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GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. 5 jl sideration for 'its growth should bo more than a feather to the scales with you in the balance. That shows you, doesn't it, the manner of man I am? No moral policeman could warn you to keep off the grass of my quality of soul; I myself invite you to trample it it "just divides the des ert from the sown." As I said, you'd simply wreck Chelling, . and I he's too good such men are too few to be sacri ficed to a woman of your temperament. For you are not capable you know it as well as I of sustaining the place he has given you. You are like a paste diamond forgive me, Katherine! in the setting he has made exquisitely of his own purest gold. You have always been a flirt. I, who have known you all your life, recognize it as charac teristic of you your attribute just as the sparks fly upward. You wanted admiration as a child do you remember our school days? you wanted it as a girl, and the more you received, the more you craved. It was to satisfy this craving more than your concept of a compelling talent that made you finally go on the stage. To do this, you had to break with your relatives who opposed it, and you did so without, as far as I could ever discover, a single pang. To say that your success in your art has proved your justification, is, of course, an eloquent de fense. But your art has been in making people admire you, and you have done it so consum mately that few have understood that your talent as an actress has always been subordinate to your charm as a woman. Analysis, you understand, is a foe to sentiment, but I, who am an analyst by profession, deplore in you the lack of the quality I am supposed to deiide. It is still a weakness on the part of men to wish women to illustrate the feminine virtues and I suppose it is a mqasure of the way 1 regard you that I fortuitously regret your attitude toward Chelling. It isn't difficult for me to remember the- you of ten years ago. It was the real you then, I think; that is, the you I thought you not a part you took up or put down, You were charming, graceful, girlish like (you remember her?) I We don't want to take advantage of you but warm days like yesterday must have suggested two piece suits. A vest is quite an incum brance when the thermometer gets around 75 and 80 de grees. You'd do well to try one on. The prices vary from 18 to $35 . Richardson & Adams Co I72 MAIN ST. Leonardo's princess, whose profile haunts one's memory far more persistently than Mona Lisa's dubious smiling. I was almost oh, well! quite in love with you then. To a boy of twenty two you were the ideal a Daphne, shy, immortal, an inspiration for the .first unspoiled devotion a boy gives from the best in him. You didn't want it, and I outgrew later with a wrench the power to give it. "No diver brings up love again" the flawless pearl is found only once. But in some way, though I understand you so fully, though everything is changed, that old time is the perfect thing of my life, and I wish I could blot out the years and be, for my soul's good, the boy I was even if you were out of the question. But I can't over lose you in that way again, and it's my loss and my tragedy. It was the best way, Katherine even if I were as crude as we used to think Chelling. You are a brilliant woman an actress who has achieved the praise that is still the "golden cry" in your ears, but you've deteriorated as a woman from that earlier self that might have been the key the index to the character I thought you were long ago, and that Chelllngs thinks you now. To be popular, to be exploited as an actress whose cleverness was as daring as it was bril liant, has satisfied you perfectly. That a few people of an old-fashioned sort in the little places where you used to live, held up their hands in horror over the roles you took, over the notoriety the press manipulated for you, was nothing to you. Their opinions of you not only didn't tiouble you you didn't even think about their having one. When I met you three years ago in France, after so long a time, I saw you didn't mind the disapproval you might provoke; you were as care less of it as Undine. I, too, you comprehend, had reached a place that if it didn't match yours in brilliancy, at least equaled it in cynical pessimism. I hadn't any illusions about myself or my books. I didn't believe in the milk of human kindness any more than you. We were two of a kind products of arid materialism; and you were much more inter- jw ested in me when you discovered this than ever ,H before. I had acquired analysis; and I studied ijB you frankly. You remember I told you when you 'Wm asked me once the result of my analysis. It ;H wasn't flattering. I pointed out the fact that there Bf" was one direction in which you couldn't advance JH that you'd shut the door. That direction was JH the normal one for every woman love. b's I didn't think you had ever considered its lB existence outside its necessitous part in your 'JB , profession. As a sentiment, as an exaltation of 1B the bnt in human nature, you hadn't considered Wm it. Iu your profession it was a pose assumed ijK as you put on a costume, and I told you that 3H though you could trick an audience at a pinch Wm trick the one person yet you'd never trick your- pH self. )U That's the test, you understand, of the real 1H thing to lose one's self utterly, past finding, in Wm devotion that's single-hearted and real. We quar- B reled, of course; you said my estimate was embit- Vmm tered and I resented the implication. I watched JjjH your manner to Chelling Chelling, who was awk- IB ward, shy and amusing. It was a fine bit of act- IS ing off the stage. We nad discussed him half jjjH contemptuously during those first days before 1B our disagreement, and had wondered that our IfB hostess should have invited so stupid a relation ijjffi cousin, wasn't he? to introduce to" her French ''jjjn in-laws. Old Madame do Silancourt liked him, :(!B I remember, even if he did blush over her droll jB stories and she made them less droll, I noticed, mm when he was by. tjjH But I don't think, In looking back, that any of - ifm us even suspected his real worth it wasn't in us Wm io recognize it until the world flung it into our B faces. I feel sure it was merely the difficulty of fjB attracting him that made you determined to con- 9H quer. He was different from all the men you had IjH ever known he wasn't even aware of your H charm, for it belonged to an atmosphere he didn't jfls comprehend. To bo charming to him it was neces- ifflm sary to abandon your real self to take a role ifflf that appealed to him. 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