Evening star., 1951-08-08

young girl who fell possionoteIy in low
with him.
criticisms of his work, politica
outpourings, her own poems tx
read, and declarations of her pas.
sionate love for him.
Most great men would have
ignored this bombardment (thougl
this forceful girl was difficult tt
ignore). But Shaw, a little ir.
ritably, but with his essentia
kindness, wrote his first letter tt
her:
10 Adelphi Terrace, w. c.,
5th April, 1906.
My dear lady: Why don't vol
join some Socialist society and
get some work to do? There art
always envelopes to be directed
and tracts to be distributed.
What is the use of thinking
about yourself and writing long
letters (three full stops in eight
pages) to an elderly gentleman
letters which he always tears ur
the moment they threaten to be
the kind that the writer wants
to get back an hour after they are
posted.
If you don't find some business
to do that is not specially your
own business you will go quite
cracked.
Yours faithfully,
G. BERNARD SHAW.
P. S.-The poems are too care
less In form to be satisfactory.
Bombardment Continued.
But the bombardment went on,
and Shaw began to meet her, pos
sibly for the first time in July,
1907: for on July II of that var
she received d telegram which she
treasured all her life. and left
among her papers when she died,
It read:
Reply paid. Miss -. Am out
OF town telegraph me your address
In London and I will ask you to
lunch some day this week. Shaw
Codicote.
The next letter comeF a few
months later. The girls infatu-
alton, which she dared not reveal
to her parents, had evidently led
to domestic scenes and unhappi-
ness. Shaw takes this up with
her, tells her how a child must
live with it, parents, chides he1
for deceit:
14th-16th December, 1907.
Ayot st. Lawrence.
Welwyn, Herts.
Saturday to Monday,
Oh, you are young, Mis- -,
very very young. -
You duffel, why don't you tell
your father and mother that you
are in love with me and that you
write to me whenever you have
nothing better to do, and that
what you couldn't stand was to
have your Ia.her'S trash -e. up as
superior to my inspired scriptures?
ed. note.-The girls father, a
schoolmaSter wrote works on ed
ucation.) How can you expect to
get on with your parents if you
never tell them anything about
yourself?
That would explain everything
In a perfectly inoffensive ano
highly amusing way.
Instead OF which you go or
nagging at the poor man and pre-.
tending to criticize, when you are
really in a condition of delightful
infatuation and furious jealousy
He wouldn't mind the truth; il
is human, natural, sympathetic
But this arguing-this saving
thingS-this-yah!
Do stop talking about whether
this is wrong or that right. Havt
you read my works in vain tina
you are still irritating yourself ant
everybody else with this artificia
academic ill-natured stuff abou
guilt and innocence?
I do not accuse you of propos
ing to act wrongly and indecent
ly":: I tell you that your propose
was unlawful.
1t is entirely natural for a hun
CRY man to take loaf Of breat
and eat it. 1t is entirely natura
for an adult woman to kiss a maj
she likes. People who do thes'
natural things are socially i'm
possible.
There is no more intolerablt
nuisance than the man who make
love to other mems wives and tht
woman who makes loves to other!
women's husbands.
Unless when you walk into th'
house of a married woman yol
accept the obligation IA highl!
unnatural one) to consider he,
husbands person as sacred. yol
break the covenant of bread ant
salt, and are a thief, a libertin'
and a betrayer.
If you say that you mean n,
harm, you are a fool as well.
The reason is very simple
When an adult woman and al
adult man caress one another, tn
result is entirely different fron
the result of your kissing you
mother.
Creative Force of Universe.
The whole creative force Of tn
universe suddenly leaps into &C