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t- -t'ststssssssm y - - UK Sige Indian, said Mark Twain some years ago, "waa an orlgtnal aborigine belong lnc to an ancient and extinct tribe that never existed." One can imagine the h amor ist's memory running back, aa he said It, to poke furl among the old playbills of Jialf a century since, when "Poor ho" trod the boards with a freedom that a few playgoers of today still recall. Stripped of his' boasted realism, the stage ravage pf our own day Is not so new as he thinks he Is. To bsure, he makes the old ftow-and-tomahawk brave look silly and romantlo, but the latter was dearly beloved In his day and generations, and his name was le gion. They were funny enough, those red skins of the older theatre, who could one and all traoa clear, fair lineage to the pages of James Fenlmoore Cooper, and Edwin Forrest -himself, when he first played "Metamora, the Last of wampanoags," the most tragic and pop ular of romantic stage sachems, played him in a mustache and goatee. The later daguerreotypes, however, seem to show that Forrest was at last brought to realize the- propriety of giving his chieftain at least a clean shave. But with all Its romantic extravagance, Met nmora was considered by some one of the actor's greatest parts and that in spite jf the fact that he disliked it, and seemed to be singularly prpne to run Into mishaps whenever he played it Joseph Jefferson in his autobiogra phy, described a characteristic contre temps that befell the Irritable Forrest one night toward the end of the piece. Things had gone wrong throughout the evening and Mr. Forrest was in the last stage of exasperation. A fu neral pile of burning fagots was brought on at which soms paleface was to be sacrificed. The two Indians In; charge of this mysterlos-looking article, set U down so unsteadily that a large sponge saturated with flaming slcohol tumblid off and rolled down the stage, leaving a track pfflre in Its wakl. 'Put it Unl'n forre"t. 'Put It out. Where- Lh ,wo indin8 went down on their knees and began to blow alter nately in a see-aaw way, Bingelng each other's eyebrows at every puff. The au A FLOWER FOR A GRAVE By Ella Wheeler W.l COX (Ooprright, 108. hy W. R. Hesr.t.1 R UMMAGING in an old library a small volume drnnneH f, m. .h-ie 7'umelarPPe1 from the sneir. and on its cover shone one word in golden letters: INFELICIA. Below it the name Menken. The book was published b the Llp plncofs In 1869. Th frontispiece shows the head of a handsome, boyish-looking woman In the prime of youth. Under ,the picture is the full n "MP6' Adah Issues Menken Reading over the wild, walling, yet 5 , j wiin wnicn eacn page is filled, I was really impressed with the K" 1 1 w iiuiiinii mi? iuu iiuiiinii genius. While unaccompanied bv hla-h idesls or fixed principles, or strong faith, i"n issacs jwennen was wonderfully glfteS n many ways. She possessed varied ' talents, and - physical beauty of a peculiar and. un- unuar type, logemer wiin great personal magnetism. She first flashed on the public eye in a fensaMonH4 h-eatrloal feature, whsre she played the role of Iaxeppa. attired in fleshings and strapped to a horse. Afterward she wrote her curious and powerful little book of verse, filled with strange cries- of her own wild, unhappy - heart, and she, was at once recognized by the literary .world of England and given a royal reception for a time. Charles Dickens and all his contempo- iHiin,uuiiiBru uci, tiny il imn mid that she was the moael for Swinburne's well known' poem "Faustlne." That Swinburne.-" then In the heydey. of ardent youth, was one of her faith- ful satellites for a brief hour, Is undis- pvitod.---- -'- , . Here are some extracts from the 'little boftk which Is all that remains of Adah . Issacs Menken, today, to remind the world that she lived: . ."Yes, yes, dear love. I am dead: dead to you, dead to he world. qad forever, "ir was. one'young night In May. . 'The stars were strangled, and the moon was blind wivi the (lying clouds of a 'blark despair. . - "My stark and naked soul unfolded Its wings to the dimness of death. A death thtf left this dumb living body is Its endless mark. . . ' - -"But death lsft an old light In -my eyes and old music for rhy tongue, to oerelVe lb ;rawllni' worms that 'woala-jnade ' "But the purple wine I quaff sends THE flu -;'. w "Mil vv " -l UMt0-' I?