The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-04-20

WAinhlcu auu wait anu LOVE YOU just
the same
She warbled. "'Believe me il all
those endearing' But that's such old
stiff can't you tell me something q
little more up, to date?" "A
/ Our sort of.love, Sylvia. is 50 rare
Tor so it seems to mel that it's an
awful pity, don't you think, to let 1t
go by us even for the sake Of a bril-
liant careerr,
go by you, you meanT' she sweet
" inquired; '.for didn't say Twas In
love with any one in particular"
NJ II said, didn't /, that ne were
mates? I'm your mate, too. II you only
knew it--as much as you're mine y
when did You begin to feel that
way?' she asked with bright inter
est, her eyes shining up into his with
rather a feverish excitement.
From the first day met you in
your school! l couldn't keep on you /
You had me-ih the hollow OF yeur
handi'
"Oh,. gee. l didn't know It'll And.
Marvin! I've got to hold on to my
self like anything or you'd have me in
the hollow Of your dear hand--and 1
don't want to be in any ones hands
not even in your strong and tender
ones flor want to actl"
1--WE seen you with those school
children think your bigger career,
Sylvia, lies in your having a brood OF
your OWL don't shock you, child.
do II"
"Well, yes, when you suggest q
whole brood! I think that's too
many! / wish.n sighed Sylvia, II
could have babies and career, too
II ! insisted on that, would You jilt
me?'
But dear child, can't live in Cali
fornia. Not even in New York. MY
work will always be here. And what
kind of marriage would that be-
you in California and l In Pennsyl-
vania?"
you wouldn't give up your work
for marriage; why should I? What Is
going to become of marriage when
women's professions become as inn
portant and as inevitable to them as
a mans is to him? wonderr'
"Do you really think. Sylvia, that
being screen actress Is as big a
thing as rearing children
SIT would depend. should say, upon
the sort Of children you rear. I'd con-
slider it an awful waste Of life to bring
up most of the people one knowsl"
But you and I, Sylvia" said Mar
vim solemnly. might get some salts
faction from bringing up family Of
well. honest, fearless truth-seekers,
prophets Of new gospel"
"Oh, come, Marvin, let's give them
a chance to be themselves ~
That's what / want them to be!
So few OF us are ever ourselves !
We're forced into a mold that's quite
unlike our real selves! Let's rear a
family that shall be nucleus to start
something"
"But it's so dangerous, these days,
to start anything
h "Let them start the long-looked-for
goodwill to men era. It's about due,
II humanity is to survive. don't you
think? Well. what do you say7 Shall
weT'
'sThis is the queerest proposal ever
hadr'
"Well, I can't seem to do anything.
even propose to q girl, according to
patternl"
"But you see, Marvin dear, love
lasts such a short time. My career on
THE screen would last rather longer,
"Ours won't be the kind that
doesn't last It will be the kind that
growsl It will.
"Oh, you're young! You sound six
teen! Pm not SO sure. But 1t does
not really matter, does it?-whether
it lasts or not? It's the supreme thing
,nowl"
"You admit thaty' he eagerly de-
manded.
"Oh, yes. Marvin! You've gone and
dimmed the glory OF the screen for
me SO that / don't feel half so enam-
ored of it as. l did"
II tell you. Sylvia!" He flung him.
self on the couch at her side. "You
go on out to your old Hollywood, my
dear. and try it out. For If you didn't
give it trial. you'd never be salts
fed. never be sure you had not made
mistake"
Il might even throw it up to you
that you'd deprived the world Of u
great star"
"That's what want to avert. SO
you 60 on out there and then when
you decide to be mine. I'll have you
fast!'
II won't go step unless you prom
Use to come to see me over some week
end.r
'It's three thousand miles across
this continent. you know--or probably
you don't know! You probably think
California is a suburb of Philadelphia.
You need to travel out to Hollywood
to pick up some United States geog-
raphy on the way"
"Now, Marvin she feebly protest
ed as he slipped a hard, strong arm