Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-05-29
HER CAREER.
BY CLARA WHITE,

well Kathrlne, here you are at
last. Do you know that 1t is inst
a year ago today that we gradnst-
!. edi Dear old Wellesley! When
shall l see the beautiful place
agalnY Little did l think it would
be a whole year before you and L
. should have another talk
I 'And little did think. MaIjory
that in o year should be sum
moned to help you prepare for
. your wedding. Do you remember
that we spent the midnight hour
together talking over our past and
taturei Ard do you remember
how you declared you should not
marry Jack, even though be had
asked you before you came away
to collegei And then, You know
you announced your intention OF
following a literary careeTT You
had not quite decided whether on
preferred editing newspaper or
writing popular novels. l have
laughed over 1t mauy time since
you wrote me OF your coming mar
riage!
well. you needn't laugh, Kath-
ryn Ball, it's a very serious mat
ter-the engagement, | mean; and
as for nv career
Don't look so Superior. now. !
suppose you will go on teaching,
cllm bing up and up, till you are a
college president, but | don't be-
lieSe you will he a bit happier
than L.
'All right, Mari, I am not gong
to dispute the point, because l
am dying to know how 1t all came
about, this amazing change in
your views of lite.
Honestly, l just cannot help
laughing, whenever think OF it,
And she burst into peal of
merrlmenr, IN which MMjOry,
though she tried hard to stand on
her dignity was at last forced to
IjOin.
You don't deserve to be told a
word about it, but I'll be good and
tell you anyway, for must vlnIl-
cate myself, if possible.'
'How charmingl Well, begin
right away! And Kathryn settled
back lazily among the cushions In
her hammock, while MaIjory, in a
low rocker at her side, proceeded
TO relate what she called her 'cOD.
versatlon.'
'Of course Jack called bright
bright aud early in the evening L
Returned. 1t was gorgeous
night and after L had sung for
bin, We took little walk In the
garden, No-sOoner had We reached
the end ef the walk, than he grab
bed both my hands and said,
'Marjory, those miserable four
years are over at last. Now 9hsn
shall 1t bep
when shall what beT said l
pretending not to know what he
meant. and trying to pull my
hands away.
AT that he actually kissed met
Wby,,I was so angry, I don't
know what did or said. 1t seems
the silly boy had taken it for gran.
ted that / was going to marry him
as soon as got out Of school. |
told him that l had never given
him to understand any such thin e
and that l had quite made up NY
MUD not to marry for q number
of years, if l did at all.
''Let's sit down here and talk it
over a Bit he said. He seemed
quite as serious as /, and asked
me i'll minded telling him what
intended doing with my life, He
was so sympathetic and nice, that
Ii Just told hin how my great desire
was to become a newspaper
woman. said that 1 thought
either of gong to some small place
, aud editing paper myself, or oI
editing some special department Of
a city paper. On the whole ]
thought preferred the latter, al
then | could stay at home aud gel
J a little acquainted with my family
after having been away from then
for so long.
s'Thst would suit me a lIttl,
} better, too,' said he, and then