Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-30
Colby Scientific.
ny SARAH MERGE SCARBOROUGH.


OF Mira Proctor's companion.
80 l am to infer that the future Mrs.
Sainton must be stepped In ignorance as TO
'o'ogies and 'osophieS," the lady remarked In
reply.
"Precisely so. Mrs. Proctor. Nothing so
UNITS women for being wives and IT others
real, warm. hearted home women AS dab
bling In science. or what earthly good is IL
for woman to know bow to calculate an
eclipse, or evolve wretched smell In q labora-
toryt 1t Is simply hardening. To paraphrase
Gothic, The scientific phrases they are accus-
toned to repeat necessarily end BY end be-
coming convictions, and osslfy the organs OF
effect on lrepeat it,-a scientific woman is
cold aud heartess as an iceberg, very
ogress."
Mrs. Proctor was not an edept to argument
Had II been a case OF match aking, she
could have conducted 1t with skill; but In
word-to-word encounter on subject like
this, she could only banter aud conduct a
successful retreat, which she proceeded TO do
by begging for another ice. Moreover, her
own private convictions in general did not
differ materially from those voiced hy Arthur
Sainten. Stll, for reasons OF her own. she
could not endorse such a sweeping state
terances on the subject.
But being E wise diplomat, II not a willy
one, she waived discussion even upon that
point deeming 1t best to let him discover his
own mistake. At the same time she regis
tered a little vow TO square accounts with
him for this assault upon her sex, when the
moment should come in which she might feel
assured OF an easy victory So she made
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young friend, whose future she was endeav-
oring to arrange according to her own ideas
Of the eternal fitness OF things
The scheming little woman had planned
for Arthur Ssinton to be captIvated by the
unmisiakable charms OF this friend, and mat
tiers letween the two had passed so favor
ably as TO delight the elderly plotter. Conse
quently vhen his uulucky genius put such a
d-bloodcd assertion into his mouth. 1t
struck terror to Ter heart, as she saw her elab-
orately reared castle a crumbiug mass of
ruins, when he should discover the truth, for
Jessie Bieistadt was scientifically inclined"
She had been from childhood a most en-.
thu,iastic lover of nature and natures laws.
Her h onors in COLLEGE had al teen achieved
in that one ne, and seeing nothing In her
sex which was incompatible with scientific
study aud research, size resolved, on. leaving
its walls TO devote herself To her favoriie
studies. In pursuance Of this resolve she was
spending few weeks in town, attending
q course OF lectures by most renowned
scientist, preparatory 10 entering upon prac.
tical work. She had supposed that Mr.. Sam
ton, whom she then met for the first time, to
be fully aware, in common with other friends,
Of her procliv!tes; but, TO do the gentleman
Justice Mrs Grundy had, in some unsc
countable way, failed 10 enlighten him on
this point and he had no idea that the
stylish, brilliant, cultured lady, whom he so
much admired, "dabbled in science"
1t was very natural, after this pronunca-
mento, that Mrs. Proctor should endeavor to
dissuade the young lady from entering upon
her proposed career. She contented herself
at first with IN Id denunciatlon of scientific
pursuits for women; but when she saw this
made no IMPRESSION upon the independent
Miss Bierstadps determination, she, old a
veteran as she was, committed the blunder
OF observing that men were not usually at
tracted TO women OF 'such tendencies"
1t was an unfortunate speech, and she
knew It, as soon as her perverse young friend
turned upon her with peculiar, satircal
smile, and said, THAT knowledge would de-
eide me- If nothing else could. The man who
woos me will have 10 WOO my tendencies as
welr
II Mrs. Proctor had thought her possessed
Of a bias toward strong mlndedness before, -
a thing she secretly abhorred in a woman,
she was sure OF 1t now. and came nearer en-
dorsing every jot and little OF Mr.. Sainton's
declaration than she had thought possible.
She confessed TO herself in secret an utter
mpotcDcy, for once, TO avert the entire dc.
moltion Of her plans, and ruefully awaited
the end
Weeks passed and Mr.. Sa inton had been
as attentive AS at first, while the lady herself
had received his attentions with the same
grace W hich had been such a charm, until
even Mrs Proctor thought the danger over.
When Miss Bierstadt betook herself to her
work, leaving him in a state OF mind which
was dvuged TO no one except his friend
Max Parker, who arrived from a egn tour
some weeks later.
In his own apartments, his friend sitting
opposite. two fragrant Havanas sending curl
ing waves OF smoke aloft, he embraced the
moment to unbosom himself OF tue secret OF
his state, for tuch conditions are to men who
Interchange Condolences, when the hour OF
retiring and the ceremony Of taking down
the back hair are to women.
Max Parker had received aslght hint or his
friends pcrpexty, but as recollections of
former condolences doomed up before him, lie
may be pardoned for the leyity he INDUCED
In.
$50 at last your many grdndes p1s'ious
have eliminated in Ia grdnds passionW he
quered, as he watched the rings ascend.
II imagine IL, too, will vanish like those
rings-in air." lie replaced his cigar lazily,
cycling his compan ION from under half closed
Ida
''To be truthful do not know what TO
make OF either myself or the lady. i some
times think l am rrevocably in love, and at
the same time ! am chilled to the heart.
There was time when I could have spoken
without hesitation. but now / alternate be-
tween my desire to win her, and the settled
conviction that she has no heart to respond
TO mine'
"Ah, you are badly smitten, I seel Those
sntermittent fevers are apt to have long
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