Show I The Passions Pasion Dragnet HE H title Ule t of or a recently issued U ed novel by b Hattie Hatte Horner Homer i Bi In Passions S wT Dragnet Draget is in a a most appropriate apprOpriate summing up of Qt the life that is found round In every community In the te land land I zi Few writers have have the keen insight to learn joined with the rare command of ot language to portray that tat wonderfully Intricate intricate of ot human and divine dlin love ex Cx existing exi i between men and and women which she displays In this thle little volume Near C New Orleans just after ater the tho Close of ot the great geat civil civi war wa lived a u mother and her two sons Ernest Ernesti Ernestt t i F and Guy Cuy Edgerton and slid with nUh them Marie Matie de do la Iii It Rondo Ronde who l hat had ad come to them an orphaned babe be besom some soni fifteen years ear before the story atory tOr opens op ns The following extracts e tracts aptly apU describe the characters character Ernest Farnsworth paused pause outside the the darkened chamber from rom which the family physician had told him his mother would never come save sare robed for the grave His half halt gave brother brothel was wa just closing the door coor so 50 constrained an expression on 01 his usually untroubled d face that Farnsworth asked aked quickly What has occurred Is there any change j No I have hae been ben merely telling her ber bertl that tl when she Is gone I intend making Mignonne my wife Was Vas driven Into such a tight corner I had to You forget that th tI I 1 am sin the girls girra legal guardian as well wel as yours OUr after mother I 1 shall have haYe something to say SD The elder lder brother broter then clearing clearing lila hia 11 brow quietly entered the sick room The coolness of the room rom modified the rush of his angry blood the gloom dimmed the fire fr angy flash fash of othis his eyes ees There was was a faint taInt aroma of ot lavender about the the white white canopied bed The trans transparent transparent parent face upon the pillow plo turned t rn d eagerly at nt his hia approach the te blue veined hands outreached outreach d toward him hime He e stooped and kissed the pallid lips Jp again and again agin with wit passionate ten tea tenderness tenderness smoothing the tle silken hair with his always lw Ys caressing car hands The mother talked long Ions and earnest earnestly ly to 0 her eldest son of her desires to tol tob l b t carried out after ater her death and pledged him to tp sea sas S that her lier r young ward did not marry marr r until after she was wa 19 years e rs of or age That she wished him to then ten marry mar Marie Mare who wio w o loved him above everyone else els In I proof of which h she he detailed a conversation between them had some days dyS previously J And did I ever eer think you would like her as ifs rs well WeIr as a Guy does That Th would depend I told her wholly upon her being a good got girl st hard h d practicing faithfully saying her prayers prayers In In fact making herself worthy of your regard No more was said at the time Ume but when I came away aay awa I saw aW she had something on her mind I took her in my arms and with wih her lips Ups close dose to mine rh e she disburdened herself hersel And nd so she said conclusively as though terminating once for all al an in internal tornal argument that had not ceased since my nay rebuke and so even eyen If It I should uld name him second In my prayers the good g od God Go would know he was real really really really ly first firt fir t because the good God Cod knows everything v Deal Dear little innocent I would not thus betray her to any an other man Er Ernest Err I nest r st it would give him too great geat an advantage But you might soon have ve known kO for she Is 16 that most dan dangerous dangerous dangerous I herself age ge and slid she can CaI but betray b try 5 Like all al southern girls she has early carl reached her perfection p but in mind rabid and heart eart she sho is still sun as I 1 wish her to tobe tobe tobe be Immature For I have hae revealed to her lier absolutely ly of the mystery of self and have e cautioned n d the sisters against doing so 50 I wanted anted her reared in profound ignorance of these thes dangerous ange matters Ch revealed too early arly only anI suggest to the th e un rat r ripened ri ned heart I thai have talked It 1 over with her chaperone and nd fid I have Father Durands sanction sancton upon this course coure She is a child Her affection a eton for you is that of a child Ignorant lt idolatrous with only the suggestion fugg of the wo womans womans womans mans devotion yet ct t ta to t bless you u a love that will wi be wholly And loving you thus myself how could I chide her Edgerton sauntered off of toward tile the be stables whistling Wa Way Down South In Ia I Dixie DIle What a a self assertive young I giant he hC was cool deliberate phlegmatic f flaU matic laU fair of ot face slow to anger aner slow to to a fault faul the thc exact opposite of his elder cIder brother with his liis dark glowing beauty and burning southern eyes e es a man all al lightning and gunpowder hot of blood quick to strike quick to forgive im Inv Impulsive I to a fault to whose strong pas passionate slon te heart love oe was the only law whose desires d ill i brooked denial with whom nhom who life was ever at high tension pleasure at concert pitch And these two loved their mothers ward each In his own peculiar way wa Reared within the walls wals of the Sacred Heart with vacations spent spent upon the plantation Marie larie de tie la Ia knowl knowledge knowledge edge of men was as as narrow as a nuns being bein limited to the priests and broth brothers ers ems