The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-21
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His Domestic Lady
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because she DdW Apd.U DeT nIutliSt
and his friends Laughing over Morton
kenneth's complaint that there were
40 simple, domestic women and that
for this reason he intended TO spend
his life as lonely bachelor, she
wrote him
she was thilteen
Dear sir understand that YOU
are primeval man That Isl that In
spite OF The glaring foollighis before
Which you have danced along the busy
way that leads TO wealth and fame; IN
spite of luxurious, magnificently
gownei society queens who would per
Vert youg tastes and sci up In your
soul false standard Of womanhood
YOU still feel within you the longing
Tor the simple life when expenses are
small ana wife is subservient and
& good cook,
Il will be such wife to YOU. |
am an old-fashioned woman, That IS,
have q domestic soul. believe
that a woman's true vocation IS 70
be her husbands handmaiden: TO
serve him. cook Tor him and help
him pay In insialinents for nice
cottage with a little garden in which
he can hoe when weary with life's
hustle and the close. hot air of a
down town office.
rWill YOU not let me hear from
you In regard to this matte. at your
earliest convenience and oblige
Yours very respectfully,
"DOROTHEA HILfWOOD +"
10 this he replied
Dear Madam Your favor receiy.
ed. | wish TO express to you my ap-
pIeciaiion of your Kindness and my
siBcerest thanks for the honor you
would confer upon me. But feel
that | have no right 10 unite my
worldly life with one as pure and in
Boeent and unselfisb as yours.
Again thanking YOU. | remain.
Yours very truly.
MORTON KENNETH.s r
Ten years later sne mel him But
he did moi remember. He had been
So busy becoming great statesman
thai proposals from unknown young
women had no place in his mind He
was Il member OF the stale legislature
leader of his faction in the honse and
member OF halt dozen important
committees.
For a month he was very devoted
o he. He went 10 see her every day
n heH apartment in a frivolous and
popular hotel and told her how in
tensely he disliked women who liy-
cd in hotels instead of IN homes OF
their own He sent her violets be
cause, he said. they wee symbolieal
e. the type OF woman he most admir-
ed aweet and modest
The legislature convened and he
was compelled 10 20 to the Slate cap
ital for the winter session.
A week later, Mrs. Bonde Boyde
srsadest Of all the grand DANES
whose social and club activities fill
ne society pages went 10 the capital
and with her She took her niece
Dofolhea. The Womans Progressive
eagne had prepared bill granting
Women certain municipal privileges
and this dill was 10 be introduced IN
ae bOuse. Mrs Bvnde boyne was
p 'oAtt'iN ~ WI" tfhAHt.
Sac and her niece reached he cap
iial laie in toe afternoon and went 10
an historic old hote
After dinner Morton Kenneth came
o her Ia the hotel drawing room. he
sa' Gown on a slim saneaky littls
chai- SO close 20 her that his shoes
ouchad nor new. rose-colored broad
cloth
What are you doing here2s he
asked glooMily
am here because | AM interested
II ee'iain measures pending before
The house"
Whats Lobbying? You2 Doroihes
-' His tone was exactly what II
would have been IL he had caught her
in the act of hanging her grandmotnsi
House bill l5s," she went on tran
guillv.
"Woman's suffrage You? Doro
thea.
= desire you TO support that bill,
sho said. as II she were asking hin
TO can the waiter. Il Will he read II
the house tomorrow and referred L
committee Of which YOU are a mem
hef, You will see that Il is repoi'iec
fav0rably out of the committee anc
lis next reading in The house yor
viii make a speech~a good, stront
speech--in favor OF It You will vote
for il and YOU will secure for II ey
CIV vote Won control =
Then the shoulders OF the younl
mans wrath became a CONFEDERATION