The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-17
The EVENING STORY
ms Domestic Lady.
Ry Annie Hinrichsen.)

ti1est tS<@uS TO WeaiLa anu IdLnSs IN SpIls
Of luxurious. magnificently gowned so.
ciety queens who would pervert your
tastes and set up in your soul a false
standard Of womanhood. your still fee
within you the longing for the simple
life when expenses are small and g
wife is subservient-and a good cook.
II viii be such a wife to you. I an
an old-fashioned woman. That Is,
have domestic soul. I believe that q
woman's true vocation is to be her hus-
bands handmaiden; to serve him. cook
Tor him and help him pay in Install
ments for nice cottage with little
garden in which he can hoe when
weary with lfe's hustle and the close,
hot air of down town office.
will you not let me hear from you
in regard to this matter at your earliest
convenience. and oblige,
Yours very respectfully.
"DOROTHEA HILLWOOD."
To this he replied:
Dear Madam: Your favor received.
I wish to express to you my apprecia-
ton Of your kindness and my sincerest
thanks for the honor you would confer
upon me. But feel that I have no
right to unite my worldly life with one
as pure and innocent and unselfish rs
yours.
again thanking you. remain.
MORTON KENNETH"
Ten years later she met him. But he
did not remember. He had been so
busy becoming a great statesman that
proposals from unknown young women
had no place in his mind. He was a
member of the state legislature, leader
of his faction in the house and mem
Der Of half dozen important commit
tees.
For a month he was very devoted to
her. He went to see her every day in
her in a frivolous and NOM
ular hotel and told her how intensely
he disliked women who lived in hotels
instead of in homes of their own. He
sent her violets because, he said, they
We're symbolical of the type of woman
he most admired-sweet and modest.
The legislature convened and he was
compelled to go to the state capital for
the winter session.
A week later. Mrs. Bonde Boyde.
grandest of all the grand danes whose
ETY. pages, went to the capital and
with her she took her niece. Dorothea.
The Woman's Progressive league had
prepared a bill granting women GER
tain municipal privileges, and this bill
was to be introduced in the house.
Mrs. Bonde Boyde was president of
the league.
She and her niece reached the capt.
tai late in the afternoon and went to
an historic old hotel.
AIIGT dinner MOTLOu h6uASCn Gains
to her in the hotel drawing room. He
sat down on a slim, squeaky little
chair so close to her that his shoes
touched her new. rose-colored broad
cloth.
what are you doing fere?" he
asked gloomily. ,..--
1T am here because I am interested
in certain measures pending before
the house"
what? Lobbying? You? Doro-
thea His tone was exactly what
it would have been if he had caught
mother.
"House bill 1885," she went on tran
GULLY.
thea
''I desire you to support that BILL"
she said, as If she were asking him
to call the waiter. cit will be read
in the house tomorrow and referred
to a committee of which you are a
member. You will see that it is report
and its next reading in the house
you will make speech-a good.
strong speech-in favor of it You
will vote for It and you will secure
for it every vote you control
Then the shoulders of the young
mans wrath became a conf1agration
intended to destroy all her assertive
and progressive tendencies. For two
hours she listened to remonstrance,
approximations and downright refusals.
The next day she heard from the
gallery of the house the bill read and
to the committee on resolu-
tons. Mr.. Kenneth bowed to her,
from distance. in the house and in
the hotel dining room.
For several days he treated her with
a high and mighty disdain which
should have reduced her to the cling
ing vine state. But it did not.
The chairman Of the committee on
gave theater party one
evening and after it a supper at the
hotel. He was young man and very
charming. Morton Kenneth was not
invited to the party.
When the chairman put Mrs Bonde
Boyde and her niece into the elevator
about midnight. Mr.. Kenneth was sit
ting in the corridor on seat opposite
the elevator staring into space and
busily engaged in not looking at them.
A few minutes later maid brought
Miss Hillwood letter.
Dear Dorothea: am tired of fool
ishness. Drop this ridiculous woman's
tights business and marry me- You are
frfttering awav a sweet. womanly soul
in an improbable, insincere life. Ev-
cry woman should be in a home of her
own with a husband to take care of
her. Won't you take the home and the
husband offer you? Give up this
living. I love you. I want you for my
own. Won't you marry me, dear?
MORTON"
To this she replied:
Dear Sir: Your favor received I
wish to express to you my appreciation
Of your kindness and my sincerest
thanks for the honor you would confer
upon me. But ! feel that / have no
right to unite my worldly life with one
as pure and innocent and unselfish as
yours.
Again thanking you, remain, yours
very truly
"DOROTHEA HILLwOOD."
Next morning the telephone Weakened
her.
"Were you that kid?''
What kid2'
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