The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-22
THE MODERN WOMAN.


evening in the fat which she shared will
her sister artist.
She was alone and tired Her sitter
she was portrait painter-had Just gone
and she was in the act Of making q CUP O
tea for her own use.
The tea table was an inviting one. TIL,
little kettle purred oozily. She HANDLED
the tea bali gracefully with pretty and ex
pressiye hands He sat on the edge Of hi,
chair and stared at her miserab1y over thu
top Of his teaoup When he broke his mo
rose silence, ii was to remark, with rude
didactioism; .....
THE popularity Of the teakettle and the
chatting dish in good society seems to me
graceful recognition by women of the
charm that housewifely cares still have fol
them. The kitchen IL SO attractive that
even the drawing room cannot dispense
with its graces. A woman who Is barred
out Of her kitchen by French chef will
still cling to the privilege of using her
chafng dish, end in her case 1t is beauti-
butt He besitated moment. 10 ~
"wellf" asked she politely.
II don't see what, from that point of
view, you arc doing with teakettle. You
8 have abtured all that It stands for. You
d have found something better than the do
b nestle life"
He underworld to speak with that phil
. osophio calm which should impart the
flavor Of impersonallty to what he said,
but there was bitterness in his tone.
= THAT Is nonsense, responded the WON.
, an OF genius Grossly, for her work had not
} gone well that day. ''Tea tables arc pop.
\ ular because women need stimulus and
chatting dishes because men like substantial
nourlshment. l certainly have not abb
tured food. Personally I adore domestic
life and like 1t all the more from the
fact that 1t Is not the only career open to
me. In general IL odds the element OF
grace to the life and of graciousness to
the woman when she takes up that form
of existence, not because 1t Is the only
form, but because 1t Is the sweetest Of all. u
Those arc very pretty views--very prot
ty," he remarked gloomily, "but I have
not observed that you practipced them.
1t Isn't Of any particular avail for saliva
tion to assent with ones intellect to any
orthodox doctrine while ones actions are
still hereto. You have refused the things
that are the best of ALL
/ Who said l had refused them'r she de-
manded impatiently. you wouldn t have
me marry the wrong man just to show
! that my views upon the woman question |
were conservative, would youf''
THAT is an easy thing to say, but you .
know you will never find the right one"
| She looked at hlm-a curious, measur-
ed, wondering gaze. There was scorn In
1t, but was 1t all scornS NO." she said
slowly. Il am not emancipated enough
for that. 1 intend to let him find me, even
though we play at hide and seek together
oil our days. 1t was rather difficult for
this man to admit an important idea of
hand into his mind but something In her
voice stirred him so that he sprang to his |
feet
toni y
1t was half an hour later before it oc. !
CURED to him that all this was violating Z
precedent.
do you suppose you can be happyf"
he implored, and then he brought up the
subject of the books In which tho mar
ried woman of genius had always been :
miserable. He refrained, however, from :.
speaking of those households which had
fallen under his observation in which the
husband of the genius had been dissatis- \,
fed with the cooking Of the beefsteak.
"Oh, books, " said she with an infinite
scorn. Haven't you ever noticed that
people write best about things of which
they know absolutely nothing1 Do you
really mean to say that you have been in
huenoed In this by booksf"
He nodded silently. And SO you :
thought did not care and would not mar
ry you, dears" .....
II thought so--yes"
An adorable smile bent her lips. Don't
you think you were rather hasty, not to
say unkind, in adopting so completely the
that the artist rejects
love, and with it lifeP"
but If you had heard yourself talking
Of your workp' he cried. You seemed to
think art the one thing in the world-ev
cry word fell like clod on q coffin"
why should 1 not speak Of art with
'eryor' l feel it all, and you had not of. I
'ered me any career which preferred.
All, but do you, will you, always pre-
er itf 1t Is not as If you were merely 4
,aleqted, you know, to give up"--
Give up? But I intend to give up
nothing I am afraid you are a little
stupid"
Would you mind explaining the situa- r
ion to met" he asked hunbly.
THAT Is very easy" she said composed ]
y. II simply don't intend to be unequal 6
@ tho combination OF love And art. u
The luminous brilliancy OF this solution
Iept him silent while she went on: IN
Those women you read about, you
,now, were under the disadvantage of not
icing modern when they tried to do things m
They were working against tremen-
ous though perhaps invisible pressure.
he world wasn't adjusted SO as to help
hem and mako the solution of their little ~ ~
roblems easy. They felt that horrible
veight-the pressure of the disapproval Of r
he universe-and could not stand out -,
gainst It, But with US 1t is different,
no world Is ours and the fullness thereof !
at least that Is what I feel about It, One as
as deliciously buoyant sensation, the -
ord our-side feeling, that is In itself Al
guarantee of success Then, you know. III
70 have better health and Tower nerves
han women used to have, and that makes
difference"
But suppose" he persisted "just sup.
ose that you were to fail What them"
She puckered her brows judicially.
lone willing to pay a certain price for ~
he best things, she admitted slowly IF
he goods arc delivered. 1t is possible that
appiness might not be very bad bar
ain, even though paid for 1t with art u
"Ah, darling" he began, but she went
a. But shall not have to do Ii. 1
lall have my cake and eat 1T too"
He looked at her with an expression of :,
lmiration which almost hid his funds. =, 1
entail skepticism. i
You are, " he said, with sudden illumi VIII
alton, something more advanced than -
odern. You arc she OF whom wo have
'ard-the coming woman" al
She looked down at the pink palm which ~
had held fast In his own through all
N self possessed eloquence, and suddenly
wave OF color rose and swept across her WI
co. n
"Ah, mol" she said softly But no heard D.
=, neither succeed in combining As
ve and art or not, it seems to me have De
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