The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23
WOMAN WITH q a MISSION,

She would have been very good
new woman had disposition and a5r
pearance not been against her. she
vas determined and ong-ralnded, and
she could make a good speech, but the
generally taken up by the
'd1np,e III her chin and forgot to listen
44as 's.oq aencs slle was pouring forth.
she had broad intellectual brow, but
ones attention was distracted from it
70 the dark, delicately penciled eye
5rows. She wore divided skirts some
Zines. and then one wondered why all
women didn't do 50. She had helped
to down the Tiger. and she used to de-
nounce him until her eyes flashed ike
splintered sapphires and her cheeks
shone like the tint of wild roses and
then, instead Of applauding her, her
audience would put his arm around the
feminine politicians waist and by that
superior strength which even she adj
nlitted made man superior to woman
would kiss her she didn't approve OF
it. but she had given him the right to
it on chat unfortunate day, when as
she often said, she had iiandica pped her
career by marrying him.
Whatever whatever did do ii
for 2? she would say when messenger
would come Through the rain and ask
her to go to YelIand hall, and he would
forbid her to endanger her life by go
ing.
But he knew her, and Just smiled
One night he came home to dinner
late The table was set with the usual
dainty china, but there was no sign OF
dinner. The maid told him that madame
could not wait, she had to deliver her
speech, she would request him to call
for her at 10. The strong minded wQ-
mans husband sat down. And your
mistress had no dinner?" he asked.
None. She had not time
He seated himself with his newspa-
per and a pipe in one corner of the lit
tie library, and compared himself-with
a grim snlile---tO a motherless lamb, a
step-child, and advanced man who
stayed at home while his wife did the
work Then he went to bed.
She arrived at H. She had waited
nearly an hour for him and finally
trudged home in the teeth of the wind
alone. She woke him to scoid him be-
tween reproacfles and sobs and he only
rolled over and snored. And then she
stamped her foot and said she hated
him. t"You treat me as if-you-ilid, .
was the sleepy rejoinder.
The next day She had a. bad cold and
stayed in bed, and he was very nice
and attentive, but he didn't come home
to dinner, seeming to entirely forget
that it was the night they usually went
to the theatre.
She dined alone, and between solilo-
quizes addressed the coffee pot
HE is horTfbiei All husbands are
h0,ri Man va a ,oiT,,n f.of
fee pots contents dubbed an anliabls
assent.
and I wish were deadi" continued
the lady, who was eating lettuce salad
and tomatoes at 70 cents a head.
I'VE have been married a year and
and he used to. be so sympathetic
was-is-sympathetic And now when
I am bending all my energies to make
this a pure city and a free country for
him to live into keep his wife in-he
abuses mel They say women ought to
stay at home, Stay at home with a
brute like thatlirStay at home with a
creature who abuses you instead OF
trying to purify and reform politics,
which these men who are our husbands
have degraded? A pretty role, indeed
for a woman of mind and character
and the golden head was tossed def
antly.
The silver coffee pot caught the re-
Election and attracted her attention.
II would like to know" she contin-
ued solemnly, as she looked down at
her reflection. IF 1 am not a more pre-
possessing looking person to hold office
than-than any politician who has a
red face and q, beard and chews tobac-
co-ughr' And she finished her dinner
in silence.
She recollected as she rose from the
table that the last time Fred had
brought home theatre tickets she had
gone to woman's club instead.
Fred did not come home at all that
night, and frantic woman, with sap
phire eyes and tremulous lips, sent tel
egrams in every direction, dispatched
messengers to the police station, and
caused her cook a. severe attack OF