Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-30
SUSAN'S LUCKY SHOT

II was a very pretty prospect that con-
fronted Miss Susan Cation Brown. The
scattering white homes among the trees
in the valley, the blue hills beyond with
their fringes of pine trees, the clear sky
that was sucn a novelty to the girl from
the great manufacturing town-it was
all bright and fresh and so delightfully."-
clean. Miss Susan Cation Brown loolSA&g
back on the peaceful prospect for a
lingering moment or tWo and then
pressed ahead up the mountain road.
She certainly was an unusual figure
for that quiet neighborhood. Attired in
a closc-itting suit OF gray with short
walking skirt and a Wide-brimmed gray
felt hat thar concealed her beautiful
hair, she might al distance-saye for
the Skirt--haYc been taken Tor an eN-
tremcy handsome boy. Her gait would
have carried out the impression. there
was such an unconstrained swing 10 IL.
But her high boots were not Il boy =
boots and her hands were neatly G!oyed.
Miss Susan Cation Brown carried some
thing under her arm. It was Il light
father. For she could shoot and fish and
swim and run, and do it all in a way
that met that adOring fathers critical
approval. She had minor talents, Of
course--an education rounded off in Il
finishing school. IL pleasing smattering OF
to her taste for nature. But all these
were quite dwarfed in her daddy'a opin-
ion by those manler attributes that he
so assiduouSly cultivated. She was his
companion ON long hunting and fishing
trips and an ideal companion nj that.
1t is needless to say that quiet Elm
wood looked upon this accomplished
young woman with a very doubtful ex-
preston. She was a little too advanced
that was the term they uscd-for Elm
woods od-fashioucd ideas of maidenly
modcsty The mothers of ElmWood held
her UP as an example of the haneful
coming woman, and the girls of Elm
wood thought her dreaGfully boid--and
secretly cnvicd her. As for the men
well. there were but few of them in Elm
wood whose opinion was worth recording,
and of these mere handful dared to
| express an honest opinion in the face of
| the universal feminine condemnation. OF
| these independent souls il must be admit
| ted that John Cartwright stood first and
| foremost.
II Miss Susan Cation Brown knew Of
! the unfayorable light in which her short
| skirt and her Teddy hat had placed her
and there Is no dounU she did-the mat
/ ter failed to worry her in the least. She
! had come down 10 Elmwood to stay a
month with her maiden aunt-hcr dead
! mothers only Sister-who lived in the big
! white mansion on Main street. just be-
! yond the Baptist meeting house. 1t was
| this fond aunt who had invited Jack
! Cortright to call, and although this was
| particular youth. with high ideals of
womanhood, he called again, and again.
| and again. What was strange about it.
| too, was that Jack hailed from the East.
! ana from Puritan surroundings at that.
! Yet with all this diScreel bringing up he
certainly was fascinated with the Wild
/ Western hoyden.
/ n AZ To ~ L =
was rising young man. Boston cant
/ taliStS had sent him-freSh from college
! to the Western town to look after their
| interests IN certain undevelOped coal-min-
! ing property that lay few miles north
| Of Elmwood. And Jack had taken of
| MS coat; metaphorically, and gone TO
| work TO develop il. There was plenty Of
capital behind him. and he had built a
| railway branch to the mine. and started
| bank in Elmwood, of which he was
| temporary cashier, and stirred the little
| town into making certain improvements
that had long been discussed. In short.
! Jack Cortwrlght was recognized even by
! tlonary tactics 10 he the livelieSt factor
OF progress the sleepy little hamlet had
| ever known
Miss Susan Cation Brown had moor
luck that bright October afternoon. She
didn rouse solitary rabbit. Bur. after
an. II was the tramp she was after rather
| than the game. Still she must have n
shot at something. SO she pinned a bril-
Hant leaf 70 tree trunk and at twenty
paCeS-Split II at the first trial
Inc sun was still high above the hills
When she started TO return to her aunt's
AS she went down the old state road a
sudden gathering caused her TO turn her
hcau. Ihrec men mounted on powerful
sorSes came trotting down the slope