The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-08-31

Otner peOpie luOuSnt 81, VOO. AS ~
said that she looked at Mrs. More
head, who was doing a horid table,
cloth in Mount Mellik work a little
way off, and / know she must have
been saying something mean about
Mrs. Martin.
/ was indignant, for | do think you
worldly as Mrs. Martin; and l hate
gossip, too. So when / got an oppor-
tunity | sat down beside Mrs. More
head and led the conversation around
ito Mrs. Martin. l repeated what l had
just said, and Mrs. Morehead, who
seemed to be a woman of no fine feel
ing for herself, and of nc apprecia-
ton of it when she saw it, said:
"Bosh!"
| hope | looked as indignant as | felt
and l got up and walked away l sat
down beside of a little Mrs. Atherton.
who, Alonzo said vas nice, and 1
couldn't help speaking to her about II.
She didn't seem much impressed by
what l told her. and she said:
You must admit hat Mrs. Martin
gives the young people plenty of
chance, Mrs. Higgins"
l didn't admit for hadn't she made
Helen stop walking with Hugh last
evening and sit down near her, / told
Mrs. Anterior so, and she sail:
1.-THE bench was around the corner
wasn't it?"
That made me see that she was just
as prejudiced as Mrs. Morehead, and
| went off and talked to some other
people. The men I spoke to about 1t
seemed to believe me. But men are
SO illogical; they all twisted what l
said into reason for paying me COM
pliments and admiring my earnestness
and n of them said he always liked
to see one woman defending another.
But l am not defending Mrs. Mar
tin" | cried, and nearly wap. with In
~d,gnation. I'm just tell g you what
I'm sure is true"
l confess | didn't have much success
" It'll the women. Either they told me
right out that they thought Mrs Mar
tin was merceI4sy or elsa they said
they didn't blame me for wanting to
establish he" 'iarghter we'll. bpt why
should she Try To humble people into
thinking she dr!a't? l co"lIn't even
geS any satisfactory out t. alo.4m H..
r,erely rul ne that IA better not
IbOtser with What didn't - IN me
l never was so worked up over any
thing. ! had a long talk every day
with Mrs. Martin, and l certainly did
think she was a sincere woman and a
!, good mother, and evry day l stood VI
, for her to somebody. The only thing
could criticise her in was that she
/ let Helen and Hugh spend every
morning together on the links. They
= often left the hotel with Alonzo, anC
: he confessed to me that the three o.
: them didn't stay together all the way
t round. But ever the wisest of us are
r foolish at times, so | put it down tt
z a lack of judment On Mrs. Martin:
a part, and regretted it.
t When / really care about anything
that is. when Pm opposed enough
I'm pretty persistent, and l di'
s make some converts, but the,
;. were mostly people who came after
did, and l say to it that their view
weren't biased by those unkind Great
/, ures who didn't like Mrs. Martin.
The whole hotel came to be divided
after awhile into two factions, tbs
Martin and the anti-Martin. 1t came
t out that the Reynolds family didn'
approve of the match, and the sere
r nifty of Helen and Hugh in the fac'
lof all the opposition was wonderful
/; Helen allowed herself to be separated
4 publicly from Hugh at least once Z
3 lday on the piazza, and they never ever
Iscowled, either of them. 1t was thu
, burning topic of conversation-the af
fair.
, | hated to think of going away will
r the thing unsettled, but Alonzo's vaca
r ton was ended and we had to go. Thu
, morning of the day before we were Il
leave Alonzo took me to drive. AS h
: turned the buggy into the road tina
: leads to Lower West Southpaw l said
| "Why are you going to town, Alon
20? It's so ugly
Wer're going to a wedding" he said
I "A wedding? Whose?" l cried. AM
!. then l had an inspiration. 1T ism
e Helen and Hugh's?"
$ Yes, 1t Is"
But Alonzo, how can we go"
z With this horse and buggy" Alonz'
e interrupted %fippantly. and give tn
approval of our presence to a wedding
that both families 6isapproVec Mrs
l Martin is a grea. friend OF mine, ant
4 l." Well you can guess how | tore tn