New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-06-21
The Mefbod Of an
Ex-Society Belle
TOriginaI.1

[Original.1
Young Cuthbert Woods when he went
to the city to go into business was
warned by his father against a false
step in marriage, Mr.. Woods, ST., con-
GLIDING: eff you marry girl with /
less than $4,000 in her own right I'll |
disown you. If the girl you marry has ,
that amount I will give you $4,000"
Notwithstanding this warning, Cuth-
bert walked right into a match with
| poor girl. The first thing he knew of |
what was happening after meeting |
Lucy Briggs was that he had been in
| thralled. Lucy was a girl who could
win hearts to throw away if she liked,
but, as her intentions with regard to
Cuthbert were honorable, she turned
| the matrimonial key.
One morning the elder Woods receiv-
ed letter from his son announcing his
marriage with Miss Lucy Briggs. The
father made no reply to the letter, but,
after giving himself time to cool, wrote
friend in the city to make inquiries
as to his sons wife and report. The
friend wrote that Miss Briggs had been
social belle, but, her father having
died insolvent, she had previous to her
marriage been preparing to earn her
own living. On receipt of this letter
Mr.. Woods wrote his son reminding
him of the warning given and stated
that the boy could in the future shift
for himself, supporting an extravagant-
ly brought up wife as best he could.
Now, young Mrs. Woods did not feel
satisfied to have brought this trouble
on her husband, but she did not sit
down and mourn over it, nor did she
do what some women would have done,
charge her husband with being the
cause of it. She went so far as to as
sumo the whole blame herself, declar-
Ing that no girl had any right to make
trouble between parents and children
by marriage which was not even an
nounced to take place.
"Cuthbert," she said one spring morn
ing few years after their marriage,
II need rest. This doing Homework
and taking care Of two children is
breaking me down. I think I'd better
go to Aunt Deborah's this summer for
| q f1olt. oDS Will US uSllSutCu W IL
lieve me Of all care Of the children, and
Ill have no homework to do"
O certainly, my dear, and the quicker
you go the better"
Meanwhile Mr.. Winslow Woods was
r finding life tedious. Being a widower
/ with no child save Cuthbert, he had al
ways looked forward to his son and
hon Sc, 60 ~, l.;
dream had failed to materialize on &C
=, count of his sons folly. Mr.. WinslOw
4 Woods was but fifty, and he would have
f. married again, but he lived in a quiet
# place among quiet, prosaic women, not
"a one Of whom was in the slightest de
f gree tempting to him. But when one
20 morning, q stranger, Miss AylesWorth
a | called on him and after announcing
Il her intention to open a school in thu
h place asked him to cOuntenance thu
4 project he saw something different
y Miss AylesWOrth did not seem fittet
IN for a schcOlma'am, but the mOmen
- Mr. Woods looked into her pretty fac
IT and noticed her engaging manners
30 occurred to him that she would be jus
~, intended for his sons wife. He KEEP
At her chatting over her proposed schoo
NJ for an hour, promising to support tn
o. enterprise not only with influence, Blu
"a with money, and invited her to call ev
Il. cry day till her plans were matureC
}, At the end of two weeks he propose
" to her. but she called his attention t
| Tho fac hat ba 1o17
"a her and would not consent till he ha
o. made inquiries. When he told her c
his son she declared that she wOul
never marry the father without til
sons consent. This broke off negoti;
~ lions for few days, but Mr.. Woo
had set his heart on Miss Ayleswort
NJ and finally consented as a preliminal
H. move to send for his son and patch u
"a a reconciliation.
"a One day Cuthbert Woods, who WE
ar toilng in the city, while his wife an
% babies were in the country, received
nd letter from his father to come to hir
I'd Cuthbert hopefully wrote his wife (
q the invitation and took the first trail
n ''Cuthbert," said Mr.. Woods, ST.,
of your folly I have been prevented, as
a. always hoped, from having you ar
,o1 your wife with me in my old az
~, Fortune has given me an opportuni
No to break my loneliness. A young wor
- an-rather young for me- I admit
- willing to marry me. At her reque
~, I am going to be recOnciled to yo
' She has made no such request as
your wife, whom still do not care
IA IA! meet. l will, however, from the d.
i've Of my marriage allow you 81 900
be year."
as Half loaf Is better than none, al
GU Cuthbert, for the sake Of his worno
I. wife, yielded dissatisfied consent.
"And now" said his father, Il wi
you to meet the noble lady who b
,os effected this reconciliation" He ope
rav ed door and announced, Miss Ayl'
of worth, my intended wife!'
wn To his surprise, his son stood for
- moront ctr11ok dumb with aStoni,