The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-18

state of mind in which they were living when they wrote. Why will intelligent men and women put on paper such record? The question will be asked by many who will not remember when they were themselves in such a mood It isn't mind that writes. What does write?
 
 Nature writes. The same mood writes which makes the fire fly show it's flame on summer night. It is the mood which sets the June frogs croaking, which paints the feathers of the dove, and changes the life of creatures through millions of ages. Ma ture has one chief purpose, to which all things are subordinat- ed Whether they will or no the creatures must carry on. They GAlSI, ldI dS oI4SliNo Sc|AA SSSS only for the future.
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 Fabre. in his delightful books on insect life, describes the love making which goes on among the locusts, the crickets and such orders of creatures. How com iS tho life nf the individual sacrificed to the family life; to those who are not yet; who are to De.
 
 For this vast purpose of safe guarding tomorrow, the creatures are virtually machines. They have no will to do otherwise. They have the overwhelming in stinct thus to do. They cannot escape. Though the obedience means death. as in the case of mate of the queen bee, yet must obedience be rendered.
 Man and his mate are also of the creatures. They also are un- der the law. But to them some thing higher has been added. Above Instinct they have will. They have spirit, which gives higher orders and exacts higher obedience than the other crea- lures can yield.
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 When this clergyman and this woman wrote those letters which the higher obedience denied them the privilege of writing. they sacrificed that which made them human. and dropped to the level of the locust. the grasshopper and the cricket. They descended to the lower kingdom inhabited by the insects and the animals. Their letters are such letters as the insects and the animals would write if they knew how.
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 An So many of the insects and the animals die. so also did Mir. Hall and Mrs. Mills, victims of the instinct which mastered them. The source of their deaths was different somewhat. than the death of the queen bees mate. In the animal kingdom. in the world of the insects. instinct de- nied brings staying. Jealousy Is born of the mood which wrote the letters. Denied the privilege of the future, jealousy, by killing. destroys the future.
 Is t1rds romance? The un1aw- full wooing, the letters, and the murders? Charming lady and gentle sir, how would you like to be a frog, croaking in a pool; crickets chirping in the field? Would that be romantic in the body? How can it be romantic to change the governed human mind, for the instinctive emotion al mind of the insects and the anil mals?
 Here is no romance. Here is a sordid. sensual. brutal and bestial story, of men and women fatthless to he ideals and the conquests which make civiliza- ton possible. The clergyman and the choir singer being fairly set in the way which leads to the stars, preferred to wa1low in the mtre-
 It isn't good fun to go back to the animals. It isn't good sportsmanship. These letters, especially the letters Of the won1- an. are full of pain. we must always" she says. take the bit ter with the sweet" They did Note how often such words ap- pear as disappointment p pain" torture" and suffering"
 The higher mind cannot quite forget, "Oh my darling babykins." she says. what muddle we are in.'