Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-14


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Copyright. 1901. by Daily Story Pub Co.
This was the philosophy of Margaret
Wynne, as stated to her friend, Alice
Mabry:
u believe we women make q mistake
in failing to study the pleasures of
men. We think too much about our
selves and know too little about them.
After all is said. we are obliged to bark
back to the Bible and know that we
We're designed for mans heIpmeet. l
am sure that We are in error " hen we
not only neglect to try to understand
man. but also try to usurp mans place
and work in the world"
This Was the philosophy of her friend,
Alice MafnN. in answer:
Il believe that we have been denied
our proper share OF the worlds gov
,ernment. ] believe that advantage has
been taken of our physical inferiority;
I know that l am mentally stronger
than nine tenths of my male acquaint-
ances. do not feel that I have time
to waste i'm study of the coarser pur-
suits and baser aims of the inferior
sex. Men are to me only the means
to end. Because they are stronger
they should labor for the amusement
of riches. Because l am the better, |
should have the enjoyment of those
riches
Said Margaret You speak of men
being only Il means to an end p?
Said Alice: THE end of course is
marriage You and i being more than
q years old can afford TO speak of it
frankly
"Eut," Margaret said. .'aftnr mar
rage, w7lat" Are you to dwell apart
from him whose name you wear-not
physically, of course. but in aim, in
desire, in splt?
He will be to me-" said Alice, ''only
provider of things which j want.
shall respect his name and I may come
in time to have a sort of lukewarm
liking for the man himself. but he will
not understand me. / know, and l shall
not try to understand him"
Then Margaret said: 20 friend, I feel
that you are wrong and feel. too. that
the coming years will show to you
that YOU are wrong. The best thing
in life is happiness. 1t is a1tainable
10y only few, but, at least. all of us
can try to approach it. .Snce marriage
Is the goal of woman. she should make
her race with the understanding that
she is to be content when it is reached.
You are what is called, for lack of a
better term. strong minded. l am not
i shall be glad to bake, TO se0. to make
the place in which my husband and
shall live that sweetest of all places
a home. | shall not desire to go out of
1T and seek for presidences of strug-
gfwS wonen's clubs. You go you way;
] go mine.
Now, it is without saying that when
two young women sit down in confab-
1llation of this kind there is always the
shadow of a male looming in the back
ground. He may not be mentioned.
There may be no hint of the presence
of him. But he" is there. In this
instance he" was Charles Swope, a
young professional man of Ruston Ind.
lawyer With his way to make in the
world and a person of considerable tall
ent. Which might develop into remark
abe abilities if properly backed and en-
Outraged. Margaret Wynne taught
school; Alice Mabry was not put to the
necessity of work, having inherited a
reasonable income from an aunt who
had conveniently died. Margaret was of
plain face hut plump and of graceful
figure, with large gray eyes and a
steady look of frankness in them. Alice
was distinctly beautiful. of the paler
northern type, with the yellow hair and
blue eeyes of her kind deep bosomed,
heavily shouldered and With a certain
independence. or aggressiveness, of
manner. which was partly a matter o.
race and partly of training at one Of
the most noted of the co-educational
institutions of the west
They bot.l loved Swope. 1t was the
wish of Margaret to win him by COM
ing to understand him and SO fitting
herself to aid him in the career which
she saw opening for him. 1t was the
wish of siice TO win him by the force
of her beauty and thereafter to advance
herself TO higher things, using him as
stepping stone.
The manner of the two campaigns
was illustrative of the difference in the
girls. 1t was also characteristic of
them that neither would have acl1noWl-
edged that Tire object of her pursuit
was a young fellow who was not only
unconscious of the fact that he was be-
ing pursued, but also could not have
told which Of them he loved most. He
wanted to marry one Of them: that was
all he knew. Margaret, in her leisure
time, rode With him, walked with him,
played golf with him, even best ID him
at handhan surprised him With her
knowledge of the leading baseball play-