Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-30


I x2sx ca6e.s That 80 which Won m at.lib~
.l<tqluly not ia myseyes = mark of interiors
| III to me. or to any person IN my house.
i Now. why do you think Il humiliating? :
Il sRecause It is.'' the girl cried holly;
fapd everybody knows It. II you don't.
lssIF. It's meant to make US different, and
keep us so. They'd have us Of different
flesh and blood II they could: but. they
lscap.t, and SO they've only got tho cap, and
they stick to that. II 1T wasn't meant to
J be degrading. why does every woman that
can, have q maid at eighteenpence week
insist upon it?''
/. Hush hush' said Osborne Perhaps
the lady with the. eighteenpenny maid
really cares nothing about the cap. but IS
afraid of violating the custom. Custom
is stronger than law. my girl, because
prejudice is the judge. and every. one of
1 our neighbors is on the jury. Women
whose hearts are sound and good. who
/ have clear judgment and no prejudice, are
afraid, Of attracting attention by being
peculiar. 1t. Is not all-rio. thank. God!
/ II is not all-that hateful arrogance which
in the eyes Of the Carpenter of Nazareth
must seem so detestable. Some day a
4 custom Of expediency will sweep the Gus
.Ltom away, if it is, as | almost think, at
i the ROOT of the disfayor with which do
|, nestle service is regarded. I'd rather see
the thing voluntarily conceded than sur
render at discretion; and, as you have
Ethrown, the onus of beginning on me. 1
will accept It, though l warn you that
even to me, who care nothing for the
custom itself this new departure will
bring trouble"
I'm very sorry, sir" "a
/ There's no need. / only mention 1t that
i, You. may recognize that there are wheels
within wheels in this wonderfully COM
/ pick life of ours, and not feel too bitter
| against the custom worshippers. Go back
| to your work now; and if you want to
make me return, remember every hour
! Of the day that work is noble after all.
| Believe me, that that conviction is the
| only thing. that can sweeten the dull
round of TOLL
/ The girl slipped out of the room, looking
far more sober than elated over her tri-
nmph; and Osborne turned again to his
desk.
| well Frank, you've settled that little
matter. and discharged the girl?" 1t was
Maria Osborne at his elbow
NO, Maria, have not discharged her, ;.
he replied. nerving himself for the in
evitable battle.
| Then she VIII do as she is told?''
Il hope SO; but she will not be told to
| do this particular thing
you have given her leave to go about
| without her badge of servitude? Yes,
that's what it amounts to, Maria"
Miss Osborne regarded her brother with
| such Il. look of mute, unspeakable horror
that he added: an-s
| Come now, don't look so shocked It's
only three inches of cambria from a girls
| head; and, to see you, one would think
had given her leave to go about in the
light and airy get-up of Kaffiar domes-
tic"
That's not it. Don't bubble, Francis"
she retorted, sinking into chair with an
| expression OF acute vexation eff you've
really permitted such an unheard-of in
novation, you've shown an utter .disre-
gard for my feelings which astonishes
/ me-" IA l .l} 5Ss
! No. n1,dont say that; don't think it
he cried appealtngly "You wrong me.
Maria-indeed. you do. You think that4I
cannot enter into and understand ycur
feelings; but / both can, and do. 1t is the
curse of my life that l can always see
things from both sides for it makes what
ever | do, even from conviction, seem a.
| struggle. The .one-idea'd man with mar
row views is the only fellow who is al
ways comfortable, always sure that he is
| in the right 80
Miss Osborne had never been able.to es-
innate her brothers character at its TRUE
worth; any exhibition ofssfeeling on his
part she regarded as a sign of Weakness,
and, like many otheEa women, who lose
their power by the same tactics, she in
varably put the screw on. -
I'm this case she saidy when a mere
hireling's feelings have been weighed
against those of your own, flesh and Blood,
the latter have kicked the BEAM
mo, no; but constituencies are my
servants. Is the question of butterfly
piece of cambria to endanger tile mutual
goodwill between mesand mine, which |
have so long sought to estabiish?'' e
you asked me to live with you as the
head OF your house, remember tliat,
| Frank" 4 Il, s.
Il did, and l will do all in N.Y. power to
make your life with me happy; but this
girl says thatethe capeis degrading. /
can't see it myself, bur she .saysait, and
she thinks it: and 4 know that..she has
learnt to hold that opinion through the
conduct of those above her. Tell me, now,
| would domestic servants detest the cap
which the, hospital nurse put on with
pleasure, if they did not know that we
draw line between ourselves and then,
almost as broad as that which divides the
leper from those who are clean and
| whole"
las Are you going to tell me that our SER
wants are not our interiors ?"
Are you going to tell me, Maria, that
they are?"
They were facing each other now. both
with their blood up .Il grant you SUI
perority of education, of refinement even
OF birth fer birth is only the advantage
) 'of descent from sires who had the oppor.
tunity OF cultivating the beststhat was in
them). but you are Christian woman:
your God is no respecter OF persons. Is II
not. monstrous egotism. then, to be more
exclusive than Him whom we worship
Is 1t not glaring impiety exposing US Il
the ridicule of the Freethinker, to decline
to mix with those who moved in the bes.