The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-23
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she continued to live IN London IhoSe
were ten pathetic years of struggle,
whose real chronicle will never be
written. Lord Rothsay ana Auburndale
did not seek in marriage the hand over
which. when unattainable, they had so
CALAMITY bowed. Other offers were
made. but none of them Just pleased
their recipient. She uttered no public
plants. however. and hobnobbed with
duchesses as blandly as if her in
come were many generous thousands of
pounds and not a few pinshing hun
dreds. Her position was distinctive,
but not enviable. At first she acquired
the title of the pushing American"
but after awhile her popularity and
the thorough suitableness of her pres
ence crushed this impudent nickname.
People with a positive appetite for
select associations rarely fail il secur-
ing them. except it be that their natural
equipments are at fault Hers were so
far from such drawback that they OBJ
tanned for her warm welcomes every
where. And yet she secretly shivered
with disgust at the bonds of her pow
erty and the lessening lures Of her per-
son. One day she resolved 10 return TO
New York and see for herself if life
there might not De lived with smaller
domestic strain and fret. She re-
manned in her native town until Kath-
leen was nearly old enough to be
brought out" In New York. as in
London. she held herself with the
highest. missing 10 entertainment that
was moGish and openly referring to her
straitened affairs as il they had been
those Of IN eNiled queen. She was
privately d good deal more laughed at
here than in England. and with great
inward bitterness she realized that the
shattered Van Lerius fortunes we're an
object either II fCrCetfulness or disre-
Spect. Daily existence. too, was here
much more difficult. \ house Of her
own. however limited Of space. was not
- be dreamed Of. She could only
aspire to ''apartInents." and these.
neceas2rily somev hat shabby, were in
New York : b-evet OF inferi0rity The
plutocrats. moreover, We're rushing to
the front. Even he. resoiute aversion
70 being pushed against the wall SUI
fe-ed transient COLLAPSE. She might
have given NJ the fight altogether hut
fo- the Increasing beauty and fascina-
ton IF kathleen. She had by this
time surrendered all hope of q lofty
marriage, but why. she now reflected.
could she not revive these bliEhted
yearnirgs in the future triur1phs Of her
beautiful child? There, across the
water. was her London status. They
had not forgotten heryet: they were very
good over there about not forgetting
you when they had once accepted You.
Why not present Kathleen at the next
drawing room? The comnonest Arne-i-
cans were Trusting themselves nova
days into Buckingham palace. Surely
heniece # SIR Franklin Eennaird who
- had now rot only concluded TO remain
alive. by the v-cy. but had become the
father Of two more TASTY little boys
would present q decisive claim Of en-
trance. Alter that the sorcery OF
Kathleea's beauty and those qualities
Of intellect which careful education
had foStcTed would doubtless reap due
results. Thus E2oGitatinC. Mrs.. Ken
uaird packed her trunks and once again
sailed for foreign shores.
kathleen's success il London w2s
prompt and complete. Her connection
with a WGrwickstire baronet did not
specially serve her. Old acquaintance
fOclzed about her mother. and these,
with their influence. crowned the
maternal desires But though she soon
became a celebrity and had scores Of
admirers, kathleen was still looked on
as a girl who would be a dowerless
bride. This IS nearly always fatal 10
the making Of 4 great marriage II Eng
land. and Mrs. Kennaird knew it. Two
years passed. and although the girl had
70 lack of devoted male attendants,
that dreamed Of sutton with the shining
name and princely rent roll had not yet
knelt 1t her feet Mrs. Kennaird grew
restless, even petulant.
You repele your best opportunities, ;"
she said to her child: Look the
statue, # you please, men like it But
IN certain eases don't forget that your
marble Is feminine flesh"
Kathleen colored 4 little At this. She
detested her mothers worldly spirit;
she had ideas Of her own as regarded
life ard how best to live it; she had
thought with depth and breadth for
one Of her age and sex; she had read
some Of the wisest modern books. many
Of which are wiser, by the way, when
truly deserving 20 be called so. than
the whole libraries ot more Anticipated
views and teachings And yet her
mothers personal spell was one which
constantly cast over her a kind of IL
visible ret from whose flaments
thorough escape seemed vain
She had a mind of both finer and
stronger 6ber than that OF her mother,
ard nature IN all ways PrOfoun6er.
And vet there were times when the
mere sound Of her mothers voice caused
her cover: tremors and thrills It was
ike a mesneric force. and II often took
the form Of fear. Reasoning coolly
about II. the girl would tell herself that
she understood perfectly its cause. Her
mothers personality was an intense
one; Il had spiritually enskeathed her,
50 to speak, through all her younger
years. Now. when she had broken
loose from its iCatures, its letters, the
discovery came 70 her that habit could
not so easily be disreputed- And yet
there were times when even this ex-
PLANTATION did not suffice for Kathleen.
and when there seemed sublet and
mystic reasons why it should not But
now and then she would laugh nerv-
ously at her own fancies, and declare
TO her own he=rt that very simple
solution Of the problem was to be found
in filial love. For she did love her
mother, and with great fondness and
devotion, in spite of mental and even
moral Differences between them which