Novel Of The Future

As a sort oí prefatory uote it may be Well to cali mteution to the faot that the novel of the futurp will differ very materially from the novel of the past or the novel of the present. A very different environment and very different manners and customs must of neoesnity result in a novel wholly unlike those we know and have known. With this explanation it should be easy to understand the accompanying outline story. I. "I will be yours, "she said. "Yon could not have pleaded your case better even if you had taken a course in law and devoted most of your attention to the subject of special pleadings. I will be yours; you shall be mine; we will be each's. " The reader will note that this scène would come just about the middle of the novel of the past, but that mereJy shows how advanced we are. II. The wedding bells rang out merrily. They always do, especially in stories. It was a gala occasion for all except the rnembers of the Enfranchised Woman's club, to which the bride had belonged, and which naturalJy regretted i that sbe shonld abandon a future that was so f uil of promise and bring herself down to the level of the women of previous times. In conformity with the nsages of the club the members all attended, wearing black crape bands on their white fedora hats as the insignia of their woe. However, it was a gala occasion for all the rest, and the wedding was i brated with all the customary formalities and festivities. The reader will note that this is the kind of a scène that he might expect to get at the end of an ordinary love story of the preseut day. III. "Wellí" "Well?" At the conclusión of this choice bit of repartee husband and wife glared fiercely at each other. Things bave been gradually approaching a crisis, and it now looked as if they had reaohed it. Both had special meetings at their clubs for that night, aud it so happened that both could not go. "I gave up enongh for yon, " she said at last, "when I gave up all that a trne woman naturally desires in order to marry you, and yet you are not satisfled. I gave up my political aspiratious and resigned f rom 8 of my 15 clubs, but you- you - why, you have no more regard for me, no more love and respect than to try to force me down to the level of the old fashioned womaul" Thereupon she gave him the mooking laugh and left him to look after the house. i IV. "I have left for the land of freedom. " Thus read the note that she found npon the table one evening when she returned from a ineeting of the Society For the Discussion of the Duties of Wives and Mothers. "Aha!" she cried. "Oklaboma!" Then she sank dowa in her easy chair aud buried her face in her hands. "Well, so be it, " she said at last. "It ■ returns me to the grand and noble work for the beneflt of woman and humiurity that I so thoughtlessly and foolishly abandoned. Ah, how weaklwas! But ' it is hard to shake off the influence of heredity, and, so far as I can learn, my j parents and grandparents all bad the same weakness, absurd as it seems now. " V. And so they were divorced and livej happily ever afterward.- Chicago Post. j