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Updated: July 7, 2025
To Celis they said nothing. She must not be in any way distressed, while the whole nation waited on her Great Work. Finally Jeff and I were called in. Somel and Zava were there, and Ellador, with many others that we knew. They had a great globe, quite fairly mapped out from the small section maps in that compendium of ours.
"Because they love it so much especially men. This animal is kept shut up, or chained." "Why?" suddenly asked Somel. "We keep our father cats shut up because we do not want too much fathering; but they are not chained they have large grounds to run in." "A valuable dog would be stolen if he was let loose," I said. "We put collars on them, with the owner's name, in case they do stray.
Jeff said he loved Zava like an aunt "only jollier than any aunt I ever saw"; Somel and I were as chummy as could be the best of friends; but it was funny to watch Terry and Moadine. She was patient with him, and courteous, but it was like the patience and courtesy of some great man, say a skilled, experienced diplomat, with a schoolgirl.
There followed a period of "negative eugenics" which must have been an appalling sacrifice. We are commonly willing to "lay down our lives" for our country, but they had to forego motherhood for their country and it was precisely the hardest thing for them to do. When I got this far in my reading I went to Somel for more light.
"We have been working for some sixteen hundred years, devising better and better games for children," continued Somel. I sat aghast. "Devising games?" I protested. "Making up new ones, you mean?" "Exactly," she answered. "Don't you?" Then I remembered the kindergarten, and the "material" devised by Signora Montessori, and guardedly replied: "To some extent."
"But one cannot mate without the other surely. Is not each then virgin before mating? And, tell me, have you any forms of life in which there is birth from a father only?" "I know of none," he answered, and I inquired seriously. "You ask us to believe that for two thousand years there have been only women here, and only girl babies born?" "Exactly," answered Somel, nodding gravely.
From morning to night there was Somel, always on call except between two and four; always pleasant with a steady friendly kindness that I grew to enjoy very much. Jeff said Miss Zava he would put on a title, though they apparently had none was a darling, that she reminded him of his Aunt Esther at home; but Terry refused to be won, and rather jeered at his own companion, when we were alone.
Our special guides, who were on the platform with us, and sometimes aided in clarifying a question or, oftener, an answer, noticed this effect, and closed the formal lecture part of the evening rather shortly. "Our young women will be glad to meet you," Somel suggested, "to talk with you more personally, if you are willing?" Willing!
I betook myself to Somel one day, carefully not taking Ellador. I did not mind seeming foolish to Somel she was used to it. "I want a chapter of explanation," I told her. "You know my stupidities by heart, and I do not want to show them to Ellador she thinks me so wise!" She smiled delightedly. "It is beautiful to see," she told me, "this new wonderful love between you.
Somel and Zava and Moadine were on hand; we were thankful to have them, too they seemed almost like relatives. There was a splendid procession, wreathing dances, the new anthem I spoke of, and the whole great place pulsed with feeling the deep awe, the sweet hope, the wondering expectation of a new miracle. "There has been nothing like this in the country since our Motherhood began!"
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