The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-09-24

{ watched for him, but it's against hu
man nature that q woman should SIT
At a window all day and never look
out. Besides. II was winter ana was
watching the passers-by creep over
my slippery sidewalk with all a prop
srty-holder's anxious solicitude Tor
heir safety.
was turning away when he APP
leared and sped over the ice without
he slightest fear. How we women
owe courage! And he was not only
earless, but handsome and well built.
With just such broad shoulders and
such an assured carriage as a fra1l
title spinster with her own way to
make in the world most admires.
I'm sure a dressmaker ought to ap-
oreciate fine figure. If any one can.
To-day, sitting there watching the ia
miliar figure disappear in the dis
ance, ! felt my heart futter like
girls. Well, well. the sensation was
strange and new; 1t was late, too late,
perhaps. IN coming-and yet 1t was
not all unpleasant.
AS | took Up my work ! sighed.
Forty years had spent beneath this
roof, never repining at my lot dull
and cheerless though it was, content
to pass all my life rendering Others
charming. that they might the more
readily gain the love ii was my fate
always to have missed. | had never
hoped to possess happiness. Why
should |? | am no imbecile. No one
pauses In garden, undecided wheth
er 10 pluck the glowing half-open rose
bud or the homey mignonette.
Hitherto | had been happy enough
in my cozy home, content to have my
life history written in the words:
stitch. stitch stitch" But to-day all
my woman's nature rose in passionate
protest against my loveless, unloving
life. | shuddered as | thought of the
long. lonely future.
With him." | thought. "life would
be worth the living" True. he was
considerably younger than l. but what
matter years when the heart is fresh?
But how could win him?
| am not what is called strong.
minded woman. | have no longing to
approach the polls. But | do think
there ought to be an amendment to
the constitution, giving women the
right--not to vote, but to propose
There are so many fine men declining
into forlorn, grabbed old bachelorhood
simply because they do not know
a., IL
make them comfortable in homes of
their own. Now, woman knows by
instinct when her ideal presents him
self, and wouldn't waste half life |
time In coming to the point My ideal
was late in coming, but now that he
had come | would let no foolish timid-
ity on my part blight the happiness
that might be ours. BY few discreet
questions | discovered that he lived |
with my neXt-door neighbor. Mrs. EN-.
ory; and | felt quite conscience-smit- |
ten when | remembered that | had not
called on her since she moved here. a
fortnight ago. That very night | ran
in, and was glad that she insisted on
my staying to tea. All the time that
we talked | watched him furtively. He |
was the only one of the boarders
whom she treated like a member of
he family. He sat on a lounge before |
he fire, and | saw that he was even |
landsomer than | had thought. His
arge eyes were full of tender melan. |
;holy His hair was dark and silky
md, though he had no mustache his
Shlskers gave character to a face that
otherwise might have seemed almost
sheminate in its beauty. Even his si
ence prepossessed me in his favor. |
myself am fonder of talking than of
lstenlng. SO my love grew. Before
eaVing, ! pressed Mrs, Emory to call
soon and bring Tom with her. She saw
ny deep interest, and, as | said good.
oy In the doorway, told me his mlI his
'ory' After his family had been killed
that dreadful river accident he had
made his home with her. He was ner.
.ectly Independent. but did not care
or that Riches have no weight with
me- or any woman truly in love.
Next day, as he passed my window
1e smiled such a pleased recognition
nat sang over my work all the after. |
loon. That very afternoon Mrs
Brown told me they would dron IN IN |
.ea. | made great preparations
younger woman would have spent all |
the time before her mirror did not |
| thought | knew the effect of good !
cookery on the affections of the otbor
sex. Well, don't think there wac
;ozler room or a better table tb,n
NINE In the United States. We had n
delightful time, the first of a nIoos
ant series Soon Tom got into tha
habit of coming alone. Never sbau
forget the night when he first kissed
me good-by or the hours when Nv
would sit with his head on NV sbonI
der IN the soft freight. Don't no
shocked; he knew nothing about so
ciety's cold formalities. AT Iongth ho
became mine, use the exnrees,nn
idvisedly, because he seemed 90 11r" h"S"
ess and confding, and vowod
owe. protect, and cherish him rs W
obeying meant should he fnrr,.hn, ! ns
oy the other partner. did mako t,i.,.