The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-14

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it might mean the millennium.
The threat Of overpopulation-for
mans architectonic powers were
restored II not woman's; to say
nothing Of his prolonged sojourn
would at last rouse the law.
makers to the imperious necse-
sity Of eugenics, birth control.
sterilization Of the unfit and the
expulsion Of undesirable races. It
might even stimulate youth to q
higher level than satisfied It at
present. Human nature might at.
tain perfection.
Deep Problem
However, he was In no mood
for abstract speculation. His own
problem was absorbing enough.
He might az. well iternize the
questions he had to face and ex-
anime them one by one and dis.
passionately. He would never feel
more emotionless than now, and
that mental state was very rare
that enabled a man to think
clearly and see further than a
yard ahead Of him.
Her real age? Could he ever
forget it? Should he not always
see the old face under the new
mask. as the X-ray revealed mana
interior under it's mercifu1 cover.
ing Of flesh? But he knew that
one Of the most beneficient gifts
bestowed upon mankind is the
talent for forgetting. Particularly
when one object has been dis
placed by another. Federation
dulls the memory. He might csay
to himself every hour in the day
that she was sixty not thirty and
the phrase would soon become as
meaningless as absent-minded re-
plies to remarks about the weather.
He made no doubt that Mary
Zattiany would have, II she chose.
as many suitors among men of
his own age as among her former
contemporaries. They would dis
cuss the phenomenon furiously.
joke about 1t, try to imagine her
as she had been, back water, re-
turn out OF curiosity, hesitate,
speculate-and then forget It.
No one would forget 1t sooner
than himself. He had no doubt
whatever that when he went to
her house tomorrow afternoon he
would remember as long as she
kept him waiting and no longer.
So that was that.
Did he want children? They
charmed Observation-Disclosures he
had never been conscious Of any
desire for a brood Of his own.
He knew that many mon felt
an even profounder need Of off
spring than women. Mans ego
is more strident, the desire to
perpetuate itself more insistent,
his foresight is more extended.
Moreover, however systematically,
his sense Of duty to the race is
stranger But he doubted
II any man would weigh the rep
etition Of his ego against his
ego's demand to mate with a
woman like Mary Zattiany. He
certainly would not. That was
final.
What was 1t she demanded in
love, that she had sought 30 ar
IDENTIFY and ever missed? Could he
give 1t to herr Was she merely
glamored once, caught up again
In the decisions Of youth, with
her revivified brain and reawaken-
ed senses. and this time only be.
cause the man was Of q tyne
novel in her cognizance of men?
Useless to plead the urge Of the
race in her case Never.
theless, many women, denied the
power Of reproduction fell as
mistakenly In love as the most
fertile Of their sisters. But hard.
Iva woman of Mary Zattiany's ex-
haustive experience! She GER
tainly should know her own mind.
Her instincts by this time must
be compounded Of technical knowl.
edge, not the cropping inherited
flashes playing about the shall.
low soil Of youth II her
instincts had conferred on him
there must be some deeper mean.
Ing than passion or even intel.
lectual homology. After all. their
conversations. II vital. had been
few in number.
What Did She Want?
Perhaps she had found, with her
minds trained antennae. Soma
one OF those hidden layers Of
personality which she alone could
reveal to himself. What was II?
She wanted far more than Iowa.
making and mental correspond-
ence. What was it? He wished
he knew. Tenderness? He could
give her that in full measure.
Sentiment? He was no sentiment
talist. but he believed that he
possessed the finer quality.
Fidelity? That was not worth