Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-04
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she would take care that he did not SEE

tons. Wayne must be kept at n distance:
she would take care that he did not see
her again alone.
In this fresh access of loyalty to her
husband she excused and justified his
conduct in shutting himself in to prepare
his address: very likely it was the way
OF busy men who thus give theH leisure
TO public service. She must sacrifice her
own pleasure just as he did and bring
herself into sympathy with these labors
of his. There was fattery in his frequent
monologues on public matters and public
men: she was perforce the listener, but
he was older and in her ignorance it was
an agreeable relief not TO be expected to
contribute more than An inquiry, thrown
in TO lead him on She resolved to keep
a scrap book of the offerings of the Clip
ping bureau to which he subscribed that
a complete history might be made of his
public services. At Boston she expected
to hear him speak for the first time: she
and several men of national prominence
We're to make addresses.
She poured the coffee and sent the ma id
away to prolonE the mood of this hour.
The quiet service, the substantial APP
pointments of the ROOM the realization
that she bore the honored name of the
man who faced her contributed to her
happiness. 1t was pleasant to be Mrs.
Craighil: she was enjoying her position
in the thousand ways possible to her ma
turc--the stir OF tho clerks In the shops
when she appeared. the whispered inter
est her presence occasioned anywhere.
She was, indeed. Mrs. Craighill. and
every one was anxious to serve her To
he sought first by those persons who arc
forever seeking victims to act as patron
esses; to be asked to head subscription
lists: the Difference shown her-these
things she enjoyed with pardonabe zest
and size would not jeopardize her right ~
them.
las You haven't seen Boston in late
years Col. Craishill was saying. YOU
will find much to interest YOU while We
are there for the municipal conferences.
Though | haven't the slightest ancestral
, claim on New England I feel certain
kinship with her people. If We were not
SO firmly planted here ] should like to
move TO Boston to spend my last years
there Contact with some of her fine.
public-spirited citizens would be an in
spiration. Some of my best friends are
Bostonians. friends 7 have made through
my connection with public work People
ask me--and they will be asking you from
time to time-4why | spend SO much time
on these movements for the public Wet
fare: but they have been great resource
TO me. | have been we'll repaid for all
| have done. I have had my perplexities
and worries. modern business man is
ground In a hard miil but | am conscious
| of having done my little toward lettering
| our political and social conditions. and
nothing in my life makes me happier than
that thought. Do Won know, and he
smiled deprecatngly, II heard from one
| or two quarters that Harvard was going
TO confer a degree OH me next year for
my work in behalf of civic reform: it
| was only an intimation. but one of my
| friends. whom ! have learned 10 know
well at our annual conferences. ia a
prominent alinnnus. and he has remarked
several times that they'd have TO make a
Harvard man OF me somehow"
| II think it is so remarkable" said Mrs.
| Craigbill that YOU never Vent to col
! lcge. You seem like a college man.
| cI have regretted more than can tell
! you my lack of systematic education. My
| father was hardly more than wel1-to-do
| and I went into business at eighteen. Rut
| have heen "A diiiGent. reader: YOU might
say that ] have always been stud mt.