Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1878-01-09

d coming TO u better understandin
with him, when something hap
{ peued.
DR.. Gibson dropped in one even
I ing when Mrs. Killirott sat sewing
: on the pleasant veranda in the COO
! refreshing breeze.
, "Iou mustn't come here" sh
| called, rs he tied his horse to tn
hitching-post. "My work require
! my undivided attention besides
= you'll step on the rufiles. Yol
may go and help Matty, if yol
like"
That young woman was making
pies in the kitchen. She saw tn,
} doctor coming round the corner o
the house. gave hurried glance
at the bright bottom of tin par
she was holding, found herself pre-,
sentable, and greeted him compo.
sedly. She was very glad to see
him, she said. Wouldn't he come
in!
No, he wouldn't come in, the day
was so beautiful. He would Just
stand on the little brick pavement
under the window, and lean over
| the sill.
So there he stood under the
grapevine trellis. with a little
golden sunshine falling on his hair
and shoulders. Matty observed
that he looked thoroughly nnlover-
like, and concluded that he didn't
intend TO propose. She also no.
tired rip in his coat, and won
dered who would mend it for him.
Some way the talk veered round
from the weather to wonan's rights.
Matty. on this. spoke up.
She didn't at all believe in the
secondhand influence which reach
ed the ball0t-hoX through the
agency of husbands and brothers.
-'Whcn vote" she said, II want
to march to the polls and put in my
own vote myself"
"What pretty spectacle you'd
make, Matty, with that rolling-pin
in your hand, and"
I'm not at all sure that l want
to vote" she interrupted shut
wonld just like to make some laws,
that's ALL"
"Well, You might petition to the
legislature suggested the doctor,
gravely.
"Oh, they're not legal laws: only |
social customs and usages. I'll tell
You inst what l mean" She laid the
rolling-pin aside, with an emphatic
hang, placed her fioury arms akin
ho, looked very earnest and deter
mined, aud quite regardless of the
fact that she and DR.. Gibson were
in love with each other. "Now, at
4 party, when a lady sits alone in a
,tid-rhair all the eveing, not dane
ny simply because she hasn't any
partner, and can't ask any one;
,on know, Or. Gibson, Won know"
'How it is myself" interpolated
re.
"EIow il was at Mrs. Camphell'S
he other night. If | had been
Anna Radcliffe, or Dora Collard, I'll
ave asked some of you men to
lance with me-"
Then You think women should
ave the privilege of asking for
whatever they wish :" he retorted,
With half a smile
She answered that she thought
ust that.
"Well, Matty, quit agree with
'ou. l not only think they should
rave this right in such a case as YOU
hut also in more serious
.ffairs. For instance, woman might,
With perfect proprirty, make pro-
Dosals for marriage"
Now, .uch an idea had never en-
cred Matty's foolish little head,
md she sized the sugar-hox with
great embarrassment. The doctor
went on, with much gravity:
81 am aware that it would he a
very unconventional proceeding,
and | am afraid that no woman
will ever be wise enough to take
initiative {; aud yet ain persuaded
that in many instances it wonld he
the most natural and beautiful
thing she could 10.
He was looking nnconsciously
mp at the blue sky shining through
the filagree work of vine leaves
above him. 1t was evident he was
in the abstract only, hut
n faltering little "Dr. Gibson" re-
called him to the concrete. And
there stood Matty, smiling, blush
ing, dimpling, ready to extinguish
herself in her brown gingham
apron.
"Dr. Gibson, / like yon ever so
much !" she faltered, bravely, but
breathles>ly.
The doctor jumped through an
open window, and made his pro-
posal over again.