-; t- dience could not stand thjs comical pic ture and began to break forth in laifghn ter. 'Let the theatre burn," roared For rest. "At last one tall Indian, supposed to be second In 'command, majestically waved off the two who were blowing and stamped his foot with force and dig nity upon the flaming sponge, at which a perfect fountain of burning alcohol spouted up his limther legs, lie caught fire, tried to put himself out, rubbing and jumping about frantically, and at lust danced off the srage In the most comical agony. Forrest made a furfous xit, the curtain was dropped, and the -public In perfect good nature dlnpersed. I mingled with the crowd as It went forth," concludes Mr. Jefferson, "and I never saw the faces of an audience at the end of a five-act Comedy wreathed In such smiles." . But. as Laurence Hutton points out In his 'Curiosities of the American Btagc," "Metamora" was far from the first of Its kind. Curiously enough the first Indian plav In Arfle.rlca seems to have been an operatic spectacle entitled "Tammany," wriHon by Anne Kemhle, a sister of John Kernble, and Mrs. Sd dons. The piece 'was dedicated to and produced under the auspices of the Tam many society of New York at the John Street theatre, toward the end of the eighteenth century, but even Columbus and 8t. Tammany In person, disporting themselves among stiff canvas trees and wigwams, that were the most rfftlistic settings the American stage has at yet seen, failed to make the -piece a success. A long line of . "Pocahontases" led bv "The .Indian Princess," tnailed behind the footlights of the old days. The subject was Immensely popular and the best actors of the day cheerfully stained their faces and arms, nut on battered feather bonnets and . stalked about in blankets, as stern Powhatans, while In dian maidens 'In dainty buckskins saved Innumerable sturdv John Smiths. Charv lotte Cushman, who was at that time given to playing male parts, appeared many times -as Rolfa in Robert Pale Owen's version of the popular theme. The success of "Metamora," for which Forrest is said to have paid the author, John Auarustus Stone, $500, started a war dance of Oroloosas. Outalassies, Pawnee Chiefs, Hiawathas and Wlssa hlokons. until at last a reaction 'set In and toward the middle of the century James Rees, himself a dramatist, au no thrill of love and song along mv veins; thy kisses are doubtless sweet. tnat ro "t- " eternal passion Tor me. bllt l feel nelther pleasure, passion nor naln. "SO' I am certainly dead; dead In this velvet end lace, dead in these jewels of light, dead in the music; dead in the dance. "Why did I die? Ob, love, I waited, years and years agone. "Once Uie blase of a far off edge of ,ove crept up over my horixon.. "But a mtdnltrht swooned down to "And so I died; died alone in the grasping the white throat of "many a prayer. "How did I die? "No. man has wrenched the shroud from hia stiffened rnma, tn mav v.. murdered me! No woman has died witn enough of Christ in her soul 'to tear the bandages from her srlaasv eves and say, -ye crucified me! "Kesurgam: Resurgam!, "Where shall I lead my flocks today? is mere no riorerj lor me beyond this desertt Is there no time for me to Dray I bare to you my white bosomr I dra from It the dagger whose blacks is keen- er than any ye can hold. V "The hands I most loved whetted It and struck with fatal precision, for. ha knew where the heart layt - "No one else pan ever know. . "In the beginning God, the great schoolmaster, wrote upon the white leaves of our souls the text' of life In mn nwn suiunrann. --"Cpon all souls It was written alike '."How soiled and stained with the Wood of the Innocent some of the booka are. "Surely yft some will look fairer than others. "The weak and the struggling. ' "The desolate and ..oppressed. "The defenders of women. The mothers of new born children. "The loving wives of cruel husbands. , '-'On the souls of these his autograph- will Ixr.handed up to the Judgment .seal pure and unsotled!' v 'The whole cry of the' little boqlc is the old cry "Too. Late., r Because Adah IssaVs Menkert had loved, unwisely,, been f deceived fllsan, fllnled. 