Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-01-20
THE MAKING OF A WOMAN.
Mat Realty Loved Isnry, but uen,
Thought Her a wicked Fiirt.

Once upon time there was farm
er's son and once upon the same tine
there was a country doctors daughter,
says the n. \. fress. The farmers
son fell In love with the country doc
tors daughter. and she. NOT TO be out
done. fell Ia love With him. He was n
sensible boy in most things, which
means that he was q foolish. boy in
love. She was sensible girl in most
things, which means almost any
thing. This much is certain she did
not know how very much in love she
was. His namo was Henry. Her
name was Mat, which is Matilda short
eped.
There came to the village TO help her
father n young doctor fresh from col
ilege. He was city bred, city clothed
and city tongned. Mat looked at him
'us country girl might and he looked
at her rs n city young man was sure
10. She smiled and he smiled back.
and half of her smile was that OF a GER
tain malicious pressure That most
women have felt wllea ihey saw that
some man whom thry cared for was
wholly in their power, for Henry grew
very uncomfortable when he saw Mat
hohnob with the ,oIag man from tho
city. This made her bobnob with him
more induslriously still. although she
had no evil intent. She was merely A
cat playing with mouse. But il IL
not pleasant TO be a mouse, so Henry
called her to account one night and re-
preached her.
Mat, still ignorant OF how deeply
she loved, laughed and enjoyed it.
But the next morning when she found
that Henry had gone away and that no
one knew where he bad gone she grew
wise and felt n fear that was misery
In her heart.
For three days she fingered In the
country village. Then she, too, went
away aud there were two pairs OF un-
happy parents behind ber-Henry's.
because they did not know where
their son was. aud Mats, because they
thought their daughter was unwoman-
lly. But she knew that she had only
then learned how TO be q woman.
She learned that Henry bad come TO
New York. so she also came here and
began TO search for him. But the city
grew bigger aud bigger with each
days births, which the deaths did not
seem to her to balance ut all, and tho
streets grew longer. She became
more anxious and more determined
with each useless day. Weeks went
by and months passed and year was
two-tbirds gone. Her face, with its
eyes tired from looking at stranger
faces, took on an expression OF great
sweetness OF maturity. She had TO
get work 10 do, for her father was an-
CRY, but she still found time 20 search.
AT last one evening as she was sit
ting in the window of her second STORY .
clearinghouse room on Sixth avenue
an elevated railroad train rumb to-
ward her and Glanced to stop opposite
her window. She looked into the en-
gfne's cab, and there, grimy and
CREASED, was Henry, raking coal.
For moment she was almost fright
ened. Then the train started and
Henry's face went with it. She turned
quickly TO her little bureau and made
es good toilet rs she could, so that
when she went out she looked most
charming. The lips that had been
thin showed a bit of fulness now in
their tiny smile and the cheeks which
had grown pale were pink. She went
to the nearest elevated railroad station
and asked few questions. Then she
found her way 10 the yards"
When Henry left his work a fondly
smiling woman stood at the foot OF the
stairs. He started back and paled
wher ne saw her, but she held out
both hands confidently and sad
IL have been looking for you for
months" ..--.-ns..
: -aio- -stoopcd-nfsti Kissed -4i--thd they
went away together arm in arm.