Hyder weekly herald., 1933-03-04
Indolent Arthur
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS
@ by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
 WNU Service

leTeSL aI tHe growing dttacnment De- tween Eva Winter and Arthur Tomp- kins.
 Il can't see what you find so attrac- tive in man who cares more for his pipe and dog and walk through the muddy fields than he does for a good days business. I think he's indolent, if you ask me-" said members of her own family.
 Perhaps Arthur's body is indolent but his mind is not" Eva once re- marked, "and besides, I'm neither en- gagged nor married to him yet" By which saying she proved that she was at least considering Arthur as q future life companion.
 Arthur himself was a quiet, slimly built young man with eyes that were too often aglow with dreams to be really successful in the world of filthy lucre.
 But there was no slightest doubt that business acumen, ambition and sense of material responsibility were sadly lacking. He had, however, strongly developed sense of moral re- sponsibility and could never be per suaded that the outer needs of the body were half so important as decently clothed mind.
 Eva sometimes laughed at herself and wondered just where her associa- tion with Arthur might lead her.
 Most likely to five-room house in the suburbs and the state commonly called Love in cottage" she told herself.
 Meantime, Arthur wasn't worrying about anything. He wasn't the worry ing kind and usually had head too full of happygo-lucky thoughts to pom der darkly on supposed troubles. Fortunately Arthur had slight in- come, the result, no doubt, of money making relative somewhere in the past. It enabled him to lose, quite happily, most positions he succeeded in getting and go his way quite un- affected
 When Eva raved at him for his in- difference, in a perfectly ladylike but none the less irritated manner, Arthur only grinned at her.
 Eva, you can't be beautiful, and lose your temper that way, and if I'm not annoyed at losing my job, I don't see why you-"
 But how do you ever expect to get anywhere in life?"
 By anywhere l suppose you mean money, motors, one or two country homes and continual chasing after amusement. It's you Eva who will never get anywhere in life. You are strainlng after something to be got through external conditions-while T. we'll I have found life to be full of | joy and happiness that loss of ma terial things will not rob me of"
 Am material thing?" questioned Eva.
 Sometimes" said Arthur promptly "and sometimes you touch the fringe of that other world where lave and honesty and the soul of things count you are adorable when the spirit takes possession and at those moments want to take you for my wife and life companion more than I have ever wanted anything"
 And when I'm material"
 "Then I'm not so sure." said Arthur "Pots of money and that you who i: always seeking happiness in externa things would never make me happy. would not want to subject what know to be my higher and better sel to continual conflict"
 ''Yes, but that higher self of your couldn't even support me comfort ably"
 "Oh yes it could. would have n, respect for myself if loved woman whom I could not take proper care of There would be no flock of motors, no variety of homes scattered about al corners of the earth but the very typ of the love have for you would mak up for the lack of them. l doubt any of the men who say they love yo would be happy with you if they ha to live in log cabin all their day with ynv "