Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-03-11 | Page 13 | On Getting Acquainted

ON GETTING ACQUAINTED Two lives moving mysterious or bits are drawn together and for an Instant In-stant or maybe forever after whirl i side by side Wo call the encounter an introduction and we usually proceed lo stifle the wonder of It by Impersonal talk of art books or the drama It is I an everyday affair and does not commonly com-monly stir the imagination And yet to the connoisseur In living the meet Ing may be an event as well as an episode epi-sode he Is a discoverer come to an unknown un-known shore It may bo the margin of a boundless sea or not but of a certain it Is swung by new tides and currents to be adventured and plumbed How can we suporcJvIllzed out of almost al-most all real emotion develop the potential po-tential charm of this first glimpse of anew a-new personality It Is guarded by con ventlallty the shutters are down the door is barricaded you may knock In vein with polite Interrogations and no one appears at the window Must we perforce set the house afire smite or shriek aloud to bring this strangers soul to his eyes for one searching gaze face lo face The lime Is so short wo I must greet and pass on to the nest we exchange easy commonplaces and then the chance vanishes Why not I defy custom and bodly snatch in that magic moment some satisfactory taste of warm human Intercourse Gelett Burgess In Harpers Bazar