Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-08
THE COMING WOMAN.

tel LOT hcr own use
The ten table was an inviting one. The
littlo kettle purrcd cnzily. She handled
tho ten ball gracefully with pretty and OK.
pressiye hands. He sat on the edge of his
chair and stared at her miscrably over the
top Of his teacup Whom he broke his mo
rose silence, it was to remark, with rude
didgcticism;
The popularity Of the toakottle and the
chnilng dish in good society seems TO mo
a graceful recognition by women of the
charm that housowifely cares stlll have for
thom. The kitchen is 50 attractive that
even the drawing room cannot dispense
with its graccs. \ woman who is barred
cut OF her kitchen by q French chef will
still cling to tho privilege of using her
chatting dish, nud In her case IT is henuti-
full and significant that It. should be so,
but He hcstatcd a moment
"Wcll!" asked she politely.
81 don't see what, from that point OF
view, you nrc doing with u tcakcttle. You
have abiured all that il stands COR. You
have found something better than the do
nestle life"
He underworld to speak with that phil
osophlc calm which should impart tho flu.
vor Of tmpersonnlity to what he said, but
there was bitterness in his tone.
"Ihat is nonsense responded the wom-
an OF genius Grossly, for her work had not
gone well that day "1ca tables ARE pop
ular because women need stimulus and
chatting dishes because men like suhstan-
tinl nourishmCnt. / certainly have not alb
jurcd food Personally 1 adore domestic
life, and l like 1t all the moro from the
fact that 1t Is not the only career open to
inc. In general it adds the element Of
grace to the life and of grAclousness to the
woman when she takes up that form of
existence, not because 1t is the only form,
but because it 81 the sweetest Of all "
Those arc very pretty vi,ws--very pref
ty," he remarked glOomily, "but have
not observed TINT you practlccd them. 1t
Isn't of any particular avail for salvation
to assent with ones intellect to any ortho-
dox doctrine while ones actions arc still
horetic- You hive refused the things that
are the best of all, "
"Who said l had refused thcmf" she de-
manded impatlently, you wouldn't have
me marry the wrong man just to show
that my views upon Tie woman question
were conservative, would youS'
THAT is an easy thing 10 say, but you
know You will never find the right one"
she looked at him--a curious, measured,
wondering gaze. There was scorn in it,
but was it all scorng No." she said slow
ly, 81 am not emnncipatcd enough for
that. I intend TO let him find me, even
though we play at hide and seek together
all our dnys." 1t was rather difficult for
this man to admit an important idea off
hand into his mind, but something in her
voice stirred him 50 that he sprang to his
feet.
DO you mean-would you really lis
teny u
1t was half an hour Inter before It oc-
Cured to him that all this was violating
precedent.
"Do you suppose you can he happyS'
he implored, and then he brought up the
subject of the books in which the married
woman of genius had always been nisera-
Bile. He RETAINED, however, from speaking
of those households which had fnllen un-
der his observation in which the husband
of the genius had been dissatisfied with the
cooking of the beefsteak.
"Oh, books, said She with an Infinite
scorn. Haven't you ever noticed that poo
pie write best about things OF which they
know absolutely nothingY DO you really
mean to say TINT you have been influenced
in this by booksf"
He nodded silently. "And so you
thought l did not caro- and would not mar
ry you, dear."
81 thought so. Yes"
An adorable smile bent her lips "Don't
you think you were rather hasty, not to
say unkind, in adopting so completely the
generalization that the artist rcjects-love
and with It lifoF"
but II you had heard yourself talking
OF your work." he cried. "You seemed to
think art the one thing in the world. Ey-
cry word fell like clUd on coffin
why should not speak OF art with fer
vorY feel it all, and you had not offered
me any career which l preferred.
"Ah, but do you, will you, always pre-.
fer itp 1t Is not as II You were merely tai
ented, You know, to give up
give mp? But intend to give up moth
ing am afraid you are little stupid"
Would you mind explaining the situa-
ton TO moS" he asked humbly.
THAT is very easy" she said composed
ly, II simply don't intend to be unequal
TO the combination Of love and art.
The luminous brillianuy of this solution
kept him silent, while she went on.
"Those women you read about, you
know, were under the disadvantage of not
baing modern when they tried to do things
They were working against tremendous
though perhaps invisible pressure. The
world wasn't adjusted so as to help them
and make the solution of their problems
easy. They felt that horrible weight-the
pressure of the disapproval of the universe
and could not stand out against it. But
with Us 1t is different. The world Is ours
and the fullness thereof-at least that Is
what feel about IL. One has deliciously
buoyant scnsation--the Lord is ON our side
feeling-that Is in itself guarantee of sue
cess. Then, you know, we have better
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