The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-11

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gg1 AA II years of age
fhJ IN IXk and unmar-
EII1 A) IEA ried. He could
1ilA i'm afford to mar
LINN ry, and he had
M M admired many
women, but none OF them came up to
his ideals. Miss Fotheringay. for in
stance, represented his notions as to
what a woman should be physically.
but intellectually he found her woefully
below his required standard She was
tall and statelyJunoesquo some peo-
pie called her-but in her converse
ton she was decidedly hippant- She
was interested in all the small things
of life, but for the great ones she had
no inclination She preferred q dance
with callow youth to q chat with .
man Of learning. She worshiped arti-
fetal indoor life. but had no sympa-
thy with nature The country she
abominated, and her ideas Of rest con-
sisted solely in . change OF locality,
which was why she went to Newport
every summer. there to indulge in fur
thor routs and dances when she wea-
ried Of the routs and dances of New
York
Miss Patterson, on the other hand,
represented to the fullest degree the
intellectual standard Mr.. Augustus
Richards had set up for the winner OF
his affections She was fond o. poetry
and of music. She was Q student OF
letters, and q clever talker on almost
all the arts and sciences in which Mr..
Augustus Richards delighted. But.
alas! physically she was not what he
could admire. She was small and in
significant in appearance. She was
pallid. faced. and. it must DO confessed,
extremely scant Of locks; and the id ca
of marrying her was to Mr.. Augustus
Richards little short of preposterous
Others there were, too. who attracted
him in some measure, but who likewise
repelled him in equal if not greater
measure.
What he wanted Mrs. Augustus
Richards to be was a composite of tho
best in the beautiful Miss Fotherin-
gay, the intellectual Miss Patterson.
the comfortably rich but extremely
loud Miss Barrows, with dash of the
virtues of all the others thrown in
For years he looked for such a one,
but season after season passed away
and the ideal failed to materialize, as
unfortunately most ideals have way
of doing, and hither and yon Mr.. Au-
gustus Richards went, unmarried, and,
as society said. a hopeless, confirmed
old bachelor-more's the pity.
Miss Flora Henderson was born and
bred in Boston, and, like Mr.. Au-
gustus Richards, had reached the age
of thirty without having yielded to the
allurements Of matrimony This was
not because she had not had the oppor-
tunity. for opportunities she had had
in greatest measure She made her
frst appearance in society at the age
of seventeen, and for every year since
that in teresting occasion she had aver
aged -four proposals of marriage; and
how many proposals that involved
every person who can multiply thirteen
by four can easily discover. Society
said she was stuck up. but she knew
she wasn't She did not reject men for
the mere love of il. It was not vanity
that led her to say no to so many ador-
ing SWANS: 1t was simply the fact that
would-be protectors represented her
notions as TO the style of man with
whom she could be so happy that she
would undertake the task Of making
him so.
Miles Dawson. for instance, was the
kind of man that any ordinary girl
would have snapped up the moment he
declared himself. He had three safe
deposit boxes in town, and there was
evidence in sight that ne did no. rent
them for the purpose of keeping cigars
in them. He had several horses and
carriages. He was regular attendant
upon all the social func tons of the sea
son, and at many of them he appeared
to enjoy himself hugely. At the
musicals and purely literary entertain
ments, however, Miles Dawson always
looked. as he vas. extremely bored
Once Miss Henderson had seen him
yavn at Shelley reading. He was. IN
short, of the earth earthly. or perhaps.
10 be more accurate of the horse horsey.
pleasures were naught to
him but fountains OF ennui. and being
d very honest, frank sort of person
he took no pains to conceal the fact.
and il ruined his chances with Miss
Henderson. al whose feet he had more
than once laid the contents OF the de-
posit boxes-fguratively. OF course-as
well as the use of his stables and him
self. The fact that he looked like
Greek god did not influence her in the
least: she knew he was BY nature far
cry from anything Greek or goclike.
and she would have none Of him
Had he had the mental qualities OF
Henry Webster, the famous scholar of
Cambridge. il might have been differ
ene, but he hadn't these any more than
Henry Webster had Dawsons Greek
godliness OF person
As for Webster. be TOO had laid bare
a hear: full of affection before the cold
gaze Of Miss Flora Henderson. and
with no more pleasing results 70 him
self than had attended the suit of MS
handsome rival, Is he had considered
Dawson.
Il think can make you happy" he
had said, modestly. we have many
traits IN common We are both ex-
tretneiy fond Of reading Of the better
sort. Yon would prove of ines;iruable
service TO ne in the advancement OF
nv ambition in letters, as well as n
the educational world aud l think you
would End ne bT nature rezpQnAivs u