'had1 sinned and wandered from trie bath of her eariv Ideals aha hliave,i life held nothing but repetition of these misfortunes for) her, and so she that .belief eome truer-- -. T. A spectre not within the door: . . "'. OREGON SUNDAY, JOURNAL, PDRTLAHD. .5UND AY ' thor of "Charlotte Temple" and "Wash ington at Valley Forge, wrote that the Indian, drama "had of late become u perfect nuisance." Mr, Hutton remarks that "a full list of the 'Indian plays. more or lens successful, Known in oilier days and now quite forgotten, would be one of the curiosities of American dra matic literature." To be a stage Indian in those days required no study or exertion. All you had to do was to stain your face, 4ut on thb regulation togs, learn to make a war whoop by patting your mouth with your hand as you yelled, and peer stealthily under your palm from around trees and rocks. For the rest you talked sublime, primitive sentiments, in extra good and usually poetic English, and stood about In tragic statuesque atti tudes with your blanket falling grace fully over one arm and your hand hooked carelessly Into your belt near your tomanawK. mis was trie accepted noble savage of the early Indian drama. Bad Indians crept abound with knives ana extra streaKs or rea paint on tneir noses, taiuing a gipnsnsn mac sounuea aboriginally devlHh. The Pocahontas idea liung on bravely. You could always be sure some gentle, fawn-like Indian maiden would be on hand to stop all bullets, knives or toma hawks aimed at the hero usually at the expense of her life. And the cur tain was fond of going down on her aged chieftain' father, sitting in front of a lonely wigwam and eyeing the land scape with primitive North American gloom. 4 Most of these theatrical redskins carried bows and arrows, which often made them ridiculous trouble. It is on record that during a performance of "Metamora" when a line of young braves in Indian file crossed the stage at a swift trot, the leader tripped on his bow and the? others piled over him like dominoes until two or three spilled over the footlights into the orchestra This kind of thing was what particu larly enraged Mr. Forrest. Alter a while, however, people found a new entertainment in the frontier drama, with ita .more realistic rough-and-tumble hunters and backwoods men. One doesn't have to be so very old to remember "The Kentuckian" or Frank Mayor's ,T)avy Crockett." But even these romantic scouts were for gotten, when Buffalo BUI. In the border plays that preceded the wild west show. A houseless shadow evermore, An exile lingering her.". , , What a blessing to this unhappy and gifted woman the "New Thought" philosophy of today would have been; the philosophy which recognizes no such words as "Too Late" and which tells the "wrecks on error's shore" that thev are divine souls, and joints them to the heights where they may And themselves reborn. Let us hope that this storm-tossed mariner found, her harbor of peace when she passed on; that she may yet come baok to earth, wise with the wisdom gained In suffering, to sing the greater songs which were stored la her turbu lent soul. ' 1 - A little flower for your grae, sor rowful sister poet. "Resurgarm! Resurgam!" Graft Jn European Papers. English newspapers particularly have the habit of associating everything American with ','rafi" and of defending not only Great Britain, but all Europe WHY ALL THIS THE politics-economical organization of society must come to a new and Just arrangement because reason and the ideas of mankind demand It. One single funda mental principle must govern society, and this principle must be either indi vidualism, that Is. egotism, or the soli darity, the cohesive fellowship of man kind, that la altruism. At tho present day neither fellow ship nor egotism are ruling alone, but C combination of both, which is as un reasonable as It Is inconsistent. Pos session la organised on a personal ba sis and egotism reaches In the laws governing inheritance the utmost limits to which t can attain, by not only seixlng y stealth and violence Every thing It can lay hands on, but by clinging to the plunder forever, and excluding the rest of mankind from ver shaclng in its benefits, , Tbe man of prperty will not allow the man. without property , to caU that principle to his aid to which the former owes his wealth. Fortunes are- accu mulated in the name of individualism, but they, aro defended in'the name of human solidarity. The rich man en joys his disproportionate, share of life's blessings of iwhlch he has , made him self master by unblushing :egntism. but when tl pbor Irian- tielps -himself to' tbem with srtmej bfithe j-fch 'titan's ego-, Usra nd selfishness he la. arrested. 