Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-06-01


on in apologize tones. you mustn't
mind II say things straight out. You
haven't got brother. don't you see.
So have to do instead, aud there are
lots of little things brothers can tell a
girl, You won't mind, VIII you?"
I~-dout know" Hetty said ohsti,
uately, "I-dont see what business It
is Of" Then her natural sweet tenn,
I pcrreasserted itself, and She looked up
n him with smile,
All right, she said 'you can say
what you like, All the same. think
I Y jolly rotten having to be a woman,
"oh, Hetty, you don think that real,
/ lN, do Won" Raymoud's voice sound
cd quite hurt, "the world would he a
jolly horrtd sort ot place without
Women, like women to be women,
not a heaStly sort ot imitation mon,
Besides, YOU can't help being a wom.
( an, anyhow" he ended philosophical
4 ", with chucke
u don't sec why we can't do the
same things YOU do" Hctty said. but
SHE said 1t With hesitation,
OH | can't put It into words" Ray.
mond answeredi but YOU see. you're
madc different, Girls who ape man
and want to Join mons games, and
wear mems clothes, auG talk mems
slang, aud play the hally goat all
round are silly sort OF .ugpIns
4 think"
\ III of laughter induced by the
conclusion OF the sermon, sent me
away from the window, but oh.
served that Hotty came IN To lunch
cen that day looking spick and span
I from head 70 foot and with tmmacu
4 late hands
Raymond and she took many walks
together and she no longer came
home looking like combined rag hag
INnd scarecrow, fancy she was not
1 allowed by her new mentor TO scram,
hle tn rough hedges or wade streams
as atorettmc, and she no longer
hreathcd a word about playing hockey
/ ON the green.
THE trick seems to work. nlcl,
said to me one night; ~ thought uet.
/ I" wanted bit OF proper pride
knocked into her by man OF her own
4 generation"
on that was the trick, was tt" |
said; 1T seems to he working"
Only after Raymond left us did |
discover that It actually had worked,
lIetty was sitting silently by my
side on the terrace watching the sun.
set across the meadows, when abe
suddenly turned to me and said I'm
! pulslvely
Mummy | don't think do want
To do mans things after all. be-
lieve I'll Just try to put up with tho
limitations, and stop my side of the
fence, and try to turn into womanly
woman"
! From that day forward she did try
TO get the better of her tomhoy WAYS
and though at first believe II was
real struggle to her, she succeeded al
last
! cannot pretend that she ever real
! " liked domestic duties, or needle
work, on any of the other things which
arc supposed to constitute woman &
| special sphere But she set herself
to learn them all with patience and
perseverance truly admirable In sc
young girl and she began to take q
pride in her personal appearance and
an interest IN her clothes, for which
! forvontly blessed Raymond and his
sermons
Sometimes | wondered as mothers
will whether the friendship between
them would in years to come ripper
Into something deeper, for the cousin
ship was only n distant one. and be
lieye in love that began IN friendship
But the thought faded from my ~
when Raymond went to Canada to d
ranch, and we did not see him agair
before he left England,
Hetty grew up into tall. vigorous
grl-not pretty but with a fresh. fall
face and sunny hair, and with
frank, sunny disposition TO match