Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-04

thought woman generally H .faiv1f
abused parsonage, deposed from her
proper sphere and trampled on by the
tyrant Man!
Mrs. Dewsford had come very near
being a man herself--what with deep
voice and bearded chin, and figure
quite innocent of all superhuous curves
or graces
But Lizzy Dewsford was quito diff
ferent-Lizzy Dewsford who stood be-
side her mother with cheeks round and
ripe as a fall peach, deep blue eyes
made mystic and shady by their long
lashes, and brown hair wound round
her pretty head in shining coils. You
wondered, as you gazed at her, how
they could both be women, and yet SO
unlike.
Nonsense, child - said Mrs Dews-
ford, critically examining butterfly
with pale yellow wings, sprinkled with
carmine.
''But, mamma" pleaded Lizzy, sit
isn't nonsense. He really does want
to marry me-"
Marriage is all a mistake, Eliza
beth." said Mrs. Dewsford, laying
down her magaifying glass II don't
mean you shall marry at all"
Mammal!
GA woman who marries," went on
strong-minded matron, sis q woman
enslaved. If had known as much
about life when was eighteen as l do
now, would never have married.
From the standpoint Of grand mis-
take committed in my own life, I can
rectify yours, Elizabeth"
''But, mammal" cried poor Lizzy.
"what shall / do?'
''Do, child! dol" calculated the
mother. 'sThat is a pretty question
for my daughter to ask! Why, read
-study-improve your mind. De.
vote all the energies Of your nature to
the solving of the great social pro-
blems that surround YOU"
81 don't care pin for the social
problems, mamma" demonstrated
Lizzy. 81 like Charley Everett, and
I'm gong to marry him.
Never with my corsent."
ooh, mamma, cried Lizzie, aghast,
"surely you would not"
elizabeth" said Mrs. Dewsford,
in tone of judicial calmness, ''don't
you see what confusion you are ere
ating among these insects which I
have SO carefully classified. / beg you
will interrupt my studies no longer.
Go and read that Report of the Eng
lish Convention for the Amelioration
of Womankind.' What are you cry
ing for? A well-regulated woman
never cries.
IL wish I wasn't woman" sobbed
poor Lizzy. 81 wish I wasn't some
thing that had to be elevated and i'm
proved and cultivated! Oh, mamma,
darling, you weren't in earnest when
you said you wouldn't consent to nv
marrying Charley! We shall be so
happy together and he says he will
be miserable without me, and
Elizabeth, I am astonished at you.
or course was in earnest! / have
neither gold nor jewels to lay on the
shrine OF the cause; but i have a
daughter, and I intend to show the
world what a woman unshackled and
unfettered can be capable of! You,
Elizabeth, should glory in thus be-
coming an Offering"
But Lizzy, apparently unapprecia-
tive of the great lot in store for her,
cried more piteously than ever.
''Tears will not melt me-" said
Mrs. Dewsfora. calmly resuming the
I encyclopedias. 81 only regret to be
the mother of SO degenerate daugh-
teri
."Mamma," ventured moor Lizzy,
after few minutes of sik It grieving.
I'll promised Charley Eride out
with him this afternoonb"A
"You must give him up. Elizabeth.
On such subject I can acceN no
compromise.
"But / promised, mammal"
Mrs. Dewsford graveIy rubbed tn
end OF her nose.
"a promise is promise, Elizabeth
nor shall ] require you to break it,
| Here Lizzy visibly frightened.
"But I shall accompany you" 9Th,
( pretty face became clouded and over
,ast once more.l "Where are you go
ing?"
ITO the woods beyond the glen
mamma. Charley is going to gel
some wood sorrel for my herbarium.
s'Nor will the expedition prove nm
profitable to me-" said Mrs. Dewsford
grsvely. 'There are many choice va