Show I 1 COUNTRY Ci II III n I A cot tain friend of cit mine mimic wio be lIe hero here ha hob has Ju Just t from Jum a n shout s In iii thc lie woo woods s o ol 01 olI I Maine l. As s she f la Is naturally II a I and entertaIning woman I nas I I surprIsed t to tu ibid lien hei depressed ant anJI J an almost when 1 I wOnt went to jet jether to I her lien the other day dazy U the time matter flintier 1 I a I tI Oh nothing was as tho tIme anau an- an au siren er Now when a woman speaks like that you tOU know theres there's a 0 oo oud deal the tho matter and antI 1 I told her SU so bo hI upon she acknowledged 1 I was right light Are Arc you oU so we o gloomy because use you didn't have ha a u good time while you jou QU I were is n away away Va 1 asked e She lined up In a moment A A good time You think I 1 didn't have ha a good time tinie I 1 tell lell you ou I hud the lie time line of m my mimy life and that's thal's exact exactly I what's whal's time the mat mat- let lei with me inc now For or nearl nearly neaily thu-ce thu months Ive I've been living a life as free fice as 08 that of or an any Indian woman IM I'M been each t ten n days and amid the only moments of happiness Ive I've had hind during that time have hn been boon when Ive I slept tom foi then thon ive i've di earned dreamed of ut being being- back hack hackIn in Maine But hut when 1 I wake waJo It its it's IH lIke coning back Into a nightmare The hideous racket of or the ell clOy lib Its miles and miles mile of oC pavements pavement Its us Il its crowds rm like idiots to sill silly amusements my m house full tuB of ur until furni furniture Lure ture that's lints got sot to tu be Kept In order my cl closets full tull of ot clothes th that at I e goito gol goi ot otto to wear weal to parties and things that 1 J donl care a 11 fig ilg for Jim on-Jim in fact the whole red tape of or city life Is ts positively molting malting me nie sick until 1 do o believe t Ill I'll end h by being bent nt to tu a u hospital with a U case of or typhoid 01 UI nervous OUS prostration n or appendicitis or 01 something something some Home thing thins alec alse equally a Its It's awful to como come back to this had hadet ti after aCter living tJ in n a perfect feet hen heat heaven en on earth Up Uti there In lii that little cottage in the woods of Maine I was Wili n as fret as abird u a bird and lier e C I 1 feel u as though 1 I had hall hada a 11 poker run iun down my 10 back I cant can't run Iun or people would J run lun to stop SlOP me inc thinking I was u-mis a Utter I cant can't sing out of or doors for 01 fear teat people co lc would think me mo cruz crazy and 1 do O have a 0 lon hong hong- ing 1118 to be considered sane Enne I cant can't wear wem- weara a u skirt short enough for 01 comfort for tor teal fear car Ill I'll be bc too tot conspicuous and antI I 1 dont don't like to be that above all tImings things I In in other othel words I 1 cant can't be myself one ne little teen teeny bit and 1 I hule it JL alJo all alJ 4 o much Its It's fairly taking awu away the I I I gained guinea while away At this point ili my friend frien t to I i tike ako breath and I. I so J I put in my tn way fay I N left Ith although short horl I 1 con considered ry rv much to ta th the point for I 1 a asked ked M My dear wh why do tie you II live lame here You donl o have to Youve You've gut got noney enough lo to live Jive in the wi wilds of or Maine ll all nil your YO remaining days It If w u hate the tile eU city so why on earth carth d. d you stay In it Go to the back back- nods and be happy My ty friend spread out her hands in ini But DUl 1 I 1 i gesture of tragic dismay an tiit t go theres there's there's theres where the time trouble all com comos I love lo that life liCe and yet yetI I break awn away and adopt It permanently I know that lint Id I'd get et 40 MO that thai Id I'd lon long for COI modern plumbing and electric lights and team steam heat Im I'm Ima a u slave to the comforts of life while Its conventionalities so you OU OUs s. s see ee Im I'm u a sort of or betwixt and between who's not wholly weaned Crom savagery say sav agery and Isn't wholly assimilated with civilization It If I Just had hod the thet all this t courage to break brenk away awny from It timid mid develop m my mu better belter tastes Id I'd beall bo ho all right But I haven't that courage cour cour- age and so Im I'm miserable You Yuu see seo I 1 couldn't cut cul from nil nfl our 11 mod mod- n In M n life liCe and go back to primitive mOd mOd-I livIng living liv liv- In ing any more than I T could marry a at I half breed who'd never been In touch with this life of ours Anti And yet I II f. f wish I could coull Its It's because I cant can't that Im I'm unhappy I dont don't like the I city ani anti and I T dont don't dare clarc leave leu It and amid I burn m my snips ships behind me inc i Y Yes tI 1 b youve you've said that I of these men say nay they dont don't go o because be lIc- cause she wouldn't be happy on Il a farm rann am but tH their lr real Is the sam am They dont don't dare make mule the tI as yours change chane They're betwIxt and anil uc- uc i. twee same as us you 11 Im I'm sorry for them Item says S 'S my I ne ant and at this point I I. I turned the time subject In iii the hope hoje of cheering her up I about aboul dozen timea tho ho lu lust t few U ow I III- III ute I I. mu murmured i I 1 t expect you think Im I'm crazy saId nil she No o was rn my toy reply for fIJI while hll Ive I've nut not many ninny tal talk us you ou do the yet yetIve ot ut I e known I many men who were hi n th the same saine state stale of mind although they didn't exactly lulU know It II th th- m- m I C But when you ou talk lalk about bout tho tim ell city and the country you yuu talk Ju just t l an as aslie he lie city man nina does doc t wao's who's got a mania to lu g go gi J bacK t to a a n latin only our youn lucre mor honest than Ill he for he doesn't I c l as a reason for not 1101 going thai list III iu his heart he lie knows he 11 couldn't quite l do It I If th thre re I Is isa u. u wife handy seine som I |