Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1927 — Page 22

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The Characters HELEN, an ancient lady with modern ideas. MENELAOS, her husband while she stayed at home. HERMIONE, her daughter and severest critic. CKESTES, her nephew—young enough to be a reformer; old enough to have ambitions. ETEONEUS, gate-keeper by calling; philosopher by Instinct; moralist by observetion, fILDRASTE, handmaiden and friend to Helen; scandal to most everybody else. CHARITAS, the lady next door. DAMASTOR, a boy who strayed from the family doorstep. Helen has been talking to Menelaos about Hermione. As nearly as Menelaos can make out, daughter has been Sound wanting In two respects by Helen: First. Hermione lacks "the love of life ; secondly, she has not had sufficient social contact with men of the world. Something has to be done about it, and Menelaos thinks a little chat with Hermione will help in solving the problem. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER II “Hermione, my child, come here,” said Menelaos. “I must ask you a question. Sit down. Have you the love of life?” “What’s that?” asked Hermione. “Don’t ask me hard questions—answer mine,” said her father. “Do you love life?” “Oh, yes, indeed!” said Hermione. “Very well, then, do you love it enough?” “How should I know? What is enough?” “We will now apply the test,” said Menelaos. “Do you earnestly desire to marry Orestes?” “Yes, I do,” said Hermione. “That answers it. You haven’t the love of life.” “I don’t see how that proves it,” eaid Hermione. “Nor I,” said Menelaos, “but it proves it to your mother, who knows more than we do about such matters.” “Father, I wish you wouldn’t tease me about what I consider —any one would consider —a serious thing, marriage!” “That is serious,” said her father, “but I hadn’t got to that yet. I was finding out whether you had the love of life, because if you have it, you may marry any time, even if it’s the wrong man, but if you haven’t, you must postpone the wedding, even if it’s the right one.” “I wish you’d tell me what you are talking about,” said Hermione- “ All in good season,” said Menelaos. “I must first ask you another question. Is there any one you would like to elope with?” “I don’t want to elope! I want to marry Orestes.” “Hasty again,” said Menelaos. "You should elope first. Your

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mother says you should, though she fears you won’t.” “My mother wants me to elope?” said Hermione. “Why?” “1 believe the idea is that sooner or later pne elopes, and your mother, having tried it later, thinks it had better be sooner. Enough of that. Would you like to see Pyrrhus for a few days?” “Who’s Pyrrhus?” “You know—Achilles’ son. Pyrrhus is the cure for your sheltered life. If our high opinion is justified, you would fall in love with him. Then you might elope with Pyrrhus, discover your mistake, and marry Orestes afterward.” “I don’t think this Is funny,” said Hermione. “I’m rather hurt. May I go?” “No, daughter, you mayn’t. Come back here and sit down again. Help me to collect my wits. I’ve been talking with your mother about you and Orestes, and I’m rather done up. Tell me what sort of a man he’s grown to be.” “He’s very thoughtful,” said Hermione, “if anything, a bit too serious, but it’s what you’d call a good fault. “He’s much more introspective than you’d expect a young man to be, and he has a profound sense of duty. I feel quite frivolous when I'm with him.” “He’s clearly a remarkable youth,” said Menelaos, “but I can tell you now, your mother will never approve of him. You must choose eventually between your mother and Orestes.” “I choose Orestes now,” said Hermione. “I’ll stand by you,” said Menelaos, “but I’m not sure your mother won’t have her way. How does he feel about his parents?” “He worships his father,” said Hermione. “Os course he grieves over his mother’s conduct, but she is his mother, after all. %nd Agamemnon hasn’t treated her any too well. Orestes is terribly unhappy. I’ve advised him at every stage —he has no one else to consult.” “What’s the matter with his sister —what’s her name—Electra?” asked Menelaos. “He can’t see her,” said Hermione. “She’s at home, in a very dangerous position, hoping to warn her father, or help him, when he gets back. She hurried Orestes out of the way as soon as Aegisthus became the head of the house; she said Aegisthus wouldn’t let him grow up to take revenge. That’s why

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he’s leading such an unsettled life; he’s hiding, yet watching for the moment his father will return and need him.” “But even if we grant that Orestes is in trouble not of his making, and that he knows his own mind, he still may be the wrong husband for you. How’s it all going to come out? How am Ito arrange the wedding for you? I can’t have anything to do with Aegisthus, and I wouldn’t be caught in the same town with Clytemnestra. “We’ll have to wait till Agamemnon comes home and puts his house in order; then ,we can see what’s left. In the meantime, hadn’t you better postpone making up your mind about Orestes? Oh, yes, I know, you’re in love with him—no objection to that —but don’t do anything hasty. “I haven’t a thing against Orestes —nothing whatever, and strictly speaking I don’t blame him for his parents. BHt Clytemnestra does spoil it all for i le, I must say. I wish you could Ind a safe young man whose mother isn’t too goodlooking.” “It’s no use, fatner, I simply won't marry Damastor!” “Well, who wants you to?” “Mother suggested it, and I gather from your last words that you agree.” “Your mother wants you to marry Damastor?” “Now, I won’t say that, father—she suggested him, and said I might do worse, but I doubt if she likes him, and I thought her tone rather satiric. I don’t know mother well enough to get all her meanings.” “I don’t either,” said Menelaos, “but of one meaning I’m sure—it isn’t Damastor she means you to marry!” “Who, then?” “She intends to marry you to Pyrrhus.” “But I don’t know the man! I don’t want him! He probably doesn’t want me!” “It’s curious," said Menelaos, “but those very ideas occurred to me when she proposed it.” SEEDS BIRdT BULBS POULTRY PLANTS FEED, Etc. rwoviff’e t W. Market St. tVCI 111 O 5 N. Alabama St. Hj|r Extra Special! Carload Sale NWg d M oc Strictly Ist Quality tp/| tOJ 30x3V2 TIRES Brand New Cords payne , s~tTre~service 317 E. Mich. St. JSTkSS

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“Then why does she persist in so crazy a scheme?” “Better ask why she schemes at all,” said Menelaos. “I rather think your mother is getting old. She doesn’t look it, I’ll admit, but she’s in her forties and she’s been through a great deal. “All this talk about the love of life’s a bad sign. The same way with this match-making. You’d think marriage would be an exhausted adventure lor her. It is; that’s why she begins to arrange marriages for others. "When we are through playing leading parts ourselves, we try to play God and control the-new actor. It’s a gesture of farewell?” “Is Pyrrhus good-looking?” asked Hermione. “Very,” said Menelaos. “I wouldn’t be too sure about the gesture of farewell,” said Hermione. “If mother happened to like him, I should say her youth is not beyond recovery.” “You’ve thought of that, too?” “What too, father?” “I mean, you think she may be in love with Pyrrhus?” “Oh, I know only what you’ve told me, but I don’t agree that mother is growing old. Quite the reverse. She’s so—what shall I call it?— she’s so vital. I’m glad I can feel her earnestness. In fact, mother’s too earnest. The whole trouble is her lack of humor. You have it,

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