Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-03-16

western state as instructor in girls
school. She was then 81, just two
years younger than myself. Born and
bred in a small town like myself, she
had no knowledge of the world. She
had dreamed, as had dreamed, that
once out of college she would be fully
equipped to make a sensation in the
world.
But the girls school where she got
her first position proved bitter dis
appointment. She made only $40 a
month, which included her board and
washing, and the school, being on the
! very boundaries of civilization, made
as she thought. too narrow a horizon
I iol her ambitions. She longed for the
.arSer opportunities that were to be
/ found in the city and imagined that
she could find career in Chicago.
She had saved her money during
her year at the girls school and when
her time expired she refused the prin-
ciraIs offer to engage for another year.
but came instead to Chicago. She had
a series of vicisstudes there, as even
4 college girl cannot fail to have who
goes to strange city to earn her liv-
ing without money and influential
daylight when she was in the thick
est of her tribulations ana was about
10 compromise with bad luck by &C.
ceptlng position as office assistant
TO an insurance broker BY seeing
daylight" | mean had just got myself
| established in the office OF trst-class
firm of architects. where would have
an opportunity of earning fair salary
/ as a clerk. with a privilege of study
inG and perfecting myself as far as
possible in the profession. The salary
was large enough to enable one per
son to live comfortably thereon. but
according to that arithmetical system
which lovers only too often employ in
casting their accounts we, the girl and
|. figured it out that two could live Just
as cheaply as one
The figures thus misleading us, we
We're straightaway married. have
neglected TO state that all this while
my love for her had never wavered,
nor ala 1t waver through the blissfu
year that followed. Indeed. if the word
OF man who has done what | have
done can be believed | would like to
sa. here and now that it has not to
THIS day Wavered. Despite all | have
done, Notwithstanding the fact that
lour years after our marriage ! was
10 desert her and our two babies. |
still love my wife and | have always
loved her.
one blisstul year, during which we
| had nothing more serious than per.
, haps some slight misunderstanding,
which a tear on her part and a kiss
on mine were potent TO dispel Then
The baby came. and with the baby
, our troubles began The small salary
: which, by pinching and scrapine, VIC
r had managed 10 make do for two would
not possibly stretch to cover the man
{ itold wants of the child we both low
, e0 so much
7 Along with the increase of my work
7 and the lengthening of my hours there
, vas not a proportionate increase in
: my earnings, however. The result was
t tl.at l. had but The briefest spell in
which To ct ~,
| wife and baby's society. Such time
. rs ! could spend al home | needed for
Steep and rest, and no doubt | often
Was cross and irritable. for mother
hood combined with the worries of the
household had wrought disappoint
nag change in my wife. She loved the
, BABY, but somehow it's coming did no.
, seem TO satisfy her soul as the coming
| OF a first baby is commonly supposed
tc satisfy the soul OF a good woman
And my wife was and is the best wom
ar God ever made
had foolishly supposed that even a
greater contenrment woukl come ia
her when there was baby in the
house but to my amazement she had
no sooner become mother than her
ambitions broadened For the first
time in her life she began to long to
80 out. She wanted to go to the the.
alter, she eagerly accepted the invita-
lion of a woman who lived in the fla,
next 10 ours to join a bowling club
and when baby was 8 months old she
4 was member of two intellectual won
, chs clubs
!. To all this | had not the slightes
Objection. On the contrary | wa
d proud OF my wife, and | wanted he
/ to make the most of her inslividualty
S There was just one thing that did no
l. make the system wise or just. an
9 that was the fact that the baby wa
n LETT almost continually in charge of a,
n ill-trained servant girl, whom We coul
2. i'll afford to hire. Indeed, up to tn
O birth of the baby my wife had steaC
fsatly refused to keep a servant at al
d preferring to do her own work, whic
h was not great deal, for out little fla
g in Cottage Grove avenue was modes
1t one At least it had been so until m
ID wites ambitions began to expand, bu
I now could see she was beginning t