The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-03
a GREAT LADY.
BY Harriet Monroe.


so-caled class distinctions which sep.
arate the life. the amusements of rich
and poor. He Is lawyer with a good
practice, happily married. He and his
wife are welcomed in the most 'excu-
siVe' society, but he insists that they have
a better time at the balls given in a
Wells street hall at Il cost of so cents
apiece for gentlemen and % cents for la
dies
The working people enjoy their good
dimes when they get them" he explained;
they are not bored with too many din
ners and dances. And you meet just as
interesting men and women, often much
eleVerer and more original. Now you
ought to have seen u woman | met last
week at a ball on st. Pauick's nlght-oh
yes, am 1rishman enough to dance for
st. Patrick"
"Of coursc--what was she likc?"
Well! she was wonder--Cleopatra or
the Queen of Sheba or something like that
y haven't got over it yet. 1t was not
That she was so beautifui-there are other
women with red hair and violet eycs-but
there was such power in her. She posi-
lively drjpped magnetism. and everything
she did or suffered became important. The
streets were muddy and she had run
against something that had streaked her
shabby little much-laundered white gown
she turned and glanced down at II with n
gesture. a look. which made me think of
Greek tragedies, of the most musical mo-
ments of great old poets. There was Il
'argeness, sweep, grace. about the way
she merely stood
did you meet her?' Interrupted
or course | met her; you don't suppose
would let that chance slip. do you? Mrs.
summons, or something like that, her
name was; her age, probably twenty
eight or thirty. / met her and wished
something that would make her wonder
.ul voice thrill and stir up that vague,
dcep discomfort in her eyes. BY George,
t was crime that she should be there
instead of on the stage or a throne
What did you say to her?" ] asked.
We'll. something like that-that she was
too big for this crowd. And she looked at
me with an immense ignorance and asked
my reason for thinking that.
So, having begun, / persisted. You
ought to be doing something great
laid. I have met women everywhere
All kinds; but you shrivel them up. How
10 you spend your life?
have much to do she answered.
There is my husband and my sons; and
then / have my thoughts
But not your Desires l ventured.
Her eyes yelled at that-there was a
great distance In them. AT last she came
back: 10 other people have their de-
sires?' she said
THAT was poser, but l rose to it,
Some people ought to have them 1
answered, and you are one.
At that she thought a minute, with the
same inscrutable look and then said sim
ally, I have my children
We'll, after awhile She went off with
her little nincompoop of a husband, trail
Ing clouds of glory with her; went off to
her cooking and washing and baby-tend-
ing. Just like any common woman mar
ried to common brlcklayer who will new
er earn more than 50 day."
Horace Cox was pacing the floor IN his
excitement, while my imagination tried to
picture his royal woman. wondered
whether her sons were like her
III bet you they'll be great men," he
cried. That's the way with women II
she We're a man she'd move the world
DO something wonderful: but being
woman she'll put her souls energy--her
stupendous power and depth-into her
lonses by and by, and when they appear
clear the road" and Horace laughed.
Now tell me, I said, with all due re-
spect to Mrs. Cox, were you hard hit? Are
You-just for the moment, of course-very
deep In love?"
In love-" he exclaimed: Gin love with
Mrs. Simmons You might as well ask If
am In love with Queen Elizabeth. She's
much too big thing for me-
Perhaps you are the first who ever rec
Dgnlzed her bigness," / said.
Yes" Horace reflected It'll be blamed
& II q single soul In that crowd of hers had
an idea Of what she is
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