The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-05

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eXtra-curricular romance. She
couldn't have a setup more con-
ouclve 70 her husbands embarrass-
ment. Then she feigns a romance
With the husband Of the other wom-
an, all of which shows her own hus-
band how badly she felt in the hope
that he will feel the same way.
We aren't discussing the hus-
bands morals. But after all, he
loved his wife. he was sorry, and If
she had grown in stature as she
should have, she would have known
tnat the richness and the deepness
OF the affection between her and
her husband was irrevocably theirs.
That what she had was hers, and
would always be, and that it was not
affected by winds and storms and
floods. That as long as it stood, she
had something of utter beauty. In
TACT, we would have sympathized
with the husband had he become
downright angry with his wifes cru
city.
The desire to hurt back when one
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urge that dates back to that day in
the Garden of Eden when the ami
mails were created. But we have
come far since that lush green
morning when the first nightingales
sang and the first coyotes went
calling to their mates. Those whose
love has grown in stature will not
wound Intentionally, not even to
demonstrate the depth of their own
afliction. When they give way and
do. their own regret surpasses the
suffering that they have inflicted.
They grow up and work harder after
that.
In brief, they have learned good
taste and the value of the relation
ship which exists between one man
and one woman.
FOrgiving by Silence
The heroine in the play violated
her husbands faith in her when she
used such a shoddy method of in
Juring him. He would have appre-
ciated her graciousness if she had
said: "Of course I understand
Let's go on from herel" There is
a quality which women need which
Dorothy Parker, with keen and
kindly shrewdnesS, calls unspoken
forgiveness.
After all, no one person can never
possess another person. Each of us
Is a unity. A husband and wife
twain may become one flesh but
nothing is said Of one mind or one
heart.
A man or a woman who can be
put in an emotional pen and taken
out on a leash can hold little in
terest for a red-blooded, imaginative
person. If love must be guarded
that way, it will rot and decav and
must be thrown out some day.
Understanding Counts Most
Only a relationship in which a
man and woman understand that
what they have is irrevocably theirs.
and can not be affected by other in
terests-business. pleasures, even A
passing glance at a gypsy's gay red
mouth or a languorouS sigh for a
matinee idols worth anything.
A current fiction story draws a
parallel between quicksilver and
love. If you try to hold on to Quick
silver, a maid remarks. it gets away
from you. for it won't all STAY in
one place unless 1t is loose. Love.
so the wife in the story realizes. is
the same. What she has is hers and
lothlng can change that.
If the wife in the play had real
lzed that maybe there wouldn't
have been play. but she would not
have subjected the one she loved
most to situation which made him
appear ludicrous. But it is to be
hoped that she grew up at the end
OF the play. That she knew that one
goes on learning. step by step. that
banns Of possession can never be
published. Love molds and under
standing strengthens them and the
two who are bound go their own
ways happily. not knowing that
there is a bondage.
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