The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-09
THE NEW WOMAN.

htue wickedly as sho gathered her
hlmy skirt up in hor hand aud trlpped
up tho stairs with tho most approved
Delsartoan grace. She felt sure that
Mr.. o Ehron was watching hor pro.
gross with admiration, and she sri-
pectcd that each click OF her high.
heeled slippers upon the stairs brought
a throb to his youthful German heart.
That was why tho dark.eyed Miss
Brown smiled.
When she had hung up tho Glmy
irocS and kicked of tho high .heoled
slippers aud was attircd in a dressing
gown and knitted. shapeless iootgear
she was atill smiling. She brushed her
hair and looked ut herself critically.
II am certainly better looking than /
was" she murmured approximately.
And l know how 10 make tho most OF
my charms better than | did. This
pink thing is very becoming. He must
be younger than l. It's almost mean
OF mo to lot myself fa,cina,e him.
Those Germans are so romantic. They
are not tippaut. cold.blooded thing.
like our men," Here Miss Browns oyes
looked sombre, and she glared for q
second at q photograph on her table.
Then her face frightened again, and
sho went on in her reflections.
III it were purely a personal matter"
she decided. 81 simply would not do it.
But 1t Is not personal. Those foreign
ers are really in u state OF painful ignor-
ance about the American woman. |
dare not say they think a girl who has
been to college cannot be fascinating.
For me to provo that We can be all
things to mon will be really a patriotic
act-a vindication OF the new woman, a
triumph over the tlaxen-haired, Madon-
na-faced, eternaily knitting ideal. Still,
OF course. il mustn't be allowed to get too
serious; | don't want him shooting him.
self or me-"
With this charitable conclusion, Miss
Brown climbed into the big iourpo,,ed
bod, which filed the larger part OF hor
room in the quaint old homestead,
where she wa. spendin. the summer,
and fell at once into the refreshing
sleep which comes especially to those
whose minds arc FREQ from guile.
In pursuance OF her patriotic plan,
Miss Brown permitted tho young Ger.
man. with tho handsome, boyish face
and the courtly air. to be her constant
attendant everywhere. He seemed to
like the position. His eyes sough. her
the instant no entered the dining room.
Ii she started out for : ramble, no nj
ways sprang 20 her side, and with his
foreign air OF defereuce and humility,
hnrunf narDNiauinn Tn aroat1nap o. hnr
Everyone about the place noticed and
smiled at the young mans apparent in
fatuation.
Miss Brown played her part exceed.
ingly we'll. She was n clever young
woman aud she never allowed her youth
to become too personal or too sen;i-
mental. She told him about her col.
lege lie and he seemed never to weary
| OF her tales. She discussed everything
with him from tho classics to clam
bakes and from poetry to politics. She
wa, one OF the few young women who
could do this in n way that would in
spire the respect OF n man who knew
much on these subjects. but who was
unaccustomed to women who knew any,
thing outside the purely feminine
realm.
Il was the evening before that Miss
Brown tried to instruct Mr.. Won Ehren
in the beauties OF browning that she
decided to stop playing with FIRE. She
did not fear it hersclt, but. Us she puts
it, q conscience not quite outcrown kept
her from getting real enioymen. II Of
other peoples agon:c,. And the court
", slow.speaSing young man had really
seemed to her until last evening to be
approaching the stage OF agony.
II cannot understand your Brown
ing" he said in his deep voice. with the
marked German accent which all tho
summer boarders found 90 delightful.
what is 1t which he means by such
things as this: where he stands. the
Arch-Fear in a visible form, yet the
atrong man must go?'"
'HOh, you've been reading .Prospice,'
have your said Mr.. Won Ehren's guide.
"Iie means death, OF COURSE"
~ understand better the rest. Tho
res, ia very beautiful" said he. and he
| began to quote it. But Miss Brown
didn't want to hear "Oh. thou soul OF
my SOUL" oven with the quotation
Ilarhb, NJ Hhc nkOppCu llu.
well. il | may not be permitted to
speak OF that" said tho gentleman,
oBligingly. may l ask your permission
to read tho little poem | found here:
One Way to Liver You might kindly
clucidato that"
Miss Brown didn't care to hear tho
poem.
"Ahl" said Mr.. Won Ehren. at is not
90 We love. When We have missed tho
heaven ne do not say those who win
heaven. blest are they We love 9TH
crwisc."
"Yor are still Werthers over thore,
l imagine" said Miss Brown lightly,
rising as she spoke.
pardon NO." said tho young man,
rising also. "if l ask you what may
eeom to you n most impertinent qucs.
ton. You have told mo and shown mo
so much about America and American
ways, will you not tell me how it is that
American ONO love?"
"llorr Won Ehren must ask n moro e1-
%pcrioncod American woman than | that
| Queation," answered Miss Brown, with
a certain dignity. She was annoyed. II
tho nan was going to make an idiot OF
| himself it would DO disgusting.
"1lis not" pursued he, "as our women
do. | am convinced OF that. You arc
all different. YOU"
at is n aubjecl on which one cannot
gcneralize," broke in Miss Brown,
quito CURLY, "and on which wo most
| certainly do not wish to particularize.
| think there's n fog coming in"
''rhe fraulcin wishes tho subject
changed" hnzNrdod tho German. smil-
INK at Miss Brown In n peculiarly taunt.
inc yny. "But before wa leave it may