The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-10

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that Leschetizky was about to launch
her on concert tour rs piano virtuoso,
when she had suddenly returned to
America and married the one among all
her admirers Who seemed particularly I'M
suited to her. Mackenzie was a young
physician. thoroughly practical, me-
thodical Scotchman. rather stout, with
a tendency to badness, and with a pro-
peneity for blowing the cornet. This
latter fact alone vas certainly enough to
disqualify him for becoming the hus
band OF q pianiste. When it reached
Les.hetiek q ears that Miss Norton had
married cornet playing doctor, he "re-
corded one loet soul more" and her
her ma ne never assed bis lips again.
Even her former rivals fe.t that they
could now afford 10 10 generous, and
with one accord sent their congratula-
tiors 10 herself ard husband whom
they had heard was also musician"
Harriet received these neat sarcasms
with great amusement. She had known
when she married him that Mackenzie
played the cornet, that he even played
Promise Me-" but she considered it one
OF the most innocent diversions in which
a man could indulge. But Harriet had
not married him 20 inaugurste a ro-
nance or to develop Que. She had seen
romances enough abroad and knew by
hear that fatal fifth act OF marriages
between artists. She was sometimes
glad that there was not a romantic
fiber in Mackenzie's substantial frame.
She had married him because for some
inexplicable reason she had always been
fond of him, and since her marriage she
had never been disappointed or dis
illusioned in him. He was not a bril-
liant man, and his chief m its were
those OF charaeter-virtues not always
fascinating. but they wear we'll in hus-
band and are generally about the safest
things to be married to.
So, in Mackenz;e's phraseology, they
had pulled well enough together" OF
course Mrs. Mackenzie had her moments
Of rebellion against the monotony Of the
domestic routine. and felt occasional
STRINGS OF the old restiessness for
achievement. and the old thirst OF the
spirit. But knowing to what unspiritual
things this soul thirst had led women
aforetiae, she resolved to live the COM
mon lie at least commonly we'll
But her married lie had held one
very bitter disappointment, her chill
dren. Someway she had never doubted
that her children would be like her. She
had settled upon innumerable artistic
careers for them. or course they would
both have her talent for music, probably
OF much finer sort than her own. and
the boy would 60 all the great things
that she had not done. She knew well
enough that il the cruelty exacting life
OF art 10 cot wholly denied woman, it is
Offered t, her at a terrible price. She
had not chosen t. pay it. But with the
boy it would be different. He should
real z, al the dreams that once etirred
in the breast on which he slept.
She bad awaited impatiently the time
when his little fingers were strong
enough TO strike the keys. But although
lie had heard music from the time he
could hear at all. the child displayed
neither interest nor aptitude for it. In
vain his papa footed familiar airs to him
on the cornet; sometimes he recognized
them and sometimes he did not. 1t was
just the same with the little girl The