Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-08-22

she fired them with desperate courage
there was no doubt of that. She
had fought her way into her profess
sion, and out of the Christian Church,
and now she had clinched with Law,
Religion and Society in a hand to.
hand fight because of the treatment OF
woman.
When Maria Epps introduced Doc.
tor Coyt to her friends, they felt a
shock as from an electric battery, and
they all reused into pleasurable ex-
citement. 1t was such treat to see
this famous creature face to face
/ do like this sort of thing, nam.
ma" said Margaret Whyte to hel
mother. "You know | went to see
Jem Mace as the prize-fghter in As
You Like 1t, and this woman is &C.
counted kind of intellectual Heenan
or Morrissey by the newspapers. Sc
nice in Maria to bring her y
| 1t must be true that Maria Epps
is going to join the woman's rights
people," said her mother, thought.
fully. She is always aiming at the
bizarre. You remember she was the
first to drive three ponies a Ia Ratsst
in the Park; and she went to the
Moody meetings. But / did not think
she would carry her freaks as far as
this"
But they were all courteous to Doc.
tor Sarah. the courtesy, indeed, be.
came oppressive The very air grew
clammy and heavy; all the ease, the
pleasant repose, had faded out of it
The man, the greasy joint, were upon
the stage now.
Visibly, Doctor Sarah was only a
thin little woman in purple silk, sit.
ting painfully erect on traight.
backed chair, her eyes glancing from
one woman to another as though she
were an officer, and they troops abou,
to be drilled. Her features were deli
cate though worn, her eyes were sin.
cere, sad brown eyes naturally, but
they had learned fierce trick OF chal
lenge in the rough-and-tumble fight
which she had chosen to make of life.
She had not said a word as yet except
about her drive and the dust, bal
something in the flat, quivering nos
tril made every woman stand OIL
guard. They felt that they were nc
longer Maria Epps chance guests
lazily slipping chocolate; they were
human beings-to be, to do, and tc
suffer.
Mrs. Epps took some pains to draw
Doctor Sarah out, just as she had
been careful that nobody should mis-;
the flavor of the new salad. A nov
city always gave gout to luncheon
or dinner.
This talk of pictures and music
must seem horribly trivial to you, doc
tor" she said. We are such mere
butterflies, compared to woman
with a great object in life"
Doctor Sarah smiled good humor.
edly. "I find great hell in music -
| she said, +" and paint pictures-pool
ones, but they help me too. Nature
and art give me better insight into
the needs of my SEX"
DR.. Coyt's object, you know
explained Mrs. Epps, beaming around
the table, d" is to emancipate woman.
There was low murmur of polite
assent. Mrs. Marmadnke Huff
raised her eyeglasses, and courteously
inspected Doctor Sarah with a gentle
wonder, precisely as she had done thu
devil-fsh that morning in the Aqua
rum.
81 have never had the pleasure O
meeting woman of your-your party
BEFORE" said pretty Miss Purcell
softly.
"Oh, | saw several of them in Lon
DOM cried Mrs. Nipple, who dressed
hideously and drank beer since SHE
came home, and fancied herself Who'll
ly English. " 1t is quite favorit'
fad with some very respectable PEG.
pie over there"
Then there was sudden embar.
rassed pause, for everybody expected
DR.. Coyt to begin to defend her fad
But she sat silent, looking at bit O
honeysuckle which had crept in a
the window. The angry red burned
up in hor thin cheek. Why should
these people look at her as though
she were the woman with the iror
jaw, or some other such monster
No doubt they thought she had holes
in her stockings, and went swagger
ing about at grog-shops. Why, hel
home was more womanly and fanciful
than this, and she herself
81 was in hopes, madam" sale
Miss Purcell, gently, shat you woult
give us some Insight into your plans
1t is me, after all. whom you should
convert
Il am no proselyter.' SAID
Doctor Sarah, with an acrid smile
She felt, as she often did, that thu
cause was hopeless. These frothy
creatures to comprehend its grea
principles Even suppose they had
suffrage, what would they know o
| politics, of their fellow-men outside Of
a ball room, or even of the money
Il
| which they squandered
In which the soured woman made
the mistake which we will make wher
we Judge of chimpanzee, not being
of chimpanzee blood. This Maris
Epps, with the baby face, had manip
ulated half dozen bills through Con
gress last session. There was not 9
wire which she did not know how tC
work. She had matters in train now
to get Epps foreign mission. There
was not a shrewder dealer in stocks
in New York than the little blonde
widow. Mrs. Huff, on the other side
| of the table. She made a snug for
tune for herself since Marmadukt
died, and had given the boys fail
start in the tobacco trade. While, a.
for the classes outside of society, thai
good Fanny Purcell had spent NOR,
time last winter in the prisons ant
hospitals than Doctor Sarah had done
in a lifetime. Yet they all wore
dresses which framed them into pic
lures, and they haunted curio shops
cacklipg about old Satsuma ware.
| yVaan fhav found fhat Doctor Ca