The Washington herald., 1922-08-14

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so you think that just as = time
goes to pieces its houses ought to
80, toor"
-of course. Would you value
your Keats letter II the signature
was travsd over to make II last
longerf It's just because ] love
the past that want ehis house to
look back on its glamourous mo-
msnt of youth and beauty, and ]
want Its stairs to creak as II to the
footsteps of women with hoop
skirts and men In boots and spurs.
But they've made 1t into . blon-
dined, rouged-up old woman Of 60.
II hasn't any right to look so pros
psrous. It might care enough for
Lee to drop . brick now and then.
How many of these-these ami
mals'-she waved her hand around
--gst anything from this. for all
the histories and guide books and
restorations In existence! How
many of them who think that, at
best. appreciation is talking in un-
dsrtones and walking on tiptoes
would even come here IL 1t was any
trouolef want IL to smell of
magnolias instead of peanuts and I
want my shoes to crunch on the
same grayel that Lees boots
crunched on There's no beauty
without poignancy and there's no
poignancy without the feeling that
it'B going, men, names. books,
houses-bound for dust-mortal-'
A small boy appeared beside
them and. swinging a handful of
banana peels. flung them valianIly
In the direction of the Potomac.
Sentiment.
simultaneously with the fall of
Liege, Anthony and Gloria arrived
In New York. In retrospect the six
weeks seemed mirsculously happy.
They had found to a great extent,
as most young couples find in some
measure. that they possessed in
common many fixed IDEAS and Curl
osftfes and odd duirks of mind;
they were essentially companion
able.
But II had been struggle to
keep many of their conversations
on the level of discussions. Argu-
ments were fatal to Gloria's dispo-
sition. She had all her life been
associated either with her mental
interiors or with men who. under
the almost hostile intimidation OF
her beauty. had not dared to con-
tradict her: naturally. then, IL irri-
tated her when Anthony emerged
from the state in which her pro-
nouncements were an infallible and
ultimate decision.
He failed to realize. at first. that
this was the result partly OF her
female" education and partly of
her beauty. and he was inclined to
include her with her entire sex as
euriously and definitely limited. II
,naddened him to find she had no
sense of justice. But he discovered
that, when a subject did interest
her. her brain tired less quickly
than his. What he chiefly missed
in her mind was the pedantic tele-
ology-the sense of order and ac-
. curacy. the sense of life as mys-
teriously correlated piece of patch
work, but he understood after a
while that such a quality In her
would have been incongruous.
OF the things they possessed In
common greatest of all was their
almost uncanny pull at each others
hearts. The day they left the
hotel In Colorado she sat down on
one of the beds while they were
packing, and began to weep Bit
terly.
"Dearest" His arms were
around her; he pulled her head
down upon his shoulder. What Is
Il, nv own Gloria? Tell me-"
We're going away" she sobhed.
"Oh.- Anthony. it's sort of the hrst
place we've lived together. Our
two little beds here-side by side
they'll be always waiting for us.
and we're never coming back to
'em any more"
she was tearing at his heart as
she always could. Sentiment came
over him, rushed into his eyes.
"Gloria why we're going on to