Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-03

Dora's faults Mr. Stanhope Is certain that
she has no faults. Hitherto she has had
her own way in everything. Excepting my
self, one has ventured to contradict her.
But, then. Dora is over head and ears in
love, and love. 1t is said. makes all things
easy to bear and to do.
zone thing. girls. amazes melt Is how
readily women go to church and promise to
love- honor and obey their husbands, when
they never intend to do anything of the
kind"
There Is still more amazing thing,
madam" answered Ruth; that is that men
should be so foolish as to think, or hope,
they perhaps might do So.
'Old-fashoned women used to manage 1t
some way other. Ruth. But the old
fashioned woman was very soft-hearted
that she was.
But woman's dark ages are nearly over,
madam: and is not the new woman a great
Improvement on the old woman?
II haven't made up my mind yet, Ruth,
about the new woman. j 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 fol-
lowed I'D 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 athlete and the stride of
a peasant on fresh-piowed fields. 1t Is the
most hideous of walks imaginable. The Gre
clan bend. which you cannot remember
but may have heard of, was lackadaisical
compared with the hideous stride which the
new woman has acquired on the golf links
or somewhere else.
But men stamp and stride in the same
way, grandmother"
"A long stride suits a mans anatomy
well enough; it does not suit womans-
she feels every stride she takes, FL war
rant her"
IF she plays golf"
"My dear Ethel, there Is no need for her
to play golf. 1t is a mans game, and was
played for centuries by mon only In Scot
land, the home of golf. it was not thought
nice for women to even go TO the links. be-
cause of the awful language they were like
ly to hear"
Then, grandmother, is 1t not well for
ladies to play golf IL 1t keeps men from
using awful language to each other?
God love you. child! Men will think
what they dare not speak.
IF we could only have some new
men" sighed Ethel. 1.-THE lover of to-
day Is just what a girl can pick up; he
has wit and no wisdom and no il
iusions He talks OF his muscles and
and at these words Judge Rawdon, ac-
companied by Mr.. Fred Mostyn, entered
the room.
The introduction slipped over easily,
they hardly seemed to be necessary, and
the young man took the chair offered
as naturally as IL he had sat by the
hearth all his life. There was no pause
and no embarrassment and no useless
polite platitudes; and Etheps first feel
ing about her kinsman was one of adj
mlration for the perfect east and almost
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 the smiling trust that
was at once the most perfect and polite
of acknowledgements
$50 you do not enjoy traveling?' said
Judge Rawdon as II continuing a con-
versation.
Il think 1t the most painful way of
taking pleasure, sfr-that is the actual
transit. And sleeping cars and electric
| lighted steamers and hotels do not mftl-
gate the suffering. If Dante was writ
ing now he might depict constant round
| of personally conducted tours In purga-
tory. 1 should think the punishment
Adequate for any offense. But like ar
rivifg at places. New York has given
me a lot OF new sensations today. and /
have forgotten the transit troubles al
ready"
He talked well and temporarily. and
yet Ethel could not avoid the conclu-
sion that he was a man of positive char
acter and uncompromising prejudices.
And she also felt little disappointed In
his personality. which contradicted her
ideal OF Yorkshire squire. For he was
small and slender In stature. and his face
was keen and thin. from the high cheek
bones to the sharp point of the clean
shayen chin. Yet 1t was an Interest,"