Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-11-12
Lucille and Luther at the Well
(6y Tom Gwynne).


San Francisco. many times a million.
aire. and prominent in church and
state. Lucille was just %. She was
one of the most beautiful young wo-
men that ever occurred In that state
noted for its beautiful women. An
lttempt at description would be a sac.
rilege. She was one OF those women
IN whom properly constructed male
being OF the human species may gaze
or half a minute and feel seventeen
iiferent emotions capering through
his system She was simply cork
err for looks. and the term beautiful
rs applied to Lucille is meant to cover
her entire works-soul body and
rind. So 1t doesn't make whole
reap OF difference whether her hair.
ears, eyes or nose were pink red or
blue or green, as long as you are ad
ised that the ensemble was absolute.
y perfect
NOW Lucille was not a new woman.
either was she an old one. and isn't
ct Tor that matter; but she was un.
Ike any other woman with which his
,ory deals. II was the wish OF her
ond mother TO educate her for n
ociety leader and she hoped that by
he time she bossomed into young
'omanhood she would take her and
he old man by the hands and gently
lad them right into the heart OF New
ork's 400. The mother had been n
hasher' in mining camp restaurant
ears before, when she had wooed won
md wed Jim Lippincott, then a dash.
ng young prospector. She was what
iou would call climber, and she
bought 1t would be quite stunt to
limb from biscuit shooter" to the
sacred bosom OF Americas social
lect. She depended upon her beaut-
Gus daughter TO lead the way. jim,
the old man, didn't give hang for
society one way or the other, but was
always willing to please the old woman
when he could conveniently do 80.
Nothing like this for LucilIe-not in
327 years. She was not constructed
On such lines; belonged TO an en-
irely different school OF architecture
She took to education like a burro
takes to garbage pile, or a billygoat
to collection of tin cans. When one
was years old she could read HON.
er, Virgil, Dante, Don Quixote, Dor.
othy Dix and George Sterling i'm the
lOrlRInnlC
standingly as she could English. Az
10 she had made several scientific dis.
lcoVeries on account of which the lend
ing universities OF both Europe and
America conferred upon her honorary
degrees.
When old lady, Lucilles ma, saw
the way her daughter was going, she
tore around like mad for quite q spell
and said she'd see that there would
be no coin forthcoming for this cduca.
ton nonsense. l believe / recall her
exact words on one occasion when she
was uncorking the phials of her
wrath. They were these:
Me and your paw has worked an
shaved to bring you up sassiety lead
err Here you are going dairy over
this edikation foolishness, when You
know damned well it don't take no
big amount Of larnin' to bust into the
400. Dough's the main thing, an.
amt we got that? You'd be willin'
for your pore old nav an she amt
20 blamed ola citbcr--to die out here
In this one-hoss .'sown without ever
haYin' saw the inside Of them Moo
Workers. manchions, or visited a min
nit with them high-fyers."
The old man. needing the mandates
of Natures first law, made believe
that he sided in with this corversa-
'tion, but secretly he was tickled mos
20 death, for he thought may be Lu.
ellie would turn out to be a mining
engineer, a mineralogst, AN assayer
or something in his line This society
rot did not appeal TO him a hsrla bli
His ambitions in other years were 20
have whisky and cigar named for.
him, and these had been realized
lie had plenty Of money. About or
he cared for was TO lazy around with
the bunch. play poker and toll his PICS
pecting experiences. lie called Lucilr
into his study one day and told hcrl
privately to 20 20 81, that yho needn't
fear a lack Of funds
And she went educationvard at I'll
gait never travelled by mortal woman
before. At IS she graduated from tho
leading universities of her native land
and at 20 she had COPIED degrees from
every important institution~of learn
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