The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-03-05
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young men here have eyes for her
only"
at is the poor quality of the young
men. MIR. Fields-the men of to-day.
Why, there is not man at Oak Hill
to whom / would give Regina. No.
nor in New York, as far as know. 1t
IS q serious matter, and ons to be
looked at from every point of view.
this choosing of husband for a girl
She gives up every thing when she
marries-name, home, every thing into
which she has grown To choose for
q girl means to blindly take for her
either misery or happiness"
You are fortunate if you are al
lowed to choose" Mr.. Fields dryly an
swered. Logan married well. and
Bob is engaged to very nice girl, one
of the Hookers-Hooker, Hood & Co.;
but here comes another of Pills per-
versities. He wants to marry pro
fessional."
"a professional? Is the lady on the
stageP"
Worse than that-she-she is an
athlete, a.sort of female prize fighter"
why. that is horrible! I'd send
him away. | never heard of such a
thing! | suppose she is pretty?"
81 do not know. | have never
spoken to him on the subject. He told
Mrs. Fields, his step-mother. i told
her to say to him from me that would
never hear word about her. In such
matters it is wise to be decided, and he
had best understand that we-that L
will never countenance nor condOne
such a match. IL he marries her he
will have to keep to the brewery"
You are quite right" firmly replied
MIR. Scott. "A prize-fighter! / never
heard of such a thing"
''Our sons marry with too much free
DOM" and here Mr.. Fields took breath
and lighted his cigar. at is a matter
of wide Importance who it is man mar
ries, because his old family is in
volved. When man brings woman
into family. gives her his name-the
family name-and she becomes the
mother of the new generation, the fam
lily should have q voice in the matter.
Not every woman, not every other
family, should be admitted. Marriage
is more than merely personal matter.
sit does not matter so much TO the
man. but the wOman-there's the puz-
1Iot R,,+ poripo ord 4 N oryas, about nv
cry thing except that she wants to
marry a business man, add | am sick
of business men. ! should like her to
marry such a man as an English coun-
try gentleman. if we had such class
a man with landed property and hui
man responsibilities; MN of affairs.
But Regina says that her fathers trade
is the one for his daughter, and so
am TO 90 TO Wall street and look for a
husband for her"
81 wish you would find ono of my
boys there, then; but you won't. Oh,
what a fool q young man can be! And
Phil is fsstidiOus fellow. quiet and
well-behaved-not at all the kind of
boy you would expect to like loud. un-
feminine women
she must be pretty" replied his
friend. summing up the matter.
That night Philip Fields was the
subject of two midnight conversations.
His father and his step-mother talked
him over, and they decided to ask him
to come and spend q few days at Oak
Hill.
"A counter-irritant," said Mrs.
Fields. who cons0rted much with doc
tors, lis sometimes the best, the only,
remedy in cases of this character.
Mr.. Scott told his wife and daughter
the story of Mr.. Fields and his six
sons, and he made it so absurd that
Mrs. Scott was animated by a most
lively curiosity to see them all. But
Regina didn't think the story funny.
She said the Fields boys were all stu
pid. She had met two of them, the
divinity student and Phil. Still she
fingered in her mothers room and
talked about them until it was after
one o'clock, and the next morning.
when Mr.. Fields managed to secure
her for a few minutes, she listened
with much pOliteness to all he said of
his son, assuring him of her sympathy
with him in the trials he confided to
her.
''She is flirt." said Mrs. Fields; but
Mr.. Fields did not agree with his wife.
He pronounced Regina quick and kind
hearted. That she was so pretty was
a factor apart from her mental and
spiritual character.
And so it came to pass that Mr..
Philip Fields came to Oak Hill, and
met the household delegation at the
station, and found his own committee,
in the shape of his father and STEP
mother, waiting for him. And he was