The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-10-03
Intellectual
Courtship
It'll Very Different Affair
From Simple Love.
BY EDITH b. ARNOLD.
BY EDITH b. ARNOLD.
Copyright, 1910. by American Press
Association.

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Miss Margaret Lyall took all the de-
grees of the under and post graduate
university courses. Being possessed
of an Independent income, 1t was not
necessary for her to make a living, but
she was so clever that the college sent
her abroad to study for q professor
ship She returned with an additional
foreign degree and assumed the chair
for which she had been preparing her
self.
When Miss Professor Lyall was
twenty seven years old 1t occurred to
her that after all she would prefer to
be wife and mother to growing old
as a teacher. If she were to choose
the more natural course 1t was high
time she We're doing so. She was con-
sidered very attractive woman and
was comely. She had had number
Of offers, but had not been thinking Of
marriage and for this reason had ac-
cepted none of them. Now, having
determined to wed, she looked over the
list of her suitors and settled on Royal
Richardson, journalist.
Mr. Richardson was editor In chief
of large newspaper. He was high
ly educated and a forceful man There
Is no place In the world where exact
ness. system and, above all, quick
resource are more essential than In the
makeup of a daily newspaper. Mr..
Richardson had quiet, digniied way
with him that carried great weight.
'"rhat match" every one said, SIS
between one of natures highest type
of men and the same grade Of women.
Such a couple united should produce
important results for good. What Z
splendid spur the one for the other"
mo doll wife for me-" said Mr. Rich
ardson. "Give me a woman with a
brain In her head" "If / am to be
married." said Miss Lyall. IT prefer a
man who is certainly not my inferior.
If he is my superior / Will follow his
| lead, for that is law of nature. II
he should turn out to be Of poorer
judgment than I. then that same law
will compel him to submit to my de-
crees."
Two persons were especially dlsap-
pointed at this engagement. One was
Walter Fairbanks. q quiet unobtru-
sive man several years younger than
Miss Lyall. Not being highly educat-
ed himself--he had gone into business
at seyenteen-he had profound adj
miration for Professor Lyall. 1t
was the acme of his desires to have
such woman for his wife. 1t would
be like an intellectual beggar marry
ing one with an intellectual fortune.
The other disappointed person was
Miss Lucy Brooks, girl Of twenty.
whose knowledge had been gained in a
public school, but whose heart was as
fresh as q rose and exhaled as much
fragrance upon all who knew her. She
had long worshiped Mr.. Richardson
from distance, but considered him so
far above her that 1t was madness for
her to aspire to be his wife.
No sooner had Professor Lyall be-
come engaged to Mr.. Richardson than
she began to take an interest in his
paper. She liked to pick out editorials
In which she could see his vigorous
opinions expressed in his terse, pun
gent style. But ane day she noticed
what she had not discovered before.
She was much Interested in the ma
tional problems of the day and sym
pathized with every movement calcu-
lated to bring the trusts under proper
legal subsection. Mr.. Richardson had
given in his editorials an impression
that this was the policy of his paper
But In an article which bore every evil
dence of having been written by him
be made use Of the term ''trust bust
err" The next time he met his fiancee
she said to him:
"Royal, supposed the policy of YOU
paper was to advocate the regulation
of the trusts by law"
"My dear Margaret. the policy Of
newspaper is an unknown quantity tt
any one except its manager"
"Will you kindly explainr
Mr. Richardson for the moment for
rot that he was not in his editoria
chair. 1t seemed an icicle rather thar
sentence that came through his COLI
lips.
"Yes; will explain by saying that
alone dictate the policy of my paper"
! Miss Lyall looked at him with aston
} ishment. And / Alone" she said
! twill decide as to the man ] will mar
; ry. He shall not be one who woul'
) make use of the obnoxious expression
! trust buster"
) She strobe majestically out Of tn
I room and upstairs.
: Mr.. Richardson departed with com
! plication of feelings. He was disaT
2 pointed. angered. hurt. For the frs
) time he had been interfered with 1
3 his life work. Els eyes were opene
. to the fact that the high grade Q
: character. of Intellect, he had wishe
: In wife hSd in this case at leas
! proved boomerang. If he had bee
9 called to account by another his fee
: ings would not have been the least ru