The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-18
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HIS Domestic Lady,

KamaEs complaint that there were
no simple domestic women, and that
Tor Ibis reason he intended 10 spend
his life as lonely bachelor. she
wrote 10 him.
She was 49,
'Dear Sir: understand that you
are a primeval man That is, that In
spite Of the glaring footlighis before
witch you have danced along the
busy way that leads TO wealth and
fame; in spite OF luxurious, magnifi-
Gently gowned society queens who
would pervert your tastes and set up
in your soul false standard of wom-
anhood, YOU still feel within you the
longing for the simple life when ex-
penses are small and wife is sub
servient-and a good cook.
Il will be such wife 10 you.
am an old-fashioned woman That is,
have domestic soul. believe that
woman's true vocation is to be her
husbands bandmailen to serve him,
cock for him and help him pay in
installments for nice cottage with
Httle garden in which he can hoe
when weary with hfes hustle and
the close. hot air of a downtown Of
nee
sWill you not let me hear from
YOU in regard TO this matter at your
earliest convenience. and oblige,
yours ve.y respectfully, Dorothea
Hillwood. .
TO this he replied:
Dear Madam: Your favor receiv-
ed. wish 10 express to you my ap-
probation of your Kindness and my
sncerest 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 in
noceni and unSelfish as yours.
Again thanking you, | remain.
You S very truly. Morton Kenneth"
Ten years later she met him But
he did not remember, He had been
50 busy becoming great statesman
that proposals from unknown young
wemen had no place in his mind. He
f, was a member of the STATE legisla-
ture, leader Of his faction In the
4 house and member of half a dozen
/ imDortant committees.
For month he was very devoted
I TO her. He went 10 see her every
( day in her apa tment in frivolous
+ and popular hotel. and told her how
intensely he disliked women who
lived in hot els instead of in homes
CT their own. He sent her violets
because, he said, they were symbol
ical CT the type of woman he most
adrired-sweet and modest.
The legislature convened and he
was compelled TO go 10 The state
capital for the winter session.
week later, Mrs. Bonde Boyde
grandest of all the grand danes
whose SOCIAL and club activities fill
the society pages. went to he capita
and with her she took hec niece
Dorothea. The Woman's Progressive
league had prepared hill granting
women certain municipal privileges
and this bill was to be introduced II
the hotse. Mrs. Bonde Boyde wai
president Of the league.
She and Ter niece reached the cap
iial late in the afternoon and went t
IN historic. cid hotel.
Az es dinner Morton Kenneth came
TO her in the hotel d awing room
He sat Down on slim, squeaky. III
lie chair so close to her that hi
, shoes touched her new, rose colorel
brca dcloth.
What are YOU doing here?" HI
asked gloomily.
81 am tere because | am intereste'
in certain measures pending befor
: the house
What Lobbying? You? Dorc
thea His tone was exactly what
would have been if he had caugh
her in the act of hanging her grand
: mother.
'House bin 1853" she went on trar
gully.
, "Woman's suffrage? You? Dorc
thea
Il desire YOU 10 support that bill,
= she said. as II she were asking hir
. 70 call The waiter 'It will be read i
a the house tomorrcw and referred {
I . committee Of which You are mem
3 Der You viii see that 1t is reporte
faynraoly ont Of he committee an
iIs next eadiug in The house yo
will make .speech=a good stron
, sreech-in favor of it, You will vot
, for it and you viii secure for II ever
. vote YOU control.
Then the smolders OF the youn
mans wrath became eonhagratio
e intended TO destroy all her assertiv
and progressive tendencies. For tw
,.N. let IN a N M
expcstulations and downright re
!, fusals
The next day she heard from tn
: gallery Of the house the bill read an
b referred to the committee on resolu
tions Mr.. Kenneth bowed to her
I f ON q distance, In the house and i
the hotel dining room.
. For several days he treated he
with a high and mighty disdai
: which should have reduced her TO tn
olirging vine state But ii did not.
The chairman Of the committee OF
resolutions gave n theatre party on
evening and after 1t supper at III
= fotel He was young man an,
very charming. Morton Kenneth
was not invited 10 the party
/, When the chat irman put AIRS. Bond
Royde and her niece into the ele
v1lor about midnight, Mr. Kennel
was sitting In The corridor on sea
opposite the elevator staring int
space and busily engaged In moi lool;
me at them A few minutes later
maid brought Miss Hlllwood letter
=. Dear Doroihea: I am tired of foo
! ishness. Drop this ridiculous won
ans rights business and mary me
Yon are frltterlng away sweet