San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-15

all Life, Nora Lee, since it gives us
a capacity for experience. The more
deeply wo react, whether to pain
or joy, the more deeply we are liv-
ing"
DODGE RESPONSIBILITY.
why should anyone wish to live
deeply. since the happiest people are
the shallowest? AS Marx Twain says
when Satan robs the old man of his
brain, there is kindness for you! Now
the old man will no longer grieve, no
longer feel the slightest sorrow"
Shallow people may be the hap.
piest, but since you are not a shallow
person, Nora Lee, you will never be
satisfied with a shallow life. 1 hope
you won't try it. 1t is the tragedy
of many women today. They are try
ing to pass their days as idiots. They
are evading responsibilities; drugging
their minds. and spirits. They turn
their backs on the dynamic vitalities
and plunge into the superficial. If
they we're all shallow, they would al!
be happy. But they aren't"
He turned from this earnest tone TO
question whimsically: as it SO neces-
sary to be happy, Nora Lee?'
HAPPINESS, PAIN.
They were walking slowly and now
reached a slope hemmed in by trees.
Nora Lee dropped to the ground,
folding her arms about her knees. He
found a place at her feet, and
glanced upward at her half-turned
face. In the moonlight it was pale, the
heavy lashes dropped, but the strong,
resolute, young chin was raised and
the sweet curves OF her lips parted in
proud eagerness "Oh, yes! What
else is life for except to bring US hap
piness?"
But if my happiness means your
pain, then what? Which one should
life favor? Have / the right to de-
mand a gift that brings sorrow to
someone else?"
She felt him looking at her in
tently and she glanced to the sky
where the moon was now tangled in
the trees of Sutro's Forest, diffus-
ing all about it a soft, yellow light.
She thought bitterly: Il suppose life
has to be sad, then, and someone
must always suffer-" -
The eagerness of her expression,
its imperious youngncss smote him.
He longed to know what she was
thinking; what she wanted from the
world; longed to bring it to her. He
said softly: "Since it isn't love that
is to make you happy, Nora Lee
what will? Is it glory. you are ask
ing?"
WORK AHEAD.
"I-don't-know." She added with
impetuous fire: Nothing could make
me happy" Sudden tears started to
her eyes.
They filled him with panic. He
said hastily: What has happened,
Nora Lee? Can you not speak to
such an old person as ~"
You're not so old. It's just that
things are quite muddled, don't you
think. We can't be sure what we
should ever do. / seem to 20 from
one blunder to another. But soon
all this will be past. In another month
I'll be working" ~
ain another month? Can you fin
ish the course in two months?"
Enough to take a job. I'll finish
the course at night. They have a
most thorough instruction-6:3 80 to
0 80 twice a week. So you see, don't
you?"
Eyes, see. see very plainly.
You do wrong. Nora Lee, to refuse
me the privilege of aiding you. Can
you not know that it would be an
undreamed of enrichment in my life?
Can YOU not see that YOU would be
granting a favor greater than any
life has yet given to me?"
Don't say a thing Ike that, Mr..
Bell"
1T is the truth. You want happi-