News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-14
DR.. r.HOyt's Wife.
BY HARRIET B. WATERMAN.

DR.. Philip Hoyt was annoyed whel
he saw Alice Bayard's name upon tn
wedding cards which he received on
day from Boston. To be sure, he haC
never definitely asked her to be his wife
but he had never expected her defnitel,
to marry anybody else; not, at least
while he remained an indefinite bach
elor.
He was one of Dakota's multitude O
rising young physicians" and whel
he considered that he had not visited
his home for three years, that his let
ters, from the first intermittent, had
after six months, became altogether re
mittent, he had to acknowledge tha
circumstances did not warrant even an.
noyance.
Her image had been constantly en-.
gagged in pouring imaginary tea for his
imaginary family, until the coming ol
these cards; but it was one of the attri
butes of DIR. Hoyt's beautiful, sunny dis.
position, that his future plans were al.
ways too vague to admit of severe dis.
appointment.
Half an hour out of office hours is
not much for even rising physician to
devote to amatory obsequies, and DR..
Hoyt was still engaged upon line of
memories, which began with "seeings
home" when they were both in their
teens and ended with that last letter.
which he remembered as vapid affair,
not worth the answer it had never re-
ceived, when the tingle of the Office bell
reused him to reality and the entrance
of farmer from a neighboring town.
"Well, now, Doctor" said that indi-
yidual, 81 calculate that you're wanted
smart up HellersvilIs way.
One of the Roosians is nigh about done
for. He fell off hay wagon fust, then
hen the hay wagon fell on him, and, as
near as can make out, the horses and
wagon took turns finishing him up by
rubbing him in the ground till the re-
mains want of much count. I made
out about that from their heathenish
iibber. I was riding by, and the girl
that does their talking for them ran out,
and asked me to send you over. It's
that fourteen year old that brings in hay
often, reckon's the one."
DR.. Hoyt had keen professional in
stincts, and his preparations for depart
ure were completed with the old mans
story, and few moments later he was
driving rapidly toward the "Roosians, ="
as the colony of Mennonite settlers was
called. These are a peculiar
people, who unite the principles of the
modern Quaker with the practice of the
ancient IshmaeIite. Exiled from Russia,
because of religious scruple against
military service, they are still a bit
Of Old-World. old-time barbarianism,
planted in the newest New-World civil
ization, because of its newness equally
savage. They are fiercely content with
their own manners and customs; apart
from their own people, fierce enemies
and reluctant friends. Their long. un-
compromising coats, and their Ion :. Il
cut boards (for the Mennonite is Ez=.
arene in that natter give fit e1pr<sSsss
to their characters. So far as ths pay-
ment of taxes and the cultivation Il the
soil goes, they are good citizenx hst
socially they are Asiatics and Menno..ses
still, and with America and the world
Among all nations are born--A
often, too, than is supposed-vsomen
who are best described by the void de-
voted. The are the Jephthas, the Iphi-
yenias, the Joans of Arc of history;
ienied individual life, and destined to
be objective, they are more frequently
# less gloriously, found in the old
maids who care for other peoples chill
1ren; the leaven of others Jumps, who,
illing out the measure of lives not their
OWN, are themselves destitute. They are
beautiful or ugly as it happens; they
wear no mark on their foreheads, unless
{ be the sign of high and holy pur-
nose: nothing distinguishing, unless 1t
,e sign of the eye which seems always
o look outward, never to look within.
OF such, was Marie Won Sulevitch,
lso trial and a puzzle to the orthodox
members of the simple community.
Without excuse, she had refused to
marry Ivan in Russia, and when her
ather foolishly INDUCED her, and would
gain have permitted her to marry, this
ime in America, Alexis, who was rich
a land and cattle, she refused as before;
ONE quality in the girl, which the rest
ound it difficult to appreciate, enabled
er again to have her own way.
That had been years before, when she
,as manageable now she was twenty
lree, and no longer counted among the
iris. She had never really been
ounted among the girls; to dance
18th her had never been so much fun
8 with those who laughed more. Only
van and Alexis had wished to worship
er as saint. 1t was, therefore, fortu-
ate, perhaps, that neither had married
er. If they had continued to worship,
ne other women might have become
xacting, and forgotten that it is honor
nough to work and rear children for
ood man, and reward enough to re-
Give bread In return.
But the Mennonites, like other Prot
,tants, have not yet solved the prob
I'm of unmarried womanhood, and they
ooked with suspicion upon Marie Won
who was twenty-three, and
ad never cared for lover; not, at
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