The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-05-15

as we hold should never become nus
band and wife"
"But we might agree never to men.
tion that question"
"We would not abide by our agree
ment IL we should make It, Besides, |
must talk; 1 can't help it. And expect
soon to begin to prepare myself for talk
ing before greater audiences than I ever
yet have met, and that you could not
endure" io.--l
mo, Miss Nunly, that / could not
endure. have allowed myself to dream
away this summer, believing that you
cared more for me than you did for the
mere idea of voting, but l see 1 was
mistaken. AS you have just intimated,
you intend to keep on, until you will
soon be going about TIE country lectur-
Ing like = man, and making yourself ri
dieulous in the eyes of every sensible
man. Then 1 shall be glad that you
said mo- to my question just now. Miss
Nunly, allow me to wish you good
evening and goodbye" And he was
gone.
Now, our friend Nina was a woman
like the rest of us, and Herman's words
and abrupt departure hurt her sorely.
She had let matters drift along through
the summer as one in dream, hardly
thinking what was to be the ending.
And now that the end had come, she
wished him to understand that she was
not willing to accept him uncondition-
ally, but that she must have the privi-
lege Of carrying out her present plans
for the advancement of womankind.
She did not believe his prejudices were
as strong as he pretended, and she
thought that he would be willing to
give them up rather than her; that
when he knew that she loved him he
would not accept her refusal. Then she
would be able to carry out her ideas OF
what she believed to be her duty, and
be happy at the same time. And he
had shown her that he was as firm in
his opinions as she was in hers; and, al
though her heart ached sadly at his
bitter words, she honbred him the more
for them. And thus their summer
dream ended
Herman went back to the city to his
business. And Nina? Did she sit down
and mourn her fate and wearily sigh fol
death to close the scene? No, indeed
She went to work with greater will to
accomplish what she had planned to DO.
For few days after Herman's return
to the city, he was so busy that he did
did not have much time to think of his
bitter disappointment; but when the
first rush of business was over, it came
back with greater force.
Several months drifted by, wearily 10
Herman, for it seemed to him he had
no aim in life-nothing to work for.
Almost unconsciously he found himself
searching the newspapers for anything
that had reference to Woman Suffrage
Associations, etc. Finding he could not
get all the information he desired from
such papers as he had, he became n reg
ular subscriber to the NEW NORTH
WEST. OF course he only began reading
to scoff, but it opened new channels OF
thought to him.
One day he read letter written by
Miss Nina Nunly to the State Woman
Suffrage Association. Ii began by de-
fining her views of true womanhood,
and ended in stating some of the wrongs
that woman's inequality subjected her
to. 1t was full of beautiful and eloquent
thoughts throughout.
For some time after reading it he sat
with his head on his hand, apparently
in deep thought. Do you wonder OF
what he was thinking? Perhaps he
thought he had been little too bitter
in his words to her that evening he
babe her goodbye. He might have
thought, after all, that the woman who
was capable of writing such letter as
that was not going to make herself
ridiculous in the eyes of any one!