Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-21

board school, and who among present-day
people were to be compared with the apostles?
Education was merely a pamperer of that
deplorable pride which was, already too great
q characteristic of this chncsited nation. She
had many texts at her commend which went
to prove that too much learning was a dan
gerouS thing, and these quotations she fire.
quently presented to Edna, In the hope that
many repetitions of them would mitigate, In
some measure, the evil thai was sure to
follow a period spent at a fashionable and
expensive school. Overweening pride was
Mrs. Sartwell's especial bugbear; it, more
than anything else, was driving modern ma
tons rapidly to perdition. She told Edna,
sorrowfully, that she noticed an unwelcome
change in her manner since her return from
Elstbourne. The pride which aped humility
was ever the most baneful variety of that de-
testable fault, and Edna,s silence in the face
of good counsel showed, that her pride had
assumed the sullen type-which is SO difficult
for 4 good woman to deal with. 1t was only
when Mrs. Sartwel-offended by absence
of retort and cheated out or her just due
of argument by the silence ofeher adversary
threatened to lay before her husband the
appalling results of oveI education upon an
already naughty nature, that come glimmer
Of the old rebellion flashed out between them;
yet the rebelliousness, like the hauteur, had
been changed by the two years residence
at Eastbourne. That Edna was angry at this
proposed appeal to her father was evident;
sNiIi, litIc was q iSSSi We anu INSNi AM III
her indignation which Mrs. Sartwell could
not fathom. The girl stood for a moment
looking at her, then said very quietly:
My father has enough to worry him with
out being worried by our small affairs. He
thinks my two years absence has made you
like me better than you did before l went
away, and l wish him to continue thinking
So"
Like you better? My poor child. it is the
love | have for you that causes me to en-
1G9 VOr in nv humble AVN wing that nv
efforts may be blessed by a higher power
to correct those faults that will be your I'M
doing some day"
II am speaking of what my father thinks.
The moment he finds things are just as bad
as they ever were, then all your hold over
me is gone. / am now trying to bear pa
tiently and unccnplainingly all I have to
put up with in this house, and ] do so for no
other reason than to save my father unnec-
essary trouble. You say | am proud, resent
full, stubborn and all that. / am far worse
than even you have any idea of. 1t makes
me shudder to think OF the kind of woman
/ shall become II l am much longer under
your sway
II feel like a hypocrlte when I remain
silent under your taunts, for | think such
things that If l wero to put them in words
well. we won't talk OF that. II you imagine
that | have learned meekness because / have
lived III a really Christian family for two
years, you are very much mistaken; but |
have learned that true Christianity does not
consist in nagging, with a text at the end of
every eXasperating sentence. Now, being a
woman, / understand you very much better
than my father does. You said once that, II
he chose me to be mistress Of this house,
you would lay down your keys and depart
without a murmur. You would do nothing
of the kind. You would fight for your place.
l want you to understand thor
oughly what you may expect If you appeal
to my father. The moment you complain of
me in any way or lead him to think there
Is the least friction, / shall go to him and
say that i must be mistress here. What
Will happen then?-you know as we'll as /
do. So long as he is not troubled with our
AFFAIRS / shall say nothing, and viii try to
be as dutiful and obedient as II / were your
own daughter"
Mrs. Sartwell sat down, buried her face in
her hands and wept softly, as one does whose
feelings are wounded. 1t was hard
that after having a lifelong contest with one
stubborn person, resulting In a most uncer-
tain and unsatisfactory vietory-if it could
be called a victory at all-she should be
again. She knew that III Edna appealed to
her father anything might happen. He
would be brute enough to take another house
and live in peace with his daugh-
The man was capable of anything, in
spite of all the precepts she had flung away
lpon him. However, there was still the
that she might save the girl by
and devoted persistence in well-doing,
'hu She KNEW Eund WOulu HQt protest so long
Is her father was unmofested; so Mrs. Sart-
we'll agreed that her husband should not be
made the referee between them. and peace
'nce more folded her white wings over the
home. .
Edna had developed into a beautiful woman
more beautiful, indeed, than she herself had
my idea OF. She was more sedate and re-
served than when she had left home, and
more prone to sit thoughtfully, chin in hand,
mo ponder, with her dreamy eyes trying to
into the future. Resolutely as she had
herself to put Marsten forever out of her
thoughts. she never succeeded, and his VI
deep-toned voice often came back to
Although she had been brought up In
democratic way, and theoretically held
hat one person was technically as good as
mother, yet she lived in a country where a
daughter considers 1t quite beneath
Ter dignity TO be seen In company with a
grocer's daughter; while the daughter
4 a draper, from her serene social altitude,
you'd have some difficulty In distinguishing
he relative status OF the other two, although
he would be well aware that the adjective
green carried comparative degradation