Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-03-17
NANNIE'S CAREER.
By VIOLA L0SEBORO'.

come over To the new south! | was
surprised and. II must he confessed,
Not wholly pleased. | had always sup
| posed that StlathbOro would be the
last place to come under modern in.
| iluenccs. There is no chance for 1t to
become commercial, and since the war
| II has drOncd along like town In q
| dream. On tins last visit | spent most
of my time with Mrs. Caldwell, a Cuus.
| In of my mother When | entered her
dear, big. dngy old house by way Of
its absurd, majestic, wooden pillared
portico and passed into its wide. dim
| hall, | was vaguely conscious of in.
novation In the air, and when reach.
cd the guest chamber, to which | was
| at once conducted. 1t burst upon me.
| Here was the new south In the unex.
pected form of beribboned tides, bits
| Of draperics, things kensington stitch.
| cd. aud II fancy crocheted rug lay on
the foot OF the great old canopied bed.
| stead. | was glad they had not got
rid Of the bedstead. 1t had satisfied
my earliest Ideas of splendor
| | looked about me in sorrow. for all
| this array of fashionable fripperies
| seemed as foreign and out of place in
Strathboro AZ II would be on MeXi.
| can hacienda.
Il see, Adrline. you are noticing my
new things" said Mrs. Caldwell IL sup.
pose you see Il great deal handsomer
IN New York, but when | was ON to
the meeting OF the w. G. +. U. in Min.
ncapolis saw how pretty northern
women made their houses, and ours
loo cd so bare when | came back that
| had Mamie learn some such work.
| can't do anything myself except the
French embroidery we learned ut
boarding school In my day, and II isn't
the kind that's the style now. 1t Is
a great Improvement. isn't 1t? Bright.
ems the old house up. Your Aunt
Evelna has prctticr things than l
have. She went on to Minneapolis
too. She was delegate from Boon.
town.
"a delegatc?' was greatly be.
wildcred.
Yes. from their branch Of the W.
G. 7. u"
The W. Z. L. L. whatF'
Mrs. Caldwell dropped her Ito
pounds into chair and stared ut me.
wounded amazcment painted on her
handsome. middle nged, aquilinc coun.
tenance.
Adeline," she said. "Adelne," she
repeated, you don't mean to tell me
that you have no interest In the Won.
ans Christian Temperance union-you.
living up there In the north. where the
glorious work Is so much less OBJ
structcd?"
Indeed. have great respect and
a great deal of latent interest. Cousin
Anne" interrupted. ut has not come
exactly In my way to know much
about 1t, but reported the proceedings
Of the meeting In New York one day.
and they seemed to me curiously I'M
portant and significant"
"You didn't joln?" Cousin Anne still
stared at me In touching melancholy.
"Why, no. 1t didn't exactly occur TO
me-"
saw Cousin Anne put by the
temptation to lecture me Immediately
as II It had been palpablc thing vlsi-
bly, pushed, She did 1t with sigh and
then devoted herself to her hospltali-
ties rs one who had long recognized
that she had lived in the midst Of
stiff necked and froward generation.
1t was marvellous to see how these
Strathboro womcn-an important mi.
nority Of them. that is-loved this or.
ganlzation. II was everything OF I'm
portant occupation. of wide interest. Of
expanded life. to them. Prejudlces Of
section, Of sex, OF society, went down
before 1t. II was represented by wom-
en- who could not he ignored or ostra.
cizcd and who banded themselves to.
gether for n sacred cause. and rs they
would do unheard Of things old codes
must needs burst to fragments and the
unheard of be permitted. The men In
their relation to the movement II was
n JOY to contemplate. There was some.
thing so prlmally and helplessly mas.
cullnr and chlvalrous In the big sheep.
ish way most Of them stood back and
lifted never n hand to stop proceed
lngs such as all their lives they had de-
clarcd. and believed themselves sincere
In declaring. they would sooner die
than permit,
found my position In Strathboro
changed. Hitherto the fact that ! was
the daughter Of my father aud mother
had caused the unknown mysteries OF
u New York newspaper woman's life
to be graciously forgiven me aud con.
slderatrly overlooked. but now every.
where there was n new and vivid In.
terest In what may sum up az al.
vanced womanhood, and advanced
womanhood. alas. | was considered to
represent. Our present concern with
all this lies In the fact that Cousin
Anne's 1S-ycnr.old daughter. the most