The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-14

on Chambless carried on the even ing before the body was found.
 
 see this more clearly than you do. We are in decidedly modern situa- ton. Listen. love. You know that l am solitary woman. l have few friends among my own sex and they are women who think along the same lines as myself. l have such great faith in their complete understanding and tolerance that I am sure they would welcome me back into the circle Of their friendship should 1 re- turn t~ them after the grand adven- ture.'
 Good Lord, Is she crazy?" ex- claimed Davis. Women don't do those things--that Is not outside of modern novels"
 T am not sure. Dave." remarked Clavering thoughtfully. "A week ago l would have agreed with you. Now. I'm not so sure. A friend of yours and mine. Davis, married q woman, who, for several years, without ben eft of clergy had been to him every thing that 8 wife might be. She had even mended his clothes and cooked his food when he was down and out andl she brought him back to pros perity. Another married friend of yours and mine, Dave, waH best man at the wedding. Yet when his wife wanted to invite the bride to their home for dinner he positively for bade her. saying: You cannot do this. Even John would not expect it.
 His wife answered. I cannot un. derstand you at all. You have let me invite John to our home knowing perfectly his relations with this woman. You stood beside him when he later married her and yet You say that I shall not invite her here. I'm going to invite her. The time for such foolishness about double standard is past. We women have stood long enough under the accusa- ton that we are hard upon each other, when, if the truth were known, it is the men, not women, who havo insisted that some women should wear the scarlet letters upon their breasts
 To these same women you have lowed and paid polite attention. and then you have come home and told your own women that they must pull their skirts away when they passed
 
 called hard upon our sex. No longer will we do this. When we find It necessary to refute recognition to a woman becauae of wrong -doing. we shall also refuse to recognize the man who Is party to the act. While we receive the man wa will receive the woman
 Some murs of the new woman . philosophy. Hear, hear" laughed Davis. but there was a note of ap- proval In his laugh.
 "Evidentiy," said Clavering. Mar garet Earl subscribes to the tenets of the new woman In every particular. Let me continue Glendening's letter. She says, I could come back to the little world of my own, friends. my own family. but you would como back to nothing, for you would have given up your fine position which Is growing better every day and an- other might not pc open to Sou. You would come back and have to ac- Knowledge to your friends that you had made a great mistake, that you had found out chat no love is worth all the world beside I replied
 "'Yes 1t Is, Margaret, If that love is yours
 Her eyes wavered, and she gave little sigh, If you can convince me, Harry, that in your own soul you be- lieve that; If you are perfectly will ling to give 1t all up for me and my love, I think will so, gladly, proud ly.'
 And Harry Glendening did not measure up," sneered Davis. He has never measured up. He didn't meas ure up in his business life; he didn't measure up to his wife: he didn't measure up to the woman he thought ho loved"
 .And he k not bad; and he is hut And such he was when the world
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 A martyr, . hero. n mage, snint-- Ana q wnnton beneath, in niI re-
 straint.. quoted Doctor Milton.
 And you think he is the average man. MiIty asked Davis hotly. T am sorry for our sex if that be so."
 T leave 1t to you" Milton replied ambiguously. "Is that the end of Harry's story? Is Margaret the wom- an who was named In the bill of divorcements!
 "Afilt, you do not know the Amer lean Beauty" they chorused.
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