Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-01-05
A PHOTOGRAPH.

"Thatp She was my roommate at board
ng school,"
"Was she really so prcttyr
"You think her pretty? All, let me look
at her picture. It's long since noticed it.
The pose is good. Well remember that
black lace shawl! Can't tell who was the
owner, but we all borrowed it to have our
photographs taken. Her hair is charmingly
crimped and caught up at the back with a
high comb. Her face is almost in profile"
Eyes. and her features are pretty. That
deep dent under her lower lip and the chin
coming out so roundly"
1.-The picture shows all her good points
and none of her defects. She had a horrid
complexion, and her teeth were yellow.
What is that written on the cardi"
"'Your roommate and rival, but devoted
friend, May Fowler"
"Ha! 'Rival' That was meant for joke.
But can't help signing. So long since
that was writtenl She is dead"
"Dead"
1.-THE first time saw her O crowd Of us
old girls were calling on the new arrivals.
A boarding school is q little world. had
been there a year. My standing was es-
tablished. We had heard rumors of Miss
Fowlers brilliancy, and so after we called
one girl said, We'll, she ought to belong to
the intellectuals, for she'll never be count
ed among the Beauties She was little and
thin, with an unhealthy color, and round,
startled looking eyes, She very soon proved
herself able to study, and her literary pro-
auctions showed her to be we'll read.
But the surprise about her was her sue
I, no a txy
on the other side of the town, and the stu
dents were splendid material for Irritation
That is where our rivalry came in. Alt
Emmett had been slightly attentive to me,
but there was no magnetism between u.s.
We had talked about books, ETC., but our
hands never touched, and as to q kiss
that would have been impossible. But as
soon as ALT met May Fowler (she and had
become roommates by that time) the case
was quite different He ceased to seek me
except to talk about May, and he actually
told her sol And she repeated the remark
to me! But had my retort ready. said,
Yes, he told me that he had ceased to wor-
ship at the shrine of beauty May gave me
one of her swift, pop eyed glances, and then
we both burst out laughing
ut was fact. One day he said, Kate, l
know you are better looking than May, and
you're just as smart; but, oh, there is some.
thing about herr
1T was genuine passion. l, as an I'M
sophisticated but idealistic dreamer, took
o deep interest in the affair sand enjoyed
being in the confidence Of both lovers.
"Our boarding school was not ruled over
by an old maid, thank heavenl Our pre-
ceptress was the wife of the president, and
I verify believe her theory was that the
chief end of the woman is to get happily
married. She was wise. She helped the
firtations Of her favorites among the girls,
and therefore May Fowler was allowed
calls from Mr.. Emmett and occasionally a
buggy ride. When she came back at these
times, her face was strangely illumined.
More than once have said, May, you are
growing beautiful-at least, as ALT says,
there is fascinating something about you.
but May tormented her lover. Did she
love him enough? Was not their attrac-
ton mere passions All these questions
she would ask. Mays favorite poet was
Mrs. Browning. This her favorite quota
ton:
"Unless you can muse In crowd all day
On the absent face thu: fixed you
Unless you can love as the angels may,
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behooving and unbehooving;
Unless you can die when the dream Is past,
Oh, never call 1t loving.
II remember, near the end of our board
ing school days, several Of us girls were to-
gether talking about our ambitions One
said she wished to be an artist, another a
writer, one missionary and variety of
such things. May was silent until some
one asked: Come, May, you say nothing.
What is your ambitioni
"Then May electrified us by saying, MY
ambition is to be loved and to be a mother.
'The truth is, every honest soul among
us had thought that, but had not dared tc
say it,"
$50 she married Mr.. Emmett"
"Bless you, mop
"What them"