4 4 lile appcara'm real Cut real cowboys and real Indians Into is piece. Audiences began to demand the genuine, lfomewhat soiled, article, and to laugh at the old heroic braves. There border plays were, usually built around a rousing night ittark by a bund -f Indians on a jwidy of United States troops. Buffalo Hill's real In dians neva spoke a sylliilile beyond their- native war whoop. When an In dian character had to say something the part was -played hy a white actor. But these pieces conveyed a yelling, dusty, up-to-date realism that made the Metanioras look stiff and pictorial. Then along came John Brougham with one of the funniest burlesques ever written in English. His "Orislnal Aboriginal, Rrratie, Operatic. Semi CivUised, and Demi-Savage Extrava ganxa of Pocahontas" has-left echoes of laughter and a trail of good stories that reach down to the present day. Its gcta vagant travesty glvej one an idea nt Ahat tile older Indian drama must haveVbeen like. The piece was pre senteV.to; the first time at the Lyceom theatre on Chrlstthas eve under the management of the elder Waljack. The whole thing is a fast and furious fusillade of atrocious puns and conceits. The scene is laid in Raleigh aveiiie, Virginia, which thoroughfare Is noth ing' more or less than an aimless path through the primeval forest as one of the characters remarks: An avenue. The strangest that I ever knew. Mr. Mutton cites similar lines. Captain John Smith sings, of the royal Indian court: "I visited his majesty's abode, A portly savage, nlumn and nlgeon-toed. Like Metarp.ora, both In feet and fea ture, . ' ,8,... . I never met-a-mor amusing creature." Mr. Brougham played "Pow-Hat-an-I, King of the TuscarOras, a Crochet y Monarch; In fact a Semi-Brave," with a dense hedge of feathers towering above his brow and a club as thick as a lamp post. H benignly thanks his people ut the end of the opening song, to the air of "Hoky-poky-wlnky-wum.f "Well roared," Indeed, by Jolly Tusea roras; Most Loyal corps, your king encores your chorus. ' against similar imputations. The'Ital lan Press association, however, seems to have trouble of this kind on its hands, Judging from the following cablegram from Romt1: "A special meeting of the Italian Press association was held here to consider charges brought by the Belgian journal Patriote against an Italian journal and a certain deputy, in which it was said that they had accepted large bribes from the Congo administration to deny charges of cruelty to. natives. "The Patriote so clearly indicated the Tribuna as the Italian Journal con cerned that the director of the news paper. Senator Roux. was summoned to appear before the press association. In stead of doing so, he resigned from the association, accompanying his resigna tion with a flippant article In the Tri buna. , "That paper is also charged with re ceiving brines from government offi cials to conceal scandals In the public works. A searching Inquiry will be made, and In the meantime the Tri buna's position here is severely shaken." TROUBLE? In the form of usury and speculation the unscrupulous furtherance of self .interest is permissible, but it is strictly forbidden when it takes the form of robbery and theft. The same principal applied in the former case Is a merit, in the other a crime. Human reason revolts at such Ideas.' Jf egotism is to be preached, let It be consistent and assert its right in all cases. If It Is right for the rich man to 'luxuriate in a life of leisure be cause he has been able to get posses sion of landed estates or to take ad vantage pf the labor of others, then it must also be conceded to be right for tho poor man to strike him dead and take possession of his property as the spoils of victory, if he has the 1-our- gm and strength to carry through siich an undertaking. This Is logical. It is true that logic would soon bring society to destruction and our civilisation to the dogs and men would become like .beasts, of prey (.wandering alone through the land and tearing each other tu.filet-es. ' But alivone who Is not pleased with this abstract ""aim of our social development, egotism, has no other aUernptlve - before him but to accept the ; other sole principle fellowship. The motto will no longer be "Every one for himself,'' but "One for all .and all for each.'" ' Society will thenas. sume the responsibility of supporting