New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-23
Mrs. ScarIitt's
Crusade.
By M. F. BRYAN.
Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.

It is dreadful thing to have mis-
sion. Mabel Maitland found it a re-
sponsibility, and Roy Barnes declared
1t bore, a fad and some other things
to which he did not give vocal utter.
ance in Mabel's presence.
To Roy it was a matter of supreme
Indifference whether women voted or
not, but it seemed to Mabel that it was
the vital question Of the hour.
She attended all the suffragette meet
ings advertised and even formed suf-
frage club among the girls Of Cowdrey
House. ali establishment for self sup
porting girls in which she had made
her home since the death of her par
ents.
The Cowdrey Suffrage club was at
best a lukewarm organization. The
girls had joined "for the fun of the
thing" and Mabel had to work hard to
hold her converts in line.
This prevented her from giving much
OF her time to Roy, and his opinion Of
the suffragettes was the natural result.
For five years he had begged Mabel to
marry him, but even before the cry of
Votes for women" became a fashion
able slogan Mabel had had pronounced
ideas as to the independence of her
Sex, and Roy waited patiently while
Mabel demonstrated her ability to earn
her own living
Then she had fallen under the influ-
ence Of Mrs. Grace Rrown-Hazzard and
had been welcomed by the leader as an
addition to the cause. The approval of
this famous woman had the effect of
making Mabel the more enthusiastic,
and presently she was devoting every
evening to the Cowdrey branch of the
society. and Roy was left out in the
cold.
1t was the rule that all lights were
to be out at II in Cowdrey House. but
with the aid of candles Mabel wrote
far into the night on the speeches that
Mrs Brown-Hazzard delivered and
dragged herself unwiIlingly to her
work the following morning, sadly
feeling the lack Of sleep.
Mrs. Brownie Hazard found in her
new disciple valued assistant, and
her demand for speeches that offered
departure from her own stereotyped
thoughts was insistent.
The more she praised the harder Ma
bel worked until at last the inevitable
breakdown occurred, and Mabel was
forced to resign her position and go
into the country, where her scanty saw
ings rapidly diminished. The pile of
manuscripts for her idol, however, in
creased greatly. -"--.=asasss.
Mrs. scarritt, her new landlady, was
much interested in the girl, and her
protests against the manner in which
Mabel was overworking were loud and
emphatic.
Better stop that foolishness," she
argued, land put come flesh on your
bones.''
but the cause needs my work."
cried the tired girl. Mrs Brown
Hazard writes me that these speeches
are doing world Of good; that I am
making thousands of converts Of
course she fatters me there, for it is
her magnetic personality that counts.
| merely save her the worry Of mar
shaling her arguments"
Mrs. Brown-Hazzard?" unused Mrs.
Scarritt "Grace Brown married Ben
Hazard. You don't happen to know
what your friends husbands name is,
do you?"
ut is B. Henderson Hazard" re-
sponded Mabel.
Named after his ma" explained
Mrs Scarritt His ma was Lueila
Henderson. We always did say that
change Of name and not of letter.
meant change for worse and not for
better It was Gene Hazard that got
the worst of it. Ny. but he was hen
pecked! Lived over in the hollow.
Grace Brown lived right down the road
a piece-that first red house on your
right as you go to the postofhce."
"She never said anything about hav-
ing been born here"' cried Mabel in
surprise She did say in one OF her
letters that she knew that Cadyville
was beautiful place"
"Grace Brown amt Dragging about
us, and we amt Dragging about Grace
Brown" declared the old lady. Grace
always was Fraud she went Oh
She used to get me to write her com.
positions for her. and Ben Burrows
used to do her sums. She never did
anything that she could coax some one
else to do for her. must say that
she had nice ways about her She
could coax even the teacher into CIV
ing her good marks when she'd been
kept in after school the whole week.
"She is the leader in great cause, 2
said Mabel reverently "She has de
voted her gifts to a great battle, and
she will win for us. We shall get the
vote before long, and the name of Mrs.
Brown-Hazzard will go down through
the ages as the woman who worked
this great revolution in favor of Wo.
mans rights"
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