Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], December 14, 1912, Page 5, Image 5

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Their point is that they have had
i enough; that it doesn't pay; that
there is nothing in it. They are des
perately tired of the whole scheme,
and rather than go back to even the
best filled purse and the least filled
days, and start another round of
idling and dissipation, they prefer
to a quietus make with a pink poison.
No, Blree! The man who would
like to go back and live his life over
r is that one who has made good use
and not a bad use of the life that is
behind him. He has found some joys
that didn't leave any bad taste next
morning. He has caught the blessed
ness of having helped other people.
He has done something of use in the
1 World. Ho stands so much in the
proud position of a creator that when
1 he looks on his work he can call it
good. And very likely Uie happiest
day the Lord over had was when he
looked over a completed fpundation
for creation, and declared it good Ho
couldn't help being proud of it. It
vyaB His work so far as He went.
And He felt such confidence in the
men He had provided to take up and
carry on His magnificent plan that Ho
believed they would take as much
pride in their part as He did In His.
Get it out of what you call your
mind that the man who doesn't have
anything to do is the happy man; that
the fellow with plenty to spend, and'
no worry as to where the next dollar
is coming from is the contented per
son; the person who would care to
go back over it all again. That is the
rankest sort of error. He couldn't
be hired or driven or coaxed to go
Sback to the beginning. He hasn't
onough clean stuff in him to recall
how ploasureable were his early in
discretions. He isn't healthy onough
to either enjoy or rogrot them. He
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isn"t clean enough to desire their repe
tition. And he doesn't have to be very
clean for that.
Going the pace doesn't" p"ay! It
isn't half the fun a healthy fellow." can
have in an innocent diversion. And
the money it costs is the smallest
part of the price the rounder must
pay.
You have seen him sitting in the
abomination of his own desolation,
hating himself more than he ever has
hated any other being in all the world,
spoiled of appetite and a stranger to
zest, with, a diseased mind in a pol
luted body, with nothing that even re
motely resembles ambition, and with
an abject discouragement that ffot
even the miracles of God could banish.
He wouldn't go back and try it over
again. , He would rather commit the
last crime, invade the last sanctuary,
and Bwallow the death to which his
life has been logically tending. Of
all men born of women, he Is the es
pecial one who doesn't want to live his
life over again.
THE IMMORAL WOMAN.
IN Mr. W. J. Kelly's rendition of
the beautiful play,. "The ,(Royal
Box," at the Colonial theatre,
there is a character that always com
mands attention. Maybe she gets
more study on the stage than in real
life. But that is doubtful. It is be
cause she Is a recognized fact in the
scheme of humanity, an identified
phenomenon in life, that she so ap
peals and so convinces when we see
her on the stage. And that Is the
character of the Countess.
There is the type of the immoral
woman. It will not do to say she is
unchaste. She probably never has act
ually violated her marriage vows. It
is quite in keeping with the character
that she has never committed those
acts which are regarded as a viola
tion of the seventh commandment.
And yet there isn't a woman In any
restricted district this side of Tophet
quite so immoral as is she.
"Men who know the world recognize
her perfectly. She makes herself up
with an eye single to her ability to ex--cite
the desire of men. She dresses
to accentuate such charms as she may
possess, or to pretend their presence
when an all-wise Maker has vouchsafed
her none. She studies nothing on
earth so much as the facility with
which she can attract men. And she
doesn't care just to talk with them.
There is no thirst for that intellectual
dolight which comes of converse with
the talented. Further still is she from
any thought of the platonlc. She wants
men to want her. That is the begin
ning and the end of her creod. She
devotes her days and her nights to
planning conquests. She wants to bo
courted. She wants the thrill of
strange men's hands on her person.
She wants the wine of a look in their
eyes when the passions "burn with
the fires of liconso unleashed. She
wants to feel tu swoon of that In
coming tide of ' fidelity till it laves
her limbs with warning. And then
it is her play to call a halt, to always
so have herself in hand that her vic
tim may consume himself in the flames
of a passion Shb produced and then
stop!"
And she always .does stop. She
can lay her hand on her contaminated
heart and call all the hosts of Heaven,
to witness that she has never crossed
the line which divides the virtuous
from the violated. But she would be
a cleaner woman if she sold her body
to every man she meets, than Bhe Is
today. She is the last expression of
the immoral. She makes commerce
of herself as completely as do the wo
men in purple silks who beckon from
a darkened window. She sinks her
soul in a degradation which is stripped
of the honesty of the courtesan. She
is the woman of whom the Psalmist
wrote: "For her ways take hold on
Hell."
It was an unwelcome part for the
leading lady of Mr. Kelly's company,
for she is fitted for a higher interpre
tation; and she didn't portray the
character as she has many another
and that is to her lasting credit. But
the character is there, and it is in
life now. Every city in tho world is
cursed by tho presence of that vam
pire who is worse than the "rag and
the bone and the hank of hair" that
found her unlovely portrait in Kip
ling's impressive poem. They are not
Delilahs, who love to the limit even
if they send their victim to the torture.
For it must be remembered that De
lilah repented her of her treachery,
and lived to minister to the blind
Samson through his punishment, and
sank with him in tho dustcloud of
that ruin his resurrected strength
commanded. They are not the decent
outcasts who are forced to debauchery
to' provide them with bread. They
are not of the mistaken ones who
count "all for love and a world well
lost." They are the moral monstrosi
ties who revell in lasclviousness that
is so vastly more vile because it Is
within control. They are tho Cauca
sian vultures that feed on tho vita's
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