved him so, She looked
at him with eyes. not OF an mex
perienced girl blinded by love. but
Of one eynically familiar with the
traits Of common man. intolerantly
prejudiced. sharply susceptible to
every note or motion OF displeasing
quality. and her eyes told her
heart. and what is much more,
told her mind. that nothing but
sheer perfection was here. When
they were married what she con-
tinued to find was simply that he
was perfect.
In point OF fact Harry Occleve
comes as near being colorless per-
sonage as any character in the vol
ume. Tis perfection. so far as a
chiefly in a sheeplike acceptance OF
RosaIic's ideas. and a slavish adher-
ence to the conditions laid down by
Rosalie In their private marriage
p-contract. even when he sees the fab
ric OF the home he dreamed OF turn
ing TO an Impalpable mirage. One
fancies that Mr.. Hutchinson meant
to make him colorless. sheeplike.
futile. One OF the penalties OF a
coming generation of Rosalies is to
be host of Harry Occleyes. perfect
In their docility and nen-resistance.
For a time. however, everything
seems to 90 Unexpectedly well.
From the start it is understood that
their marriage is TO be an equal part
nership, RoSalie living her life. Harry
living his: and together. when they
want to. when they are off duty, so
to speak. they will live their life. the
life they mutually share. They the
orize delightfully."- over marriage, like
chiidren over a new toy. Marriage
should be a perfect fitting together,
. perfect joining OF two perfect
~-hafves- They both agree in hating
the old dependence notion; all the
privileges the mans. the woman's
all the duties. Their chosen slogan
Is equal in work and in response
bility. and therefore equal in place
In privilege. in freedom"
III.
The years slip by swiftly. SimcoS
Is dead. and Rosalie IS with Fields
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