Iron County register., 1880-08-05
draw him into discussion. He guards

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at Worth.
"And an excellent one," he answers.
"Indeed! So you concede as much
casm.
"An excellent work. he continues.
"It's on cookery
"Oh!" Nina says, little chagrined,
" I didn't hear what the subject was. ="
Then, without any provocation, she as
serts, detiantly, ssWen, George Eliot is
a woman, and she writes better than
any man."
s'Oh, far BETTER" McAllister agrees,
eagerly.
aNobody disputes George Eliot's
ability, nor the ability of many other fe-
male WRITER'S" Worth says.
"Oh, indeed!' !'-again with sarcasm !;
''and what is it you do dispute, Mr..
Worth?'' e..
Nothing. I hate dispute.''
"But you despise the intellect OF
''Please say svomen,'' Worth requests.
&C The sort of rhetoric that gives sOonaa1a
in the singular reminds me of the
stupid public speakers who, for lack of
wit and power, keep pounding on some
new-fangled phrase that catches the
vulgar ear"
After moments pause, Nina flies at
his eyes with new assertion: ga wom-
an ought to do every thing she knows
how to do.''
" When woman, a man, or any
other creature does what she, he, or it
knows how to do, the work is worthy of
respect Worth says.
s' Well, sir, and don't women do what
they know how to dop''
"Some of them. A woman who is
willing to learn an art or trade by the
plodding processes that insure thorough
ness is to be respected and encouraged.
But too many women try to jump at re-
suits, and are impatient of discipline in
work, then feel agrieved because their
unskilled labor commands no reward.
There's large class, too, who only talk
talk eternally of their so-called infe-
rior place in society, but really make no
patient, continued exertion toward fill
ing any of the positions that are occu-
pied by men,"
"DO you mean me?' asks Nina.
elbow can I? During the past year
you have studied German one month,
bookkeeping two weeks, porcelain
painting six weeks, botany about as long,
logic-under my tuition-one hour.
You have begun to write story,
and
"That will do,'' Nina says. " You
mean l am too stupid to succeed with
any thing
"No, but like many young persons,
you haven't the power of steady and
contestant anplication
give known boys as bad," Nina re-
marks, tartly.
tBut boys are liable to be thrown
upon the world and taught by privations
and hard knocks
Perhaps ought to be thrown upon
the world, and taught by privations and
and tries to look careless.
For once Worth answers inconsist-
emily.
"Women make grand blunder in
their own value-in strain
ing after what they can't have, instead
of cultivating what they have"
"And, in your opinion, have they
any Ming9" asks the sharp young lady.
eyes; so much charm and so much
power as women that a man wonders
why she''-here Worth grew inaccurate
in his numbers, and looking full at Nina,
went on-''why she should be eternally
trying to make an anomaly of herself by
aping manners that are against her ma
ture, and that she only keeps up in a
spirit of bravado." Worth helped him
self quietly to green peas; there was a
little awkward silence. I felt Worth's
chances were over, and Nina smiled
sweetly on McAllister, who was fatter-
ing her most transparency.
At four o'clock the next morning
the Fourth of July-my son Frank,
with red soldier cap on his head, ex-
ploded a torpedo by my bedside, yelled,
81 say, papa, it's Fourth o. July!' then
danced out of the room like wild In
dian, poor old Muff barking madly at
his heels. BERTHE, aged five, and Jenny,
q wise little woman of eight, heard in
a loud quarrel about fre-crackers on the
front piazza.
"Oh dear!" sighed my wife, "some-
thing dreadful is sure to happen"
By breakfast-time Tom had become
an ungovernable young brute, and could
talk nothing but sssoldiers," and scan
non," and "crackers in a barrel" and
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and very dirty hands
The younger imps followed his lead,
and little Lil's pinafore was burned
through in three places. Muff caught |
the spirit of the day, and jumped and
barked as well as his infirmities permit
ed, retiring at intervals under the pi-
azza steps and into shady corners to en-
Joy his frequent maps.
At the height of MONDAY heat the
children formed grand parade. Nina |
them from the midst of q |
heap of colored paper, which she cut |
INTO caps and belts and warlike rigging |
If all sorts. An express wagon brought |
Worth's contributions, in the shape of |
wooden swords, drums, flies and endless
ire works.
"We thought you wasn't goin' to
bring us nothin', Mr.. WORTH" says my
eldest son, with that charming frankness
md in that pure English peculiar to the |
gentle youth.
s'Aunt Billy said you were too dis
yustingly prudent, >" says Jenny, who
IAN spell long words.
And Amt RiJ1v fhaid ,, soraams