and" eduostlng the youtlF ef theeountry until : they ..can earn their own llr llhood, of supporting those too old and MORNING, NOVEMBER; 1, wKciara the jn the 'life and ai"an Later he cried: "Sergeant af1 arms, say, what alarms - the crowd; Loud noise annoys us; why is It al lowed?" ' w Some one Inquires of the monarch whether in the word "lie" he uses the vowel "(" or "y." To which he replies: " Y, sir, or I, sir, search the vowels through. And find the one most consonant to you." Tli chieftain .apostrophizes to to bacco: "Whilri other joys one sense alone can measure. This to all senses gives ecstatic pleas ure, You fuel the radiance of the glowing bowl. Hear the soft murmurs of the kindling coal, Smell the gweet fragrance of the horve dew, 7 Taste Its strong pungency the palate through, See the blue cloudlets circling toj the dome, Imprisoned skies up-floating to their home - I like a dudeen myself!" The very mishaps of the piece seemed to turn1 themselves Into lucky chances. Mr. Jefferson used to love to tell a famous tale of success snatched from defeat in an Incident that happened during the first weeks of the piece. Miss HihIfoii, the original Pocahontas, suddenly departed one night, bag and baggage, without so much as a whisper of notification. "No word of thin pro ceeding reached the theatre until a few minutes before the curtain was to rise on the performance. Of course for some minutes there was a deadlock. No one could suggest the faintest remedy, and Brougham was nonplused. At last he went In front of the curtain and ex plained the situation. He confessed ha was at his wits' end a long distance for him to travel and really did not know what to do. unless the audience felt disposed to accept the burlesque of' Pocahontas with the gentle savage omitted,. He said there was an old the atgcsl anecdote setting forth that on one occasion the character of Hamlet bad been so wretchedly acted that on Ths attention of, the British press Is respectfully drawn to the above, and we think It will be quite In order If the London newspapers!, or a few of them, at least, would refrain from throwing stones until they have inves tigated their own glass houses. Mu nicipal grafters were recently convict ed and sent to Jail in the West Ham division of London, and It la not at all Improbable that other departments, if investigated, minht yield similar dis closures. This claim of immaculate purity of motive on the part of Eng lish newspapers is .best described in the Cockney slang term, "Piffle:" Two Hundred Towns. There are two hundred towns in Orest BritRln with over :,000 inhabitants and no newspaper. Many of them are a good distance from a large town pos sessing a newspaper. So do you won der that the people over there are slow, narrowmlnded and ambit lonless? Whers would the Cnited States be if this coun try had the, same dlsvantagesf By Max NbrJau feeble to support themselves, of com ing to the aid of infirmity, without aU lowing hunger and distress to exist ex cept as the punishment of voluntary idleness. Great catastrophes are looming up on the field of political economy, and it will not be possible to Ignore them much longer. As long as the masses were religious they jrould be consoled foe thnlr wretchedness on earth by promises of unlimited Miss In the next world, but .today they are becoming more enlightened. The poor count their numbers and thqse of the rich, and realize rbat they are constantly growing more numerous and stronger than the latter. They ex amine tha sources of wealth and find that speculating, plundering and inher iting liavn no more rational justifica tion than robbery and theft, and yet the latter are prosecuted by the laws. The increasing disinheritance X the 'masse by their deprivation of land and by the,' increasing accumulation of property into the hands of a few -srill. make the eoonomlo. wrongs more and more Intolerable. - . The moment that tho millions ac quire, In addition to their hunger, a knowledge 1 of tho remote causes te which -it Is due, they will remove and overthrow all obstacles which stand between then and the right of satisfy ing their appetite. Hunger is n of Ihe.few elementary forces that neither threats nor persuasion caa perma pentlyscontrol. . .. " 1908 Role ot TALYWANA iqu&w lUgn.. Indian )naver Its next presentation that part had been omitted by particular request. "Now," said Brougham. "If 