The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-08-28
WHAT SHE
FOUND IN
BOHEMIA
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By FANNIE HURST

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1.-TWO years after her marriage
Ina Mullins began TO think she
had made d mistake. Tom Null
Inns was all right. In fact he
was a little more than that, because
as time went on, she began to realize
new things about him. Force, eXecu-
tive ability. determination. not I'M
mixed with tenderness.
In the brief period of their mar
ingly in his business and had matured
in the finest sense of the word.
The root Of the evil of discomfort
had its beginnings in a situation that
was quite outside the matter of her
relationships with her husband. Ina
did not quite realize his, fo" she was
a type Of woman Y no is not keen on
self-analysis She only knew that as
the second year Of her marriage drew
TO its conclusion there was gathering
in her breast a tightening knot of
unrest.
Tom himself was sure, and rightly
so, that he could have placed his fin
ger upon the beginnings of the rift
between them.
AS a girl Ina had manifested a
flair for painting. One of her water
colors had been sold from \ anna
teur exhibition at two hundred dol
lars while she was still a girl in
school 1t was after the birth of her
child that Ina once more began TO
resume her painting. 1t was her way
of warding off what she feared would
be the menace of domestic routine.
Mullins was well able TO afford suffi-
cient help TO keep the mind of Ina
clear of household minutiae, and she
began early in her marriage TO see TO
it that the conventional routine of
married life did not close her in. For
instance, she made it her business,
after engaging the services of COM
petent practical nurse. to pack her
palettes, brushes and easels Ito her
pretty dark blue sedan every morn
ing and go off into the woods o. into
the art galleries to sketch, copy or
paint.
When her little girl was three years
old, one of Ina's oil paintings, Rev
cry" received honorable mention in
prominent exhibition.
1t was right there Tom always felt
he could have placed his finger on
the beginnings Of the end.
Ina began TO indulge in the we'll
known psychology of the woman who
feels that she has thrown a career
and talent TO the dogs by virtue of
having married. Ina began TO cult
vate an "art-set," so TO speak. Tom,
who was proud enough, in his way,
OF his wife's talent, encouraged this
and even though he found little in
common with the rather special folk
who began TO crowd into his home at
odd hours, he was man of sufficient
mental accomplishment TO respect the
creative in others. When things. how
ever, began to go willy-nilly, as in
evitably they did. when Ina cast her
lot more and more with the so-called
bohemian groups who were glad of
the opportunity to invade her cOIn-
Portable home, Tom attempted TO put
his foot on the brakes. But too late.
The smoldering suspicion within
Ina Mullins that she had thrown her
self away was raging fire by now.
She wanted out She wanted out of
the confinement IF household out of
the conservative regime that - CIosed
her as the wife of a conservative busi-
ness man.
II was from that point that Tom
Mullins ceased to put up his fight. He
was not a bad psychologist. but per
haps he failed in the quality of per-
sistence that might have been neces-
sary to subdue in Ina certain illu-
sions of self-grandeur.
He ceased putting up his fight be-
cause it seemed TO him that the
things which he not only desired but
required in a wife were pa'0c bly, not
TO be found in Ina. The subject of
divorce was calmly discussed between
them. Tom. with a natural cOnserva-
tism of the male. and with an Unborn
adherence for nOtoriety, was willing
TO permit Ina TO try an additional
year of adjustment before coming to
the drastic act Of separation.
Ina, champing at the bit. rebellious,
disconnected, tired of conservatism.
yearning for the Latin quarters Of
Paris and the Greenwich village of
New York, held out for immediate ac-
ton.
AS usual, the matter of the child
was controversial. The daughter of
Ina and Tom, Greta. aged three. be
came bone of contention. But in the
end 1t became apparent, even to the
rebellious Ina herself. that the kind
OF life that lay ahead Of her. the
life Of the studio, was not the ideal
one in which to rear child