The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-02
CHAPTER v

y How good of you, Helen, to re-
turn my call so promptly" said
Charitas. "Just as soon as heard
of your unexpected return, l went
right over to your house. There's
so much I want to hear. The other
side of the garden is shaded-well
go ever. Helen, your servant can
wait outside with the sun-shade-
you won't need it."
"She may stay with me" said
Helen. "Adraste and I get on well
together
ooh, Helen, how beautiful she is!
What an amazing person you are,
to keep beautiful girl like that in
the house"
81 have no prejudice against
beauty" said Helen.
."Well, perhaps your husband isn't
susceptible, and you haven't a son
to worry you. My boy Damastor-
you don't remember him, OF course
is handsome as Apollo, and he
loves everything beautiful. It's ter
rible. I've tried to keep his mind
occupied, and there are not many
occasions in SPARTA
you're afraid" said Helen, "that
if he saw a beautiful girl he'd fall
in love with her?"
"Well, you know what mean"
said Charitas. Il want him to be a
credit to his bringing up, and fall
in love at the right time with the
right girl You and I know that
beauty often leads to entanglements
with the inexperienced"
eff often leads to love, I believe"
said Helen, "anc in the presence OF
great bueaty all men seem to be in
experienced. There isn't enough OF
it, I suppose TO get used to. You
wish your boy to be respectable
fall in love with plain woman?
Or entirely conventional--marry one
he doesn't love at alp"
"How cynical it has made you"
ct isn't, cynical-it's merely hon
est" said Helen. "You know as well
as I that it's quite proper to marry
some one you respect but don't love.
Society never will ostracize you
for it. And you know it's getting in
to the realm of romance when you
really lose your heart to your mate,
even though he or she isn't beauti-
full. That's more than respectable
it's admirable. Something like that,
I understand, you dream of for your
boy"
'That doesn't quite cover my
point of view," said Charitas.
"No, it doesn't quite cover mine,
either" said Helen. II ought to add
that those two formulas, love with
out beauty and marriage without
love, though they are respectable
and conventional, are also very dan
gerous. Rare as beauty is, you
can't prevent it from coming your
way, and if you see it you must
love it,"
81 don't know that you must"
said Charitas; "some of us have pre-
vious obligations"
IF you've never given yourself to
beauty" said Helen, there are no
previous obligations"
'Then you wouldn't try to stop
boy from falling in love with the
first beautiful girl he sees?"
I'D try to prevent him from fall
ing in love with any other" said
Helen, land when the beautiful girl
arrives it's his duty to love her. He
probably will, anyway, whether or
not he has contracted obligations
with the respectable homely, and I'd
rather have him free and sincere.
The very way you are going at it,
Charitas, you will make your boy
ashamed to love beauty, and he'll
pursue it in some treacherous, cow
ardly fashion. Your ambition to
keep him respectable may prevent
him from being moral"
would you mind Adraste's wait
ing at the other end of the gar
den?" said Charitas. There are one
or two things I'd like to whisper to
YOU"
Ito Be Continued
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