The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-01-20
THE MAKING OF A WOMAN.
,ara. Really Loved Henry, but Hon, !,
Thought Her u Wicked Il,rt.

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Once upon a time there was a farm
er's son and once upon the same tin,a
there was a country doctors daughter.
says tho n. Y. irtss. The farme,sa
sou fell III lovc with the country doe
tors daughter. and she. not to be ONT
done, fell in love wish him. He was !
sensible boy in most things, which
means that he Was a foolish boy IN
love. She was q sensible girl in most
things, which means-almost my
thing. This much is certain--sl,e din
not know how very mucl, in love She
was. His namc was Henry. He,
name was Mat, which is Matilda short.
ened.
There came to tho village TO hclnher
father 2 young doctor fresh from col
legc. He Was city bred, city clothed
aud city tongned. Mat looked at him
as Il country girl might and he looked
nj her rs II city young man was sn,a
to. Sic smiled and he smiled back
and half of her smile was that of a car,
tain malicious pressure that most
women haze felt when they saw that
some MAJ whom they cared for was
wholly in their power, for Henry orcw
very uncomfortable wlicn he saw Mat
ho5nob with the Nolng man from tho
city. This made her liobuob with him
more industriously still, although she
had no evil intent. She was merely y
cat playing with q mouse. But il il
not pleasant TO be y mouse, so Henry
called her to account one night and re-
preached her.
Mat. still ignorant of how docn,r
she loved, laughed aud enjoyed il.
But the next morning when She found
that Henry had gone away and that no
one knew where he had gone shc ercw
wise and felt n fear that was a misery
in her heart.
For three days she lin gered in the
country village. Then she, too, went
away and there were two pairs of nm
happy parents behind her-Hcmy,s.
because they did not know where
their son was. aud Mats, because they
thought their daughter was unwoman-
ly. But she knew that she had only
then learned how to be q NJ
She learned that Henry had come to
New York, SO she also came here md
began to search for him. But tho civ
grew bigger and bigger with each
days births, which the deaths did NOT
seem to her to balance at ali, and The
streets grew longer. She became
more anxious and moro determined
with each useless day. Weeks went
by and months passed and q wear was
two-tlirds 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 to do, for l.er father was an
CRY, but she still found time to search.
AT last one evening as she was sit
ting in the window of her second-storv
clearinghouse room on Sixth avenue
nn elevated railroad train rumbled to-
ward her and Glanced to stop opposite
her window. She looked into tile ci,-
gine's cab, and there, grimy and
CREASED, was Henry, raking coal.
For q moment she was almostfrirht-
ened. Then the train started ant
Henry's face went with it. She turned
quickly 10 her little bureau and mado
es good a toilet as she could, so that
when she went out she looked most
charming. The lips that had been
thin showed u bit of fullness o in
their tiny smile and the checks which
had grown pale were pink. She went
to the nearest elevated railroad station
and asked a few questions. Then she
found her way to the yards"
When Henry left his work o fonlly
smiling woman stood at the foot of the
stairs. Ho started back and paled
wher he saw her, but she held out
both bands confidently and said:
81 have been looking for you for
months"
He stopped and kissed her and they
went away together arm i'll arm.