The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-12
THE DIPLOMACY
L OF MARIA
After Graduation Episodes in the
Life OF Woman Who Managed
Her Class IN College.

who we're graduated in 1890, went down
to the seashore for a little holiday away
from husbands. They we're all the sort of
girls who marry early.
They showed one another their clothes
! and took their hair down and discussed
everybody and everything and felt young
and happy. Each one had some news that
the others greeted with interest.
"And what" asked the blonde, who had
been the prettlest girl In her year, had taken
honors and was now the wife of million
: airebrains count In everything what
became of Maria2"
"Oh, Martial" The tall, thin one laughed
Maria lives on the lake front In Chicago
and is a great club woman. She is in
: Europe now She a. attn Maria
| ar - - -,
s. ~ "pouS"t' eaio 'i'e Sen.ie one'
tnat MARIA had much principle But she
certainly did manage the class. I wonder
| If she manages her husband and II he likes
! it?"
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4, 49, S.A'1 eHoe "oee !" it''n Ne, ~
NiarH, remarked the STOUT one Inc
only thing Maria ever thought of was her
own plans.
| "She moveu neonla around lilo cbosS
man uor 49, sath.u I'll ,,,,saah1.
,i,.a ,,;.h , ~ -. -, in'' ss a a'''.
,'l'1o WI" nell Niio"' hoaro oil.e tha'
he was engaged TO friend or Maria s,
but suppose 1t was mistake
at was not a mistake" The tall one
laughed again 81 hanpen 70 know all
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""ou. A.
MARIA lather was rather sentimental
sort OF man, ana he had dreamed of the
! home Maria was going to make for him
when she finished COLLAGE She was an
onIn child o,I bar ,,a,ha. Ill -, zt,'
s N ".1 "s' iio'Nei u'ou wien 9''e
was very young' and her grandmother
brought her up.
But Maria had no intention of boring
hers elf with any sort of care She upset
| all of her fathers u,avs tina fra, ya.r and
then W. M on 10 E,rnn, 81 nd ataya9 Tor Two
wears Studying the prisnn svsIans Sn.
| carne hone. tn Sisrov.y tTnt Ia yn1Iar bad
concluded m marry again and hr;nr 1t n
young wife home, He was not mn I'M
! attractive man. and he was reported IN he
and was. very wealthy
"Tbe rirl he was yoing IN marrv ,v.s
ambitions and very sav and liveJv She
would have given the Door man the sort Of
life he had hoped to have with Marin,
! Naturally, this didn't fall in with Maria y
| plans. and Won know what hannaps nndar
those circumstances,
almost anv one would have e,nscted
her TO make n tremendous fuss NJ, no ~
ably her father had braced bimseIf "a h.a,
| thot But she didn't She tola ,ba ,,nar
, innocent man that she thought he was vnrv
wise and She went TO see Inc pirl and ,ola
| her she was very. very grateful IA her
What did she mean nv that" the hInnde
asked.
That is what the prospective bride spent
, two or three davs in wondering Maria
had said it with tears in her eyes. She had
looked at her with the pity with which ono
looks at a nun about 10 leave for n leper
ssttlement " ''l'''
"The girl waited few DAVIS and then She
went 10 see Maria and tried 10 d;scoyar
what she did mean
"Sbe give the moor thing IN updsrstard
,hot her father vas q m;s.rabia nra s,a,ra
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%iono ,ins ~ ',,nc;, m sViis 70 sep
-, ~ ND saI,aroi d;seH eai"U ne uIaiih 1,
nraboTIv corfins him to Tho bomSa h "Sur.
n", and tbat ba wnntad .. ,,a,,n@ III,
,Uns, ''''' ''''' " ''NNs ''e'i'"s
nu aSt,, i,,s,,r,ted ,b,, tha ,;rI ,ro
,;cnInrlv Smnd ~ do ths 'o ~ har vas par
sculaiE ssoH y" w iI'9, as nei lather s
rnahtla' andi's s, Meae IN such c9ndition
t."I ne iNisn. Ian any ~, HaS S Sme Iiiu not
OF COURSE ray any VI tll's' 'ono Just IN
sltlTa, GU 1t Ii.l" , iIet L;.ahS
bsr SG b ~pre And "e tben grl was taxing
on ler hahus' anu 'neh ehe capped the
whole by saying that she supposed every
very clever nor peantilul one must choose
F., the hunnie TASK ana theh she thanked
her some more
The girl Went nome IN fury and broke
| the engagement that night, and Maria
| told her father how sorry she was
! Exactly like her. the stout one said.
But didn't We hear some story about her
| husband?' Wasn't there some talk of a
| divorced tho gentle one inquired.
| There was. II was almost in the PAL ers
Everybody knew it. But Maria didn't
! want divorce She liked her husbands
! position and his appearance
ut always seemed to me that she re-
| garded her husband exactly as she did her
, horses. Maria was handsome girl
and still is. but everybody knows that she
simply picked out the man she wanted to
marry and married him.
They say he fell in love with woman
In society, a widow, and wanted to get IA
divorce and marry her. They had been
sweethearts before Maria came on the
scene. OF course,it was all very terrible
or II would have been If the wife had been
anybody but Maria
IF my husband ever falls in love with
another woman" the blonde said, at will
be ! who will go after divorce"
II wouldn't crafty them to that OK
tent, said the gentle one. "But should
Maria was Maria. She heard some
thing. Then she had heart to heart talk
with her husbands typewriter.
"She told her that a relative of her own
was annoying her husband with letters
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