lessness. The poor fellow has been
suffering terribly because of his wife, who has left him and gone off
with a new love to a new home. Scott has been quite heroic about it, but
he suffers. You know how in our radical society men and women try to
deny that they are jealous, try to give freedom to each other. But
whatever our ideas may be, we cannot control our fundamental instincts,
and poor Scott is now a wounded thing, I can assure you. But he speaks
beautifully of his wife--even packed up her things for her and escorted
her to the new place.

"Scott came here the other night with your friend the journalist, Fiske,
who has become quite a part of our little society. I am sorry to say
that he is quite sad, too, but for a different reason. The poor fellow
seems to be suffering from lack of literary inspirations. He has a habit
of asking people what shall he write about. He asks Terry, and even me,
and in pity I am trying to write up the old women in our tenement for
him....

"I see a good deal of Thompson and his wife Minna. Now that Thompson,
who was a famous radical, is more prosperous, he is growing careful and
conservative. The glory of her husband is reflected in Minna. I don't
call at their home so much as I did, because I made what they call a
break there the other day. I thoughtlessly introduced myself as _Miss
L----_ to someone of his relatives or relatives' friends, after she had
already introduced me as _Mrs. C----_. And Thompson informed me next day
that it was inconvenient to explain such things to conservative people,
and that I ought to be more careful in dealing with the unenlightened
ones. I suppose I ought to think more of the reputation of my friends."

Marie likes the Jews of the Salon, many of them, very much, but there
are some she doesn't, as the following shows:

"Things are rather dead in the 'movement,' just now. But there is
something doing among the Jewish radicals, who, you know, are very
important in any radical movement here in Chicago. No wonder things are
lively when the Jews have such a leader as Mr. Kohen, whom one might
believe to be the long wanted Messiah, destined to lead his race into
the promised land, which is evidently Chicago. There was a hot time
about three weeks ago in the Masonic Temple meeting when this modern
prophet demonstrated to us who were not Jews that they (he and his
friends) were the chosen people who would not only liberate themselves
but also us from the yo