of Sacred Heart and to the sons of her guardian She was wa a sweet bud of womanhood her ter eyes e es were of or the deepest blue al almost almost most purple urple like Russian RU sian violets with long shadowy shadon lashes a dainty little miss In short skirts which exposed small smal arched feet and well w l formed fored She had the tl fresh Inexperienced face ace of a child a face whose primal prima note was wa innocence and this contradicted by the tho full I voluptuous form of or a woman wom n How pretty she was how much too pretty with wih her virgin virgine eyes e and nd Siren lips I She was youth and nd awakening wakening a love and modesty per personified at once chaste and coquettish c innocent and provocative provo The mother died dl d shortly short and the elder eider elderson elderson eiderson son became the guardian of the thc younger and of the girl She remained pupil pUpi at the parochial school being caiM caid cal d for by the sisters and ad her chap chaperone crone erom spending spending her Satur Saturdays Saturdays days and Sundays on the plantation The The story Is In plot as old uld as the human race and the character though they the may be unusual are re true 10 o life How Hot like a mother to wish her daughters to be innocent inn cent forgetting that that innocence is i ignorance and that I Ignorance united with wih an undefined natural n uraJ desire desir leads toward the thorny thory J path of dishonor and seared sCared conscience and how like a mother moter to know the thc character c of man and ad yet have that blind bUnd unreasoning trust in the ability of ot ck herson her son to be true true to o those about him whatever what Ocr the temptation t The younger son Bon Is th the type tp of or lover with high l gh Ideals but butsel self centered His love Is insistent because he ne desires He does do not consider the result to others The Thi triumphs of his kind forerun homes h mes that are no homes and swell I the th records of the courts court with wih actions for divorce I Ernest Js is older In years and knowl knowledge edge of or the danger dan tr of the path they were sere all pursuing but lila his morality was c cf the lind that had not much depth of root He Ha belongs fo lo that type of or man which believes he can have hav a mistress and keep clean to others His struggle may have been conscientious but he did not fear God not The girl grew geW Into physical woman womanhood womanhood hood bood with Ib ith the the mental mental and moral en endowments endowments of ot a a child She She was full fun of or orlove love faith fait and trust with wih a n feeling much m cn h akin to reverence for tor her ler ler guar guardian dEan dian dinand and fear fea of or his hia displeasure Of a 0 strongly religious s nature she she clung cun to t cross through all and yet such was her Training that she mistook the crOS of ot a thief for that of or her redeem redeemer er em i There was wa a chap tt Is s true c and an pp fault can bt her I Idid did j just it t what t up L C jg Was tas as the cha r n Ideal which made madeI m I the te wr c inevitable rn bl blIt I I It I Is IS true true that few chaperones nes are ae employed In this day da and ad age but the belief ble is widespread that such uc training Is not only but desirable deible and the thet t I m mother tte or the father or often oter an a older sj sister or brother takes the place and andi i i follows 0 In the footsteps of r the elders elder in the tho e pernicious s training Love Lve smiled a at at as an Infantile disorder the ques que i ti tons concerning marriage and d the rear rearIng Ing of a family treated treat d In n jest jet as acci accidents aci acid dents d possible but hardly probable And Ad then when innocence Is found to tobe tob tobe be b no shield against desire the door at ot home Is Js shut against the erring ering daugh daughter ter tee and ana the th profligate son sn n or the decree dere of divorce divore crystallizes all aU that is dis die distrustful distrustful trustful and cynical In those thos who should have lived In purity punt trust and love loe v I The Te story stor Is remarkable for its is unity unit From beginning beginning to end nd the one thing is kept In mind arid and as we close lose the b book bok we are arc impressed ed with the wih ts tse of ot the the conclusion But this e excuses ecu e no no n one It only ooh accentuates the vice of an all al too tp common ideal Idea in training We Begin with ith the lisping el Child In teaching mathematics and ad lit literature It literature ei for the purpose of ot fitting the cc coming man or 01 woman for the business of 01 life but resort to deception and hide b behind a false modesty in Ia an effort eort to tom m mystify and repress the budding buddin and ei even eV ripening Intelligence the r e seeking seeking Hi Hira light and truth of one of the te most moS mo tao momentous ra of ot lifes questionings The rak Tu raPS k keynote of the story stony stor Is on the first frt PS page And And Lust said I am Love LYe The book Is certainly not for children bi but young yung men and young women and ft fathers and mothers ought read rd the si sidi story stor again agin and again agnin for a better un nit UI di ditl of ot the flue life tte that Is and not tl that which we all al tte hope It may be The language la Is pure the thought thou ht clean dean Those These who wh decry de ty the story as un unusual unusual UnUsual Tl usual and aud uncalled unc led for are just as like Ike 13 ly to criticise such stories stones in the Bible 01 or the utterances of or Christ concerning ute SIy SI such matters maters Take care cae lest haply y ye be found even to fight f ht against God N W IV R Salt Salt Lake |