San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07

4 w ,Vsuhiouss give nun W HO Iui 't'e
| covered the mint OF the ages a fe,
| were trials and lawsuits. >jealous:c
and betrayals. and presently Colum
| bus was in chains. in prison, dishon
orcd disrearded. forgotten.
Instead of being the great man o
a great new country. instead of &C
cepting the thousand and one per con
OF glories and honors they offere,
him, instead of roaming through viz
gin forests. exploring virgin rivers
and gaining. year by vea-. the h;ghe
and higher esteem of all men. poo
Columbus walked mirtteripg and for
saken through tawdry city streets
arguing. protesting. hoping. an embi.
tered syconhant to fhe bitter end.
He Couldn't Share.
He couldn't make friends, HI
couldn't win the respect and conf
dence of first mates and navigator.
and common seamen, he cOuldn';
share-he must have it all, all the
glory, all the power and authority, MI
the gold.
Ignorant, by one of the little ironies
that filled his life, that what he had
discovered was neither a new island
nor the back gate of an old continent.
but an actual new world. Columbus
started upon his last long voyage.
under sealed orders, in 1886. leaving
to his son Il handsome legacy of en-
mites, lawsuits, claims upon the
crown, and old wrongs generally Cor
righting. 81.
And presently the captains and the
| 1..,,a.- .ln,,a,toI 10, chair tttr ot11 Tho
new continent was named for one
Yespucci. who appears to have been
merely one OF the many pearl and
gold-hungry merchants who sailed
| hurriedly in Columbus wake-hardly
more than commissary agent. Yes
pucci was not even on his own ship.
But we build statues, in Salamanca
and San Francisco and Lima and
New York. TO Columbus. and we name
schools and theaters and cigars and
yachts for him to this day-and per-
hans his restless shade stops quarrel
ing somewhere long enough to be
glad,
A Greater Discovery.
know a woman who has .discov-
cred more important continent han
did Columbus, and at the risk OF
being rated mad--as Columbus and
everybody else worth while, is at one
time or another II will say fatty
that believe the time is coming when
the world will see that she is 4
/ greater and more valuable person
than Columbus was.
There is another tribunal, after all,
than our petty earthly one of Span
| ish courts and gold mines and pearl
! fisheries. and the utter misery of the
Colun,buses and the NaDoleons. The
deathbeds Of the Elizabeths and Pet
ers. give us a pretty strong hint even
here that it is the values of that
court-whereve and whatever it is.
that are going to hold in the end.
But about this woman.
She made a foolish marriage. and
for some ten Years it appeared that
she was going to pay pretty high for
it. Her life started off with whizz
and an arch of fire, like a rocket. and
then II came down like particularly
siclly stick
She began as newspaper reporter.
went to a delightful and romantic
spot TO fill a remarkable position on
newspaper. and her twenty-fhst
birthday found her the most popular
girl in the English and American col
onv Of the nlace, dancing. flirtine,
riding. bathing. always in white
clothes. always in picturesque sur
roundings. successful in her work.
bound-said an admiring circle-to
go long way"
The Continent Of Happiness.
fpnp, hnpao nar in nn
ship, and he was blond and hand
some and good for nothing at all. so
of course she married him. and the
baby came. and thew drifted hack to
the States and into n small. per-
and another baby came. and there
was its health IN deal with. and p
third delicate baby. and meals. and
beds, and dirty little clothes. and nov
crty, and summer heat and wini az
cold. and the women's club. and the
public library ,f
TWENTY-FIVE. Twenty-eight. Thirty
three. These BIRTHDAYS went BY Tx"
dreams and she was anchored. Stuck
eight. there was no escaDe.
The babies Prew out of rompere
and~went 70 school. and She chancad
tires on the Ford. aud moved tho
lawn. and made grahpm muffins.
while she dreamed Of wide white
beaches. and Mains, Of the Norma
when the band WIS playing. Of the
drives and dances when n new ship
en- mo, into Tho hnrbor.
Well And then in The de"ths ut
hc- SILK and discouraged soul Oh" fit
ted ont tho "Nir"" md the "Pinta"
and the "Santa Maria" md set sail
fov that now continent that is within