The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-30

about him unless he wants to be picked |
up every word he says, or to be reminded
that his sister or his wife really owe him |
very little. It gives a man the pleasant |
est feeling in the world to think that
some one is dependent upon him all the
time; he feels a responsibility which
would otherwise be entirely absent. He
doesn't want to mentally cross swords
with the woman he has married the
minute he crosses the threshold after a
hard days work; he doesn t even care TO
discuss business affairs with her. What
he wants and what he usually marrles for
is to have place where he may find SYM
pathy and love, and nothing much else"
The girl laughed softly and raised her
pretty brows.
'sWhat an intellectual household you
must have in mind!'' she cried. "Why,
would you drive us back to the mental
slavery We once endured-to be mere
puppets with simpering manners and
pretty faces, and with a penchant for
working those outrageous old samplers
or else men S ruin?' 4"
1--WE would,'' answered Ingram,
crossing the room with his hands deep In
his pockets, and his kindly eyes beaming
behind his glasses, sif we could thereby
rid tine world of this over-developed idea
of the eternal and complete independence
of womankind. 1t is right and proper for
j
penny in case the necessity presents itself,
but when it comes 10 earning your own
| livings whether it is necessary or not,
when you go out into the mercantile
world and mingle with the coarser eie-
ments OF it as you have to do, it brings
you to the level Of the men who consti-
tute that element, and the inevitable re-
suit is that women are not and cannot be
| looked up to as they once were. -
| Miss Lovelace turned on him with
scornfuI little motion, and he FASTENED to
add, 81 am quito aware that my ideas are
very old fashioned and not to be given an
independent thought, but they are none
the less sincere. =
"Then the only way, in your opinion,
that we may obtain and hold the respect
of mankind is to return to the blank
mindedness of our great grandmothers
Ito the clinging vine about the tower
| ing oak idea, as 1t were? How unrea-
sonable OF you, Mr.. Ingrami A man of
such otherwise progressive ideas should
certainly be more liberal and advanced
upon the subject of the rights OF
women. ~
Ingram shrugged his shoulders.
IF it goes much further,'' he an
swered laughing and quite ignoring the
compliment upon himself, s'the cry will
change to that of MEMS rights From
the manner in which the girls are filling
the places formerly occupied by mem"
''There! / knew we would come to the
meaning of it all soon. The truth is you
fear for. 'Otbello's occupation, do you
not? Is this not the reason why you are
so severe upon the weak women who
desire to live and to earn that living?''
Ingraham colored angrily.
1T is quite plain you do not choose to
understand me,' he said shortly. 81
/ think you will in the end, however. -
Il ,0+ H. <xff LoI Il
begged, as they moved toward the door.
81 am sorry i'll have hurt-you are 60
ing?, .s ..,. -,
thing can do for you down street? Or
are we too independent even to send men
on errands of importance?'
Moo, suppose not, though mans
memory is usually Of man IS life a thing
apart-far apart, !" she said smiling. 81
believe everything is ordered for the day,
thank you.
Ingram was looking down at her as she
spoke.
ssWhat a girl you are" he said,
thoughtfully. and then before she real
lied what he was doing he had caught
one slim and flower stained hand in his
and kissed it gently. She turned upon
him blushing angrily, but he was already
out of the room, and the next moment
she saw MIN hailing a passing car. AS
he disappeared into the crowd upon the
platform her anger and her color, together
with the Independent air she was fond of
putting on for his especial benefit, went
away and she looked down at her hand
for moment in dreamy silence.
s'What if he knew" she whispered,
"what ii he kneW!''
Aud then, as her mother's voice came
from the room above, she pressed the
hand to her lips as he had done, and
done, and blushiDg, very little less than
before, at her own action, hurried up
: stairs in answer to the call.
All way down town Ingram was silent
and thoughtful, and before ne reached
the Office he had gone over the little con-
versation and its abrupt.end many times.
He acknowledged he had rather surprised
himself at what he had done, and a vague
idea that perhaps he had been something
of fool came over him. He had wanted
to speak as he had done just now for
many months past. for what man
who cares for woman likes &c
see her drifting away from him, what
ever the cause? To be sure she was moi
as bad--his own Words-as some OF hei
friends who went SO far as to don man
nish apparel and ape mannlsh vocabular-
les, but what assurance had he that she
would not come to even that, If stoE
was not put to it? He thoroughly ex.
: pected to come home, almost any night
: and find she had accepted position will
: some lawyer as q stenographer or type
writer or both. If not that, it would b;
something equally horrible for girl tt
do, in his estimation. He thanked
! heaven, at least once a day, that she wa
of good blood and family, however re-
duced in circumstances they might be-
her mother had small pension, and h'
roomed there-and he hoped and prayed
d that she would resist this ultra independ
ent temptation long enough for him t,
l get upon his feet financially, and ask he
to marry him. Once in a while it oc
. Cured to him that she might possibly b.
in love with someone else, but it wa
:, : such an unpleasant possibility he Away
' put it away as quickly as it came tt
. him.
!, He nodded briskly TO the men about Thu
counting room and hurried up to hi
!. desk, next that of the city EDITORS. 70
: many years Ingram had held position
upon the Iauestiqdtor, and he was wei
known and thoroughly liked by every
attache of the place. There was hardly
one of them who had not come to him il
u trouble, and he was never known to re
p fuse to help them out, if it were in hi
K power. AS he dropped into his chat
:. and began to sort the mass of manuscrip
! which had accumulated from the nigh
. mails-he was nominalIy the literatur
editor-a small boy hurled himself int,
the Office with that reckless abandon
known only to printer devil, and lait
handful OF proofs beside him.
I Fashion galley right of, sir he said
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