Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-01-04

Il less wise-they are woefully tire
some. these sawmakers - declared
that when woman will she will
That's all very well. and perhaps
Il is. for the better part. true;
bat there are slips between lips /
and cups. pitchers often are brok-
en- by making steady company OF
the well curb. and. in fact, one can't
always safely bet on a sure tip. have
little doubt that woman will when
she will. IL she can-but there's the /
rub. as Shakespeare wrote. and was
most uncommonly abused by Critic |
Goldsmith Tor being SO disagreeablN |
vulgar, thereby proving that a poet Is |
without honor in his own generation.
II she can. One must reckon with |
this essential IF she can" IL was be |
cause OF this lack OF reckoning that |
Medora Folsom-something very dear |
20 woman. her pride. entered into
the shackles Of matrimOny with
a rude and husky male person
who had big feet and coarse hands,
which Is quite contrary 10 all the con-
ventions OF maidenly expectancy,
when maidenly expectancy is delight
fully dwelling upon the prospect OF
marriage. All properly constituted
maidenly eNpectancies do that, and
Medora Folsom was altogether most
properly constituted girl, and had been
well taught, having~a good mother.
In itself this last is a full marriage
portion for any young woman who is
not looking for coronets.
Medora lived on the North side, up
near Lincoln park. in one OF those
pretty by streets running lakeward,
which are by no means aristocratic
and by 10 means plebeian, but just
good. comfortable, respectable, well
TODD American-whichi is fine enough
for anybody, even crown prince or
the IA jan Of Singapore.
And Medora, who was 20 years old
and a sweet a girl as ever bloomed
in the countless myriad of girl gar
/ deus this old world has looked on since
/ Osiris was only a man and had not
thought OF becoming deity, had
/ given her the rare happiness of being
wooed by two ardent lovers lat one
/ and the same time" as the ringmaster
would say. IL had looked for quite
| awhile as II John Brown would carry
away this winsone prize and bear IL
/ TO his tent triumphant. He had the
| first innings-which always counts
and Mcdora really liked him-~hich
| helps-and her mother favored his
suit-which may or may not have been
an advantage. Upon this latter point
one may be pardoned a tolerant de-
gree OF skepticism. The basic quality
Of glorious woman is contrariness.
II YOU want her TO. she likes 20 make
| YOU believe she would rather not; II
you urge her, she SHES; II you coerce
her. she backs; IL You command her,
she bolts. Ny opinion is that il Was
largely because of her dear mamma
that Medora refused John Brown, the
FIRST time he asked her.
She didn't send him away peremp-
torily. fatty. about his business-tha:
would have thrown the poor fellow al
the feet Of some other girl-the bold
saucy. thing-and have outraged all Of
Medora's finer feelings. but she plead
ed that she didn'i really love him yei
enough TO want 10 marry him. forever
and forever Ohis was in Chicago, but
Medora was good Episcopalian). and
that, for the time being. there was NJ
hope. Besides that, Folsom is a pref
tier name than Brown, don't yOl
: think? It's a matter of taste.
know a woman whose name was once
Miss Angela Beatrice Montgomery. We
! now her calling cards bear the title
Mrs. Adam Potts. And she is prou,
} OF it.
So John. poor John. fingered, an,
used 60 make long calls on Sunday even
ing after service, when all the famil,
was In the parlor, and talk about th
weather, the new vested choir an,
what a sympathetic voice the recto
possessed. IL Was rather slow for Me
dora think she rather resented tbi
accomplishing alteration, which &C
!. cepted its fate and kept it's manil
sheet. ! think that at times she hal
wished she were Sabine maiden an
: John was a Roman swashbuckler Wit
no twentieth century foOlishness abou
so plant a willow as a mere girl.
And. resenting. when Aylmer Has
: ings came along, gay, self-centere
tan. dark. with white hauds-so al
ferent from Johns, who was an eng
neer and sometimes conveyed a fra
GRANGE OF oiled rags--She seemed I
yieid 70 his impetuovs suit and TO poo
7, ! John grew very naughty, disdainfI
: and coldly polite. Soon she let IL b
q quietly understood that she and Has
. lngs were engaged. There was n
= J formal snnouDes msni, ans no wsdesp