The record-union., 1897-03-07
rag in the midst of them-was an

SUe, uildUCSSlOIeO QauSnIer or
plain American business man, had no
such romantic background to sketch in
as a setting for her own personality.
but she managed, nevertheless. to
deepen the interest she had already
aroused in her companion. though they
began at once to disagree.
And now you are here he said
when she had told briefly of her home.
and college life in America alone in
a foreign land, pursuing your studies
like an independent young mana truly
emancipirte frau"
Cynthia had been expecting this epi-
thet; she had seldom talked with Il
German yet without hearing it. and its
companion pieces, die echte Weiblich
keit' and die Frauen gehoren ms
1aus.' They, too, would come pretty
soon; she had only to wait
Does It seem to you such a dread
full thing to be, Herr Won Drachenfels,
an emancipirte Frau"
ut is revolutionary. For young
and pretty WOMAN
Herr Colleg," she interrupted him
impatiently, for here was another of
their senseless saws, cant / rid you
iiO", OIi(S AcI Oil, Oh the dIltlQ
notion that because a woman is young
and not i'll looking she must or must
not do thus and so, according to mems
selfish ideas and ideals? One expects
that sort of thing from the old fossils.
of course, but from a young man noW-
adays it sounds like an anachronism.'
I suppose you will consider many of
my ideas and ideals anachronisms. 4"
he answered stiff1y, 'since you are, I
see, thorough radical, whereas. I an
a vative-conservative in my poll
itics, conservative in my religion, con-
servative in my views as to the respect
i've spheres of men and women"
That's trio that generally hang
together, l have observed" she re-
marked dryly.
And you despise it-despise me for
it?"
"Oh, by no means. pity you rather,
you are such a long way behind"
He grew red with anger for a mo-
ment, but she was smiling at him 50
amiably that presently he smiled TOO
and resumed:
But L am not so set in my opinions
that I cannot modify them. That is
ohC iCdSOll why L nave So wished 90
know you. In my position l may per-
haps have to pronounce upon this very
matter, and if women like you, attract
i've women, are going into the higher
education, I own it will make a differ
ence; one may, perhaps, have to recon-
sider"
Have You ever studied logic, Herr
Won Drachenfels?' she asked gravciy.
Certainly 1 have. Why?"
Because l would like to have you
demonstrate to me logically the con-
nection so many men, and especially
German men, seem to think necessarily
obtains between the desire for knowl-
edge and personal unattractiveness in
women. For my part I can't see what
the one has to do with the other. Per
haps you can enlighten me-
he looked nonplussed for a moment,
then he exclaimed: why, of course,
the connection is not logical necessity.
but everybody knows it is a common
one. Women students are not usually
attractive. They are not the women
men care to marry
Another anachronism," said CYNTHIA
disdainfully. But to admit your nos
only women students who are unat-
tractive-by which you mean, L take it.
not handsome. Look about these Laip-
sic lecture rooms where the attractive
men are as one to a hundred and gem
orally in much greater disproportion.
Are they to be condemned, too. for the
lack of what after all is a mere acci-
dent?"
"Ach, but that is quite different! A
man"
1t applies to men precisely as it does
to women in the same position. AS I
said before, however, don't see that it
applies to either 1t is a matter of old
fashioned prejudice which, like all such
preJudices, must be left to find out it's
own mistake
Thus they argued each new subject
that came UP for discussion proving a
point of difference upon which they We're
dlametrically opposed. Even in the few
cases where she had not an opinion al
ready, his attitude-bigoted, narrow
minded, haughtily aristocra tic intense
ly German, and still intensely agrarian
Prussian-drove her at once to the con-
trary extreme. But their pickering did
not part them, for after their Kaffee
Klatsch they took long walk through
Rosenthal and across the country to
Johanna Park and thence to her door,
which they did not reach till after s
O'Clock, when they finally parted with
an engagement to meet at the theater
the following Tuesday night
V
Before the week was over he had
called on her at her rooms, and they had
arranged a series of readings and dis
cussions on subjects suggested by the
lectures in political economy And these
evenings, of which there were three
a week when theater or concert did not
interfere, soon became absorbingly in
teresting to both, for each was meet
ing a character new and fascinating
The more serious topics chosen to dis
course upon were often interrupted by
intervals of personal chat which re-
vealed them more and more to each
other. He examined with great interest
her parents pictures, drawing her on
to talk about them, and when she had
told him how her mother and she had
travelled all over his country and down
into austria ana Greece ana Italy, and
how they were going the next summer
into Switzerland and thence into
France, where she intended to study for
a year at the university, and then on to
England, where, perhaps, she would also
pause for course at Cambridge or Ok
ford, he remarked that it was marvel
Gus to see how generously the rich
American spent his wealth.
Wealth" said Cynthia. My father
isn't rich. I expect to support mvsalf