Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-13
Winifred's
 Career By JULIA MAGRUDER

1 w so far in her assimilation of
 the modern spirit as to make up her
 mind that she could never be satis- I fled without a scareer"-butys she had
 not gone far enough to decide what | that career was to be. She was 23
 years old, and as she had been from l the hour of her debut" an object
 of ardent attention from the young
 men with whom she came in contact, she had had an amount of experience
 in that vapid sense of the worlds that l made her feel that she had pricked 1 the bubble of social success and dis l closed to herself the fact that it was I filled with air.
 As a matter of fact. her experience | Tas a very limited one, but her field | of vision was too limited itself to l 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. | It was because she found no satisfac- sion in it that she assumed that there was no such thing as satisfaction in the ordinary social life of young girl, and so she decided that she must have R career.
 The fact was >Winifred had been stimulated to this resolve by sense of resentment which she felt toward person in whom she would fain have found the mental ambition and activ- ity which was so er-abounding in herself. This person was young Mur- 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 aIl-important object-a career. Murray's father was doctor, and so, almost involuntarily, IS 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, s he put it, covered the field at home; so, when Winifred inquired why he did not then go away, the answer was of nature that was equally tender in it's terms and irritating in its effect.
 This state of affairs it was that led 
 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 Mur- ray Graham-and she further and de- lberateIy sharpened this sting by sug- gesting that it might be that of 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 r~intention of going off alone to the country for her sum- mer vacation, to consider and decide the important matter.
 It 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 nation of spending the whole summer, and declared that she not only desired no young companions, but wouldIconsider any such nuisance, old Miss Temple ton-who lived Lere alone with her servant-nade her very welcome and told her to enjoy herself in her own way. It was Winifred's intention to do a vast deal of reading this summer, and she had brought with her great lot of rather rpon6erous-lookingb books. These were chiefly on the subject of advanced womaphood, or general economies. -+ '."
 One afternoon when the sun had sunk in the west. leaving a rich glow behind him through the distrant trees, Win fired lay in her hammock and gazed ont across the river to where the full raund moon was rising white and trans parent looking. There was no denying the fact to herself, she was just as lonesome as lonesome could be. There was Aunt Kitty up at the house, but Aunt Kitty was used to being alone, and besides, that was not the sort ef companionship that she wanted. What sort, then? she asked herself, but she stihed the reply be- fore it could take shape in her mind.
 She began to wonder what her various girl friends, who were off at gay summer resorts. were doing just now, and at the thought of the dancing and boating and bathing and swimming, she had a kind of turning of the heart toward the repudiated fteshpots that made her angry and ashamed of herself. Still it prompted her to think, what did she want with career anyway? What had put the notion into her head? It was not real 1y for her own advancement, and she knew it. Some one else's place in the
 world was dearer to her far than that, and it was just for this reason that he would not take that place and make for himself a career that she knew he would do honor to-that she had felt determined to make the most of her own capacity, inferior as she knew 1t to be when she compared it to his. Oh, dear, dear, it was very lonely here in this beautiful spot! The fad ing sunlight and the waxing moonlight were almost too exquisite. Her heart expanded under the spell of their beauty, but it also ached and longed almost insupportably.