'Hamlet' can be acted without the hero, why may not 'Pocahontas' be played without the heroine? You all know that 'Pocahon tas' Is a much finer play than 'Ham let'; If yon do not I do, for I wrote It myself. Will you permit us to make the experiment?" The cries of "CertalnJ r-o on," were so encouraging that Brougham retired amid applause, and the curtain was rung up. The burlesque proceeded ad mirably until the music was played for the entrance of the absent squaw. ' The audience wondered what Brougham could possibly do. He was acting the father, Pow-Hat-An, and was on the stake awaiting the approach of his daughter. He Immediately addressed the audience somewhat in the .following words: "Ladles and Gentlemen That la the sweet strain which Is supposed to bring Pocahontas on the stage. You are aware that she Is at present In Balti more, and the law of the land will not permit a Christian, much less a savage, to be in two places at once. You can yourselves vouch for the alibi; but If she were here she would say," and here assuming the look and tones of the ab sentee Brougham spoke her part first, then assumed his own character and so kept up the dialogue. The audience, convulsed with laughter at the admir able Imitation, acknowledged by their applause that Brougham had outdone himself through the wit .wltji which he had mastered the difficulty. Nowadays when the Indian finds his way into plays in the guise of 'at mosphere" no effort is spared to make him as genuine as can be. Mitchell Lewis spends 60 minutes on his make up as Tabywana in "The Squaw Man." Any one who has watched Mr. Lewis as he carefully molds each high Indian cheekbone from a big lump of brown fiutty slapped firmly on the cheek, neat y sculpturing his nose from, the sanis material, delicately blending the edges Into the flesh, and finally workingvthe whole thing down to a rich brown tlnp. will understand the modern search for realistic detail. Tabywana's face is so heavy an affair that It takes a palette knife and to minutes' work to dispose of him after the performance. LOVELESS MARRIAGES ARE IMMORAL-By Prof. Emll Reich : IX society nowadays marriages are net entered into on account of love, hut to obtain rank and wealth. Wealth and rank are thus main tained, but their owners decay. This is In obedience to the self-regulating and. restricting tendencies of every liv ing organism, hence of humanity at large The suppression of love, the enlarge ment of egotism, which are the prevail ing tendencies of upper strata of so ciety, would lead to the speedy decay of the race If they became universal. The Impulse for self-preservation in mankind thus leads to the inevitable de cay at families founded on loveless and selfish unions. The rapid decay of aristocratic Mwses universally eon ceded has hardly any othe cause thau this. In addition to marriages Of this kind contracted by degenerates -there' are also those entered into by sound normal be ings, capable of love, who yet have mar ried without love from a lack of under standing, from heedlessness or from a cowardly dread of the dangers of tho struggle for existence In the midst of a society organised and governed by sheer egotism. It is remarkable that such marriages,' contracted In direct opposition to na? ture and reason, are called marriages of reason. .The sin they have thus com mitted against that fundamental liiV. sexual selection, is avenged upon them sooner or later, and the later the more severely. The Impulse to love cannot be eradi cated from, their hearts and is continu ally seeking an- outlet through the un- yielding walls of legal and social con-, ventlnnallsm. with incessant and most painful exertions. It may happen, that such an individual never- meets one , with whom It has an affinity through out its entire life career. In this ease the marriage re mains undisturbed and the relation's between man and wife united from prndentlal motives formauy correct. But their existence is unflnp Ished and .unsatisfactory; they always have the tormenting sensation, of a sor rowful unrest and xpertatiou,; they are always hoping for"-omethltte yet to come that- will awaken ihien from the stupor of i their empty Uvea. Their whole being Is felt to be incomplete and . thw Ions fr- the unsung portion, which they never find, even la the most brll- "But the result pays," says -Mr. Lew . Is, "because this finished tietali is -actly