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

the reconcile art of cooking, and on one
evening quoted Coke upon Lyttieton to
him in way to make him open his
eyes Alice received him with cod pro-
priety upon his calling nights, not neg
1ecting to look her handsomest Mar
garet told him of what any man of
great brain could do with a loving
''he!pmeet by his side: Alice spoke to
him of the rights of woman and how it
! was the duty of every right thinking
male to join in the crusade for the ele
va,ion of the impolite sex to a height
far above it's present altitude. 'fhe one
was mentally. morally and physically
c@mpanionafJle; the other was physi-
caly al'urng.
In speaking of Margaret to male
friends Swope called her comforting"
In speaking Of Alice he called her "g,o-
rious.'
He felt often that he would give the
world to possess Alice. yet there came
to him the Earring reflection of how
pale posses IN becomes when the flush
of passion is worn from it. He felt too.
that in the long battle with the world
! how he would need to have his hands
held up. not in the arena Itself, hut
in that rStreat to which every honest
tighter is entitled when the stress of
the day is past This man was a mod
ern. A .Swope of two hundred years
before would have seized the ona wom-
an. because she was the more beautiful
and have borne her away to eat out his
| heart in bitterness afterwards. There
mas come to the male of the day a
realization that love is not al, and thai
IN his struggles with his fellows he
needs in the woman who shares his
life. friend as we'll as lover
So, understanding the thing that was
best for him. while half his heart be-
! longed to Alice. he one day asked Mar
saret to marry him. She said in an
swer merely:
Il knew that You would some day.
and it shall be my part to see that you
Go not regret 1t. / ask only loyalty
from you and Willingness to do your
best"
They We're married and they did not
live happily ever afterward. but at
least they got as near to it mortals
often do. Struggles We're Consistent. dis
appointments many. children came and
lived or died, yet the Swopa home was
always cleanly, always quiet always
homelike, a place to which the owner
of it could so and find that refuge
| from the world which is denied even
! to dwellers in mona ster.es
| Miss Mabry Disappeared She hid her
hurt as proud woman should. They
| heard of her often. through newspapers
| and magazines. She became one of the
! leading opponents of the idea that wo-
man is entitled to first place in the
| world. not because she is able to earn
| or maintain it, but because she is a wo-
man. Clubs We're her homes; platforms
her resting places. She became in a
measure celebrated. She did not write
to anyone in Ruston
One day, some fifteen years later
Mrs. Margaret Swope. out shopping
with one of her little ones missed the
! Child from her side and turned to look
| FOR 1t. She saw a tall woman return
| ing 1t to the floor after kissing it. A
dark veil was thrown back and there
We're tears in her eyes. The face was
still beautiful, but worn and hardened.
Even with the aid of tears it looked
loveless-perhaps fororn. They gazed
| at each other.
| Alice said: You are right" then
| passed quietly on
Margaret told her husband about it,
because she had got into the habit of
telling him everything. Something like
shadow of pain was on his face. but
| ne answered only: 1T should not have
been otherwise. I had my right to a
| choice and j made it,