Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-11-12
Winifred'S
Career
BY JULIA MAGRUDER
XATlNIFRED TEMPLETON had gone


w so far in her assimilation of
the modern spirit as to make up her
mind that she could never be salts
fed without "career"-but she had
1Ot gone far enough to decide what
hat career was to be. She was %
Years old. and as she had been from
;he hour of her debut an object
IF ardent attention from the young
men with whom she came in contact,
she had had an amount Of experience
n that vapid sense of the world, that
made her feel that she had pricked
the bubble of social success and dis
closed to herself the fact that it was
filed with air.
As matter of fact, her experience
was a very limited one, but her field
of vision was too limited itself to
make her aware that this was so. She
lived in picturesque suburb of large
city, and certainly she had run the
gamut of all that life offered there.
1t was because she found no satisfac-
ton in it that she assumed that there
was no such thing as satisfaction in
the ordinary social life of young
have career.
The fact was Winifred had been
stimulated to this resolve by a sense
of resentment which she felt toward
a person in whom she would fain have
found the mental ambition and activ-
ity which was so super-abounding in
herself. This person was young Muir
ray Graham, who had loved, her from
childhood almost, and whose only
drawback in her eyes was that he
lacked earnestness in the pursuit of
this same all-important object-a
career
Murray's father was doctor, and
so almost involuntarily, as Winifred
declared, he had studied medicine and
taken his degree. This done, he had
fallen back into life of what Wini-
fred, at least, considered demoraliz-
ing inertia. His father was still in ac-
tive practice. and Murray, as he put
it, covered the field at home; so, when
Winifred inquired why he did not then
go away, the answer was of a nature
that was equally tender in it's terms
and irritating in it's effect.
This state of affairs it was that led
to Winifred's decision that she must
have a career, augmented by further
decision that that career should not be
marriage. She knew very we'll that
this resolution of hers added vastly
to the sting of her rejection of Muir
ray Graham-and she further and de-
lberately sharpened this sting by sug-
gesting that it might be that of a
trained nurse. She saw that this made
Murray frantic, and so she gave it the
preference over several other
careers" that had occurred to her,
or at least. so she told Murray when
she announced her intention of going
off alone to the country for her sum-
mer vacation, to consider and decide
the important matter.
1t was a lovely old-fashioned place
in the deep country to which she be-
took herself. An old great aunt lived
there alone, and when Winifred ar
rived with the avowed determine ton
of spending the whole summer. and
declared that she not only desired no
young companions, but would consider
any SuSu Il OIu MISS Temple
ton-who lived here alone with her
servant-made her very welcome and
told her to enjoy herself in her own
way. 1t was Winifred's intention to
do vast deal of reading this summer.
and she had brought with her great
lot of rather ponderous-looking books.
These were chiefly on the subject of
advanced womanhood, or general
economics.
OF course, the girl expected to
read them every one, but before let
ting herself do so. she must make her
self comfortable place to study in.
Accordingly she called in the aid of
an old colored man about the place.
who had a knack for carpentering
and he, under her directions, put up
for her a platform in the center of a
huge elm tree, about IL feet from the
ground. She had been struck with
the natural adaptability of this tree
for such purpose. and had secured