The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-07

state interference. That's what ia
encourage all know how n | we're
= politician"
lilo broke OF. Il say. aren't the
limit. gssSSlng away like thlsf hard
Is ever gct OF nowadays aud when
l dos-why don't YOU stop mcg''
she made little gesture drpr~ca.
tory OF hts suggestion. because
like 20 hear YOU. like 90 watch
your funny old face when you're on
enc % your ideas. IL gets red un.
derneath. Msrko. and the red slowly
comes up. funny old face, Go on.
want to hear this because I'm going
10 disagree with you. I think. I think
conventions. most OF them. are odl.
Gus. hateful. Marko. hate them"
VIII
He had been strangely affected by
the words % her Interruptions; con.
traction In the throat--a twitchinx
about the eyes But he was able.
and glad that he was able 10 catch
eagerly at her opinion. Yes. yes. l
know. odious. hateful. and much
more than that. erurl---convcnfionS
can be az cruel. as cruel as he'll. |
was just coming to that. But they're
al absolutely rightly based. Mona.
That's the battling and the madden
ing part OF them. That's what In.
tervsts me in them. In their appii.
cation they're often unutferabiy
wrong. cruel. hldcously cruel and un.
Just, but when you examine them.
even at their cruellest. you can't
help seeing that fundamentally
they're absolutely right and reason.
able and necessary. Look. take quite
a silly example. There's a eonven.
tion against going to church in any
but your best clothes. It's easy 10
conceive wrongness in the applicss.
ton OF II. IT'S easy TO conceive a
person wanting 10 go to church and
likely 20 benefit by going to church.
but staying away because OF feeling
too shabby. Hut you can't help sre-
ing the rightness at tho bottom Of n
Tho idea OF presenting yourself de-.
Gently Mt worship. "a before princes.
That makes you laugh"
1T doesn't. Msrko. I can see much
worse things just on the same prin-
cipic.-
He said plcascdly. -of course you
can. can't your Look at all this stuff
there's been In the papers lately
about what they call the problem OF
the unmarried mother. Now there's
. brute Of case for you: q girl gets
into trouble and while she sticks 10
her baby she's made an outcAss:
every door Is shut to her: her own
people win have nothing to DO with
her. no one will take her ln---so long
- she's rot the baby with her. That's
convention and you can imagine
cAacs where it's cruel beyond words.
but IT'S no good cursing society about
H. You can't help seeing that tho
convendon Is fundamentally right
and essential Where on earth
would you b II girls with babies
could find homes as easily a. girls
without babses7" He smiled. you'd
have babies pouring out all over tho
place. See it1-
She nodded. 7 do think that's In
teresting. MArko. think that's most
awfuiiy interesting. Yes. cruel and
hateful and preposserous. many OF
them. but all fundamentally right. I
think that's absorbing. I shall look
out for conventions now. and when
they annoy me most I'll think out
what they're based on. I wiiIr'
We'll. MS not bad idea he said.
1T helps In all sorts OF ways 10 think
things out az they happen TO you.
You don't realise what a mysterious
business life Il TN you begin to do
that: and once you begin 10 feel the
righteousness OF II there's not much
can upset you. You get the feeling
that you're part OF an enormous.
mysterious game. and you Just won
der what the last move means. Eh7-
She did not answer.
Presently she said. ~Yss. you 40
stili think things. MarSo. You
haven't changed Bit you know.
You're just the same"
He smiled ''oh. wen. IT'S only
two years. ron Knowles than two
years since you went AWAY
II wasn't thinking Of two years.
How many years were you think.
ing Oft"
Ten"
They inst sat fhcr~