TDhib Omaha Sunbay Bee Magazine Pacse Will ri.Wbr Make y Mariaftriite ? In Wioirogi? i . ' . 2 1 Madam Valentine da St. Point The Brilliant Parisian Poetess, Madame de St, Point, Argues That the Brave Soidier Will Be Clianged by War Into' a More Chivalrous Vorshipper of the Gentle Sex top," , , 5 r7 , . . v t V . -. ' 7 1 7' ' 7 x 'A . .-rk, " 0 V , - , v )JuM T .1 1.K J' r V1 f .J v 1 By Madame de St Point Tha.Olttlngulthtd Parisian PotUofl an4 Grcndnlcoa f the Qrrai WILL thla vtr !nt-'oJac aa la ment of treattr rtolanc aad brutality Into tha ralatioas I ihaabNattH- 'V Lamartlna. f men and woman? Ttkla U a cueattoa that thoughtful omen who v1w tha ITat conflict from tha anxious elan A point of ta non-combatant are aaXIng themaelTaa. Many lmaalbla reaiona have eeen advanced we mar expect the oldtera of VI countries to return from their dead! . straggle with primitive , hablta. ' ' ' ' The wsr has thrown everything into confutsicfto-SMteme, tamar. life ta ike ' streets and in the home. All philosophic, moral and material conceptions haV been transformed by the terrible months in which men have acquired again their ancestral brutality which had keen Bid den from eight In the long period of peace. Throughout all Europe and beyond the borders there baa been an unleashing of brutal force. The conception of love could not escape from fatal traastorma tlona. Love rulss all human beings. Every one has a horror of solitude and often seeks daring bis whole life the being susceptible of completing it. Some Bever find It &&S live In a sUta of ua bappine that makeshifts never succeed In s&Uefrns. All on? peopls have been affected by ths war, which luas caused separations made all the man agonizing br tha fear that Aeata may raodar than, permanent. - harm ll&d Growa Too Tamo Beforo tk War. 4 The wartike fever of the warriors aad me fever of devotion among tha w cases In the rest of the country do mot Vrtng them fargetfulaess, but only feslp them by activity te maks the eeparatioa leas sgonUJsg. But memory lives oa one side aad oa The other. ! Before the war tha luxuries of civilised life and tka security of peace bad canted love to a maximum f sensual r&ne ment Jio fear c separation, no uncer tainty of the morrow but keenness ta seatimest. Love began to seeaa too bourgeois, too calm, tor beings ovoa a little romantic, whom a commonplace and aaaored dally existence could not satisfy. Ilenca this eager&ea of the people of great can tres. where tha ex tremes of crvlllsaUoa flourish, for the quest of the unkaown. a quest all the more sgoalxisg becauee It Is lajsMadble to satisfy and becomes mora so as earn Step forward la taken. It was thus that after one erase and another we resorted ta luxurious aeae where we commas jd tunhima or klet from India, held faatastle Oriental fetae.' and even sank to the cocaine orgies of Uontmaxtre. What did all that naa bet tha need sf enlivening at aay cost the common place existence, of giving to love btther to confined to sensuality, the mystery, ths chimerical quality that tha tally con tact of bumaa beings, who are sever separated, does not favor? raxuClartty ' te the most certain destroy r of taa ideal. The war recalled te We a these seek- era of chimeras, ail these erring pCgrlxne of love. Trade separatioas made a ernel aerakeeing." Kor long aaontns saea and wotob have been leading a separata life. The thread of custom Is broken. vv will become of leva? Our men an lead ing tha most brutal Ufa conceivable la the aldst of blood shed and . face ta fses with death. Luxuries and even tha most elementary cors farts are absent. How will thee. men, wfca lavs be toin la a sense, primitive brstes, tin daratand lover A as they going to bring- bach ths viol ence na tha brutal ity of men of tha cava to who satis ed their needs te accidental encouot ers? We should be tempted te think so, K we believed that violence Is ths atavistic set of ths conqueror. Dut this' act belongs to the .deeds of war. It has nothing to de with love. - ., x Throughout Mr lory we find that when dUes are cap tured tha women are considered tha most precious booty which ths conqueror ipproprisla tor htm self. That is not right, tt ts ths act of a brute, for the violence oZ the atrong against the weak should cot be tolerated by a usoral being. Such deeds are contrary ta alt that humanity has sought to realise In Its struggle ta be superior to the animal. They are alas among the Innumerable horrifying deeds of war. Art has perpet uated many historic abducUoas which wers, by tha way. as often ths cause as the effect of wars. There Is a particularly famous episode known aa Tha Bans of tha B&blne Wom en." The conquering. tvreeisUMs Roman., flndlag themeelvee ta need ef