The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-06

Yes, in Rachel Rawdon's heart the
wellsprings of love and life lay too deep
fer the frosts of age to touch. She
would be eternally young before she
grew old.
She sat down as Ethel spoke, and
drew the girl to her side. - hear your
friend is going to marry" she said.
@stDoras Yes.
fare you sorryso
Perhaps not. Dora has been care
to me for four years.. Ishope her zhus-
band may manage her as well as | have
Are you afraid he viii mott
cannot tell, grandmother. ] see
/ all Dora g faults Mr. Stanhope is GER
tain that she has no faults. Hitherto she
has had her own way in everything. Ex-
cepting myself no one has ventured to
contradict her. But, then, Dora is over
head and ears in love, and love, it is
said. makes all things easy to bear and
! to do, -
is Zone thing, girls, amazes met is
how readily women go to church and
promise to love, honor and obey their
! husbands, when they never intend to
J do anything of the kind.
There Is still more amazing
thing, madame, answered Ruth; that
is that men should be SO foolish as
/ to think or hope they perhaps might
.Old-fashioned women used to man
age it some way or other, Ruth. But
the old-fashioned woman was a very
soft-hearted creature and, maybe, it was
just as well that she was.
tSBut woman g dark ages are nearly
over, madame. and is not the new wom-
an great Improvement on the old
woman2o
ct haven't made up my mind yet,
Ruth, about the new woman. l notice
one thing that few of the, new kind
have got into their pretty heads, and
that is, that they ought to have been
men; and they have followed up that
idea so far that there is now very little
difference in their looks, and still less
in their walk; they go stamping along
with the step of an athlete and the
stride q peasant pit. on fresnfplo s5ea
imaginable. The Grecian bend, which
YOU cannot remember, but may have
heard of, was lackadaisical, vulgar
walking fad, but it was grace itself
compared with the hideous stride which
the new woman has acquired on the
golf links or somewhere else
UBut men stamp and stride in the
same way, grandmother.
GA long stride suits mans an
atomy well enough; it does not suit, a
woman 's-she feels every stride she
takes, I II warrant her.
eff she plays golf -
etMy dear Ethel, there is no need for
her to play golf. It is mans game
and was played for centuries by men
only In Scotland, the home of golf,
Il was not thought nice for
women to even go to the links, because
| Of the awful language they were likely
to- hear =,
"Then, grandmother. is it not well
for ladies to play golf if it keeps men
from using awful language to each
!, other9', Ina, Mon Will,
| think what they dare not SPEAK
men!1, sighed Ethel :'t.The lover of
today is Just what a girl can pick up;
he has no wit and no wisdom and no
Illusions. He talks of his muscles and
smells Of cigarets OF Whls-
+ ky''-and at these words Judge Raw
don, accompanied by Fred Mostyn, en-
tered the room. :,
The introductions slipped over easily,
3 they hardly seemed to be necessary: and
j the Young man took the chair offered
as naturally as IF he had sat by the
I hearth all his life. There was no pause
and no embarrassment and no useless
! polite platitudes; and Ethel's first feel
ING about her kinsman was one OF ad-
miration for the perfect ease and al
| most instructive at-homeness with
which he took his place. He had come
to his own and his own had received
him; that was the situation, very
/ pleasant one, which he accepted with
most perfect and polite of acknowledg-
& ments.
$50 you do not enjoy travehngp'
said Judge Rawdon as it continuing a
conversation.
81 think it the most painful way OF
taking pleasure, sir-that is. the actual
transit. And sleeping cars and cleo.
/ tric-ighted steamers and hotels do not
mitigate the suffering. If Dante was
writing now he might depict a con N
tours in Purgatory. I should think the
punishment adequate for any offense
But I like arriving at places. New
York has given me lot of new sen,
sations today, and / have forgotten the
/ transit troubles already.
/ He talked well and temporarily, and
4 vet Ethel could not avoid the conelu
/ oion that he was a man OF positive