Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-03
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Ills. Very Dinsrene AFFAIR
From Simple Love.
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ny EDITH d. ARNOLD.
ny EDITH b. ARNOLD.
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Miss Margaret LyaIl took oil the de-
grecs OF the under and post graduate
university courses Being possessed
or an independent income. Il was not
necessary for her TO make a living. but
she was 20 clever that the college sent
her abroad TO study for professor
ship. She returned with an additional
foreign degree and assumed the chair
FOR which she had been preparing her
self
| When Miss Professor Lyali was
twenty-ssven years old 10 occurred To
Ger that after oil she would prefer to
be wife and mother to growing old
as teacher. IL she were to choose
the more natural course IL was high
time she were doing 60 She was CON
sidered a very attractive woman and
was comely. She had had number
or offers, but had not been thinking Of
marriage and for this reason had ac-
cepted none OF them. Now, having
determined TO wed. she booked over tho
list of her suitors and settled on Royal
Richardson. a journalist
MIR. Richardson was editor In chief
OF n large newspaper. He wns high
ly educated and a forceful man. There
Is no place In the world where exact
ness. system and. above ALL quick
resource are moro essential than In the
makeup Of daily newspaper. Mr.
Richardson had quiet, dignifed way
with him that carried great weight.
THAT match" every one said, els
between one OF natures highest type
OF men and the same grade OF women.
Such couple united should produce
important results for coed. What n
splendid spur the one for the otherr
mo doll wife Tor me- suid Mr.. Rich
ardson. Give me women with a
brain in her head" III I am TO be
| married" said Miss-Lyall. 81 prefer a
man who is certainly not my inferior
IL he is my superior Will follow his
lead. for that IL law of nature. II
be 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 disap-
| pointed at this engagement. One wns
Walter Fairbanks, quiet. unobtru-
siys man several years younger than
Miss Lyall, Not being highly educat-
cd himself-he had gone into business
at seventeeD-he had a profound ad
miration for Professor I.yall. II
was the acme OF his desires to have
such woman for his wife. It would
be like an intellectual beggar marry
ing one with an intellectual fortune.
The other disappointed person was
! MISS Lucy Brooks. a girl OF twenty,
whose kno wledge had been gained I'm a
| public school. but whose boz RI was as
| fresh as n rose and exhaled As much
fragrance upon all VINO knew hor. CHE
had long worshiped Afr. Richardson
from distance, but considered him 20
far above her that II was madness for
her to aspire to be his wife.
No sooner had Professor Lyail be-
come engaged 10 Mr.. Richardson thar,
she began TO take an interest I'm hfs
paper. Bio liked TO pick out editorials
In which she could ace hir vigorous
opinions expressed In his terse. pun.
gent style. But one day sire noticed
what she had not discovered before
She was much interested in the ma
tionaf problems OF the day and SYM
pathized with every movement calcu-
lated 20 bring tho trusts under proper
legal subsection. Mr.. Rich1 rdson had
given in his editorials an impression
that this was the policy OF his paper.
But IN an article which bora every evil
dence of having been written by him
he made use of the term trust bust
err" The next time he met his fancee
she said TO him:
Royal, ! supposed the policy or your
paper was TO advocate the regulation
OF the trusts by law"
My dear Margaret, the policy of a
newspaper is an unknown quantity 70
my one except its manager" ri,
''Will you kindly explainY' 8t
Mr. Richardson for the moment for.
got that he was not in his editorial
chair. II seemed an ictcIe rather than
sentence that came through his cold
lips.
yes; will explain by saying that'f
alone dictate the policy OF my paper
Miss ByaIl looked at him with aston
ishment. "And alone" she said.
will decide as 90 the man will mar
~. He shall not be one who would
make use Of the obnoxious expression 4
trust buster" ~
She strobe majesticalIy out Of the
room ana Upstairs
Mr.. Richardson departed with com
plication OF feelings He was disap-
pointed angered, hurt For the first
time be had been interfered with in
his life work Ills eyes were opened