women, ruthleealy seised the wives and daughters of tha peaceful Bahlaaa. What could have been a mora resbandod act of es brutal ity than this? But the conquering Ra mans qukkly fell under the influence of their foreign wives aad became devoted fcusbaada, wkOa tha woasea were proad ta be tha soothers at the rising geoeratloa of Romans. Not only wens they happy wtu their Romaa aoBquaron, but when their kinsman attempted a war ef reveaga they acted aa paaoaaaakers betweea the twa. Soldiers capable in tha Intoxication of victory of Imposing' their desires upon women wO Bsaally return sgala whan they are sober ta their Ideal, avea ta the most ethereal Ideal fust as ths soldier oftea doss mot know that be Is ktEUng ta battle, eo ha may be ameenscious of w hat ha la og ta tha tbah of victory. Ones ths primitive and aUvlrtJo Instincts at man are let loose, his coaacienif e ceases to weta over bias ta a sra.se. it lj thus that the geatleet of men. who la" the tranqutmty ef home cannot bear the eight oc blood, uay become in the bay onet charge, a demon of destruction, and tt la thus also that the moat Meal lover 1T7 . ' THE SABINE WOMEN' "The Romans Seixed the Sabine Women with Red-handed Violence, But Some Became ' Devoted Husbands, and Their New . Wives Prevented a War Between Their Present Husbands and Former Nation." From the Noted Pain tin f by J. L. David. THE KNIGHT ERRANT," BY BURNE-JONES ! hemwVi War V'as Then Man's Chief Occupa- H9?, , ?cret Draim W o Rescue the Maiden 2a Distress" Says Madame de St. Point. in the intoxication of the most Instinctive may sometimes victory become brute. These shocking deeds of war cannot be even a slight Indication or what will be the conception of love when tbeee eame men return to their homes. ' . To foresee the future U Is sufficient to look again at the past for ths same tide returns jid the eame actions pro dace the same reactions. This great and long- war compels us Inevitably to recall our greatest . war like epoch the MMdJe Agee, How did love appear to the knlhta who passed all their Uvea at war? It is evident that the amorous adventure f tha wayalde did not satisfy their romaa tic souls. la that epoch of great separations aad Improbable returns, women represented all beauty, all luxury and all repose. She haaated tha mind of the knight errant in hta hours ef weariness. la a distant caatle she ropreeeated all that was stable, that harmonious equIM brtum of which those bora for action dream eternally without being able to live their dream. While they were ngatlng. the lady of their thoughts grouped around her aU those who are sot me& el action, but creatures of tha dream puots and stnrera. troubadours aad minstrels. Whlls the warrlora fought the battles that were to form tha great ChrlsUaa ''. the women created around team coifrta where the first Intellectual renae meets were known, forerunners of our western civilization. The women remained at the castle with the yoitag peopie. Ue ieture knights who served their apprenticeship by acting aa Ps. Otaerv.ut of their duties and re epectfsl ft the honor of the ahaeat Ooprria-ht. till, by the Stir Company. knight, in dally contact with youths In capable of brutal acts, and bound to shun all wrong-doing In order to be worthy of ' knighthood, women inspired sentimental love and under their influence art grew up and flourished. It was the period of courts of love and contests of poetry as well as of tourna ments of arms, la which love was en throned rod the lady, like a queen, re warded the moet afcilful. During the absence of the warriors the troubadours sang the deeds of .wsr which they had- transformed Into poetry. With their recitals they created the legends which are the foundation of onr art and literature. When the warriors came back the courts of lovs took another aspect. The knights who had to strive agalnat the preatige of tha pages aad poets softened their manners. The tourneys of poetry were succeeded by the tourneys of ansa They were epic struggles, but at one, as at the other, the stake was always the same tha heart of tha lady. Tha recom pense received from her hand was also tha same a scarf, a belt embroidered by her.'or soma other present cherished pre ciously ilka a reye. Thla great epoch gave birth to tha romantic legends of chivalry through ths Ideal lovs of woman. Tha Conditions of Ancient Chivalry Now Returning. Whether shs wss ths lady of the knight or the lady of tha page aad ths trouba dour, woman, far from being their prey, was ths un rivalled and romantic queen around whom everything gravitated and to whom were dedicated the stories of deeds Ilka ths "Song of Roland, 'The History of King Arthur X "The Romance of tha Roae," aa well as stories of love tfka -Tristan and Isolde." Ideal love of tha sentimental pages. Ideal love of the fierce warriors, that was ths love of that ago of long wars and. loag separations. How will it be to-morrow? If a saper lcial naiad thinks that modern soldiers oa their retora must give to love the brutality they have learned oa fields of battle, a deeper mind will think different ly. Wo know since the time of Herculea that warriors love ths tendernesses of Omphale. la epite of all oar refinements, the maaifeatatloae of love before the war were shove all physical. Now, through separation, woman has ceased to be a tangible reality ta become aa Ideal. The ideal is always that which one does not poesesa, To-day tha war is too sear to ths womea. they take too large a part In It. through carta g for tha wounded aad working for the aoldlere, to permit them to become the centra of an artistic elite, as in the days of chivalry. When their warriors were far away, tha ladiee of olden days bad all their time to them selves; the women of to-day. thanks to modern ecience. are in some degree In constant relation with the soldiers. If ' they do not guide the minds of youth towsrds art aa in medieval times tt Is because every auala to-day Is either a soldier or a future one. They prepare the soldiers of to-morrow and replace In nearly every occupation of life those who have faa. Their role is still preponder ant Brought back Us a more real ex is ie nve by the eiuwe which have failea apea them, womea have ceased to be the Great Brttaia Risats RMtrrf ... t 4 .frivolous creatures they were before ths war. Tor the absent sol diers, woman has be come In a sense an idoL She strives to be in harmony with her new role which gives her a royalty still more Incontest able than that which pleasure gave her. By the gravity of her present task, she' at tains the same posl tiou of the ideal lover that the ladies of olden times at tained through tha amiable leisures of chivalry. 8hs wttl always be tha IdoL These predictions for tha future are not only based oa a study of ths past and oa the fatality of ths ebb and How of ten esncles aad the rep etition of actions and reactions. They are supported by pres ent occurrence. . 'Isolated by tha war. many of our soldiers who have ao wives, bo fiancees, no woman friends, suffered from their morsl isolatloo worse than from the most material priva tions. Therefore we thought of providing "godmothers' (mar ralnea) for them. Now what is the preseat "man-alne" but the "lady" of ths old knight. 8hs no longer offers to the warrior s scarf or some piece of lace which would sot fit well with the pres ent costume of the soldier, but in an are wnea naoit naa mane jn aeceasary, the "mar raine" sends to her godson everything which ean soften for him his physical sufferings and by her conatant thoughts of him which shs ex presses in letters which are eagerly awaited aha gives him moral support, which renders leaa bitter the dally battle. A fashionable Journal has charmingly and cleverly thought of organizing an as sociation called tha "Flirt." To the kind nesses of the "marraines" ths "Fllrteua ee" add the humorous spirit which min gles laughter with the best kind of sen timent Thus it is a little of the wit of Paris which goes towards the exiled ones of the ctty of luxuries. Tha "JTlirteuaes" and the "marrainea" are sisters. They are really the "lady" of the knight under different names, the one frivolous snd the other grave. They represent the same thing the ideal. The woman of to-day belonging to these organisations who personally knows neither her godson nor her "Jrnirl" . v I M -i ; , W. i- x v- a - L J "KING COPHETUA AND THE BEC&AR MAID" Mediaeval Times, When Physical Force Was Most Supreme, the Conquering Man Often Fell a Captive to the Weakest Woman, a Truth Ulus. trated by the Beautiful Old Story of 'King Cophe tua and the Beggar Maid.' " . From the Painting by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. correspondent, who has never seen him. whose sentiment la attached to notnlng material, la aha not even more ideal than the lady of ancient chivalry parted for unknown yeara from her knight? Every soldier te whom a woman has given this sentiment will preserve it aa the most precious thing during the months, perhaps years, of loneliness and suffering. He cannot when he comes back become again a creature entirely sensual. Weary of the materialism of war be will certainly strive to conform his life to the ideal which ha has cherished during his darkest hours. Each of our soldiers will have gone through the terrible war with aa ideal woman in hla mind. For that reason when peace cornea, respect of woman and yearning tor the Ideal in love will reign In our old Europe.