what audiences are sure to lookv for these days. Why, when- I first v tried this makeup, I even umd to draw my eyes Into just the right slanting; narrowness by pasting bits of gauxe back of the temnles. I went further and experimented .with false lips. IC f waa extremelv uncomfortable, however.". and I found the effect hardly paid for ; the trouble. Nothing Is too piuch't do for makeup, but there Is also nothing in which you can so easily do too much. "When I studied my Indian for The Squaw Man,' I was given a bundle of photographs from the Uintah reaerva-4 tion. J. picked out one that struck me as practicable and copied -it pretty,' closely. I recently received a letter. from a man who said he had been for, 11' years interpreter to Chief Long : Horn. He hud Just seen the piece and, intimated-that he had been rather" un-:; canntly struck by my resemblance to one of Long Horn's old warriors named' Spotted Tall, who, while" he lived, had.- uecn my correepunaeni m particular friend. Of course I was not surprised? fii turning uwr me piciurv to nnu ine name of Spotted Tall on my . BpecM "I'he same principles come true when Girl I Left Behind Me,' a picturesque, gibberish that sounded like Indian tallc" was more man enougn to meet ait re-, quirements. Not so today. This ia the first time an Indian character has-ever" been put on the stage speaking his, native language. I am not likely to forget the endless hours I spent dig ging Indian words out ot Baco Vnite,,' mv Instructor, who is no mors com- municative than the rest ot his race, nor the time it took me to spell them- ! out phonetically and memorise them afterward. You get many of your, cherished notions of Indians upset when you come to study them - first hand. . -v , (. v '( "1 believe the Indian on the stage la more elTectlve when used with white" people for purposes of contrast, but even then you can't do hint up in the easy, war-patnt-andf eather get-up or the old days. There was a time when Ristorl dared to play Lady Macbeth in hoop-skirts, hut the public has grown xo do less romamio ana aecia-. edly more sensitive to genuine detail." lfant gratifications of their vanity or -self-interest, because love alone could. Supply it. , . : The lives of such persons as well ad' of the degenerates miss the eonsecra-' tlon of the ideal, but, more subjectively" unhappy than the latter, they have a continual consciousness of what is lack-., ing. They are not blind but seeing men, deprived of light. . This Is the case if destiny does Tint bring them irvto contact with some be. ing with whom they have an affinity. But if they meet with one the cataalroV. phe Is inevitable. - - The conflict between the conjugal du ties and the elementary striving for union with the individual for whom they feel an affinity is constant and wearing; the substance, the love-rebels against the forms of the married state In which It is confined. Either the sub. stance is crushed or ihe form Is do stroyed. , A third solution Is also possible, snd as it is the mcst ignobTe,' It is the most', frequently employed tins sidea of the, -form which are visible to all eyes re main undisturbed, but in the' rear a" narrow crack is made through .which--the substance can find Its wy out, T -express It more practically, the lovlnif party In the- lovelens marriage etthee dissolves the marriage by force or:' struggles with and subdues his love by tlu. sacrifice of his life's happlnoss, or else deceives tils wife and break hlii conjugal' vows in secret. - : Common natures selxe at onc upon this last means of escape but nalr--' of ' true nobility have to tregi,-l through and bear with the tragedy i.r rebellion against the prejudlre of so ciety anilJhe fatal contest between p sion and duty with all their bltt-r i i tensity.. , ' ' if society were foundI nm.n t - law governing the specie. . surn l, . less marriages would be - Jnripossii.Kt r, j Such catastrophes inconcetvblihi. ', .Th loveless marriage is a ... i !y moral relation- fraught with ti,,f i. fatal resulls for thw future of j. .. i It compels thtcMM who mlef it ),, r themselves involved sooin-r or l.'V; a conflict between forsworn V'iwi . ,, inqsfructlbla love, ami give it.. , ,, tw .alternatives vui,n- mm ruin. Instead et Us Wit (i . humanity to renew i' juuiit u means of slow al i K ,' At' the JiremeTrt rsTiTf 1" , . popumt itm i.f.tw 1 i.itcl willbeiO!).0C''J.vC' ""Tf " 1
